Open source runs on good faith
When we talk about free and open source software it’s usually in technical terms – the source is available, anyone can inspect it, fork it, change it or contribute. But all those things only work and make sense in the…
PieFed
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Category Fediverse
What PieFed blocks out of the box – and how to unblock it
PieFed has a dizzying array of settings and options that instance admins can tweak. Most of them have obvious and sensible default values but some of those have been a bit controversial, especially to do with what gets blocked by…
PieFed as a Discord alternative
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…
A Crowdsourced Photo Gallery from the Fediverse – the Open Social Web in action
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: …
Managed PieFed hosting with fedihost.co
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…
PieFed v1.2 is released
PieFed 1.2 has just been released. Details and links to examples at
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…
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…
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…
Handling large bursts of POST requests to your ActivityPub inbox, using a buffer in Nginx
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…
PieFed privacy: control your search visibility
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…
Moderation & the design of social platforms
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…