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submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/

What is PieFed

PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!

We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created !newtopiefed@piefed.ca for us to learn from each other. There is also the official !piefed_help@piefed.social community which has a similar purpose.

We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going ๐Ÿ™‚

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[โ€“] Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Hello from the other side!

[โ€“] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Nice. Already registered.

~~Is there a recommended android app for it?~~

I just saw the FAQ section after.

[โ€“] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 hours ago

Stuff like this really helps reinforce why the fediverse is the best platform. Portability is no joke.

[โ€“] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

Pie flavor. I'm stoked that Piefed has Atkinson Hyperlegible as a font choice! It's my favorite font, especially for ereaders.

[โ€“] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It suck that they implements karma and collapsing downvoted comments. Two censorship methods

[โ€“] Jerry@feddit.online 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The downvotes and karma do not stop you from saying whatever you want. It just means you have to say it somewhere else. Hence, you are not censored.

[โ€“] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 2 points 2 hours ago

When a comment is collapsed , people tend to skip the comment. Hiding stuffs is censorship

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

Thank you for your hard work :)

[โ€“] otter@piefed.ca 42 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 6 points 12 hours ago

Hello โœŒ๏ธ ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] ptz@dubvee.org 11 points 16 hours ago

Hola desde el mismo lugar de siempre. (Lemmy).

[โ€“] faxed@lemmy.ca 19 points 15 hours ago
[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 13 hours ago
[โ€“] CreatingMachines@fedia.io 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, Piefed has the ability to see threading and micro-blogging posts?

[โ€“] vaguerant@fedia.io 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You might be thinking of Mbin, the other one of the "big three" (more like big one and the other two). Mbin's biggest differentiating feature is microblog support. It's hard to boil PieFed down to one main feature compared to Lemmy/Mbin, but anonymous voting and de-duplication of reposts might be the main ones. However, its focus is still on the (Lemmy-style) threaded side of the fediverse.

[โ€“] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Example showing comments across reposts in 6 different communities.

[โ€“] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, can a community opt out of its comments being bundled with others?

After seeing it in action, I think that's actually a nifty feature that most communities and the threadiverse as a whole would benefit from, but I could also potentially foresee a minority of communities not wanting to increase their comments exposure to that degree.

[โ€“] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think it's one of the most undercutting, least thought out features in piefed, that focuses entirely on the immediaye convenience of the end user over the health of the discussion groups and servers that make up the network.

It's the eating a tub of icing for supper of social media features.

[โ€“] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Along those lines: it also only shows the sidebar of the first community

[โ€“] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago

@rimu@piefed.social another interesting idea