• SmokeyDope@piefed.social
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    13 hours ago

    The PugJesus History Explanations™ are a highlight of lemmy (I guess piefed now) for me. One of my all time favorite interactions on here was roleplaying as senator Armstrong debating with PJ while referencing the history explanation thing. Divinity bless the glorious bastard and their historical hobby hyperfixations.

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      12 hours ago

      Is piefed a different thing than lemmy? I assumed it was just another lemmy instance. I’m subscribed to this community using the same reader as the old one, and everything seems to function the same. tbh, I still don’t have a very good grasp of the “fediverse.”

      • SmokeyDope@piefed.social
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        12 hours ago

        Yes and no. Its the same aggregated content but the underlying software running piefed instances is different than lemmy. The websites internals are made by different people with different programming language. On a surface user interaction level a piefed instance is the same functional thing as a lemmy instance and can be treated as such. They all use activitypub protocol to federate between instances whether its piefed or lemmy.

        https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi

        https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

        The main difference IMO is the personal politics of the people who make the software and run the instances. Lemmys main developers are controversial in regards to politics and administration practices on the main .ml instance. I don’t want to be associated with that anymore. Also piefed is in very active development already has cool features that lemmy doesn’t with a sleek default layout.

      • FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip
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        8 hours ago

        As dope said different software. If you want a translation into dummy (like had someone explain it to me) lemmy and piefed let you access the same communities, there’s just some different under the hood stuff as well as features, such as grouping cross posts together and getting notifications to comment replies that aren’t yours