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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.zip

5d ago

Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis)

To see it in action:

https://piefed.zip/communities?topic_id=0&feed_id=0&language_id=0&nsfw=all&search=&sort_by=active_weekly+desc

Crust.piefed.social (the Piefed development instance)

https://crust.piefed.social/communities?topic_id=0&feed_id=0&language_id=0&search=&sort_by=active_weekly+desc

Not all instances implement it yet, I guess it depends how often they pull from the dev branch

Example of search for 'movies'

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.zip

5d ago

Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis)

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.zip

5d ago

Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis)

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Is this different to Lemmy's communities tab sorted by 'Top Week', which sorts by weekly active users?
IMO, the main advantage of Lemmyverse is the better text search and presentation.
- No it's not. It's just a way to sort by active weekly users, but you can mix and match by filtering with feeds which you can't do on Lemmy.
  
  Lemmy's view does not allow to search and keep the data about active users, you immediately get into this view that doesn't show active users
  
  What would a Feed/multicomms' actively weekly users even be? An aggregate of all the comms weekly users, or just the highest one? Or does Piefed go through all the comms and collect the unique actors (God, that would be an expensive operation)?
- The text search on Piefed is similar to Lemmyverse. Example for 'movies'
  
  So basically this? https://p.feddit.uk/search?q=movies&type=Communities&sort=TopWeek
It's now live on https://quokk.au/ as well!
This is a great feature to have, as I was reliant on newcommunities and communitypromo to find new comms.
- Quokkas!
- Well done !
Out of interest, what is search like on Piefed? Lemmy’s is all but useless. Even filtering by "last week" will show me two year-old posts and comments, regularly that don’t actually include the word I’m looking for.
- Lemmy's search is a lot better if you don't use the 'All' type, like just search comments or posts. With 'All', it is basically useless. Like sorting by controversial on a user's profile.
  
  Here's a search I did just now. Despite trying to restrict it to the last month ("Top Month"), none of the results on the first page are within the last month.
- Curious, I've found Lemmy search to be okay. I don't search a lot on Piefed, so I can't compare.
  
  Here's a search I did just now. Despite trying to restrict it to the last month ("Top Month"), none of the results on the first page are within the last month.
  
  Piefeds search isn't great. I always search by Lemmy.
  It's too clunky. Lemmy wins on this one imo
- Searching by "posts" on Lemmy is actually superior to searching on PieFed, though searching by "all" or "comments" on Lemmy is absolutely borken (haha misspelled unintentionally but Imma just leave it there as it fits so well!?:-P). Reputedly Lemmy's search is about to add the ability to filter on post "titles" separately from the rest of the text, which sounds very nice.
  So it's hit or miss what works or not on Lemmy. PieFed's search is the singular feature that is currently very behind compared to Lemmy, but like everything else I expect PieFed to rapidly overtake Lemmy one day soon-ish. Therefore I use a PieFed account as my daily main, but when I want to search for something I still switch back to Lemmy (you don't even need an account for that though).
  
  Searching by “posts” on Lemmy is actually superior to searching on PieFed, though searching by “all” or “comments” on Lemmy is absolutely borken
  Ah, that makes sense. I'll try to pay attention to which I'm doing, because my most recent search used only comments, but was absolutely useless.
  
  Yep I'm looking into options... https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1235
It's crazy how fast development moves when you don't spend all day celebrating censoring your instance.
- Or when you use the right tool for the job (Python instead of Rust)
Oh great, now I can check if my Taylor Swifties Markov Chains are more popular in Meta’s piefeed instance over Microsoft’s 🙄 /s
Folks, please don't not fall for Popularity Biases. Just because one instance has more robots talking to each other, doesn't mean you should join the community.
- In the case of 'movies' used in the OP at the end, Piefed.social has much less users than Lemmy.world, so that does not really fit what you are saying.
  
  I’m saying it’s a terrible heuristic. So does science. So don't fall for it.
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Is there a theme or css for piefed that makes it look more like old reddit? I love the old reddit frontend for lemmy but sadly it seems to abandoned.
- Where I'm at so far with a theme. Gotta finish up the top bar with community subscriptions and tidy up the user part on the left before moving onto the feed.
  
  Oh nice, that looks like a great start. Is that just custom CSS you can use in the piefed settings or a full blown them the piefed admin has to install?
- As in old.reddit or the old “new” reddit they apparently changed a week ago.
  I’ve been messing around with customising themes all week on https://quokka.au/, and I would be happy to give it a shot.
  
  I mean like the original reddit layout. So it looks similar like this lemmy front end: https://old.lemmy.zip/
- Not really but there one retro theme that i love : irix1998
- Not that I know of, and while I hate to shill for Lemmy rather than PieFed, there is just such an interface on the instance you are already on: https://old.lemmy.zip/ . That does sound like a great idea for someone to make though...
  
  Yes I am aware, that's what I am using right now. But that'S lemmy and I was wondering if I can "transform" piefed in a way that comes closer to that.

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