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.

Video introduction the codebase

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

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

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      1·
      3 days 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).

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        0·
        4 days ago

        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. @openstars@piefed.social does not send me a notification), yet it already has several features that Lemmy does not - it’s so exciting to watch it develop!:-)

  • pewgar_sia@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Nergon@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    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.

      • Nergon@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 days 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!

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    4 days ago

    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

    • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
      0·
      4 days ago

      You can’t, no. PieFed and Lemmy are operating in similar spaces, but are completely different architecturally. PieFed doesn’t yet have an API. Unlike Lemmy (and a lot of other modern web platforms), it doesn’t need one to operate, so copying Lemmy’s to the extent that you’d be able to plug in something like Voyager would be overkill. It would probably also be against the TOS for Voyager (Jerboa actively prevents it’s use with anything other than Lemmy, even if the API is the same).

      • aeharding@vger.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        To be completely honest, if you want a healthy 3rd party app ecosystem, the official UI and backend need to be completely separated with a publicly documented API.

        Biggest win with Lemmy, and biggest fluff with kbin. And it shows when it comes to 3rd party app ecosystem. People wanted to build apps for kbin….

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      0·
      4 days ago

      Yeah but usually it’s just “try piefed”, with a smug tone so it’s kind of hard to take people seriously.

      Aside from that, adoption becomes a hassle for everything fediverse due to the whole pick your server thing, I went from fmhy to nsfw to dbzero to cafe… I’d be so happy if picking a server would not require so much trial and error.

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      In my experience it’s very snappy, and with minimal JavaScript (if at all). Hell, it’s even somewhat usable in Lynx, though I couldn’t sign in.