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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance?
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…
Technical performance of each fediverse platform
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,…
Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed
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…
Changing PieFed’s appearance with themes
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…
An introduction to the PieFed codebase
Very often when encountering an open source codebase you are left on your own to figure it out. Documentation is often limited to installation / compilation instructions. With the following video I am trying to ease the onboarding process for…