They’re both link aggregator (Reddit-like) software that communicate via ActivityPub.
ActivityPub is a general purpose way for different kinds of social media to communicate with one another. It’s not just link aggregators, there are twitter-like services using mastodon or instagram-a-likes like pixelfed
In theory they can all communicate with each other as long as they federate (i.e. are happy to exchange data with each other)
PieFed is Lemmy on steroids: PieFed has just a ton more features that Lemmy lacks, which due to being written in Python rather than Rust the gap will only ever get even wider, though Lemmy has a bit more polished web UI (unless you use an app like Voyager or Boost or some such, in which case it doesn’t matter).
Things PieFed has that Lemmy lacks: this is too long to say all of them but a few are Categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, polls, flairs (both user and post), hashtags, the ability to truly block all users from an instance, etc.
Things Lemmy does better at: searching, consistency in feature support, and supporting Tankies, if that’s your thing.
Can anyone eli5 the diff between piefed and lemmy? Just two platforms over the Fediverse with diff apps? Same protocol?
They’re both link aggregator (Reddit-like) software that communicate via ActivityPub.
ActivityPub is a general purpose way for different kinds of social media to communicate with one another. It’s not just link aggregators, there are twitter-like services using mastodon or instagram-a-likes like pixelfed
In theory they can all communicate with each other as long as they federate (i.e. are happy to exchange data with each other)
All fediverse apps talk to one another. Like I’m doing right now.
There’s more the same than different.
Well, not really. All fediverse apps talk to at least one other fediverse app. But not all do correctly talk to all.
PieFed has consolidated comments, flairs, spoilers, polls, topics, feeds (like multireddits), proper blocks, piped video integration, disclaimer message, better mod and reporting tools.
Based on your and mesa’s comments I’ve updated https://join.piefed.social/features/ to be much more comprehensive. Thanks for the inspiration :)
People ask that comparison question a lot, you might want to bookmark that page.
That was a treat to read!
Helpful resource, thanks!
Cracked me up a bit for being so specific, though I can imagine why it exists
PieFed is Lemmy on steroids: PieFed has just a ton more features that Lemmy lacks, which due to being written in Python rather than Rust the gap will only ever get even wider, though Lemmy has a bit more polished web UI (unless you use an app like Voyager or Boost or some such, in which case it doesn’t matter).
Things PieFed has that Lemmy lacks: this is too long to say all of them but a few are Categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, polls, flairs (both user and post), hashtags, the ability to truly block all users from an instance, etc.
Things Lemmy does better at: searching, consistency in feature support, and supporting Tankies, if that’s your thing.
I dread to think of the performance costs of Python fkr backend though