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Just like Reddit, PieFed keeps track of how many upvotes and downvotes your posts receive and the net value of all the votes received is called your “reputation” (Reddit calls it “karma”). This is not shown in the UI anywhere…
Some time ago some fascists took a copy of Mastodon and made Truth Social with it. Arguably the damage caused by Truth Social to the world is greater than the good Mastodon brought to a few of us. This is…
Trans people have a lot to deal with and there’s many of them on the fediverse so I’ve taken special care to ensure their voices influence the development of PieFed and have built some features with them in mind. Pronouns…
Recent events have made me realise something. In the early days, when PieFed was tiny (it’s still tiny I guess) me being really engaged with the community was a huge strength. I knew immediately what was going on and could…
PieFed federate reactions as a normal Like except with an additional field: content which contains either a unicode emoji letter or a string with : on the start and end. e.g. :fire:. The reactions that are just a single letter…
When Cloudflare had problems recently pretty much every PieFed instance went offline. This was a real “wtf are we doing” moment, for me. What’s the point of having multiple instances (there are now 64 PieFed instances!) if they all have…
PieFed 1.2 has just been released. Details and links to examples at
RSL is a new initiative by a group of big internet publishers that seeks to define the conditions under which AI crawlers can harvest their content. Their guide describes the various ways the content can be made available, including for…
On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is…
Every instance will be different but generally speaking the default settings that PostgreSQL has will be Ok to start with but once the instance has been running for a few months the amount of data being stored will mean things…
requests is a very widely used Python package, used for making HTTP requests. As you can imagine, a project like PieFed does a lot of HTTP and so I reached for the most widely used tool for the job, thinking…