PieFed v1.2 is released
PieFed 1.2 has just been released. Details and links to examples at
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How to use Really Simple Licensing (RSL) to block all AI crawlers
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…
An Anubis config for PieFed
Anubis uses a javascript-based challenge to stop scrapers from hammering your server. Installing it is easy enough but then you need to figure out how to configure it and it’s pretty intense. Here is the config I have for piefed.social,…
Tuning PieFed for scale
Out of the box PieFed has some pretty conservative settings, intended for small (less than 10 users) to medium (less than 200 active users) instances running on small servers where memory is constrained. Now that piefed.social is becoming busier I’ve…
Several new PieFed instances
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…
Optimal Cloudflare caching config for PieFed
How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments
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…
How PieFed federates feeds (aka multi-reddits or multi-comms)
Recently PieFed added a way to group communities into collections of related communities, which we called a “Feed”. Unlike Topics, Feeds are federated, can be created by anyone and can be public or private. There are now hundreds of feeds…
Tuning PostgreSQL for PieFed
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…
PieFed 2025 Roadmap
Watch out for this footgun in the Python requests library
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…
PieFed features for growing healthy communities
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…