Open Source Federated Forum
Open Source Federated Forum
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…
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…
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…
Fediverse traffic is pretty bursty and sometimes there will be a large backlog of Activities to send to your server, each of which involves a POST. This can hammer your instance and overwhelm the backend’s ability to keep up. Nginx…
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…
Recently @siderea wrote a fantastic thread about social homogeneity, moderation, the design of social platforms and what they could be. They covered a lot of ground and I can’t respond to it all so I’ll just pick some highlights I…
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…
Google provides a tool called PageSpeed Insights which gives a website some metrics to assess how well it is put together and how fast it loads. There are a lot of technical details but in general green scores are good,…
Us sitting here with our fiber internet and recent model phones have it pretty good. But the “i” in iPhone stands for “inequality”. Most people in the world still have pretty bad internet and old/slow phones. For a platform to…
As of today, PieFed includes a ‘theme engine’ which makes it easier for people with low or no Python skills to change how PieFed looks and behaves. Let’s start with the app/templates/themes directory in the PieFed codebase. In this directory…