I looked at the code recently. It’s really good, way better than the UI made me expect.

There is now, see the PieFed meta community.

Sorry about that, it sounds very frustrating.

I’ve found that a field used to store account timezones was too short for yours. I’ve increased the size now so your next registration attempt will succeed.

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Why did you post that?

Does it work ok in your phone web browser?

More apps will follow, I expect.

Interstellar - https://interstellar.jwr.one/

Also PieFed can import those exports that Lemmy makes.

So much whataboutism in the comments

three-to-four sessions of brisk walking a week, lasting 45-60 minutes

I’ve been doing this for the last 6 months and it’s been awesome. More stable energy levels, less mental clutter and TIL there is less chance of my colon killing me. Great!

When people think of “exercise” the mental picture is often something intense involving sweating, special clothes and a gym membership. But it really doesn’t have to be.

I’ve been using https://matomo.org/ for years, it’s fine. You can self host it or pay for their cloud service.

Totally negligent on behalf of OpenAI to let this thing into their store. Let’s see if they take it down now that the spotlight is on.

Voting, lol. Kinda important.

Dropdown menus. They’re not really needed but life sucks without them.

Can’t manually switch between dark and light mode (only automatically based on browser settings).

There’s probably more but I haven’t seriously tried to use PieFed for long without JS. Fundamentally it’s built HTML and CSS first, with sprinkles of JS added on for funsies rather than the modern way of being all about JS.

Yes.

PieFed uses very minimal javascript (it 95% works with JS entirely disabled) and you can access all the same communities and posts.

Try it at https://piefed.social/ or any of these other instances - https://join.piefed.social/try

If you don’t want to see it, you’re not going to.

See this https://piefed.social/search?q=censorship+musk

We won’t 100% know the answer to that until we get there. But in 2025 fear of a lack of CPU cores is NOT what keeps me awake at night.

Early performance results are positive. Check these links out:

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/

There are many many ways to ruin web app performance and choice of backend language is not really a big one. It’s what you do with it that counts.

https://piefed.social/ is running on a low end VPS which costs $7.50 per month. Load average is about 1.45 during the busiest part of the day. Most of the load is caused by federating with lemmy.world and that won’t increase as more users come on board.

PieFed is also really efficient with storage. After 16 months of operation, subscribed to every popular community, the piefed.social DB is 30 GB and the media storage is 28 GB. A Lemmy instance would be 10x that. I haven’t bothered to add S3 storage code because we just don’t need it (yet).

Anyway, all this focus on costs and downsides is only half the coin. There are massive benefits that come from using Python:

• Easy and fun
• Fast development velocity
• Huge amounts of developers know Python
• Extensive and mature libraries with good documentation
• Good readability
• Cross-platform without re-compiling

For a FOSS project where volunteer contributions from people play a big part these things are really important. There are many ways a project can fail (not just technical reasons but social & governance too) and running out of CPU is way way down on the list.

If you use a mobile app then whether your account is on Lemmy or PieFed makes no difference - most of your experience will be determined by which app you choose.

PieFed dev here.

PieFed is closer to Lemmy, yeah. Microblogs (i.e. the ability to follow mastodon profiles and have their posts show up in your timeline) are on the roadmap for this year.

Currently, Mastodon users can follow Piefed accounts and the posts from PieFed will show up in the Mastodon user’s timeline. Those posts, viewed in mastodon, can be replied to there and the the reply will show up in PieFed. But not the other way around.