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 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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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
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.
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.
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
I’m testing piefed nowdays. Quite easy transition and no consequences.
Lemmy.today if you want to be able to see the entire fediverse. Its pretty much the only one that gives the full experience. And yes, it wont shield you from reading posts you dont agree with. So stay away if you want that.
For people who cant even stand Lemmy.ml, then just use Lemmy.world.
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.
