Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed
IMO Lemmy/PieFed is safer to run because the community mods will delete anything illegal, which will delete it for you, too. About 5 instances host 95% of communities worth joining so it’s easy for us to coordinate defense.
Mastodon is thousands of instances and more wild west. Bad stuff can come from anywhere.
What a nightmare. Everything gets much harder at their scale…
It that a lot of money? I can’t tell anymore.
Yes if it’s that old then if it was possible to fix it’s problems then surely they would have by now…
Please test PieFed.
Installed qbittorrent and downloaded a few seasons of Linux isos onto a vps. Discovered accessing those files over SSH to be too slow to play them without buffering so installed filebrowser to get them via http which worked well.
It’s been a long long time since I used bittorrent and wow it works so much better these days.
I had a browse of the code recently. It’s really well put together, I think they have a great foundation it just needs to be optimized. I’m hopeful about friendica.
That’s an interesting algorithm!
IMO the Lemmy scaled sort would be ok if it wasn’t as powerful.
Try the scaled sort on PieFed.social, the amplification isn’t as strong and I just tweaked it to filter out bot posts.
Yeah, don’t do that.
You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.
hell yeah
By the time NLnet was ready to make a decision on the PieFed grant (7 months after we applied) we’d already completed 90% of the things. No grant for us.
I’ll try again next year if I can plan more than 7 months in advance.
Ask your admins about that - PieFed has that feature but only admins can do it and it’s instance-wide.
That could happen in the future but at the moment and in the past surely we lost more mods as a result of their community being dead than from their community being too active. But we don’t hear from them because they feel rejected and like they failed so they slink away quietly.
99% of communities need more content, not less.
Thank you for this counter-weight!
Cloudflare caching can solve this. Cache based on the user agent.
I’ve been thinking about adding Q&A features to PieFed for a while… Initially just the ability to set a comment as the solution to a post and then give that comment more emphasis in the UI. What else do we need? Maybe display the number of solution comments on peoples profile.
Install a floppy drive. No one gonna steal a computer with one of those.
FYI piefed.social also has !fediverse@piefed.social which is more active and not run by atomicpoet.
AI is not ideal for creating software where security is the main selling point.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/ai_code_assistants_security_problems/