It’s been frustrating for me too … I use mostly my PC and secondly my Android using Sync to go on Lemmy … I have been interested in exploring other fediverse clients like piefed (I tried Kbin for a while before it died), was thinking of mbin, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around mastadon and tried exploring misskey but discovered that it is almost all Japanese (and the instafeed I logged into looked like the scrolling matrix data stream from a crack addict on meth, it was just way too much too fast)
Lemmy for me has been the best balance between content, speed and depth … the frustration of posting images and especially short videos reminds me of the early frustrations everyone had when reddit was just starting out … I don’t really mind the frustrations because it kind of regulates everyone to slow down a bit. We don’t always need to be blazing fast and faster all the time.
And when it comes to posting, its mostly about volume and quantity. If you post twice and you don’t get good feedback on both … it doesn’t mean you failed, it means you have to try more and more often. I’ve posted a few hundred times now and most of them were misses that didn’t get anything but about a dozen got great reactions from people. So the idea is to post and post often (or as often as you can) and don’t be afraid or self conscious. Sure you might get no feedback or even negative feedback, it only teaches you to figure out what works and what doesn’t.
If anything, your post and your contribution has raised my interest in looking into PieFed and that is a win in my books and definitely cheered me up.
Mbin is great if you like the look and/or want content from Mastodon. I don’t, for either, so I passed on it, but like you I got my start on Kbin and remember it fondly. It also seems “friendlier” than Lemmy, which most of my instances were federated with hexbear.net and even lemmygrad.ml (at the time).
PieFed on the other handl, LOOKS really beautiful - check out my recent post, where you can see the Community Categories (top line), the tags (bottom line), and it has so many other features like if you edit a post or comment, it will show BOTH the time last edited plus also the time originally submitted - I like that!:-) On the other hand, it is more than a bit clunky to use, and has some bugs, e.g. communities keep getting duplicated, so there’s some kind of back-end bug for its database. What annoys me most is when Notifications do not actually take you to whatever you are intended to look at - there are so many little details not ironed out like how comments can be auto-collapsed or even auto-hidden (both based on separate score thresholds, the latter of which I even turned off by setting to -10000), and hten replies get auto-shortened (that is kinda neat except it often malfunctions for me) and most annoyingly, have a Continue thread button that goes to a whole separate page - but then the Notification does NOT take you there, and so you try to use the “search” feature, which ofc cannot find anything b/c it’s on some whole entirely other page… Yeah it has issues.
But Lemmy has more than its fair share of issues as well. This whole thing is a giant experiment, and it progresses forward bit by bit, a little at a time. PieFed and Sublinks and Mbin I think will jump forward more quickly than Lemmy though, due to being written in a language that is more commonly used (Rust is great for stability but… not all that popular yet).
Talking about my postings though, some of my content has been among the most negatively-received postings of an entire community, such as my link to an article suggesting that Biden should step down and let Kamala take over. It ended up being right (though even that was insufficient or perhaps too late), but still it has the highest amount of downvotes that I’ve seen in that community so far:-). Similarly videos that have won literal awards for combating disinformation, yet people simply DID NOT want to see them:-). Oh well, to each their own - mostly I am saying here that my tastes seem to differ from most people who are here. I am okay with that, though as you say, if I were to actually post then it would be better to come into alignment with the recipients’ needs. i.e., nobody can or should stop me from thinking thoughts in my head, but not all of those need to be shared:-).
And that’s a good point about PieFed - it will be nice to increase people’s awareness of it. It is not fully “ready” for mass usage, but then again the same is true of Lemmy as well, just to differing degrees and in different ways (Lemmy especially has the tankie problem, which PieFed provides substantial help in blocking, b/c otherwise you are either dependent upon an instance admin or an app developer to do that for you).
Also, thank you for - hehehehe - trying to “cheer” me up:-). I appreciate you.
It’s been frustrating for me too … I use mostly my PC and secondly my Android using Sync to go on Lemmy … I have been interested in exploring other fediverse clients like piefed (I tried Kbin for a while before it died), was thinking of mbin, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around mastadon and tried exploring misskey but discovered that it is almost all Japanese (and the instafeed I logged into looked like the scrolling matrix data stream from a crack addict on meth, it was just way too much too fast)
Lemmy for me has been the best balance between content, speed and depth … the frustration of posting images and especially short videos reminds me of the early frustrations everyone had when reddit was just starting out … I don’t really mind the frustrations because it kind of regulates everyone to slow down a bit. We don’t always need to be blazing fast and faster all the time.
And when it comes to posting, its mostly about volume and quantity. If you post twice and you don’t get good feedback on both … it doesn’t mean you failed, it means you have to try more and more often. I’ve posted a few hundred times now and most of them were misses that didn’t get anything but about a dozen got great reactions from people. So the idea is to post and post often (or as often as you can) and don’t be afraid or self conscious. Sure you might get no feedback or even negative feedback, it only teaches you to figure out what works and what doesn’t.
If anything, your post and your contribution has raised my interest in looking into PieFed and that is a win in my books and definitely cheered me up.
Stay well my friend and I look forward to more.
Mbin is great if you like the look and/or want content from Mastodon. I don’t, for either, so I passed on it, but like you I got my start on Kbin and remember it fondly. It also seems “friendlier” than Lemmy, which most of my instances were federated with hexbear.net and even lemmygrad.ml (at the time).
PieFed on the other handl, LOOKS really beautiful - check out my recent post, where you can see the Community Categories (top line), the tags (bottom line), and it has so many other features like if you edit a post or comment, it will show BOTH the time last edited plus also the time originally submitted - I like that!:-) On the other hand, it is more than a bit clunky to use, and has some bugs, e.g. communities keep getting duplicated, so there’s some kind of back-end bug for its database. What annoys me most is when Notifications do not actually take you to whatever you are intended to look at - there are so many little details not ironed out like how comments can be auto-collapsed or even auto-hidden (both based on separate score thresholds, the latter of which I even turned off by setting to -10000), and hten replies get auto-shortened (that is kinda neat except it often malfunctions for me) and most annoyingly, have a Continue thread button that goes to a whole separate page - but then the Notification does NOT take you there, and so you try to use the “search” feature, which ofc cannot find anything b/c it’s on some whole entirely other page… Yeah it has issues.
But Lemmy has more than its fair share of issues as well. This whole thing is a giant experiment, and it progresses forward bit by bit, a little at a time. PieFed and Sublinks and Mbin I think will jump forward more quickly than Lemmy though, due to being written in a language that is more commonly used (Rust is great for stability but… not all that popular yet).
Talking about my postings though, some of my content has been among the most negatively-received postings of an entire community, such as my link to an article suggesting that Biden should step down and let Kamala take over. It ended up being right (though even that was insufficient or perhaps too late), but still it has the highest amount of downvotes that I’ve seen in that community so far:-). Similarly videos that have won literal awards for combating disinformation, yet people simply DID NOT want to see them:-). Oh well, to each their own - mostly I am saying here that my tastes seem to differ from most people who are here. I am okay with that, though as you say, if I were to actually post then it would be better to come into alignment with the recipients’ needs. i.e., nobody can or should stop me from thinking thoughts in my head, but not all of those need to be shared:-).
And that’s a good point about PieFed - it will be nice to increase people’s awareness of it. It is not fully “ready” for mass usage, but then again the same is true of Lemmy as well, just to differing degrees and in different ways (Lemmy especially has the tankie problem, which PieFed provides substantial help in blocking, b/c otherwise you are either dependent upon an instance admin or an app developer to do that for you).
Also, thank you for - hehehehe - trying to “cheer” me up:-). I appreciate you.