For a brief time they had been moved to a sub menu, but it was annoying and so they were shuffled around again.

PieFed.social is the "bleeding edge" where all the newest experimental stuff is tried out, but the other
instances are more stable e.g. https://feddit.online/ .

Ah that makes sense. I'm not using it enough to notice the subtle changes over time.

lemm.ee has been a shit-show for a while.

This is so funny coming from a .world account

I Recognise you from .ee!

I was made aware of Piefed from recent posts about this and went ahead and made an account in case I want to ditch Lemmy altogether in the future, but I'm familiar with how it works and will keep using it for now.

lemmy is permantly shutting down due to admin burnout.

lemmy in general or lemm.ee?

is piefed not a lemmy instance?

It's a totally different software project. Written in Python as opposed to Rust (programming language used for Lemmy).

But it is also part of the fediverse with ActivityPub compatibility, so you can easily browse and subscribe to Lemmy communities and content from PieFed and vice versa.

https://piefed.social/ is the original PieFed instance.

No, but it federates with Lemmy.

Ooooh fight fight fight! (Whatever it takes to leave
.ml alone)

That doesn't make sense I f Thu had a no pornography rule how could they federate with instances that had porn.