I was looking for a PieFed instance (since I knew about it) to sign up for, just in case, for some reason, my Lemmy account was to suddenly disappear (either by my own volition or otherwise). I had one on Thriv, but HAL had to fix an OOM issue regarding some Postgre nonsense that took Thriv offline for a few days.
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Good to see Thriv is back, I was wondering what happened there.
I had since deleted my Thriv account (and nuked everything), because I didn't trust it'd be online for long. That's why I chose Feddit (and an author I associate with [I also write] originally used it before I let them know about some quirks with the Lemmy instance I use). I think HAL must've been stressed trying to fix it, so I just made things easier for him... hopefully.
I heared about it from r/BuyFromEU and I'm on the road to reduce the use of US services.
Found it on reddit alternatives. Want to desperately get off reddit! Lemmy was too complicated
This post just turned up on Lemmy.
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.
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.
Hello from Lemmy!
I am so glad that you are enjoying PieFed - welcome to the Threadiverse! :-D
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.
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.
I'm just using the website. You can go to https://piefed.social/topics and it groups posts across instances by topic.
You succinctly described my case. +1 to that
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.
Happy to have you here of course, but I hope midwest.social is doing alright! I like that crowd.
We are ok. The admin is fighting scrapers.
State of the internet. Ugh. Well, happy to hear it's not being abandoned. :)
As mention the admin is fighting scrapers which is blocking some larger instances. I still have an account
Same! Also a good opportunity to check out different Threadiverse clients.
It's good to have options and try out different clients to see what you like best
Same, with multiple Lemmys (Lemmies?:-P) - I think many of us share a similar journey.
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
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
That's how distributed systems work. Easier to take down one but harder to take them all down
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:
It links to a bunch of active gaming communities, both general/mainstream and indie focused.
Did something happen to cause a new flood of users?
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.
there is a popular post on the BuyFromEU subreddit today mentioning piefed (among other fediverse platforms) but i don't know if that was all or if there is something else going on too
This is where we need people to be redirected to !newcomers@piefed.zip
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.
Understandable when some mods go down hard on people who break the unwritten rules.
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.
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.
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.
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.
!communitypromo@feddit.org is mainly for german speaking communities
For the english equivalent go to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Thanks for the clarification!
I've been on lemmy for like 6 months and saw I can look at Piefed through Voyager.
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)
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?
Welcome new people! If you're an anarchist, check out https://multiverse.soulism.net/ and https://anarchist.nexus/
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.
How about twitter sucks so many racists
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