Delusion6903@discuss.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoCan you follow Lemmy communities from PieFed?lockmessage-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squareCan you follow Lemmy communities from PieFed?lockDelusion6903@discuss.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 months agoYes. Go to Topics -> All communities to see a list of all communities (most of them on Lemmy instances) PieFed.social knows about. If the one you’re after is not listed you can add it at https://piefed.social/community/add_remote If you have an existing Lemmy account and want to use your PieFed account to follow all the same communities, you can: https://piefed.social/post/5291
minus-squareDelusion6903@discuss.onlineOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThanks for the info, but serious question, why would I want to? Why is it better than Lemmy?
minus-squareswab148@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoIt’s basically the same thing, but written in Python instead of Rust.
minus-squareDelusion6903@discuss.onlineOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThat doesn’t sound better, for an end user anyway.
minus-squareswab148@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoFor the end user, the only real difference is that Lemmy has had more time to be developed, PieFed just started up like a month ago.
minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoSome differences are listed here https://join.piefed.social/features/. It goes way beyond those, that list is just some user-facing features that everyone will be able to easily understand.
Yes. Go to Topics -> All communities to see a list of all communities (most of them on Lemmy instances) PieFed.social knows about. If the one you’re after is not listed you can add it at https://piefed.social/community/add_remote
If you have an existing Lemmy account and want to use your PieFed account to follow all the same communities, you can: https://piefed.social/post/5291
Thanks for the info, but serious question, why would I want to? Why is it better than Lemmy?
It’s basically the same thing, but written in Python instead of Rust.
That doesn’t sound better, for an end user anyway.
For the end user, the only real difference is that Lemmy has had more time to be developed, PieFed just started up like a month ago.
Some differences are listed here https://join.piefed.social/features/. It goes way beyond those, that list is just some user-facing features that everyone will be able to easily understand.