1mo ago

We now have a PieFed instance!

piefed.blahaj.zone

Blåhaj PieFed - A PieFed instance for gender diverse folk and their allies.

Kaity has just spun up a PieFed instance, which is open to anyone that wants to try it out.

PieFed is part of the "Threadiverse" along with lemmy and mbin. If you are already reading this in lemmy, then you already know what PieFed is about.

If you're curious to try it out, or if you're just looking for a way to avoid lemmy, you can find it at https://piefed.blahaj.zone/

Like our lemmy instance, we have set PieFed applications to require manual approval, but if you're already a member of our lemmy instance, you can get auto approved by our modbot by quoting your registration code somewhere in your application.

Fediverse @lemmy.world

irelephant [he/him] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

1mo ago

lemmy.blahaj.zone has setup a piefed instance.

piefed.blahaj.zone

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Has anyone written about the functional differences between lemmy and piefed?
- Lemmy is currently more mature and written in rust for safety. But development is very slow and the developer doesn't seem that concerned. And lemmy as of five months ago still hasn't put in development for mods to get their job done (https://lemmy.world/post/25339515/14978968)
  Piefed is written in python. Devs seem more active and they've focused on speeding up popular features that people want from their social media discussion site. I haven't used piefed yet. I don't know if piefed actually provides more mod support which would be a big game changer.
  ~~The only solid number I know is that somebody a year ago compared their resource use and lemmy was using like 12x the resources of piefed.~~
  Edit: Ada hasn't noticed any resource issues, see the rest of the thread.
- Isn't run by tankies
common ada+kaity w
- Ada and Kaity sitting in a tree! W. I. N. N. I. N. G!
  And also kissing presumably
  
  Lotsa kissys!
Neat! I'll have to play with it when I get the chance.
How does PieFed differ from Lemmy? At first glance, they seem like similar applications. Does it have any particular strengths or additional features I might want to try out?
- There are lots of little usability improvements, and configuration options, but they are functionally very similar.
  But it also has the advantage of not being written by the lemmy devs, which is a deal breaker for some folk
  
  Could you please share context on the lemmy devs being a deal breaker?
- The web site has a list of differences between Lemmy and PieFed:
  Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
  Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
  Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
  People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
  Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
  Keyboard shortcuts.
  Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
  Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
  Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
  Voting is private.
  See also features for healthy communities.
  Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo
  This list isn't exhaustive; one major feature that's not listed there is de-duplication, where reposts all get combined into a single post with a split comment section (one for each individual post).
Interesting, never heard of piefed before, been using lemmy for a long time.
- Same (well, other than a long time, but I think it's been over a year at least)
I wish there were more apps with piefed support. I like my gestures. Nonetheless, thanks alot fort the instance! Piefed seems great, I'll be happy to try it out here.
- Apparently, your namesake (Interstellar) supports PieFed, but I haven't been able to log in to Blahaj's instance with it. It keeps giving me an error saying the API is not enabled.
- Yeah, i quite like my lemmy app (even if it is pretty much dead at this point). Eternity UI is very cozy to me.
- I'll just mention, in case it's not apparent, Interstellar (the app) does support swipe gestures on posts and comments; you just need to enable them in the settings. I do realize the Blahaj PieFed instance hasn't even enabled the API, so the app wouldn't work with piefed.blahaj.zone yet.
  BTW, I like your username :)
  
  Oh, nice, good to know! Also thanks :)
  
  Oh, never mind, I just saw their comment about the API being enabled, so the app should work with piefed.blahaj.zone.
Okay I'm super impressed so far! I absolutely love this. Way better than lemmy imo, I'll be migrating there fully. The wiki feature for the HRT community is gonna be super handy and things like post flairs/tags is something many have missed here!
Things like a [transmasc] and [transfem] and [transneutral] tag for trans_memes f.ex!
is there pie? 🍰💖
Basically a message for Kaity, but I am getting a
ClientException: Request failed with status 400: Bad Request: {"error":"alpha api is not enabled"} , uri=https://piefed.blahaj.zone/api/alpha/user/login
when using the Interstellar App and wanted to bring it to your attention. Thanks <3
- I'll check it out. See what this alpha API thing is all about.
  
  API now enabled!
  Post about it in Blåhaj PieFed Meta:
  https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/34431
- Piefed doesn't have great 3rd party app support at the moment
the best part about it is the cute lil shark icon in the trans pride theme <3
lemmy could never
- I tried to love that trans pride theme, but the nicest thing I can say about it is that I'm happy there is explicitly a trans pride theme :P
Do you have any thoughts on how the two compare in terms of resource utilization (CPU / RAM) given a similar number of users and activity?
I've been curious about this, because Rust, the programming language used for Lemmy, is supposed to be a LOT more CPU/RAM efficient than Python, the language used for Piefed. Python, on the other hand, is supposed to be much faster to initially develop in, which would at least partly explain how Piefed gained so many features so quickly compared to Lemmy.
- We don't have a point of comparison so far, because the instances don't share the same concurrent user numbers, but it would be hard to beat lemmy, which is really light for the volume it handles.
  
  Ok, thanks! Kind of what I expected both in terms of not being able to compare exactly and Lemmy being light. I appreciate it.
What exactly is the “threadiverse?”
- Any activitypub enabled software that mimics the Reddit style of longform thread/forum style social media with distinct topics.
  Which at the moment is Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin.
- Lemmy Piefed and Kbin I think.
  So content aggregators on the fedi?
Is the plan to switch to it permanently?
- Not particularly. There is no migration path between lemmy and PieFed, so we're just spinning up two instances, and we'll see what happens
  
  Apparently, some communities have had some success migrating, so there might be that possibility if that's the path you want to go down.
Ohhh it’s piefed not pixelfed! My dumb ass was trying to login with pixelfed app -.-
I just tried it, I like this place :3
What I like: The UI is nice and there are many options that lemmy doesn't have
What I dont: The lack of any formatting options for comments
- That looks to be a bug or something, because the formatting options are there when you edit your comment. I'll raise that with the dev.
Is "threadiverse" a thing? It feels like it gives far too much influence to Threads. I've never heard the term. "Fediverse" is better, though maybe this is a specific subset of ActivityPub applications?
- Threadiverse was a thing before Threads was a thing...
  And it specifically refers to the subset of "reddit like" ActivityPub platforms, so it's more specific than Fediverse. Threadiverse instances are part of the Fediverse too, but they're quite distinct from Mastodon etc
  
  Fair enough. I'd never heard that term before for some reason, only fediverse.
  
  Is "threadiverse" basically just fediverse (social) platforms that are thread-based (as opposed to, say, blog-based or some other federated type of thing)?
  Like, if fediverse & thread conversation, then is threadiverse?
Really dumb question probably, but are piefed communities reachable from lemmy and vice versa?
- Look at the account I'm replying to you from :)
- Yes, they federate with each other.
is piefed like sharkey to misskey or glitch to mastodon? or is it something different all together? just wondering. i would love a differently developed lemmy so that would be great!
also just curious will piefed also eventually get downvotes disabled like here? i love getting rid of the toxicity of it :)
- To the best of my knowledge, it is its own thing, rather than a fork of lemmy
- It's closer to a fork of lemmy that is cross-compatible through activitypub
  
  Its not a fork at all; Its built from scratch.
Cute logo
Ill try it :3
cool
I’m not sure if this is a Piefed software issue or a Piefed Blahaj federation issue; has anyone had trouble getting communities from slrpnk.net to show up on the page to add a remote community? I’ve been trying to add !birding@slrpnk.net, which as far as I can tell is still up and functioning, but PF Blahaj just gives an error that says “Community not found.”
EDIT: facepalm, I was checking to see if it was up on my Blahaj lemmy account. slrpnk.net itself is down. Dunno how I missed that happening, but in my defense there’s been a little bit going on in LA right now 😅
silly question and it's probably not possible but i wonder if there's a way to sync the sticky posts from this community on piefed too (or make this community more prominent on piefed) since ive been using the piefed instance more and more now that i got used to it. :^
- We don't have any stickied posts on lemmy at the moment, so there is nothing to sync, but as I understand it, they will sync fine
  That being said, another thing you can do is turn on notifications for the community itself. That way, you'll get a notification whenever someone makes a new post (not comment) to the community. You can do the same thing with individual posts too, and get notifications whenever someone replies to a post, even if you didn't make the original post!
  
  ooh thanks i feel dumb :L i thought i saw one on lemmy but maybe it was just old >_>
- Post pinning should be fixed now between Lemmy and Piefed, so if the mods unpin/repin it it should work
  
  but like in the main screen when you first go to the page where it lists all of your subscribed posts. sometimes on lemmy they would stick to the top from the meta subreddit. :^
I think I'm not really a fan of any of the existing mobile app options for PieFed. I'll definitely keep an eye on that and see if any ones that I like more become available.
hmm i already have a piefed account, do i make one for blahaj too..
- You don't have to, your existing account will work perfectly fine.
  But on the other hand, we're not rationing them out based on how many you already have either!
  Go to https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/link for a code you can use to get instant registration approval.
  
  dw i made one
I'd love to know the performance different between the two. It feels like Lemmy should be more lean.

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