Jerry Lerman (@[email protected])
hear-me.social
Want a piece of PieFed? I'm now running a PieFed instance: https://feddit.online A long time ago I had a #KBIN instance, feddit.online. KBIN is part of the "threadiverse", a Reddit replacement. When KBIN was abandoned, I shut it down. KBIN became #MBIN and Jerry Bell opened a fantastic MBIN instance, fedia.io, to go along with the mother ship instance. I didn't see a reason to open yet another MBIN instance. So feddit.online remained parked ... until now. Ending its time in beta, there is a new #Reddit #Fediverse replacement, #PieFed, which is similar to MBIN in how it works, but is built with different technology. While MBIN is mainly written in PHP and Node, and uses RabbitMQ for queuing, PieFed is written using Flask/Python, with Celery for queuing. I'm much more familiar with Python than PHP, and so PieFed is particularly interesting to me. I might even be able to contribute to the project someday when I get through learning the codebase and learning Flask. More information about PieFed is here: https://join.piefed.social/features/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/ Want to play with PieFed? https://feddit.online is available now. Registration is immediately available while I'm available to watch, but restricted when I'm not watching. If restricted, you just need to give a quick reason for joining and then be patient. Also, some email providers have an issue with email addresses ending in .social, especially that come from a mail server hosted on Digital Ocean. If joining, check your spam filter and white list [email protected] Remember, it's beta. So there may be issues and there may be downtime at times to address upgrades and what not. Also, I've been so busy bringing up the server that I haven't had a chance to learn everything yet about it, so I may not have answers to questions. It seems to run efficiently, but I'm unsure if I sized the server optimally. I will grow it if need be. Welcome to anyone interested in checking out PieFed! @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #Fediverse #Lemmy

There used to be a Kbin instance called feddit.online, which was shut down. @[email protected] just announced on Mastodon, that he brought feddit.online back to life, this time using PieFed. PieFed is a pretty neat alternative to Lemmy and Kbin/Mbin, created by @[email protected] and of course it’s fully free and open source on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
It has some cool features like “Topics”, which are basically groups of multiple communities that you can view all at once (similar to these Lemmy feature requests: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113).

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    PieFed has some design principles, including being accessible on lower-end devices and for those with unreliable bandwidth, which mean that it’s default UI is never going to look like apps which involve downloading a sizable chunk of Typescript.

    I’m okay with its look. Partly because it’s themeable, and there’s a theme called ‘Card Shadow’ which looks more modern imo. And partly because Lemmy can feel quite slow showing 20 posts at a time, whereas PieFed throws 100 at a time. And also because there will eventually be an API, allowing people to view it how they want (similar to Lemmy - lemmy-ui is maybe not that great, but there’s other frontends which I think are an improvement)

      • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Fair enough. I’m not trying to recruit you, or present rivalries where none exist. We can communicate reasonably well regardless of whatever platform we prefer, which is the whole point of this Fediverse thingy anyway.