It’s another type of content aggregator like Lemmy and Mbin. Totally unique software, not just an app.

https://piefed.social/

It’s not as well known because it only started development a little over a year ago, well after the APIcalypse when most of the Lemmy userbase came over from reddit. But it’s been improving rapidly and already has a lot of innovative features that Lemmy lacks. I believe that one of those features is better compatiblility with Mastodon, but I’m not entirely sure. It’s also written in Python which makes it easy for a variety of developers to contribute if they so wish.

Please let them not ruin Firefox with some bullshit AI. I can’t take much more of this, Firefox is one of the last things I have left.

The fediverse really do be like that sometimes.

But seriously, this is very cool and I love to see people being creative and sharing things like this. I saw your earlier post about this and it seemed like a great idea.

Also Piefed is awesome and it’s great to see more people discovering and talking about it.

I mean, you could mention the fediverse to people you know IRL and get them to join.

But I’ve only done that a handful of times, quite ineffectively, so I can’t presume to judge you.

Ok cool. Tfw there are so many great apps for Lemmy but you can only use one at a time 😔

Mother of God, I did not realize that he’s pushing 70k comments.

Btw are you just joking or isn’t there actually a tool that checks Lemmy profiles and gives a neat little scorecard with some stats? I remember reading a thread where someone linked it but that was a while ago.

Damn is that actually what lemming teeth look like?

Mouth closed: cutest little critter

Opens mouth: 😳 wtf

Tbf this condition is shared by many humans as well, so we can add this to the list of excellent lemming metaphors

I’m not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people away from truly revolutionary platforms.

Of course it has to seem like a plausible alternative, but is it actually decentralized or altruistic enough to make a meaningful difference? I think not.

I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it’s understandable that he didn’t. Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.

But beggars can’t be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.