Hello everyone! I’m new here… I had been testing Fediverse interoperability on Lemmy but I didn’t like what I saw: there were several quirks and flaws that made no sense to me. Several people mentioned PieFed as an alternative and that’s why I’m here - I’d like to compare/contrast features and see if PieFed does things differently.

I should mention that I have a blog whose mission is to introduce the Fediverse to non-technical people, to get them to leave the walled gardens of Big Tech: The Future is Federated . I’ve been doing a show and tell of interoperability between Mastodon and Pixelfed , Friendica and the rest of the Fediverse and I’ve shown what happens when you federate a Wordpress blog . My new focus in on the “Threadiverse”, so Lemmy it is.

I was disappointed when I published my first post on Lemmy (https://lemmy.world/post/18635732) and noticed that:

  1. hashtags don’t work
  2. account mentions don’t work either (and I was told they do federate in comments, not the first post - whaaaat?!?)

It’s cool I was able to find my original post on here (https://piefed.social/post/198179) and I wonder if you have any tips / words of advice regading things that PieFed does and Lemmy doesn’t do. I’m really curious.

And please bear with me, I’m going to mention my Mastodon account ( @_elena@mastodon.social ) and my Lemmy account (@elena@lemmy.world) to see if anything happens when I hit post. And bear with me one more time and let me try hashtags here, like #TheFutureisFederated.

Thanks for your patience with this newbie! 😅

Elena

Edit: I included the URL of my Mastodon profile to see if it would federate

  • @Ludrol
    2•28 days ago

    Thanks for the blog post. I didn’t really know about piefed so that was a great surprise. I really like that they implemented multireddit-like functionality. I have already discovered couple of communities that otherwise I wouldn’t have subscribed to.

    @_elena@mastodon.social

    • elenaOP
      1•23 days ago

      I’m glad to hear you found my post useful 😊

      I’m really enjoying all the content aggregators of the Fediverse 🤗

  • abff08f4813cEnglish
    1•22 days ago

    I keep getting surprised by what integrations pyfedi supports. For example I didn’t realize it supported microblogs/mastodon.

  • piefedderateddEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    I wonder if you have any tips / words of advice regading things that PieFed does and Lemmy doesn’t do.

    PieFed has Topics which Lemmy doesn’t have. So with PieFed you can subscribe to a lot of communities at once. Or you can start a post in PieFed inside a topic and then PieFed will ask you in which community you want to post. PieFed also can let you follow a user, and let you subscribe or un-subscribe from posts or comments.

    More here : https://join.piefed.social/features/ -> Differences between Lemmy and PieFed

    Some things I like about Lemmy, and what PieFed does not (?) yet have :

    • Easy to cross-post to other communities. This is useful to avoid letting others seeing a lot of posts in a row.
    • Detection of an earlier post with the same title so one can decide to stop posting a duplicate.
    • Auto suggestion when wanting to mention someone with @
    • elenaOPAfaraf
      1•1 month ago

      Thank you so much for these insights!

  • elenaOPAfaraf
    0•29 days ago

    Testing out comment federation, please don’t mind me 🙈

    Pinging @_elena@mastodon.social @elena@friendica.opensocial.space and @elenarossini@pixelfed.social (because, why not) 🙈 as well as @elena@lemmy.world and @elena@fedia.io

    • elenaOP
      1•23 days ago

      One more interoperability test, this time with my new Friendica instance 👋 @elena@poliverso.org