Welcome to a new era of interconnected content discussion with PieFed – a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. Our focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power.

Like other platforms in the fediverse, we are a self-governed space for social link aggregation and conversation. We operate without the influence of corporate entities – ensuring that your experience is free of advertisements, invasive tracking, or secret algorithms. On our platform, content is grouped into communities, allowing you to engage with topics of interest and disregard the irrelevant ones. We utilise a voting system to highlight the best content.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Hello from Piefed! I was a regular on Lemmy and Mastodon for years, but I migrated to Piefed because it is much more lightweight.

The features page shows some differences between Piefed and Lemmy - https://join.piefed.social/features/ Mostly, I appreciate that it is written in Python, so more developers in the community may easily understand and contribute to the code base, and that it is so lightweight. When I connect to the internet I always have to consider data caps, so it's a relief when websites make a genuine effort to be efficient. I can reliably browse the fediverse through Piefed even when my access is throttled to 50Kbps download.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does it require JavaScript? Does it load in Tor Browser on strict mode?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Some features of the site (like responding to your comment) require JS, but I just tried blocking JS with uBlock and I was able to use most of the site perfectly fine.

I am not sure about strict mode on Tor, but you should totally report back if it works. Give it a shot!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The lightweight claim is a bit of a stretch. You're counting content that gets cached in the browser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Well, regardless what tech stack makes it possible, when my phone data is throttled to ~55kbps Piefed is perfectly usable and most sites are not.

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[–] mesamunefire 45 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I believe one of the killer features is the ability to aggregate different communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I actually don't like that feature cause it's not something the user chooses, it's up to the dev or admin (not sure which).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Can I aggregate all threads that link to the same URL so I can view all comments on that URL in one page?

Ideally across all instances of mastodon and Lemmy and others?

[–] akesi_seli 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Multi-communities? Really? 😍

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

Yes really. Here's an example - see the communities at the top, and hashtags at the bottom.

On second thought, that's not a fantastic example of categories, so here and here are better ones.

There's a lot that is not yet implemented in PieFed, like no preview feature for writing messages or user tagging (e.g. @[email protected] does not send me a notification), yet it already has several features that Lemmy does not - it's so exciting to watch it develop!:-)

[–] mesamunefire 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Codebase is clean too.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Still not at the personal level

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Faster?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Speed is literally not even a concern, the only thing I want more of is people. Make it easier to sign up or something

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

I mean it connects to lemmy, kinda like mbin.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

doesn't seem to have a good dark mode, i also use wefwef/voyager ,thunder and phtn instead of lemmy-ui so... any apps? also seemingly no community creation yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

On my account I use the (dark) theme Card Shadow. I had an issue with it where I needed to disable the Dark Reader extension in Firefox. Lemmy ignored that but it actively messed up PieFed, though after disabling it, PieFed works perfectly for me.

https://piefed.social/communities has a create local and add remote buttons that look like they would create communities, though I did not text them out.

Edit: and the Create Local option has a "local only" checkbox, i.e. the default being to share the newly created community with Lemmy and Mbin instances via the ActivityPub protocol.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Curious to see if people haven't heard about it, Piefed seems to be mentioned quite often

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tbf you're on Lemmy 24/7 so you'll hear about things much earlier than many others. I've also been on Piefed for a minute.

But I've come to understand how slowly knowledge propagates through large numbers of people, at least via this medium. First with the APIcaplyse, when I realized that virtually nobody on reddit had even heard of the API changes, let alone moving to Lemmy. And then on Lemmy itself with various major events/dramas that people were totally unaware of until much later.

Piefed is developing rapidly and seems like a worthy alternative to Lemmy and Mbin. The private voting feature is also really cool.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No need to be on Lemmy that much, just watching [email protected] you would see Piefed mentioned every week

Same here, on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm on Lemmy all the time and I didn't know that community. But thanks for sharing, this is what I'm talking about.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Private votes sounds pretty cool

[–] TORFdot0 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would curious to see if you could access piefed using Voyager for Lemmy as a front end. It’s about the only decent app for Lemmy that doesn’t squash things on my iPhone mini with text zoom enabled

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

mahn kbin is dead. long live mbin. at least use more recent stats

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