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  • rimu@beehaw.orgtoBeehaw Support@beehaw.org•Beehaw, Lemmy, and A Vision of the Fediverse - Ruminations on the past and visions of the future
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    8 months ago

    That ping did not federate :)

    I agree - PieFed is almost ready. But not yet, and it would be rash to migrate to PieFed today.

    The state of PieFed currently:

    • In the last week two new developers have started making significant contributions, so now there are 3 of us. Once they get more comfortable there could be a radical increase in development velocity.
    • I’ve been making steady progress through the key issues that will enable me to declare the ‘beta test’ phase complete. I expect the beta test phase to continue for another couple of months.
    • piefed.social is subscribed to over 700 communities and handling the load of federation very well (max 50% cpu usage), on a server costing 6 € per month. The number of weekly users is about 20% of what Beehaw has but PieFed is built to run very efficiently so I do not anticipate issues there.
    • mod tools on piefed are being worked on right now but are not ready. I am aiming to eventually complete the wish list at https://beehaw.org/comment/397674.

    Some 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/[email protected]
    • 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)

    If you have not tried PieFed yet, I urge you to do so as it’s the only way to really see it’s potential.