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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…
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,…
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…
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…