We don't have a point of comparison so far, because the instances don't share the same concurrent user numbers, but it would be hard to beat lemmy, which is really light for the volume it handles.
To the best of my knowledge, it is its own thing, rather than a fork of lemmy
Not particularly. There is no migration path between lemmy and PieFed, so we're just spinning up two instances, and we'll see what happens
Piefed doesn't have great 3rd party app support at the moment
People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
Probably not, because we have downvotes disabled :)
There are lots of little usability improvements, and configuration options, but they are functionally very similar.
But it also has the advantage of not being written by the lemmy devs, which is a deal breaker for some folk
Give us a crash course in the history of your world
me, trying to make a world history up on the fly, whilst not contradicting stuff I made up on the fly 6 sessions ago
They're designed to be easy to navigate, and to funnel you through as many duty free stores as they can!
Someone needs less coffee
I get my partner to do it for me!
What a pretty butterfly :p