… but it expired?

till it took an arrow to the knee?

but it lives in Canada, you wouldn’t have heard of which skool?

Oh that’s right, I’ve already taken the initiative to preemptively block myself from those parts 🙃 - PieFed’s ability to do that is so cool 😎

Well I for one am not going to criticize this meme (and become banned from the Threadiverse)!

These scientists magicians do. 🤷

And compared to PieFed.zip:-).

Probably most people who joined Lemmy.world did so because they did not want to understand how federation works prior to joining an instance, and then simply did not want to move later.

Lemmy.World was also notoriously behind so it tracks that they want to ensure maximum stability before updating:-), not aiming to be at the bleeding edge of having the most features.

At minimum, but if the delay were a month that would probably still be fine.

I think this is about the systems being put into place to actively welcome that scrutiny - e.g. the new ratings system being tested (not available publicly yet).

And appreciated! 😁👍

Perhaps ratings could only be counted by accounts not currently banned?

PieFed is communism minus tankie philosophy / fascism. So Left rather than Alternative Left?

Oh but that’s 1.4 alpha, while PieFed.world is still on v1.1.5-10-g927213a1 - it’s not only waiting on app devs! Plus I could understand if app devs wanted to wait for more than read-only access to such information. Anyway it’s progressing forward quickly and that’s appreciated!

And I hope that the webpage method of access does not get forgotten as well, as sometimes seemed the case with Lemmy where so many apps would have features that the basic UI lacked.

Right now on PieFed the too-wide comment boxes still breaks the entire page sometimes (like the top bar won’t even render) and the Preview ability is still hit or miss - e.g. I noticed while editing a comment yesterday that I could not preview how it was going to render, from a desktop browser. So I hope the standard web UI continues to be shown care and attention and becomes more polished.

Oh wow I definitely missed that announcement, that seems major news that the API has improved that much!! (Especially in so short a time)

I also left Reddit not for the tankies but for kbin.social, so PieFed is a spiritual successor for that:-).

The toads make it all worthwhile…

All bow to the toads, may our toad rulers live forever!

Kbin is dead. Hopefully Ernst is himself not physically dead, but has stopped contributing. It was quite the fiasco as Kbin.social had to be defederated from since it was sitting un-administered and thus being used to spread spam across the entire Threadiverse.

Kbin’s fork Mbin is still going strong, though with fewer users as time passes. There is even an app for it now: Interstellar.

It serves a very niche area though, where you want to interact with both the microblogging style Mastodon on the Fediverse and also Lemmy+PieFed on the Threadiverse (with newer additions being added e.g. nodeBB and flarum) using the same account rather than dedicated ones for each platform. Personally I feel like the UI is too geared towards the former and ignores what is much more commonly observed in the letter. Plus it follows Ernst’s trends to rename every little thing where e.g. downvotes are “reduces”, except it’s more complicated than that bc downvotes themselves still exist - except they don’t, in that they don’t affect the sorting (or maybe that was the reduces?) - plus they are now publicly visible, except again they are not (actually “boosts” are, reduces are not, and I forget whether they are or not for up and downvotes).

Even at its peak it never topped 1k monthly active users (according to this site), so compared to Lemmy’s ~35k the ~0.7k users of Mbin are practically unnoticeable.

PieFed is the new hot thing, with many features that Lemmy lacks, and some even that Reddit itself does not have. It is still being polished but its pace of development is extremely fast! 😁

Yeah, since 695 million active accounts is not tiny. Lemmy has <40 thousand (I am personally two of those:-P).

So when I asked someone this weekend if they used Reddit, they had heard of it before, though said they only used it for looking up niche topics.

Though previously I’ve asked people who responded that they’d never even heard of Reddit before 🙃. Everyone has heard of YouTube, and Tiktok, and Instagram, but Reddit did not quite reach that level of recognition, for it to be a household name.

I thought that things like combining comments across all cross-posts, categories of communities, user-customizeable and shareable feeds, ability to block all users from an instance, etc. were not supported yet.

Perhaps “minimal” is the wrong word though: maybe “basic” would have worked better, with most of PieFed’s most well-known and touted features not having been included yet, unless I missed it and they are now?

If you mean something that could access all of its features, the reason that isn’t happening yet is because the back-end API is still very minimal. But they’re working on it, and the progress so far is amazing!! 😍

What people here often forget is just how few people IRL even use Reddit as social media. Even those who are fairly technically minded. Like, they may even have an account that they use to converse with people about a specific matter, then when their issue is resolved they set Reddit aside and don’t visit the site again for months.

Also, we know how subscriber numbers are highly inflated. Many of us had multiple accounts ourselves, to help separate different uses (e.g. a mod and non-mod account to use for testing purposes).

People not using Reddit seems odd to us because it does not match our experiences, as users of Arch btw, but it is true in the wider world.

Edit:

Interesting…

Most graphs that I saw describing stats for which social media platforms don’t even bother showing Reddit at all.

The “What Are the Most Used Social Media Sites in the US?” table from the latter website is particularly interesting… Reddit is #12 with 695 million active users worldwide, just above Weibo and Pinterest and X and Q (??), and behind Kuaishou, Douyin, and Snapchat. WeChat has twice as many users. Tiktok has 1.94 billion users so nearly 3 times as many users. Facebook has 3.07 billion so >4.4 times as many users.