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I’m not new to link aggregators/communities, but new to those outside of Reddit. About a month ago I joined Lemmy and today my curiosity led me to Piefed, although I’ve come across the name before.

My research told me Piefed is developing at a much faster pace than Lemmy, is that true? I like the onboarding of Piefed better, because it allows you to select things you might be interested in as part of the process, which is helpful. Overall, it’s a much more guided approach.

I’ve also gotten to know it doesn’t really matter for the average user which of the platforms one joins. So I’m specifically posting this question on a community on Lemmy through my Piefed account.

I’m based in Europe if that makes a difference, which I believe it doesn’t. Nonetheless I’m happy to read your thoughts. Thanks

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[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

I prefer Lemmy.~~because unlike Piefed there are no hardcoded instance or user blocks.~~ Although, you do have to find a lemmy instance that isn't defederated. I like being able to see a multitude of opinions and manually block people/communities that I feel don't contribute to discussion.

Edit: The blocklists can be edited by the instance admin. As far as I can tell the user blocks I was confusing with Tesseract. Apologies to the piefed devs for spreading bad information.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 0 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

PieFed has no hardcoded instance or user blocks. You were lied to by bad people.

[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was just repeating what I've heard elsewhere. It does appear that the included blocklists can be edited. I have mixed feelings about labeling certain websites.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough.

How websites are labelled is up to the instance admin. It used to be that all labels were warnings but in the latest version of PieFed it became possible to use neutral or positive icons as well:

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It still says 'warning type' and 'warning on posts' in the UI which is an oversight I've just noticed!

This change was a result of criticism I read. Often when people write that stuff they think they have discovered some nefarious thing that exists that way because I want it to. The fact is it was all thrown together very quickly so it's not always well thought-out but when people don't like things I listen and make changes. Nothing is set in stone.

[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

I appreciate you clarifying. I didn't realize you were the developer. You reminded me the importance of verifying information before posting about it.

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