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Some PieFed instances will have been running for a couple of years now, and content will have been piling up quite a bit. Here are some tips that can significantly change the picture. Don’t make copies of remote media PieFed…
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…
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…
Here are some nice photos from around the fediverse: That page updates automatically as new photos are posted. How did they get there? Well… People from all over Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy and more posted photos into these communities: …
If you’d like a PieFed instance of your own but don’t want to deal with setting up a server, installing PieFed, and maintaining it yourself, get in touch with the team at fedihost.co! They’re currently offering reduced-price PieFed hosting to…
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…
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…
The admin teams behind a few large Lemmy instances have also set up PieFed instances recently. If you’re looking for an instance run by people with plenty of technical experience and deep connections to the fediverse community, these are the…
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…
Most software similar to PieFed delegates the job of maintaining the health of communities to the moderators of those communities. This frees up the instance administrators to focus on technical issues and leave a lot of the politics and social…
By default, all posts show up in search results on #PieFed, #Lemmy and #Kbin. But in a first for the threadverse, PieFed has just added some privacy features that Mastodon had for a long time – being searchable is now…
For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote…