I'm not quite sure what this is and why I should use this over Lemmy .... but I'd like to give it a try lol! Also very cool how the Fediverse allows for different entry points and view the same content.
Congrats on the expansion!
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We're also learning as we go :) In addition to the features mentioned in the post, a big one for regional instances like ours might be the topic lists (once we set those up anyway)
Congrats on the expansion!
Thanks!
Whoa! This is really cool!
Hello from PieFed
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Hola desde el mismo lugar de siempre. (Lemmy).
Iโm just happy we have another Canadian instance
Well... It's the same management. It gives users another option for how to consume but it doesn't add a lot of diversity. No fault implied.
Mmmmmmmmmmm. Sugar Pie. My birthday treat!
Stuff like this really helps reinforce why the fediverse is the best platform. Portability is no joke.
Hello from the other side!
Excellent work folks!
The true power of federation showing itself here. In this case, it's two software packages with the same server/admin team -- which basically future proofs both.
I'd make a recommendation: have some sort of cross-pollination tool. Basically, pull the database of all subscribed communities on Lemmy.ca and have a bot subscribe to the same on PieFed, and vice versa. Probably easy to do if you have server-side access.
Furthermore, in the ideal world, "Local" from the Lemmy instance includes the piefed.ca local commuities. This might be a harder ask. The reason would be to prevent bisecting the Local feeds.
Finally, ideally there is a community migration tool, to cross between Lemmy and PieFed if a community wants to move from one side to the other. This would be a bigger project, but would future proof Fedican even further should either piece of software become badly maintained.
Well, okay, I just created a year's worth of work for a programmer. How can I help?
Yeah, I noticed that the option "local" is pretty much empty on piefed.ca I wonder if we create the same communities there and group them together would work.
Here is their repo, https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues I imagine you can propose some of those ideas there.
I think one of the problems on migrating users right now is how lemmy stores password compared to piefed. https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/712 - But technically, it should work if you ask the user to write a new password.
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Trying out PieFed after 2 years of Lemmy and it's looking more and more like Voyager has ended it's time on my phone
Pie flavor. I'm stoked that Piefed has Atkinson Hyperlegible as a font choice! It's my favorite font, especially for ereaders.
That's awesome!
Is the API active? I want to use PieFed over Lemmy, but don't like to join so called "flagship instances", they always go overboard with moderation at some point.
So instead of joining piefed.social I signed up with .au, only to find out that the admin never bothered to activate the api, so can't use any apps, and posts aren't federating outwards properly.
Edit: Confirmed working, registration sent.
Edit 2: Approved within 5 min, thanks for that!
Yep the API is on as of earlier today. It's not listed in the docs yet, which is probably why the au instance doesn't have it on.
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The API is new I believe, piefed.social enabled it recently as well
https://piefed.social/post/817564
Welcome to piefed.ca :)
I think it has been there for a bit, but was still in alpha. Preferred.social had it running for a while, that's their official test instance. But good to see it working!
Congratulations!
Thank you for your hard work :)
Pics and memes look better on pied. Oh boy how many accounts am I going to have now?
Happy cake day!
Nice. Already registered.
~~Is there a recommended android app for it?~~
I just saw the FAQ section after.
Does PieFed have an api yet that lets it work with Lemmy apps?
There is an API but it is slightly different from Lemmy, and it's very new, which is why the app list is small. Right now that includes !interstellar@kbin.earth and using the website as a PWA. As more people use it, more apps should implement support.
The PieFed dev docs say that the API is 95% similar, so hopefully it should be easy enough for app developers to implement
When you submit the https://piefed.ca/auth/register form, is there any confirmation message? I didn't see any. I filled it twice ๐ฌ .
Odd, something may have broken with the registration submission. We'll look into it
Awesome, is part of the motivation here to guard a bit against the unpopularity of the Lemmy devs / lemmy.ml?
I do somewhat feel like they've made people a bit more skeptical of the Lemmy name, PieFed might be an easier sell as a reddit alt.
It would be nice if they had ability to collapse comments.
The two diagonal arrows next to the vote arrows under a comment allows to collapse comments
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