It does seem then that the less-than-great aspects of PieFed, from your perspective, are quality of life sort of things, rather than core aspects of the way PieFed works. That’s nice to hear :D

I’ve tried it out just a little, but I’ll definitely be exploring it more!

this Lemmy instance which will remain single user most likely.

You’re an evil person, keeping a name as cool as nocturnal garden all to yourself… Where has compassion gone? The world… The world is falling apart, one cool server-name at a time… /j

(in all other cases beside Lemmy) can be described as shouting in the void and being happy if someone else is there too.

Yeah, I get this, to be honest.

Though, I do feel the same way with the centralized social media platforms. I mean, if I make a Tumblr post, I’m really not expecting people to see it. If I just Tweet, as opposed to Tweeting at someone, I don’t really expect engagement either… YT videos, Instagram posts… Unless my friends and family use the apps — which is another issue altogether, since I could try to get them to join — I just shouting in the void.

I think it’s the lack of theme. Lemmy makes you post with the theme of the community you post to, so it’s kind of implied that your posts will reach people that are interested in what you posted. That’s kind of how tags work on Mastodon and Twitter, I guess, but it’s not quite the same thing.

It very much is not Fediverse. They use a federated protocol, but not ActivityPub, which is the Fediverse’s protocol. They use AT Protocol instead, and they’re the only thing using ATP, by the way… That should tell you everything about how “federated” they are.

While there are different servers, there’s a dependence on central nodes. The simple existence of central nodes is antithetical to decentralization… So we’re really not talking about the same thing at all here, with BlueSky vs the Fediverse.

Look, I enjoy fun with computers as much as the next guy, but if I need to get something done I don’t want to go scouring… If I need to get in a meeting and the audio is fucked or the bluetooth broke or something, that’s a big problem…

Fair. I’ll try that :D

Well, yeah, I get that… Still, there’s quite a bit about Windows that annoys me, and there’s really nothing I do on Windows that Linux can’t handle. I’ve already looked it up, and the little gaming I do does work pretty well on Linux too, reportedly.

So I find myself thinking… Why am I on Windows? I could be on Linux and ditch Microsoft. It’s just some anxiety, fear that things’ll break. At the end of the day, I have more confidence that, if something goes wrong, I can fix it in Windows, but may not be able to fix it in Linux. Hope I’m making sense here.

Cool :D Thanks for the link, I’ll definitely be checking that out~

Once shareholders get their hands on something

We’ll see I guess…

I barely use Steam to be honest. Gosh, I need to get off Windows…

which suits so many of my needs (tbf not all) perfectly

What do you think is missing from PieFed?

Discord continues going down the shitter.

How so? And what do you mean bridge Matrix to Discord?

:D That does sound nice…

I love Thunder for Lemmy, so I’m definitely interested in what you’re doing.

That being said, I think an app that could unite the threadiverse is really cool. Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, all in one. That’s nice… I do have Interstellar installed, but I don’t really like it as of now.

Hmm I see.

Not sure how much use I’d get of public upvotes, personally, but boosting/re-posting seems like a genuinely nice feature.

…And Lemmy?!

However, when PieFed gets a stable app, I plan to switch over to it

Yeah, lots of people have been talking highly of PieFed.

Maybe I’ll try out Loops when it gains federation support.

Oh, no Fed yet?! Dang…

If Lemmy isn’t an alternative then what is?

Well, Mbin or PieFed, I guess…

IDK… I’m not expecting account transfer any time soon, but it’d be a fantastic feature.

I much prefer ONLYOFFICE as well.

Where is this? Porto?