Ek-Hou-Van-Braai1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
T͏i͏d͏b͏i͏T͏I’ve tried to promote Lemmy on Reddit in the past, only to be met with people complaining about the really old UI and bad UX, they also complain about tankies.
PieFed doesn’t have that bad rep, so I’ve found it easier to promote, both lead to the Fedivers so either is a win.
InFerNoSure but PieFed doesn’t seem to have a tankie problem. They’re blocked from what I’ve seen.
Even if that wasn’t the case, PieFed doesn’t have a reputation for having a tankie problem.
The bottom line is when I promote PieFed I don’t get people on reddit telling me the UI sucked and that it’s flooded with pro-russia propaganda.
So I find it more efficient to promote PieFed
Anyone can instance can defederate from any other instance in Lemmy, not that hard to understand.
CoelacanthI agree, and I think it’s a shame it has gotten to this point, but I understand his viewpoint completely and have seen the interactions myself. At this point it’s simply more efficient to promote Piefed on Reddit instead of Lemmy, because you want the absolute least amount of friction for potential new users. Literally any single minor inconvenience/negative thing will cause people to not even consider trying it out. Lemmy has unfortunately already accumulated a reputation, and if you promote it you are very likely to run into comments about tankies which is typically enough to scare potential new users away.
At the end of the day it shouldn’t matter to us which software people use, as long as we get more new users into the ecosystem.
Piefed starts out with poisoning the ecosystem, as linked here quite a few times by redwizard.
Sadly piefed isnt innocent either, they are trying to poison the AP protocol: communick.news/comment/8015757
PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters - Communick News
This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights: ### What’s new Posts & communities can be labelled as AI-generated [https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523426/labelling-or-hiding-ai-generated-content] and people can choose to hide all posts tagged that way. Very similar to how NSFW works. Comments can be marked as an Answer [https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523157/what-if-stack-overflow-except-federated], like on StackOverflow. React to posts and comments with an emoji [https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api/p/1596518/emoji-reactions-in-the-piefed-api]. Hide an individual post from yourself, without blocking the author. PieFed is now in the Yunohost app store, making initial setup easier. When banned from a remote instance you cannot make local-only posts in their communities. Honeypot to automatically IP ban badly-behaved crawlers. https://lemmy-federate.com/ [https://lemmy-federate.com/] integration, making PieFed communities get more exposure. “Share on Mastodon” menu item on posts. Vastly improve docs for new developers, see https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs [https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs]. Language selection is more visible during post creation. Tag clouds can also be viewed as a list of tags. View post/comment markdown. Bot accounts are not included in community statistics. Footnote support in markdown. Polish translation. Better HTTP caching, which reduces dependence on Cloudflare [https://join.piefed.social/2025/11/22/reducing-piefeds-dependence-on-cloudflare/]. ### Bugs Passkey fixes. Polls can now have up to 15 options. User profile performance improved. Don’t allow bypassing minimum username length and post title with whitespace. Polls and Events can no longer be posted into Lemmy communities. ### API Additional user settings can be set through the api, including Extra Fields. Fetch url metadata. Sort comments by controversial. Comment search now works. Hashtags. Events. Polls. Emoji reactions on posts and comments. See https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api [https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api] for more details. ### To upgrade To upgrade from 1.3.x: git pull git checkout v1.4.x ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh There is a big database migration that will take a few minutes to run. How long will vary depending on how old your instance is - older instances will have more content to process. It took ~25 minutes on piefed.social so expect it to be less than that. ### Donations PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features. Donations can be made via Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/PieFed], Liberapay [https://liberapay.com/PieFed/] or Ko-fi [https://ko-fi.com/piefed].
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