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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…
This release saw contributions from some new people, which is great to see. In this release you can now follow other people, not just join communities. When you follow someone their posts will show up in your ‘Subscribed’ feed, regardless…
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…
If you primarily use Discord to build a community and provide support, answer questions and share information then PieFed is a great fit and here’s why: PieFed has all the all the advantages that traditional forums have over Discord: For…
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…
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…