Feedback on whether to host Lemmy or Piefed for niche community
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I'm considering launching a server for some fediverse applications for a niche group. Since the Lemm.ee announcement, I got back in to PieFed, part…

I’m considering launching a server for some fediverse applications for a niche group. Since the Lemm.ee announcement, I got back in to PieFed, partially because my company blocks xxx.zip (lemmy.zip, etc). I would want to make these fediverse services easily available and reachable to newcomers.

I’m thinking of sticking with Lemmy and maybe the photon UI instead of the default, or have the default hosted at another address. I like the features of PieFed, but I think that the lack of apps could be a barrier to entry.

I’d like to hear others’ thoughts as well. Lemmy seems to be more ubiquitous and has better app support, so I think that would be better so serve. I don’t think that hosting both would be a good idea, as it’d create fragmentation in an already niche area.

  • whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    12 hours ago

    I would also recommend lemmy. It’s more established, has a strong community footing. And above all, it seems to be well written (in terms of code) and has tons of clients (UIs/apps). And like the other comment says, I’m not convinced about the performance of piefed

  • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    11 hours ago

    A comment I came across like two weeks ago puts it quite well:

    I haven’t used piefed myself but I wouldn’t want to switch to it because I feel like it gives more power to downvotes and karma (or “reputation” as they call it):

    • Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
    • People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
    • Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

    Those are three of the twelve points listed as differences to lemmy on their features page.

    I also don’t agree with some of the points in their article on “PieFed features for growing healthy communities”.

    from: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17119490
    the comments’ thread is also quite interesting

    Plus it’s written in Python and has only a few hundred MAUs, so we can only guess how well it scales

    EDIT: Regarding Lemmy frontends, I suggest you take at how the instance I’m on handles it. They append a single char in front of the url to signify the various frontends