Btw, this is a very old article. PieFed is lightyears ahead from where it was one and a half years ago. KBin ceased to exist. (Edit: And is continued with MBin now.) And I didn't follow Lemmy's development so I can make any statement there.

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 19 points 1 month ago

kbin is mbin now

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kbin still exist i’m on it

[–] markz@suppo.fi 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're on mbin, but it's pretty much the same thing.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello fellow mbinauts!

[–] pgetsos@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 points 1 month ago

Oh, hey! I suppose technically you're on MBin? But yeah, now that I'm aware... I regularly see kbin.earth pop up somewhere.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Would be interesting to see how the numbers compare to today.

[+] cloudless@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lemmy is plenty fast, just the UI is seriously bloated. Using lemmy api on a third party app is a smooth af.

This is one of the reasons using PieFed on mobile feels as good if not better than native apps. The page loads super fast.

If you're using piefed.social or any of the other popular piefed instances, they're using CloudFlare. So ya, it'll be faster because they have CDN all across the globe. Also your login credentials and tracking data will be sent to a cloudflare server without user knowledge.

So ya, I'd rather have a few milliseconds delay and avoid all that tracking and MITM. Thanks though.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don’t think caching benefits Lemmy and PieFed content that is changing very rapidly (e.g. new comments). That type of caching makes more sense for Lemmy/PieFed images.

However, bot traffic can get very expensive these days with all the AI crawlers. Cloudflare offers very good tooling to block these bots. I know there are other open source tools and I’m not defending Cloudflare, but it’s also easy to criticize when you’re not the person running the instance. From what I’ve seen, all the admins work very hard to keep the threadiverse running. I’m guessing that’s why a lot of instances are using Cloudflare.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Fair, though worth pointing out that the choice to use CloudFlare is an instance-level decision, not a software-level one, and the PieFed software is still faster than Lemmy regardless of the choice to use CloudFlare. And this despite showing 5-fold more posts, iirc it was a roughly 25-fold speedup per post shown for the main page.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love how fast it is, but the PWA is missing some features like showing likes + dislikes + ratio. Maybe I just didn't search enough tough.

The crosspost grouping feature is a godsend. I hope Clients like Interstellar are going to implement it.

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

As somebody that has made contributions to improve the PWA responsiveness, the difference between touch and cursor controls can be tough sometimes. The css framework we use (bootstrap) generally handles it well, but the pop-ups are one area where I'm not really happy with it, but I don't have a better solution yet.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Depends what you’re looking for. PieFed devs themselves said Blorp is very good. It’s just a different take. If you like the official PoeFed UI, use that. If you want something more modern, imo use Blorp.

Full disclosure, I’m the dev behind Blorp.

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just want to point out here that this blog post is old at this point (published February 2024). I believe that mbin in particular has made improvements in this regard. Also, we have added some features to piefed, and introduced a little bit of new Javascript/css. I am not sure exactly how this would compare today.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

for good measure, they should reheader the log to say things have changed😁