PieFed.World is now open


cross-posted from: piefed.world/post/237378

Hello World!

We've recently added PieFed.World to the Fedihosting Foundation portfolio.

PieFed.World is still in its early stages, and we still need to port some of our automations we already have in place on Lemmy.World. This includes functionality to inform people about moderation actions taken against them, as well as some other moderation tooling. Administration is currently done by the same team responsible for Lemmy.World, and the same rules that apply to Lemmy.World also apply to PieFed.World.

What is PieFed?


PieFed is a Fediverse/Threadiverse platform similar to Lemmy or Mbin/kbin. You can find a description and feature comparison with Lemmy on their website.

While PieFed has a range of features currently not present in Lemmy, it also is a a lot younger and isn't quite as robust as Lemmy currently is. There are still many bugs and missing features that you will likely run across compared to Lemmy, which will take time to be addressed. PieFed has fairly active development and is seeing a lot of issues addressed fairly quickly, which is especially important recently, as the number of active PieFed instances and PieFed users increased significantly with a range of Lemmy instances opening up PieFed instances as well. PieFed currently does not have proper "stable" releases and no test suite, so it's not unlikely for things to break from time to time. Although 1.0.0 has already been released a while back, there are still too many issues addressed in more recent commits to stay on that version.

As PieFed is part of the same federated network as Lemmy and Mbin, all PieFed communities can be accessed from Lemmy and Mbin, as well as other Fediverse platforms. Likewise, PieFed can access communities from Lemmy, Mbin and other Fediverse platforms. Whether you use a PieFed instance, a Lemmy instance, or an Mbin instance, it does not matter what type of instance the community is on. The software affects your own user experience, but the content is available regardless.

Creation of communities


Creation of communities will be limited to admins for the first week of the public launch. We will reserve this time to allow community moderators of established communities to claim the name on PieFed.World before we open community creation to the public. We will limit this to communities with the same name and at least 2k monthly active users. In case of multiple qualifying communities with the same name on different instances expressing interest, Lemmy.World communities will be given preference, afterwards the number of monthly active users. Please reach out if you'd like to discuss an exception. Requests can be posted in !support@piefed.world. After the first week, community creation will be available to anyone.

Migration of communities


PieFed has a feature to migrate communities to a local instance. We will not be offering PieFed's community migration feature initially.

We still need to research the details of how this works and the impacts this has on federation before we will make a decision on whether will support this in the future. If requested, we may reserve some names for potential future community migrations until we have made a decision to allow community migrations.

This does not prevent you from moving communities in the classic way, by opening up a new community and posting in the old community that people should move over.

Private voting


We had previously disabled private voting for PieFed.World before opening the instance to the public, as the original implementation has a range of drawbacks when it comes to federation, and our team overwhelmingly believed that the individual benefits of private voting did not outweigh the impact this has on the Fediverse beyond the user's instance. Additionally, due to the implementation of that feature, it was also trivial to identify the original voter, which significantly limited the promises of this bringing actual voting privacy.

Since then, the implementation of private voting has been changed to provide the option of federating or not federating votes. While this is more likely to result in vote differences across instances, it does not feed bad information to other instances, which could make it a lot harder for other instances to identify manipulation.

Non-federated voting is available for all PieFed.World users.

Topics


Topics are a kind of "starter packs" or collections grouping multiple communities that people can follow, curated by the admin team. We don't have a clear vision for the structure of these yet.

You can see an example structure on piefed.social.

Feel free to let us know your thoughts on this.

Feeds


PieFed supports feeds, which are user-created groups of communities, similar to topics. These are currently in a global namespace and all users can create public feeds in the same shared namespace.

Reputation and vote weight


PieFed has options for admins to treat certain types of content differently for "reputation" calculation, as well as options for weighing votes of specific instances differently compared to others. We currently have all options for treating certain content, communities or instances differently disabled.

How does PieFed compare to Lemmy?


PieFed has various features not present in Lemmy, check out their website!

There is also various functionality that Lemmy has, which you may be missing currently with PieFed for now:

Limited API support


In Lemmy, the default web interface relies entirely on the Lemmy API. This has the major benefit of all functionality available in the default web interface also being available to all third party clients. PieFed currently uses separate code paths and implementations for the default web interface and its API. To make it possible to access functionality in third party apps, dedicated API endpoints have to be created, even if this functionality is already available in the default web interface. This also includes alternative web-based UIs.

Multiple developers of alternative UIs and mobile clients are already working on PieFed support, some already released experimental versions.

Limited availability of Markdown previews


Markdown previews are currently only available in posts. There are many other places that accept markdown, but you can't preview the rendered comment before submitting it. This is tracked in #532.

Image uploads only on post creation


Images can't be uploaded to comments currently. You'll have to host them externally for now. This is tracked in #768.

Autocompletion of users/communities


Usernames and communities can't be autocompleted when typing their names currently. This is tracked in #799.

Limited availability of modlog


Modlog is currently very limited. While there is an instance modlog, there are currently no filters available, so it's not possible for users to see actions taken against a specific user or within a specific community. Community modlog exists, but it is currently only available to community moderators and admins. Filtering modlog is tracked in #846.

Moderator hierarchy


Lemmy has a moderator hierarchy based on the time a moderator was appointed, relative to other moderators in the community. This allows moderators to add other moderators, but they can only remove moderators that were added later than they were. There are a few other actions that check moderator hierarchy as well, including deletion only being possible by the top mod. In PieFed, communities have one or more owners, who can add and remove moderators, while all other moderators are currently on equal level. Community owners currently cannot be changed without editing this directly in the database, if you'd like to change owners in your community please reach out in !support@piefed.world.

Donations


Similar to Lemmy, PieFed development is supported by donations. You can donate to PieFed development through Patreon.

Additionally, we would appreciate donations towards the Fedihosting Foundation, the non-profit organization operating PieFed.World, Lemmy.World, and a range of other Fediverse platforms.

Problems and questions


Please report any issues and questions about PieFed.World in !support@piefed.world.

For topics about the software PieFed, please visit !piefed_meta@piefed.social.

Bugs can be reported on Codeberg.

TLDR: New platform with similar functionality available, Lemmy.World will continue to exist.

edit: reordered sections and minor wording changes

edit 2: updated community owner information

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in reply to lwadmin

Congratulations Ruud & Rest - everyone at the foundation really, it's just fun to say Ruud & Rest! I'm excited to see how this will develop. PieFed does have a lot of features already, that I do miss for Lemmy, and the communication from the main dev has been great so far. (An opportunity to post links to his PeerTube channel, as well as his Liberapay profile).

A great addition to the "Threadiverse" in particular, and the larger Fediverse!

in reply to AbnormalHumanBeing

I had sadly the opposite experience as a developer. He bends the rules, the code of conduct to his will so that he stays in the "right".

He disregards any improvements to the codes style ( formatting, styling, linting ) and when you point that out you just get the lemmy devs treatment. I mentioned, the code is a mess. He went on rampage declining any attempts to "untangle" or format the code. And he simply said "Go away and dont come back".

One example:
codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commi…

in reply to Rooki

This is all sour grapes.

I've read your interaction with him, and, frankly, if I were moderating a community where you incessantly carried on over insignificant details, continuing to question things after you got your answer (sea lioning), insisting on focusing on nothing, and never ever stopping, I'd block you too, and I've only blocked 2 people in my entire life as a mod.

Now you're in here trying to malign him, for revenge, for shutting you down so he could get work done and he can focus on important work instead of debating you over never-ending trivial topics.

He is the opposite of the image you are trying to give him.

in reply to Jerry on PieFed

Ahh yes, that is another risk factor of him. He never tests it. I guess he always goes for guts instincts. ( As there is no CI tests or any type hints ).

And again we speak of FORMATTING pr's those risky formatting pr's i guess he tested that? and somehow found that it didnt worked?

Just to be clear, i fixed a lot of bugs already too. E.g. Mastodon login never even worked ONCE, i implemented that to the end.
With his merge first fix later attitude, for little bit more established servers its killing argument: Oh yeah feature X broke because no one tested it before.

My PRs were in good faith. I was ok with constructive feedback ( e.g. change this, change that ) but dismissing ones PR MULTIPLE times. With almost none real reason other than "Opiniated Formatting" ( where none exists )

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#politique #corruption #banques #lacorde #guillotine2025
https://x.com/C_deCourson/status/1942622824356888866

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#crime
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GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

Link: mips.com/press-releases/gf-mip…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, issued the latest forced evacuation order for civilians living in nine areas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Adraee said the army was expanding its operation in deep Khan Younis.

The evacuation threats put most of the city under evacuation threats, except some areas of Al-Mawasi. The so-called Israeli safe zones, including al-Mawasi, are constantly attacked despite the army forcing Palestinians to move to those areas.
t.me/QudsNen/174271

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M&S calls for mandatory ransomware reporting

The government should extend ransomware reporting mandates to businesses to help gather more intelligence and better support victims, says M&S chairman Archie Norman.

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Kuten viime viikolla totesin, jos seuraava hallitus on sinipuna, saadaan lisää tätä samaa. Lindtman/SDP lupaa leikkauksia (eli politiikan kielellä ”sopeutuksia”), veronalennuksia ja rahaa puolustusteollisuudelle ja teknologiayrityksille. Millä tavoin tää eroaa siitä, mitä kokoomus lupaa?

#politiikka

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Nothing to see here..

🇫🇷 Surgeon who announced Brigitte Macron's transgender transformation found dead in Paris - Enquete du jour.

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François Faivre was a colleague of the famous doctor specializing in transgender transformations Patrick Bouilly. It was his joint photos with Brigitte Macron that formed the basis of the corresponding "conspiracy theory" that she used to be a man.

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[Italian Prisons] Comrade Paolo Todde’s Hunger Strike Ends


Updates on comrade Paolo Todde as of 25/06/2025.

We are informed by the letters received today at the Anarchica Library “G. Ciavolino” and sent by Paolo on 23/06/2025 that he has decided to SUSPEND the hunger strike on the date of 21/06/2025.

We point out some paragraphs of this letter:

“Since Saturday, June 21, I have started eating again, the hunger strike is suspended, the heat, the humidity were playing tricks on me, in fact I had moments of spinning in my head, so much so that I had to lean against the wall… At a certain point I was bleeding from my nose, the pressure was dancing in my body, and I was going through bad times. I’ve been eating for two days, but I manage to swallow little or nothing, because I have a very low satiety limit…”

In addition, the comrade specifies that he responds to everyone, but he is having problems with the email, which they are making disappear.

Updates on the comrade’s situation will follow.

Source: es-contrainfo.espiv.net/2025/0…

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in reply to Calishat

Granny's not mean, she's frightened. Her hearing is REALLY bad (she worked in a printing department before OSHA and ear protection) and a lot of the nurses have accents, so when they come in and talk to her she generally has a hard time understanding them.

I talk to her loudly and slowly in a Harnett accent so she knows what's going on even if she doesn't know who I am anymore.

in reply to Calishat

My sister is a retired nurse (psych ward, pre-natal, head trauma, to name a few). I have heard her talk about patients and similar to how you approach your situation. She worked as a patient advocate as well at one time. I think you have the heart of a nurse.
Effective nursing is understanding the patient on a level they don't necessarily teach in school and staying close to family members for needed insight as well.

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“Savaşçı ve faşist” ruhlu millete ve devlete sahip çıktılar;
Nazım gibi. Ülkeye şiirleriyle, edebiyata getirdiği kadarını da bu yolla götürmüştür…

Ülke edebiyatçıları, aydınların, solcuları, tiyatrocuları bayılırlar mesela şu dizelere:

“Dörtnala gelip Uzak Asya’dan
Akdeniz’e bir kısrak başı gibi uzanan bu memleket
bizim!”

diye bolca üflemeye, mastürbasyonla tatmin olmaya bayılırlar …

Oysa düşünmezler ki o memleket binlerce yıldır bu topraklarda yaşayan Ermeni’nindir, Kürt’ündür, Rum’undur, Süryani’nindir, Laz’ın, Çerkes’in, Gürcü’nün, Arap’ın, Nasturi’nin, Êzidî’nin ve de Türk’ündür…
Bu memleket, bir orman gibi yaşayan herkesindir…

Gel de anlat bunu, “en aydın benim” diye ortalığa düşüp kasım kasım kasılan iki ayaklı dingillere!

Mahmut Uzun

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youtu.be/IIOpUD-_cAo?t=415

6:55 timestamp

WHO THE FUCK PAYS $460 TO FUCKING DOORDASH FOR SOME SUB-PAR MEALS MADE IN A GHOST KITCHEN?! JESUS CHRIST I'M TRIGGERED!

Edit: NO WAIT IT'S WORSE THAT'S THE MONEY LEFT I MISREAD

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yt-dlp title broken

just a FYI for anybody bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp there is currently an issue where "%(title)s" results in video title "youtube video"

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…

have to fix like +100 videos bc of that shit :soy_cope:

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the concept of "hubris" and how science has saved billions of lives from starvation, disease, etc.

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The Wall Street Journal would have you believe its report on a "sheikh" who wants to form a Hebron "emirate" under Israeli control, is a groundbreaking political revelation. But anyone with basic knowledge of Palestine will tell a different story.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/how-the…

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel