cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571

Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/

What is PieFed

PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!

We will put together some guides on our non-profit’s website at some point. In the meantime, we have created [email protected] for us to learn from each other. There is also the official [email protected] community which has a similar purpose.

We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going 🙂

Other Links & FAQ

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Saaame. I created an account on the new Piefed but I’ll only fully switch over once Voyager supports it. I’ll be sad to lose my two year user history on Lemmy.ca though :(. I wish account migrations that kept comment/post history and account age were supported

    • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
      23·
      14 hours ago

      Hopefully voyager dev takes a look at piefed integration. I would absolutely love to get back to voyager but for me getting away from lemmy was more important than sticking to voyager.

        • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          11 hours ago

          I’m in no hurry. If it comes within a year I’ll be happy. If it takes longer I’ll probably check it out unless some other app has come out that I’m also happy with.

      • LumpyPancakes@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        14 hours ago

        For me it was the deduplication that takes me to PieFed. I’m only using Voyager at the moment as I’m lying on my side and the PieFed PWA rotates.

        Here’s hoping Voyager updates to support PieFed.

        • CoyoteFacts@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Oh my gosh, I was just experiencing the PWA rotating thing and it was driving me nuts trying to figure out how to stop it. Nothing else on my Android auto-rotates, and I didn’t immediately see any settings that could stop it. It seems like all PWAs created from Chromium (Vanadium to me) do this on my phone. I created the PWA from my Firefox app (Ironfox to me) and it seems to work fine, though it uses my installed Firefox extensions on the PWA - notably I have uBlock Origin set to block images above 50kB until I click them, which I have mixed feelings about using in conjunction with PieFed.

        • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
          161·
          13 hours ago

          Strictly personal reason. When the lemmy devs asked for monetary donations I voiced my concern with Lemmy.ml, which they also maintain. In response one of the devs called me a cheapskate, so I decided I’m done with Lemmy until more normal people become maintainers

          Edit: forgot to add that it wasn’t the only reason. The devs themselves are rather controversial in their beliefs and moderation and I had reluctantly tolerated thoss things up to that point. The dev interaction was simply the last drop in the bucket.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            13 hours ago

            100%. Not just controversial but childish. It’s completely poetic karma that they’ve become a minority in their own network. Repeating the same patterns that got them exiled elsewhere. Basically doing it all again. Having learned nothing.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Since the PieFed API was only enabled recently, there aren’t that many apps out yet. [email protected] is the one that people recommend right now. Voyager has plans to add it.

      As more people use it, hopefully more apps will support it :)

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    14 hours ago

    So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works. I understand that’s how the Fediverse supposedly works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven’t sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I’m not sure what the integration actually means in practical application? Maybe someone could help me understand.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)

      Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams

      https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

      https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

      So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then

      They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons

      • piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
      • An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.

      I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works

      Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user’s profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca

      Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      8·
      14 hours ago

      So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then?

      Separate things, just the same admin I guess. You can follow the same communities from either one.

      I have a Mastodon account and I haven’t sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it

      On Mastodon, follow the account for this community, just Mastodon uses @ instead of ! so it’s @fediverse@lemmy.world and you can post to the community by mentioning it

      You can paste URLs of Lemmy posts/comments into the search bar of Mastodon to pull it up. Just make sure you use the real URL and not a mirror, so you need to get the URL from Lemmy’s Fediverse icon it has on every post/comment