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Blåhaj Lemmy is a Lemmy instance attached to blahaj.zone. This is a group for questions or discussions relevant to either instance.

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Kaity has just spun up a PieFed instance, which is open to anyone that wants to try it out.

PieFed is part of the "Threadiverse" along with lemmy and mbin. If you are already reading this in lemmy, then you already know what PieFed is about.

If you're curious to try it out, or if you're just looking for a way to avoid lemmy, you can find it at https://piefed.blahaj.zone/

Like our lemmy instance, we have set PieFed applications to require manual approval, but if you're already a member of our lemmy instance, you can get auto approved by our modbot by quoting your registration code somewhere in your application.

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hmm i already have a piefed account, do i make one for blahaj too..

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

the best part about it is the cute lil shark icon in the trans pride theme <3

lemmy could never

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago

I tried to love that trans pride theme, but the nicest thing I can say about it is that I'm happy there is explicitly a trans pride theme :P

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Really dumb question probably, but are piefed communities reachable from lemmy and vice versa?

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago

Look at the account I'm replying to you from :)

[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

Yes, they federate with each other.

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Okay I'm super impressed so far! I absolutely love this. Way better than lemmy imo, I'll be migrating there fully. The wiki feature for the HRT community is gonna be super handy and things like post flairs/tags is something many have missed here!

Things like a [transmasc] and [transfem] and [transneutral] tag for trans_memes f.ex!

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is "threadiverse" a thing? It feels like it gives far too much influence to Threads. I've never heard the term. "Fediverse" is better, though maybe this is a specific subset of ActivityPub applications?

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Threadiverse was a thing before Threads was a thing...

And it specifically refers to the subset of "reddit like" ActivityPub platforms, so it's more specific than Fediverse. Threadiverse instances are part of the Fediverse too, but they're quite distinct from Mastodon etc

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I'd never heard that term before for some reason, only fediverse.

[–] 0x0f@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WillStealYourUsername@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ada and Kaity sitting in a tree! W. I. N. N. I. N. G!

And also kissing presumably

[–] supakaity@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 minutes ago

Lotsa kissys!

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

is there pie? 🍰💖

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have any thoughts on how the two compare in terms of resource utilization (CPU / RAM) given a similar number of users and activity?

I've been curious about this, because Rust, the programming language used for Lemmy, is supposed to be a LOT more CPU/RAM efficient than Python, the language used for Piefed. Python, on the other hand, is supposed to be much faster to initially develop in, which would at least partly explain how Piefed gained so many features so quickly compared to Lemmy.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We don't have a point of comparison so far, because the instances don't share the same concurrent user numbers, but it would be hard to beat lemmy, which is really light for the volume it handles.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

Ok, thanks! Kind of what I expected both in terms of not being able to compare exactly and Lemmy being light. I appreciate it.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has anyone written about the functional differences between lemmy and piefed?

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Apparently it’s mainly more feature-rich/up to date/stable? That’s usually what I read at least

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[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish there were more apps with piefed support. I like my gestures. Nonetheless, thanks alot fort the instance! Piefed seems great, I'll be happy to try it out here.

Apparently, your namesake (Interstellar) supports PieFed, but I haven't been able to log in to Blahaj's instance with it. It keeps giving me an error saying the API is not enabled.

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[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Neat! I'll have to play with it when I get the chance.

How does PieFed differ from Lemmy? At first glance, they seem like similar applications. Does it have any particular strengths or additional features I might want to try out?

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There are lots of little usability improvements, and configuration options, but they are functionally very similar.

But it also has the advantage of not being written by the lemmy devs, which is a deal breaker for some folk

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[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 38 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The web site has a list of differences between Lemmy and PieFed:

  • Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
  • Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
  • Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
  • People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
  • Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
  • Keyboard shortcuts.
  • Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
  • Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
  • Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
  • Voting is private.
  • See also features for healthy communities.
  • Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo

This list isn't exhaustive; one major feature that's not listed there is de-duplication, where reposts all get combined into a single post with a split comment section (one for each individual post).

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.

Probably not, because we have downvotes disabled :)

Thank you, I was worried :3

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[–] kittenzrulz123@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just tried it, I like this place :3

What I like: The UI is nice and there are many options that lemmy doesn't have
What I dont: The lack of any formatting options for comments

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

That looks to be a bug or something, because the formatting options are there when you edit your comment. I'll raise that with the dev.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Basically a message for Kaity, but I am getting a

ClientException: Request failed with status 400: Bad Request: {"error":"alpha api is not enabled"} , uri=https://piefed.blahaj.zone/api/alpha/user/login

when using the Interstellar App and wanted to bring it to your attention. Thanks <3

[–] supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll check it out. See what this alpha API thing is all about.

[–] supakaity@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 minutes ago

API not enabled!

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

Piefed doesn't have great 3rd party app support at the moment

Interesting, never heard of piefed before, been using lemmy for a long time.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What exactly is the “threadiverse?”

[–] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Any activitypub enabled software that mimics the Reddit style of longform thread/forum style social media with distinct topics.

Which at the moment is Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin.

Lemmy Piefed and Kbin I think.

So content aggregators on the fedi?

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