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Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance! (piefed.zip)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi All,

As the Fediverse continues to expand, we're looking at other platforms we can run with our ethos - open federation, user choice, and fair moderation.

We've seen lots of talk about Piefed, and the benefits of the platform, such as better moderation, combining multiple communities into topics i.e piefed.zip/topic/cats, and the ability for users to better control their own experience.

To that end, we've decided to run our own Piefed instance, located at piefed.zip (I know, original!)

This is very much still under construction, but we feel is now able to accept new users, should anyone wish to join.

If you're interested please check it out, or feel free to ask any questions!

PS - this doesn't affect our Lemmy instance in any way.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Hey, so better is more of an objective term - piefed offers a more comprehensive moderation experience for admins and mods, and addresses some of the issues that users raise around multiple communities and account settings etc.

Piefed runs on activitypub just like lemmy does, so are compatible with eachother - you probably already see piefed users and communities in your lemmy feed.

I wouldn't say there is an argument either way from a user perspective- I'd encourage people to try both and see what they like.

There are no front ends yet that work with piefed (like tesseract or photon) but they're being worked on. There's also only a few apps, but similarly these are being worked on too, so before long you can probably interact with either software through an app.

Lemmy was the first and so is the most popular, and I hope the devs are able to bring some of the moderation features over to lemmy too, as it is quite a limited experience in comparison to many fediverse softwares.

Hope that helps, but tldr try both and see which one you like, they can interact with eachother anyway, I.e. https://piefed.zip/c/home can be interacted with via https://lemmy.zip/c/[email protected]