I asked that question recently and got some helpful responses,

https://lemmy.world/post/30977919

tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I’m not a coder or an instance host, so don’t ask me what that distinction means, but I’ve anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),

PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you’re going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven’t decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)

Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin On” was the first thing that came to my mind

Stereolab’s “Mars Audiac Quintet” was a close second

“Your screens should be nicer to you than this one. Join Lemmy!”

Sometimes, I’ve started seeing newer ones in some places where there is no mute button

Hmm, maybe someone could make some stickers with anti-advertising/anti-capitalist slogans on them for the next person to see specifically for this purpose

Yeah, good question and good answer

You can export your Lemmy account settings and import them to Piefed, but not the other way around

Does account settings include a user’s subscribed communities?

But the coolest thing is that it does not need to be a competition. Both platforms can do good in the federation.

100% agreed, I’d even go further and say that having a diversity of systems makes for a more resilient ActivityPub ecosystem. It’s not only non-competitive, it’s inherently cooperative.

The fact that PieFed and Lemmy work interchangeably with each other is wonderful, and that plus the fact that I’m lazy means I’m probably going to keep primarily going through lemmy.world for now, but I’m definitely going to keep thinking about it and checking up on it.

or any impact on credit

Unfortunately I think the regulation that would have made that the case was stopped by the Trump administration

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/nx-s1-5406799/cfpbs-medical-debt-credit-report-lawsuit (arc)