Oh my god, guys. The fediverse is changing my life. In an age of a profit driven, AI enshittified internet, fediverse platforms like Lemmy and PieFed are a fucking god send.
I swear to god, I feel my brain is being cooked alive by the overwhelming algorithm bullshit that Instagram and YouTube is driving down my throat. But since discovering PieFed? On top of using Mastodon, most of my social media takes place on the fedi now. What a fucking privilege. I can reach the end of my days without my brain feeling like jelly… I can use these platforms without feeling like I’m causing harm to myself.
Is it perfect? No. But it doesn’t need to be: it’s not infested with AI bullshit, and most my instances defederate Nazi bars.
This is the internet I’ve been yearning for the past couple years.
I’ll be contributing to PieFeds source code whenever I can. This shit is so fucking important for the internet.
21 Comments
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 22 pts · 240d
Glad your enjoying it!
STHayden@piefed.social · 13 pts · 240d
no ads is really great!
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 15 pts · 240d
Brought to you by BEANS! For a beans free fediverse, please give me 1$.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 13 pts · 240d
We're doing corn now apparently. I guess that one guy finally pooped.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 5 pts · 240d
💩 oh good!
rimu@piefed.social · 17 pts · 240d
Welcome aboard!
Also !piefed_joy@piefed.social
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 17 pts · 240d
Liking efficiency, I also love practical feeds become once you curate things to your liking, specially propagation happens and even if it doesn't, there's still widespread RSS and bridges adoption. If I want, I can even follow profiles from Threads and Bluesky, and also news and blogs through such.
Plus if a platform goes down, posts still stay around, propagating as people interact. Great for super old contents. =D
faizalr@piefed.social · 5 pts · 240d
How to follow RSS from PieFed?
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 5 pts · 240d
Indirectly, through some other instance or bot that posts to communities.
ozoned@piefed.social · 15 pts · 240d
The exciting this is the Fediverse is ANYTHING you want it to be.
There's YouTube - Peertube, Twitter - Mastodon, Reddit - Piefed, Forums - NodeBB, Blogs - Ghost, Twitch - Owncast.
The only thing Big Tech can do that we can't or won't is take away peoples choices, rights and enshitify everything.
Contribute where you can! Doesn't have to be code. Just being here gives us all more power. Those companies don't want to admit WE ARE THEIR CONTENT. Without people they're useless. We're taking it back.
I'm no Dev, so I started a show to talk to folks. Do what makes you happy and share. Even if it's as simple as just modding a community and being friendly and welcome.e. we do this together!
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 2 pts · 239d
I think your profile is my favorite. Dark helmet :)
ozoned@piefed.social · 3 pts · 238d
THANK YOU! :-). <3 Spaceballs.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world · 13 pts · 239d
At the risk of sounding cheezy (and in a very nerdy way no less), Piefed feels like the future. Best principles of what made the internet good back in the day, with a modern approach. And all of it done on enthusiasm, DIY contributions and some modest donations.
Side note, one way to make YT work better, is to simply make a bookmark folder linking to the video pages (sorted by new) of the channels you watch. Even the search in YT is godawful and clearly design for "engagement" instead of finding what you are looking for.
Emotional_Series7814@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 238d
I use the Unhookd extension on YouTube so I do not get lost all day. Thankfully always turned my nose up at Shorts, but removing them still makes the real estate stuff I actually use instead of something that makes my sensitive self start thinking about how much I hate the short form content we-want-to-addict-you reduce-friction-to-keep-you-scrolling-for-days trend. No more suggested videos. No Live Chat. No Home Feed. Just me and the search bar, going directly for the video I need/want to see.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world · 2 pts · 237d
I will need to look up this extension, sounds very useful.
Emotional_Series7814@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 237d
https://unhook.app/
artyom@piefed.social · 9 pts · 240d
It is great in concept. Would be a lot better if any of my real life friends actually used it.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 7 pts · 240d
It's so great!
Also check out !piefed_promo@piefed.social, !piefed_meta@piefed.social, and !piefed_help@piefed.social.
You're going to love it here!
faizalr@piefed.social · 5 pts · 240d
Good that we have a better alternative. I'm on Mastodon too. Enjoy your stay.
webkitten@piefed.social · 3 pts · 240d
wjs018@piefed.social · 3 pts · 239d
Check out the developer docs, specifically the theming guide if you are interested. If you have any questions, I wrote them, so let me know!
Blaze@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 239d
Welcome!