FTFY

I’ve tried to promote Lemmy on Reddit in the past, only to be met with people complaining about the really old UI and bad UX, they also complain about tankies.

PieFed doesn’t have that bad rep, so I’ve found it easier to promote, both lead to the Fedivers so either is a win.

“Complain about tankies” it’s the same fediverse… With the same content…

Sure but PieFed doesn’t seem to have a tankie problem. They’re blocked from what I’ve seen.

Even if that wasn’t the case, PieFed doesn’t have a reputation for having a tankie problem.

The bottom line is when I promote PieFed I don’t get people on reddit telling me the UI sucked and that it’s flooded with pro-russia propaganda.

So I find it more efficient to promote PieFed

Anyone can instance can defederate from any other instance in Lemmy, not that hard to understand.

I agree, and I think it’s a shame it has gotten to this point, but I understand his viewpoint completely and have seen the interactions myself. At this point it’s simply more efficient to promote Piefed on Reddit instead of Lemmy, because you want the absolute least amount of friction for potential new users. Literally any single minor inconvenience/negative thing will cause people to not even consider trying it out. Lemmy has unfortunately already accumulated a reputation, and if you promote it you are very likely to run into comments about tankies which is typically enough to scare potential new users away.

At the end of the day it shouldn’t matter to us which software people use, as long as we get more new users into the ecosystem.