If it helps, there is a difference between the software PieFed vs. the current selection of instances, like PieFed.social is the flagship instance and I have never seen NSFW stuff on it, although there is a NSFW tag (+ also a NSFL one as well). But other instances may choose to host NSFW content if they want to.

Ok. So I wanted to retire my old username BagOfHeavyStones since it was kind of odd. I thought ok, I'll have to use a new email address (using the + option on Gmail) and create a new account. However, to my surprise, PieFed allowed me to create a new profile but still keep the same email address.

Now, that is kinda handy, but I suspect most apps would not anticipate this. As a result, when I posted in Interstellar it showed my old username as the author, but the PWA displayed the new one.

Not sure if this link will work: https://piefed.social/post/813652#comment_6420389

Thanks for all your work!

Think of it like web browsers.

You can visit websites using Firefox, or you can visit websites using Chrome. Websites all speak the same language, so both Firefox & Chrome can load them.

In the case of Lemmy & PieFed, they also speak the same language, in this case that language (or protocol) is called ActivityPub.

So if you use a Lemmy app, it can talk to the different Lemmy servers, but it can also talk to different PieFed servers. Similarly if you use a PieFed app, it can talk to the different PieFed servers, but it can also talk to Lemmy servers.

Now Lemmy & PieFed are not the exact same. In the same way British English and American English are not the exact same. So your Lemmy app might not let you login to a PieFed instance directly. But they are similar, so maybe one day.

Since you are a lemm.ee user, your instance is going away, so you'll need to pick a new instance. You can pick a Lemmy instance or a PieFed instance, but the one you pick may limit the apps your able to use. Both also have websites/web apps, so if you're happy with the web version, you can use that too.

I'll also add that PieFed has some features that Lemmy doesn't have. So if you pick PieFed you may get some new features. The downside may be that you can't use your favorite app anymore.

I suggest trying both, but it you're not sure or ready, you can just pick another Lemmy server. You can always try PieFed at a later date.

lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear are the big 3 ultra "left" ones, they were so annoying that i had them blocked.

Oh yeah I have grad and hex bear blocked but there are some communities on ml

One thing I did say in my other comment is I like lemm.ee admins federation policy of block the spam and illegal instances and letting me block NSFW and bots

Ah, right. I was talking more from a broader software perspective rather than individual instances; I'm not sure what individual instances' federation policies are like. Probably the big three that people want to know about most of the time are lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. I know the mainline instance piefed.social allows the first one but blocks the other two, so that probably extends a bit further than what you're looking for. I'm not sure if there are any other instances that have looser federation settings.

I also remember hearing about the Mbin version when the Kbin dev fell off the face of the earth and meaning to check it out (I’m sure you can guess how that went) mind telling me about that. Again like piefed all ik is it’s a separate platform that can view lemmy content

I'd say the most significant feature Mbin has over Lemmy is microblog support. You can switch between threads (Lemmy/Reddit-style) and microblogs (Mastodon/Twitter-style) and post or read from both "sides" of the fediverse. If you have people you're interested in following but don't want to set up a whole Mastodon account, etc., Mbin allows you to do that. For example, I follow a couple of celebrities with fediverse accounts, some software developers (web browsers, games, emulators) and a few friends who post.

The other big thing Mbin has currently is that it automatically translates remote links to their local equivalent. I'm on fedia.io but if somebody from a foreign instance or even foreign software links to a post on their server, Mbin will link me to the local version instead so that I can immediately vote and reply, without having to track it down manually.

Something big that Mbin is lacking currently is the ability to block instances you don't like. You can block individual users or communities, but if there's an entire instance you want to get rid of, your only option is to petition the instance administrators to defederate from it. Since that's an important feature for you, I don't think Mbin is right for you, at least until that feature (which is planned) gets added.

Is there a place to submit bug reports? Got an error trying to watch a YouTube video in the app

Maybe !interstellar@kbin.earth ?

I might try out Mbin tho thanks for the write up!

Yeah as for the instance blocking tho I’ll manage, I can probably just block all the political communities

i repost Lemmy stuff to Mastodon all the time