PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster

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PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster - sh.itjust.works

> [https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/big_raster-1536x1536.png] > Welcome to a new era of interconnected content discussion with PieFed – a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. Our focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power. > ___ > Like other platforms in the fediverse, we are a self-governed space for social link aggregation and conversation. We operate without the influence of corporate entities – ensuring that your experience is free of advertisements, invasive tracking, or secret algorithms. On our platform, content is grouped into communities, allowing you to engage with topics of interest and disregard the irrelevant ones. We utilise a voting system to highlight the best content. - Source Code (Codeberg) [https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/] - Roadmap [https://join.piefed.social/roadmap/] - Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed [https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/] - Instances [https://join.piefed.social/try/] ______ Video introduction the codebase Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file [https://join.piefed.social/vlog/piefed_dev_intro.mp4] instead.

Hello from Piefed! I was a regular on Lemmy and Mastodon for years, but I migrated to Piefed because it is much more lightweight.

The features page shows some differences between Piefed and Lemmy - https://join.piefed.social/features/ Mostly, I appreciate that it is written in Python, so more developers in the community may easily understand and contribute to the code base, and that it is so lightweight. When I connect to the internet I always have to consider data caps, so it's a relief when websites make a genuine effort to be efficient. I can reliably browse the fediverse through Piefed even when my access is throttled to 50Kbps download.

Features - PieFed

Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons. It is unlikely that their trajectory will change in future, either. However we all owe those projects […]

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Piefed can be used as a mastodon replacement? I thought it only aggregated fedi groups like Lemmy and Mbin.
I assume since it’s using the same protocol, it can.
Not really as far as I understand. You can talk to Mastodon users though, if they post in community threads.