My web UI (Firefox, Android) always defaults to English, even though it also offers to let me change it on each and every comment individually.
I feel like people get tired of those of us who constantly say that PieFed offers SIGNIFICANTLY more features than Lemmy does, or will ever do, but OTOH…
Based on other comments it defaults to the last language used, right? (It has been some time since I used PieFed.)
I feel like people get tired of those of us who constantly say that PieFed offers SIGNIFICANTLY more features than Lemmy does, or will ever do, but OTOH…
People make a whole ruckus because of the political views of the individual devs (from both sides), and also because of Rust vs. Python, but at the end of the day I like how PieFed adds new things to the table. Every new piece of software brings a different vision, different “I can’t stand this papercut issue so I’m fixing it”, and with it a bunch of new features.
Although… for the Python vs. Rust thing, I get Rust might perform better but I kind of expect people to be more likely to contribute with a Python project.
You also set the list in your profile Settings menu, so it’s not this humongous list of all possible languages but just those that you choose to show.
You’re talking about this list, right?
There’s an equivalent one in Lemmy:
However both are for the content you see, not for the content you create. I just think having some way to “pin” a few convenient languages would be great. PieFed’s “last used is the one you’re expected to use” strategy works fine for 1 language, but for 2+ it still means digging through a huge list.
PieFed offers both a last-used facilitation andalso a smaller list of only the options that you actually use on a daily basis (or at least what you had enabled at the time when you click to view the smaller list, regardless of what you’ve used in the past).
e.g. I now have a single language in the comment listing. In order to do my earlier test in Español I had to go into my Settings and enable that option in the large list, which changed the small list to have just those 2 choices: English and Español. When I began to make the comment in Español, the English option was of course the preselected one until I switched it to post the comment, so the real test was the follow-up second one, when I saw that not English and instead the last-used Español was preselected at that time.
Afterwards I removed Español (using the larger list in Settings) so that my smaller list has just the one language in it again. Which makes the entire per-comment UI element somewhat useless for me, sobre todo porque puedo hablar en cualquier idioma, pero aun así mantenerlo etiquetado como inglés. Vel alius. Ou un autre. Oder ein anderes.
Overall, I enjoy this approach - it seems ideal for someone who switches between a handful of languages, even though tbf that’s not what I do myself.
Rust is stable but difficult to work in. The political propaganda not merely tolerated but actively pushed forward by its flagship instance, and things like the Lemmy instance picker “randomly” choosing either Lemmy.ml or hexbear.net literally (if roughly) 90% of the time, and the political rules never anywhere being stated explicitly on lemmy.ml, etc. have led people to greatly reduce or altogether stop funding for Lemmy.
At the same time the Lemmy devs are attacking PieFed, e.g. by running AI to identify vulnerabilities and then rather than offer even so much as 24 hrs notice go ahead and publicly disclose them (yes they “can” do so, but is it “friendly” to have chosen that route?). Also people report from looking at the Lemmy codebase that even though it is written in Rust it is still buggy, e.g. so much so that the underlying database must be constantly rebooting due to memory leakages. Tbf similar arguments if less substantiated claims have been made against PieFed as well. It is for this reason that in 2026 slrpnk.net will switch to PieFed, as quokk.au already did, even while others moved forward more hesitantly, opening up a PieFed alternative even while retaining their older Lemmy instance.
The fact that in Lemmy moderator reports have not federated all this time since the Rexodus (although FINALLY will in the upcoming v1.0 release), shows that the concerns of the more “global” audience for Lemmy are of far lesser consideration - and this is presuming the maximum good-faith assumptions of their programming capabilities.
I have lost virtually all faith that the Fediverse will ever grow much beyond its current state, but what faith I still have leftover I place solidly into the hands of PieFed as the best hope to move forward. We will see, I suppose.
At the same time the Lemmy devs are attacking PieFed, e.g. by running AI to identify vulnerabilities and then rather than offer even so much as 24 hrs notice go ahead and publicly disclose them (yes they “can” do so, but is it “friendly” to have chosen that route?).
I’m not informed on that. Do you have some link where I can read further about it?
Regarding the rest:
I feel like the problem regarding Lemmy features might be what you said about being difficult to work with, plus that there’s way less people who can contribute with Rust code than Python code. However: I’m no programmer, this is just hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt because it might be incorrect.
That said I like the concurrent existence of Lemmy and PieFed, and I’d really like if there was more “Fediverse forum” platforms. It might split efforts a bit, but every new platform brings new stuff into the table; Lemmy was there at the start, then Kbin trying to “tie” the forums with microblogging, and then Piefed with the improvements you mentioned. More importantly, that concurrence allows us to not need to have “faith” in any specific platform, since if the devs for some reason go MIA the rest of the “Fediverse forums” survives.
Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, and nodeBB all are part of the Threadiverse, multiple of which also interact with the wider Fediverse as well. flarum said that it wants to join as well, and work on Sublinks has reportedly resumed. It would be nice to see any and all of these become more mature platforms. Every one is incomplete to varying degrees, yet moving forward at whatever rate and yes that is good to see. I root for none of them to fail, yet if that is inevitable then I hope for at least one to succeed, at which point literally all benefit due to the ability to share content:-).
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My web UI (Firefox, Android) always defaults to English, even though it also offers to let me change it on each and every comment individually.
I feel like people get tired of those of us who constantly say that PieFed offers SIGNIFICANTLY more features than Lemmy does, or will ever do, but OTOH…
Based on other comments it defaults to the last language used, right? (It has been some time since I used PieFed.)
People make a whole ruckus because of the political views of the individual devs (from both sides), and also because of Rust vs. Python, but at the end of the day I like how PieFed adds new things to the table. Every new piece of software brings a different vision, different “I can’t stand this papercut issue so I’m fixing it”, and with it a bunch of new features.
Although… for the Python vs. Rust thing, I get Rust might perform better but I kind of expect people to be more likely to contribute with a Python project.
Test two
Yes it defaults to the last one used.
You also set the list in your profile Settings menu, so it’s not this humongous list of all possible languages but just those that you choose to show.
And “undetermined” is not one of the options that shows on outgoing messages.
You’re talking about this list, right?
There’s an equivalent one in Lemmy:
However both are for the content you see, not for the content you create. I just think having some way to “pin” a few convenient languages would be great. PieFed’s “last used is the one you’re expected to use” strategy works fine for 1 language, but for 2+ it still means digging through a huge list.
PieFed offers both a last-used facilitation and also a smaller list of only the options that you actually use on a daily basis (or at least what you had enabled at the time when you click to view the smaller list, regardless of what you’ve used in the past).
e.g. I now have a single language in the comment listing. In order to do my earlier test in Español I had to go into my Settings and enable that option in the large list, which changed the small list to have just those 2 choices: English and Español. When I began to make the comment in Español, the English option was of course the preselected one until I switched it to post the comment, so the real test was the follow-up second one, when I saw that not English and instead the last-used Español was preselected at that time.
Afterwards I removed Español (using the larger list in Settings) so that my smaller list has just the one language in it again. Which makes the entire per-comment UI element somewhat useless for me, sobre todo porque puedo hablar en cualquier idioma, pero aun así mantenerlo etiquetado como inglés. Vel alius. Ou un autre. Oder ein anderes.
Overall, I enjoy this approach - it seems ideal for someone who switches between a handful of languages, even though tbf that’s not what I do myself.
Ah, got it! It’s a sensible approach. Lemmy AFAIK doesn’t do anything similar; it should.
I doubt it ever will, but yes.
Rust is stable but difficult to work in. The political propaganda not merely tolerated but actively pushed forward by its flagship instance, and things like the Lemmy instance picker “randomly” choosing either Lemmy.ml or hexbear.net literally (if roughly) 90% of the time, and the political rules never anywhere being stated explicitly on lemmy.ml, etc. have led people to greatly reduce or altogether stop funding for Lemmy.
At the same time the Lemmy devs are attacking PieFed, e.g. by running AI to identify vulnerabilities and then rather than offer even so much as 24 hrs notice go ahead and publicly disclose them (yes they “can” do so, but is it “friendly” to have chosen that route?). Also people report from looking at the Lemmy codebase that even though it is written in Rust it is still buggy, e.g. so much so that the underlying database must be constantly rebooting due to memory leakages. Tbf similar arguments if less substantiated claims have been made against PieFed as well. It is for this reason that in 2026 slrpnk.net will switch to PieFed, as quokk.au already did, even while others moved forward more hesitantly, opening up a PieFed alternative even while retaining their older Lemmy instance.
The fact that in Lemmy moderator reports have not federated all this time since the Rexodus (although FINALLY will in the upcoming v1.0 release), shows that the concerns of the more “global” audience for Lemmy are of far lesser consideration - and this is presuming the maximum good-faith assumptions of their programming capabilities.
I have lost virtually all faith that the Fediverse will ever grow much beyond its current state, but what faith I still have leftover I place solidly into the hands of PieFed as the best hope to move forward. We will see, I suppose.
I’m not informed on that. Do you have some link where I can read further about it?
Regarding the rest:
I feel like the problem regarding Lemmy features might be what you said about being difficult to work with, plus that there’s way less people who can contribute with Rust code than Python code. However: I’m no programmer, this is just hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt because it might be incorrect.
That said I like the concurrent existence of Lemmy and PieFed, and I’d really like if there was more “Fediverse forum” platforms. It might split efforts a bit, but every new platform brings new stuff into the table; Lemmy was there at the start, then Kbin trying to “tie” the forums with microblogging, and then Piefed with the improvements you mentioned. More importantly, that concurrence allows us to not need to have “faith” in any specific platform, since if the devs for some reason go MIA the rest of the “Fediverse forums” survives.
Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, and nodeBB all are part of the Threadiverse, multiple of which also interact with the wider Fediverse as well. flarum said that it wants to join as well, and work on Sublinks has reportedly resumed. It would be nice to see any and all of these become more mature platforms. Every one is incomplete to varying degrees, yet moving forward at whatever rate and yes that is good to see. I root for none of them to fail, yet if that is inevitable then I hope for at least one to succeed, at which point literally all benefit due to the ability to share content:-).
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68952255
- sorry, I misremembered who did the disclosure, it was actually yogthos@lemmy.ml.
And on a related note, Rimu is stepping backwards a bit from directly contributing so much to PieFed, as it is leading to burnt-out: https://join.piefed.social/2026/05/12/what-worked-at-100-users-broke-at-5000/.
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