Just a quick note to recognize that the first lines of PieFed code were published on the 28th July 2023, just over a year ago. Since then there have been 1400+ changes made by 9 people, involving adding 88,000 lines of code and removing 28,000 lines. The issue queue has 98 open and 99 closed issues.

While join.piefed.social went live in October 2023, it wasn’t until time off work over the christmas holidays enabled a big push to get it ready that piefed.social went live on 4th January 2024.

Since then piefed.social has federated 190k posts, 2.3M comments and 19M votes with 1900 other instances of various types. Besides piefed.social there are 5 other PieFed instances that I know of.

What a year it’s been! I’ve grown significantly as a developer, had a lot of fun and hopefully contributed something meaningful to whatever the fediverse is becoming. Long may it continue!

  • JeenaEnglish
    10•3 months ago

    I’m running one of those instances just as a single user instance after failing to upgrade my Lemmy instance to the latest version because of lack of resources on my server. PieFed fits much better into this space of low profile single user instances, and it’s much easier to tailor to my needs because of how it handles themes and templates.

    My PieFed instance is my main source for news and the website I visit most of all the Websites on the Internet, it replaced Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and to be honest even Mastodon and News sites - I used to go to frequently - for me.

    Thanks a lot for this huge amount of work you guys have been doing and I’m using for free!

  • maegul (he/they)English
    8•3 months ago

    Congratulations!!

    Great project and success! Probably easily the best “from scratch” development I’ve seen on the fediverse since “the migrations”!!

    At the risk of duplicating comments you’ve probably made elsewhere … do you have any thoughts on where you’d like to see “threadiverse” platforms go or the fediverse more broadly in the future?

    • RimuOPM
      9•3 months ago

      Ha, I don’t know, ask me again when the issue queue is smaller. I’m all about the little details of implementation (and fixing broken things) at the moment and don’t spend much time looking at the big picture.

      I will say this, tho.

      I remember the 1990s. We knew the internet would change the world and we were sure it would be for the better. Instant access to all knowledge, connection to everyone, freedom, abundance. We thought it was all within grasp. A lot has happened since and not much of that came to be. But the tendrils of that vision still hang around the back of my head. I remember when there was hope and I see some sparks of that here, now. I’ll tend that spark while I can.

      • cabbage
        3•3 months ago

        For me, the Threadiverse playing well with the social web at large - the details of implementation - is a very valid vision for the platform. It’s a large number of small things that, arguably, become bigger than their parts.

      • maegul (he/they)English
        1•3 months ago

        I remember when there was hope and I see some sparks of that here, now. I’ll tend that spark while I can.

        Hear hear!

  • @[email protected]
    6•3 months ago

    Congratulations! It’s great to have multiple alternative platforms, so there is more user choice and better resilience.

    • RimuOPM
      4•3 months ago

      Thanks! I have no doubt that PieFed had an easier time of it because of the trail Lemmy blazed already.

  • 鴉河雛@PieFed日本語
    4•3 months ago

    (Please excuse me for writing in Japanese)

    Lemmyが複雑になってきたのでPieFedはどうだろうというという軽い気持ちで使い始めました。
    インストールは簡単でわかりやすく私のようにコードがわからなくてもある程度の修正ができるなど非常に気に入っています。

    現在は日本語の翻訳と自分のインスタンスに対する改造にも手を少しずつ出しています。

    英語は話せず、Pythonもあまりわからないため技術的協力をあまりすることができませんが、これからも応援しています。

    • RimuOPMEnglish
      5•3 months ago

      翻訳作業にご協力いただき、ありがとうございます。PieFed がまったく異なるアルファベットで表記されているのを見るのは本当に楽しいです。まるで PieFed が巣を離れて別の土地に飛んでいった鳥のようです。この比喩がどれだけうまく翻訳されるか気になります…

    • RimuOPM
      4•3 months ago

      I manually imported 3 of your code commits, thanks!

      • 鴉河雛@PieFed
        2•3 months ago

        Thanks for the import!
        As for the other three, I just wanted to try them out personally, so don’t worry about it.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      PieFedはLemmyとうまくフェデレートしますか？あなたの経験はいかがですか？

      • 鴉河雛@PieFed
        2•3 months ago

        今のところ問題はおきていないと思います。
        私はまだLemmyをメインで使っているのでPieFedは参照程度ですがそれでも問題は無いです。

        日本ではあまりLemmyの様なものは人気ではなくコミュニティもインスタンス単位でしかないので、サンプルはかなり少ないです。

        （少し関係ないですが、私はブログの代わりとして使っている事が多いのでPieFedでも本文中で画像をアップロードできると良いなと思ってます）

  • Remy RoseEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Congrats!!! It’s looking great so far, love the low bandwidth aspect.

    My Lemmy instance seems to have been abandoned, and it’s been slowly losing functionality over the last few months. So, I’ve been begrudgingly trying to decide on a new one for when this one fails entirely… Piefed seems like it’d be a great choice, except I’ll definitely need to wait until it either works with a Lemmy app, has its own app, or at least has a PWA. Anyway, great work!! Lovely to see multiple interoperable platforms shaping up.

    • RimuOPM
      3•3 months ago

      Thank you!

      Yeah the lack of mobile app is a sticking point for a lot of people. PieFed is set up to operate as a PWA - try opening the site in Chrome and then looking for the “install as app” option.

      • Remy RoseEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        Oh weird, I know where that option usually shows up for me (running Vanadium browser on GrapheneOS), but it doesn’t seem to be there for Piefed?

        EDIT: Nevermind, sorry! I think they combined the “add shortcut” and “install app” buttons in Vanadium, got it set up now.

  • daveEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Congrats, @rimu! You’ve done a great thing!