quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.

Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.

PieFed does that. See https://piefed.social/feeds which are basically collections of Lemmy communities that you can join or leave with 1 click.

omg what is that, chaos!

Yep

It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with tankie memes — interspersed with photos generated by AI

I’ve really tried to provide tools to tame the meme flood and put them into effect on https://piefed.social/ - compare that with the front-page (or All feed) of any Lemmy instance (or most PieFed instances, to be fair).

Gen AI filter is coming.

Naah it’s ok. Inactive accounts might use a bit of space but that is not the thing that matters. The limits I expect to hit are federation traffic, it’s server load, it’s dealing with interpersonal issues. All those are caused by active accounts.

I checked in on the fash trumper forums earlier, they’re in full meltdown about this. So good to see.

I guess as the active userbase shrank naturally then server load and moderation load would decrease and registrations could be opened again, for a time.

Thanks :)

Those examples are all fine.

Anyway if you’re posting them on communities hosted on other instances it’s really up to them unless you post things that are illegal, in which case I’d need to step in.

Piefed.social does not host NSFW-only communities like those on lemmynsfw. But community mods can make decisions about individual risque posts in their communities.

Good questions. Wouldn’t it be great if the instance-finder sites like join-lemmy or join.mastodon.org had filters for thoughtful stuff like that? I’m working on something along those lines ;-)

Admins. PieFed instances list their admins on their ‘about’ page, so https://piefed.social/about . It shows 4 accounts there but two are me, one is inactive and afaik Andrew approves new registrations but mostly does coding? Anyway as this is the flagship instance so there are people, like cabbage, who have been here since the beginning, are pretty into PieFed and who I trust so it feels like help is available if needed. But TBH running this instance is very little time compared to how much I spend coding.

Finances. Until a couple of weeks ago PieFed adoption was quite low and donations were embarrassingly tiny so I didn’t make a big thing about them. They’re still quite small - see https://www.patreon.com/c/PieFed and it’ll show you how much people donate. About 38 Euro? There’s a couple of bucks per month in Librepay too.

That’s income. On the expenses side - PieFed is pretty efficient so the size of the server needed is low. I spend about 12 Euro per month for hosting. I can see that growing to 24 Euro soon-ish, as more mobile apps add PieFed support. At some point it could be necessary to close registrations which would be fine as there are other instances people can use and Lemmy has shown that the dev-run instance doesn’t need to be the biggest.

The instance running costs are insignificant. The biggest expense for me is the time I spend coding PieFed when I should really be founding a startup or building an app with an actual business model or whatever. The dream is to one day get as much donations as a Lemmy dev so I can quit my real job and just do this. There’s no rush, I like my real job.

Genocide - cabbage covered this well.

Defederation - I really need to improve https://piefed.social/instances so it shows the blocked instances. Anything that is a continual moderation headache gets blocked, temporarily or otherwise. This week aaalll the spam is coming from lemmings.world so they’re out but once it dies down they’ll be back. Hexbear and lemmygrad will always be blocked and PieFed is coded to block them by default on all new instances (admins can change it). No plans to defederate lemmy.ml as I’ve built mod tools that help me find the most odious users & banned them and now it’s tolerable. lemy.lol is blocked because of it’s fascist logo. That’s about it.

Good idea. I’ve put a link in the sidebar now but only on the home page.

On my 8 GB laptop I had it at 100% for a while and it slowed my laptop down a lot. At 50% it’s much happier.

I can’t remember the compression method, ymmv

I love how interlinked the tech tree was. In later versions it became a much simpler tree-based hierarchy which is easier to mentally navigate but way less realistic.

That should be fixed now, thanks for bringing it up.

In Voyager or the web app?

First time I’ve heard of that.

Sounds like I need a better DNS provider!

Using fake information is mandatory otherwise you’ll get doxed - the domain ownership is public information, including your full name, physical address, email address and phone number. If someone knows you own the domain, they can look it up using whois.

I got death threats that way, one time.

Although, replacing the battery on the Fairphone is so much easier that 1000 cycles is acceptable.

#fedihire hashtag on Mastodon is as close as it gets.