I want to make an alt to post on my expertise, so I want a nice instance to create the new acnt in. Which do you guys recommend? I heard good words about piefed, but not sure I would make the jump, and dont know what the consequences would be.
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I jumped to piefed a couple of weeks ago. Copying my feeds from lemmy was fine (also grabbed pugJesus’ to round out the collection.) I liked the topic browsing etc so subscribed to a bunch of other communities but often just find myself on all sorted by scaled.
I don’t think there’s any real consequences to switching, I rather like the UI and a couple of handy features but admittedly am still just using the front end website rather than an app.
I’m testing piefed nowdays. Quite easy transition and no consequences.
Become a furry and join Pawb.Social. We only bite if you’re into that sort of thing. :3
I don’t want you near my instance if you’re gonna abbreviate “account” like that. Just keep your distance there, friend.
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Fortunately it is way easier to say which instances to avoid lemmy.ml for political reasons and lemmy.world because it’s way too big. I don’t think I have to mention hexbear and lemmygrad.
Regarding Piefed - I made the switch some time ago, but I don’t notice a difference since I am using the voyager app. The only thing that doesn’t work for me is auto filling titles in link posts, but yeah that’s not a biggie
For those not aware, avoid lemmy.ml because it’s a tankie run and enforced echo chamber, where Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong, and saying otherwise is banned as “hate speech”.
lemmy.ml is good to avoid not only for political reasons but people that are nuts enough to defend genocide for countries they have on their team are not to be trusted with much anything else either. Users are cultists that politicise, brigade and harass and community mods on lemmy.ml adopt old school Soviet style silencing of thoughts and discussion other than the state approved.
Before you are making assumptions, I’m a leftie and have been for longer than most of the users there have been alive, but I’m not an authoritarian communist so apparently my thoughts are dangerous for the believers to hear.
Wherever you have your account you can block other instances and everything from selected domain names. My Fediverse experience is so much better after consequently filtering out everything lemmy.ml on every account and instance I’m on and I’d recommend it for everybody.
Kind of depends on the topic you want to post about. If you wanna post about books go to literature.cafe for example. There are some of these specific instances
if you’re LGBTQI+ (or an ally), lemmy.blahaj.zone is decent. The admins are great people too, unlike some other instances.
dont know what the consequences would be.
What could they be? I mean, if you don’t like a specific instance, or if it stops working, you just stop using it and create an account elsewhere (saying that as a piefed user, btw ;)
Yeah, I just made the switch to piefed some days ago. Isn’t there a saying don’t put all your eggs in one basket? My first accounts were on kbin and fmhy.ml, but they’re not around anymore. I made the switch to lemmy.world, then learned about piefed and since I like the features it had I made the switch to it.
I too migrated to piefed
More communities Faster development cycles Implemented in Python so way easier to modify
What features are those?
The ones most important to me are:
tagging features, tagging hotmaps for communities, search by tag, comments from crossposts is combined to the viewer (there’s a divider to show which community),
when someone posts from a certain instance like beehaw you get a reminder about their community standards, user flairs
less resources needed to load stuff (great for third-worlders like me), post and comment subscriptions, feeds (something similar to a multireddit)
topic categories (do note that topic ≠ community) like Regional > Asia > Philippines in which each topic category shows all posts made by communities in the category. For example if you are in Topic: Regional you get posts from all regional communities, in Topic: Asia you get posts from all communities based on Asia.
What consequences could there be? You can have more than one account. Explore freely. Maybe you’ll like the change?
