JemmyShould Piefed be more stable or feature-rich?
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Sunshine (she/her)This is an unofficial poll to see which direction the community would like to see the project focus on.
Stability is the gotcha Lemmy has over Piefed.
Not sure about the server side, but from a user perspective I find PieFed quite stable.
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You're right, search seems to be ab it unreliable with PieFed. Hopefully it will improve with the next updates.
I mostly use PieFed PWA on mobile now, but I use Voyager when I want to post images in comments.
I feel we're somewhat alright? Lemmy also has its small little annoyances. Sometimes NSFW isn't handled correctly, or there's a regression with connecting to Peertube. Sometimes federation queues build up or an admin needs to do overtime because their database burnt down. Though I believe it's gotten way better with Lemmy. If I look more than year back, we had two incidents when federation broke entirely, and how (and how fast) admins install updates is messed up to this day.
Piefed on the other hand is moving fast and we have small little regressions all the time and we accept that. We have stable versions since fairly recently to address this issue. But I'm rarely seeing any major mess-ups with Piefed. I'm personally not really counting third-party phone apps towards stability yet, but that's changing now as well, due to adoption. Other than that we had 2 major security flaws, they're addressed by now, but we could compare those to Lemmy's security track record.
Is working better now (for posts at least):
e.g.
https://vger.app/posts/preferred.social/c/television@piefed.social/search/posts/dexter
https://vger.app/posts/preferred.social/c/television@piefed.social/search/posts/colbert
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It's easy to be stable if you never change anything.
Maybe nowadays, but look back at the history of changes in Lemmy - there were huge upheavals, and instances like Lemmy.World complained a lot about how many things kept changing in each Lemmy source code release, leading them to hold back on upgrading such that they became behind on the Lemmy version by like a year.
So whereas Lemmy is much more stable these days, it was not always thus, and many people would prefer a little more instability if they would ever bother to upgrade things that people had been begging for over the course of many years - like a modmail type of ability to contact a mod to find out why some content got removed.
Obviously features that are tested to be reliable.
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Oops, sorry, I was messing about in Mastodon. I doubt it will come down to the wire, but if it does, take 1 off for 'stability'.
@Sunshine why do you need a piefed account to vote? Is this an issue that's being worked on? I just voted from mastodon, so it's not registered in the system?
I think masto is fine. It's more that a lemmy account won't work since lemmy doesn't support polls.
It'll be registered - the federation code was written to follow Mastodon's implementation of Polls. Like wjs018 says, I think sunshine just meant "not lemmy".
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Oh, good stuff. For future reference, you don't need to warn Lemmy users that they won't be able to vote, because Polls are their own thing in ActivityPub, so users on Lemmy won't even ever see this post.
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