So I started using piefed last weekend so I used it for a week including bumper weekends. I think I will make this my main but I have to say my feelings on it are very love/hate. Im really surprised at how conflicted I am.
The good: The setting options. Wow. Being able to tell it how to react to NSWF tags is the main reason this will become my maine. At some point in the future I think the thresholds may become useful but I put them massively high as I would like for now to turn it off. The federation is small enough still its unnecessary but again will likely be handy in the future. I love the keyword options and also a big reason to make it my main. Oh and being able to make bot posts semi-transparent. Huge. Its also great the way so many options can be done from the three button interface of every post in the feed. Oh and seeing a bit of the body of posts in the feed. Huge.
The bad: Its great you can do stuff from the three dot menu of posts but it stinks you can't seem to do it anywhere else. Im used to from mbin being able to have a block button when im at a url, or a community, or a user and it feels wierd having to go to the three dot of one of the posts to get there. Im used to being able to click to see all communities rather than having to go to a post and click on it there. Getting to the list of communities is just obtuse with several steps. It would be great if these things could be done in both ways though as I really like being able to do a lot without leaving the feed, but also sometimes its nice to have all the options about a thing when your on its main page be it user or community or such. This part is really a trunoff and why I get the love hate. I love all the options and what I can do but the interface sorta turns me off because of the simple one clicks that are not present.
The ugly: Surprisingly the grouping thing is really cool but I find it in the end not so useful. As the federation stands now I like to puruse all with some exceptions. Sure it was easy enough to not get sports stuff by not choosing the group but some other things just have to be blocked. Like I don't like communities that are by and large meme postings but those can be strewn about communities. I like gaming but I block communities about games I have no interest in. I want fediverse meta stuff but don't care for smartphones so any of the ones about specific apps I still have to block. In the end it means the grouping thing which I think is piefeds main stick. It did very little for me. I also find I still have to block communities in languages I can't communicate in that bleed through the language preference.
Just to reiterate. All said and done I think this will become my main.