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Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed (jeena.net)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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TLDR: The main reason was Lemmy hogging server resources.

Last year, during the Reddit 2023 API controversy I finally deleted my account and moved on to Lemmy. Here’s a look at my experiences and why I eventually decided to switch to PieFed.

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[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What are the main differences from a user perspective rather than hosting? Is it worth checking out?

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it is.

-You can arrange communities it topics
- you can show community posts as å wall of thumbnails, nice for memes
- shows user reputation
- you can hide posts from searches
- moderation tools (there are more)
- you can post videos and polls
- better integration with PeerTube
- keyword filters

But it doesn't have an API for 3rd parties

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 10 points 11 months ago

'subscribe to anything' is handy, too. I'm subscribed to this post, for instance, so get notifications of new top-level comments.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The api is being worked on for the 1.0 release and there’s also some work being done for lemmy api compatibility to use lemmy apps https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/13#issuecomment-1814982