Heard of piefed while browsing lemmy, and people were saying it did a good job of combining communities. Before that, was a reddit refugee after the api fiasco.
I moved to Piefed ~6 months ago (after about a year of Lemmy), so I am not part of this wave (although I think there was a mini-wave when I joined), that being said, welcome to all newcomers!
Shameless self-promotion; if you like gaming, check out the sidebar of this community:
I checked out the community right after I got here, and the last weekly thread was posted three months ago. Honestly, I’m kinda scared to start new posts in places that usually have weekly threads. My past subreddit experiences still haunt me.
I think the idea is that new people would post in weekly threads, but there's no real directing users to that. Did you get directed to that community when you arrived? I can easily schedule posts if necessary.
yea you summed up my thoughts pretty well.
Since the posts are so old, I wasn't sure if it's still a thing, or my questions would be just going to the void.
There was a pro-Piefed post dumped in fediverse@lemmy.world and a couple of Reddit threads, they weren't like explosive in size but they did have some activity.
I'd recommend taking a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@feddit.org to check out new communities, or even start/promote your own!
Those communities aren't hosted on Piefed, but that's sort of the beauty of this place.
If so that's really good news, a lot of people around here seem to interpret "Lemmy is too complicated" as meaning "anything decentralized and not big tech is just too difficult'. I suspect the reality of the matter is that Lemmy is just not extremely user friendly.
PieFed's sign-up wizard, and always-available features basically solves the issue if content discoverability for a new user account.
Want to block content? Keyword filters and other blocks that Lemmy lacks.
Interested in a subject? Bam, you are now subscribed to it, or if you ever want later, the Topic/Feeds are always there for you. In Lemmy people complain bitterly about having to wade daily through huge amounts of furry and anime communities constantly popping up, but on PieFed you never need to browse by All (you can if you want to though).
Hashtags, user and community flairs, polls, PieFed basically took a large laundry list of things that people wished were in Lemmy, and then made most of them in a year rather than decade.
Lemmy looks polished, but it's mainly marketed towards potential new admins to run their own servers, and even that requires large investments of network traffic and attention (especially technical know-how to avoid getting spammed with CSAM or bots slurping up data). PieFed makes most things significantly easier than Lemmy - especially for end-users but also when for admins. e.g. https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed and https://slrpnk.net/post/29381524.
I was on midwest.social and they were having some federation issues. I decided to try out PieFed instead of another lemmy instance. So far I have tried kbin (RIP), lemmy and now piefed.
Absolutely - CloudFlare issues keep striking randomly but somehow every time it does, at least one of my prior alts is still working. It is ironic that I left them for their technical issues (extreme slowness) but now turn to them for reliability at a later date! :-P
Question.. Am on old.lemmy.zip - which rules my world as I'm a Redditor from the Olden Days and love the layout.. but I've only been here since the start of October.. Is there a graphic flow chart type thing that shows all the federated sites with a list of the comms on each one?
Uh, I don't know. You can however filter communities by instances on any Piefed community browser and then sort by weekly activity if you want a good overview of weekly users and culture.
The key difference is that if your instance doesn't know about it, you won't see it. You need a way to find new communities, whuch is where Lemmyverse.net comes in. Apparently you can change the setting to Piefed or Mbin so it's there, I was just hoping for a single search across everything.
I also really love https://quokk.au/. It's slightly more quokka than anarchy themed, but I find the two to make an appealing duo. Seems like a friendly place as well.
55 Comments
zoe@piefed.social · 30 pts · 221d
Heard of piefed while browsing lemmy, and people were saying it did a good job of combining communities. Before that, was a reddit refugee after the api fiasco.
Fierro@piefed.social · 12 pts · 220d
You succinctly described my case. +1 to that
angrywaffle@piefed.social · 4 pts · 220d
Is there any client that supports combined communities? I think voyager doesn't do it yet, but I really like it for marking posts seen on scroll.
zoe@piefed.social · 3 pts · 220d
I'm just using the website. You can go to https://piefed.social/topics and it groups posts across instances by topic.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world · 28 pts · 221d
I moved to Piefed ~6 months ago (after about a year of Lemmy), so I am not part of this wave (although I think there was a mini-wave when I joined), that being said, welcome to all newcomers!
Shameless self-promotion; if you like gaming, check out the sidebar of this community:
!strategy_games@piefed.world
It links to a bunch of active gaming communities, both general/mainstream and indie focused.
Skavau@piefed.social · 23 pts · 221d
This is where we need people to be redirected to !newcomers@piefed.zip
angrywaffle@piefed.social · 16 pts · 221d
I checked out the community right after I got here, and the last weekly thread was posted three months ago. Honestly, I’m kinda scared to start new posts in places that usually have weekly threads. My past subreddit experiences still haunt me.
Skavau@piefed.social · 8 pts · 221d
I think the idea is that new people would post in weekly threads, but there's no real directing users to that. Did you get directed to that community when you arrived? I can easily schedule posts if necessary.
cabbage@piefed.social · 2 pts · 220d
I think newcomers won't post unless there's sign of life, and there won't be signs of life unless newcomers post.
Maybe a weekly thread posting boring stats or something could be a nice way to indicate it's not a dead community?
Edit: Or what sunshine said, I'm not familiar but that sounds like a problem.
angrywaffle@piefed.social · 3 pts · 220d
yea you summed up my thoughts pretty well. Since the posts are so old, I wasn't sure if it's still a thing, or my questions would be just going to the void.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 221d
Understandable when some mods go down hard on people who break the unwritten rules.
scytale@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 221d
Did something happen to cause a new flood of users?
Skavau@piefed.social · 29 pts · 221d
There was a pro-Piefed post dumped in fediverse@lemmy.world and a couple of Reddit threads, they weren't like explosive in size but they did have some activity.
discoplasm@piefed.social · 18 pts · 221d
Blaze@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 220d
https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1qp8z20/stop_relying_on_us_big_tech_decentralized/
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 221d
I've been on lemmy for like 6 months and saw I can look at Piefed through Voyager.
Dupelet@piefed.social · 10 pts · 221d
You can look at piefed through anything, piefed and lemmy are essentially transparent to the clients.
(Yes I know it's more complicated than that, but that doesn't really matter here)
marighost@piefed.social · 16 pts · 221d
Hello new friends :)
I'd recommend taking a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@feddit.org to check out new communities, or even start/promote your own!
Those communities aren't hosted on Piefed, but that's sort of the beauty of this place.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 7 pts · 221d
!communitypromo@feddit.org is mainly for german speaking communities
For the english equivalent go to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
marighost@piefed.social · 4 pts · 221d
Thanks for the clarification!
Sadsnakes@piefed.social · 15 pts · 220d
Found it on reddit alternatives. Want to desperately get off reddit! Lemmy was too complicated
Delphia@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 220d
This post just turned up on Lemmy.
cabbage@piefed.social · 9 pts · 220d
And piefed is fine?
If so that's really good news, a lot of people around here seem to interpret "Lemmy is too complicated" as meaning "anything decentralized and not big tech is just too difficult'. I suspect the reality of the matter is that Lemmy is just not extremely user friendly.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 220d
PieFed's sign-up wizard, and always-available features basically solves the issue if content discoverability for a new user account.
Want to block content? Keyword filters and other blocks that Lemmy lacks.
Interested in a subject? Bam, you are now subscribed to it, or if you ever want later, the Topic/Feeds are always there for you. In Lemmy people complain bitterly about having to wade daily through huge amounts of furry and anime communities constantly popping up, but on PieFed you never need to browse by All (you can if you want to though).
Hashtags, user and community flairs, polls, PieFed basically took a large laundry list of things that people wished were in Lemmy, and then made most of them in a year rather than decade.
Lemmy looks polished, but it's mainly marketed towards potential new admins to run their own servers, and even that requires large investments of network traffic and attention (especially technical know-how to avoid getting spammed with CSAM or bots slurping up data). PieFed makes most things significantly easier than Lemmy - especially for end-users but also when for admins. e.g. https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed and https://slrpnk.net/post/29381524.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 220d
I am so glad that you are enjoying PieFed - welcome to the Threadiverse! :-D
douglasg14b@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 220d
Hello from Lemmy!
dumples@piefed.social · 15 pts · 221d
I was on midwest.social and they were having some federation issues. I decided to try out PieFed instead of another lemmy instance. So far I have tried kbin (RIP), lemmy and now piefed.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 221d
Same! Also a good opportunity to check out different Threadiverse clients.
dumples@piefed.social · 3 pts · 220d
It's good to have options and try out different clients to see what you like best
cabbage@piefed.social · 4 pts · 220d
Happy to have you here of course, but I hope midwest.social is doing alright! I like that crowd.
figjam@midwest.social · 6 pts · 220d
We are ok. The admin is fighting scrapers.
cabbage@piefed.social · 4 pts · 220d
State of the internet. Ugh. Well, happy to hear it's not being abandoned. :)
dumples@piefed.social · 2 pts · 220d
As mention the admin is fighting scrapers which is blocking some larger instances. I still have an account
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 220d
Same, with multiple Lemmys (Lemmies?:-P) - I think many of us share a similar journey.
dumples@piefed.social · 2 pts · 220d
It's good to see what is out there. Helps you get used to different views and let's you keep using the verse if an instance goes down
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 220d
Absolutely - CloudFlare issues keep striking randomly but somehow every time it does, at least one of my prior alts is still working. It is ironic that I left them for their technical issues (extreme slowness) but now turn to them for reliability at a later date! :-P
dumples@piefed.social · 3 pts · 220d
That's how distributed systems work. Easier to take down one but harder to take them all down
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 221d
Question.. Am on old.lemmy.zip - which rules my world as I'm a Redditor from the Olden Days and love the layout.. but I've only been here since the start of October.. Is there a graphic flow chart type thing that shows all the federated sites with a list of the comms on each one?
rimu@piefed.social · 10 pts · 221d
https://piefed.social/explore
https://piefed.social/f/forumverse
https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
Skavau@piefed.social · 5 pts · 221d
Uh, I don't know. You can however filter communities by instances on any Piefed community browser and then sort by weekly activity if you want a good overview of weekly users and culture.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 221d
Does anyone know if there's a https://lemmyverse.net/ equivalent that covers Piefed/Mbin?
Kierunkowy74@piefed.social · 8 pts · 221d
Click at the Lemmy logo and you will be able to choose it
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 5 pts · 221d
Today I learned. Thank you!
Dave@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 221d
Me too!
Dave@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 221d
Thanks! Would be nice to be able to search across communities across the Threadiverse but this is pretty good.
Skavau@piefed.social · 4 pts · 221d
No, but Piefeds built in Community Browser has basically similar functionality.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 221d
The key difference is that if your instance doesn't know about it, you won't see it. You need a way to find new communities, whuch is where Lemmyverse.net comes in. Apparently you can change the setting to Piefed or Mbin so it's there, I was just hoping for a single search across everything.
Skavau@piefed.social · 3 pts · 221d
That's true. But a lot of comms are on piefed.social at least.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world · 4 pts · 221d
The communities are all connected. It doesn't really matter how you access them.
Perhaps someone else can highlight a piefed instance with a WebUI option similar to old Reddit.
rimu@piefed.social · 8 pts · 221d
Compact mode is very similar to old Reddit.
Squatcher@piefed.social · 7 pts · 221d
How about twitter sucks so many racists
sloelk@piefed.social · 7 pts · 220d
I heared about it from r/BuyFromEU and I'm on the road to reduce the use of US services.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 4 pts · 221d
Welcome new people! If you're an anarchist, check out https://multiverse.soulism.net/ and https://anarchist.nexus/
cabbage@piefed.social · 4 pts · 220d
I also really love https://quokk.au/. It's slightly more quokka than anarchy themed, but I find the two to make an appealing duo. Seems like a friendly place as well.
queerstudbroalex@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 218d
Found out about it on the BuyCanadian Reddit post.
msokiovt@feddit.online · 1 pts · 220d
rimu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 220d
Good to see Thriv is back, I was wondering what happened there.
msokiovt@feddit.online · 1 pts · 220d