I just signed up for lemmy (brand new here). Can someone help explain piefed? I looked it up and it seems it used the same protocalls? I downloaded voyager app to use Lemmy - do I need to do something else to use piefed? I’m sort of confused, because a cursory search sounds like piefed works on voyager as well. . . If I’m already on Lemmy, am I basically also on piefed, just a different instance?

Sorry, hopefully someone who is smarter can eli5?

Piefed is also a part of the Fediverse, and reads Lemmy instances. Lemmy.zip also has a Piefed server at http://piefed.zip.

So essentially it’s just another instance? Do I need to create an account on a piefed instance to get the benefits of piefed vs Lemmy (which I’m not sure what I would actually get different).

Yes, you would

Currently Piefed has tools lemmy doesn’t: emote reactions, flairs, hashtags, polls, events, scheduled posts, feeds