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Discussion - Potential piefed instance in the future? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello m@teys,

I've been waiting for this a long time (half a year), personally. After seeing the surge in piefed instances, i.e. blahaj, .ca, .zip, quokk.au, and .world creating their own instances, and clients guaranteeing future piefed support, we've been thinking about potentially opening an instance in the future. Not a guarantee, just an idea. This isn't a voting thread, just a discussion. Later on we'll actually vote on this.

Do note that this thread will not guarantee an instance; we are discussing a hypothetical. Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? make your voice heard.

Have a good week!

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governance type: sense check

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Considering how evil and weirs Dessalines is, Piefed is a much better alternative to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A comment in this thread by @[email protected] put it quite well:

rimu has said he’ll make it more neutral

I'll believe it when I see it.

It's an odd thing - the Lemmy devs are notoriously opinionated and intolerant, and are constantly castigated for it, but I don't recall ever seeing even a single hint of their opinions or even their intolerance baked into the Lemmy software.

Piefed, meanwhile, is a direct reflection of the dev's biases right from the start, and with everything from the curated subscription lists to the karma and private voting, seems designed explicitly for the purpose of empowering bias.

Say what you will about Dessalines and Nutomic - at least they keep their biases to their own instance and out of the Lemmy software. And further, they appear to have gone to some lengths to make the software as neutral as possible - not only not reflecting any specific bias but limited in ways that make it difficult for it to even be used to impose bias.

And the same can NOT be said for Rimu and Piefed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Here's my two cents:

Because there's no direct integration with Lemmy, and we start with an empty piefed instance. I'll have to create a user and all that, and I "just" quit Reddit so it's not very appealing to me, even if piefed has better features.

I would create an account if everyone migrates, or if I can click a "move to piefed" button that copies all my comments and posts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wdym no direct integration?

Sadly those two are not possible for us to do now, but the lemmy instance will always be the top priority.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I dont really care, but I won't be using piefed. the default UI doesn't allow me to adjust the size of thumbnails as i see fit: tiny and on the left. that's a deal breaker for me, even if it's petty.

I do not like new reddit and i have never liked new reddit and i have tried new reddit and will not be using new reddit. piefed UI is a new reddit ripoff.

or i guess a lot of social media platforms do that layout, Twitter FB insta. thankfully i dont waste my time with that shit either. I waste my time with YOU nerds and I am happy with that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Piefed has a custom CSS section in the settings that allows you to resize the thumbnails as you see fit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

interesting! still easier to just not use it than to learn CSS

not to mention, Voyager... like the whole reason I came to Fediverse to begin with was the loss of RIF app

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't know any CSS, hopefully other people share theirs: https://piefed.social/post/875579

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Voyager has PieFed support now.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My first thought when seeing the pic was "Is it AI?". I need a vacation. From life.

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