Unfortunately, the time has come for me to leave Lemmy. Time will show where we all end up. I’ll see you in the future… maybe sooner than you think?

Edit: Follow up post is here. Don’t worry. You’re not getting rid of me that easy. I’m just switching to piefed.world

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    22 days ago

    Is this merely switching from Lemmy to something else, or are you leaving the fediverse completely?

    If it’s the latter, then I wish you the very best of luck. I don’t know you very well, but I remember you having had some personal issues in the past. Hopefully those aren’t coming back and you’ve just decided to simply move on. Regardless, your memes and shitposting will be missed.

    Good luck to you! Or, as a wise man once wrote, “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”

        • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
          29·
          22 days ago

          I’m an idiot and it’s hard to explain but this announcement explains it pretty easily.

          It functions on the fediverse, just like Lemmy, but is a different platform/front end. They function damn near identically but Piefed has a more active development team that actually responds to requests and a dev team that isn’t transphobic as hell. That’s the selling point for me. I think the only feature that’s not available on Piefed that I use pretty often is being able to paste images into text blocks. Fairly sure they’re working on that too. You can upload them, there’s a clicky for it, but it just won’t automatically upload and paste the link like it does on Lemmy. Literally the only thing “missing” that I’ve noticed.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        Not worries. Meant every word. Plus I got to make an H2G2 reference. Everybody wins.

        • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
          4·
          22 days ago

          Hell yeah. I’m just sad I couldn’t find a way to weave towel into something. I’ve been going through some shit and I am TIRED.

    • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
      271·
      22 days ago

      Piefed has a few extra features that I like and I know that the couple features that are currently missing are on their way. The development team is pretty quick to respond which doesn’t affect me a ton but I don’t want to support a shitty dev team. Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes. If I’m going to be posting a lot then I don’t want to be doing it using what they made.

      Also Fxomt is convincing.

      • toomanypancakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        22 days ago

        Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes.

        This is kinda a big deal for me too tbh. Do you happen to know, is there a good (android) piefed app, or is it website only for now? I imagine there’ll be some of their aren’t already, but my brief play store search wasn’t very fruitful.

        • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
          5·
          22 days ago

          I don’t actually know and I’m kind of ashamed to admit that. I’ve heard that Voyager has got some early support but I know nothing about any other apps. I’m sorry!

          • ɯsnN@piefed.zipEnglish
            5·
            22 days ago

            Voyager does support PieFed now, and, while it’s still developing, it’s come along quickly and can be used as a daily driver. Interstellar also supports PieFed, but I like Voyager better (just personal preference I guess). I’ve seen that Mlem is working on PieFed support for iOS.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    22 days ago

    But will it continue to be your last post in the future? Or is it simply your last post at this moment?

    • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
      12·
      22 days ago

      I use boost on my phone too! Definitely waiting for implementation from Ruben. But I don’t mind waiting. The dudes a superhero as far as I’m concerned.

      Big big shoutout to Boost for Android. FANTASTIC APP and my favorite by far.

      • TheBluePillock@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 days ago

        Oh please tell me it’s actually in the works. I want to switch to piefed but I’ve been a Boost user for years and every time I try to get used to something else I’m just reminded how much I like Boost.

        • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
          2·
          21 days ago

          No clue. I don’t know Ruben at all, I’ve only talked to him a couple times in passing about Boost bugs. But given the work he does on everything else, I’m just sort of assuming. Dude is a king.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
    11·
    22 days ago

    They only offer Premium LITE now, which feels extremely ironic after rejecting it all these years. It’s like: “So, you declined my offer for years but have you considered… a WORSE OFFER, human?”

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    9·
    22 days ago

    YouTube keeps showing me offers to give me two months premium for free, but when I click it they offer only one.

    I’m pretty sure this is illegal in the EU but I can’t be bothered so I stick with the ad blocker and reset the cookies every once in a while.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        22 days ago

        I really like sh.itjust.works and I’m a mod here. But if I wasn’t, I’d be going to piefed’s main instance in a second. They seem to have a nice configuration. Not a fan of world, but I’m sure there are other great instances.

        • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
          6·
          22 days ago

          I’ve got some philosophical disagreements with the Admin of piefed.social. Nothing negative or anything, we just disagree on a few things and see things differently. Mostly on memes. Lemmy.world and piefed.world I’ve been lucky enough to have great experiences with which is why I’m sticking around, despite probing from admin buddies of other instances to go to their lemmy or their piefed. Including one particular admin of dbzer0 who wants me to move over, the lovable asshole.

          • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            21 days ago

            What’s the issue with memes? I have a piefed.social account set up for when the platform is mature enough for me to bail on Lemmy, but I’ll happily go elsewhere if there’s a good reason.

            • Stamets@piefed.worldEnglish
              1·
              21 days ago

              We just feel differently about how or what memes add to the fediverse. It really is just a difference in philosophy. As far as I’m aware, there are no serious differences. It’s just minor. Rimu and I had a discussion about it a while back and there’s no bad blood or anything, we see things differently on the Fediverse. Rimu, from what I can tell, prefers things to be a bit more conversational and discussion based. I like things to be a blend of discussions and memes. That’s really about it.

              • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                21 days ago

                Ah, okay. As long as .social is just limiting hosting memes, not blocking them from elsewhere, I don’t have a problem with them. I’m with you, I think memes have their place.

  • Alchalide@lemmy.world
    5·
    21 days ago

    I’d be more than willing to throw them a couple of euros each month. But paying like 14 per month for something I get for free now is just too much.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      That’s been my feeling all along. $5-10 per month I can justify, but I really can’t justify $23/mo to cover both my and my wife’s accounts, especially given that they reportedly still sometimes show ads to premium subscribers. And honestly when they were getting really pushy about subscribing a year or two ago I refused because I don’t give in to pushiness like that by tech companies

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        21 days ago

        they reportedly still sometimes show ads to premium subscribers

        I’ve been on YouTube Premium since it was YouTube Red, and I’ve never seen an ad when I’m logged in.

        I justify it because YouTube Music is included, so I can get music streaming without paying for a similar service from Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whomever, and also get ad-free YouTube on all my devices and whatnot.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    5·
    22 days ago

    I continue to download all videos and watch them locally to skip out on ads. Some channels bake them right in the video, but a few quick mouse clicks jump me over that garbage. When downloads stop working, I will find something else to pass the time.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    21 days ago

    I thought federated meant people see your posts no matter where you log in. But if going to piefed means you’re “leaving” lemmy, kthxbye I guess. I don’t see the need for an announcement.

    • danhab99@programming.dev
      2·
      21 days ago

      If you’re using a 3rd party client like Boost or Voyager it might not recognize the pifed domain as an activitypub instance… our friendly devs are doing there best

  • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
    4·
    22 days ago

    Any chance they’ll become fully interoperable? I mean, besides the standard fediverse account stuff. Ideally, being able to scroll my All feed on piefed and seeing Lemmy posts in there. I just don’t want to go back to a ghost town like the Lemmy of 2 years ago.

    Also, thanks for all the posts! You and Picard were the backbone of this place in the bad old days.

    EDIT: I just noticed a piefed post in my feed. The future is now!

    EDIT EDIT: It was a piefed user, I’m dumb.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      22 days ago

      They fully work together. You can see piefed posts on lemmy and vice versa! From my understanding anyway. Just go to lemmy.world/c/support@piefed.world or something and you should be able to see posts with no issue.