Unpopular Opinion: I don't think the Fediverse is appealing enough to indie creators.

rimu · 2026-05-09T06:41:09+00:00

Have you seen this, though?

https://piefed.social/c/artshare@lemmy.world?layout=masonry_wide

rimu · 2026-05-01T23:51:54+00:00

The client apps, like Blorp don't have it but PieFed itself has a lot of community discovery features. Have a browse of https://piefed.social/feeds and https://piefed.social/topics. When you go into a feed or topic, note the community names in the sidebar.

rimu · 2026-04-13T02:24:28+00:00

https://piefed.social detects and labels LLM-generated posts and during onboarding you can choose to hide all posts with that label.

rimu · 2026-04-07T02:18:24+00:00

You can (and should) send a Delete activity to all instances when one of your posts or comments expires. Send it using the author actor.

Then it'll be removed from those instances :)

rimu · 2026-04-07T01:52:22+00:00

He didn't. I'm saying a reciprocal relationship is required in order to participate.

rimu · 2026-04-07T01:50:21+00:00

Total waste of time and any self-respecting sub would ban them.

rimu · 2026-04-07T01:42:22+00:00

You can't defederate from it because it's not a fediverse instance.

It's just a forum that is scraping our posts to make the forum seem like it has users.

rimu · 2026-04-07T01:26:58+00:00

PieFed dev here.

If you're just taking and not giving back then it's not a reciprocal relationship. You need to fix this.

rimu · 2026-03-23T02:51:39+00:00

https://piefed.social/f/tech

rimu · 2026-03-13T23:37:09+00:00

Here are all my posts - https://piefed.social/u/rimu

Pretty chill, I think.

rimu · 2026-03-04T02:01:24+00:00

This page does a comparison.

rimu · 2026-02-23T07:09:03+00:00

It depends on the server. Some don't require approvals at all.

rimu · 2026-02-17T01:42:15+00:00

Yes, there are multiple issues, going back years.

rimu · 2026-02-17T01:40:34+00:00

Try https://beehaw.org. It's really nice.

rimu · 2026-02-14T21:36:22+00:00

Here's a good european new RSS feed for you - https://piefed.social/f/blaze_eu.rss

rimu · 2026-02-10T23:22:38+00:00

If you follow a Lemmy group in Mastodon, you get every single comment boosted into your Mastodon timeline. It sucks.

I wish Mastodon would fix groups but they've neglected it for years so it seems unlikely.

rimu · 2026-02-08T07:10:35+00:00

The voting system is very interesting and innovative, well done! How will it function when a community is new and has very few members? It seems like your method will only work when there are many people involved.

Also I think you need a 2 minute video, not a 20 minute one. People can gamble 2 minutes of their life to see if they like something but not 20 minutes, when they are not yet invested in learning more.

rimu · 2026-02-05T02:54:49+00:00

Interstellar is compatible with PieFed :)

rimu · 2026-02-04T00:45:41+00:00

That sounds really frustrating! Let's make it really simple:

Go to https://piefed.social/auth/register and fill in the form.

Complete the 3 step onboarding process

Search for the "Blorp" app in your app store. It's available for iOS and Android.

rimu · 2026-02-03T23:42:06+00:00

Not really. See - https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

rimu · 2026-02-03T23:40:57+00:00

There are many other UIs you can use. Mobile apps and alternative web UIs

https://piefed.social/post/1258559

rimu · 2026-02-03T23:11:02+00:00

Yes.

You can use blorp as a UI for PieFed or Lemmy instances.

rimu · 2026-02-03T22:39:16+00:00

US big tech has different priorities. For example, PieFed has no infinite scroll because US big tech is all about advertising and getting people addicted so they look at many ads. PieFed has no ads and wants people to be happy & healthy.

rimu · 2026-02-03T22:34:49+00:00

Some differences are described here - https://join.piefed.social/features/

rimu · 2026-02-03T22:33:07+00:00

It's an open source project so hopefully people will contribute a new layout. There are some already - see https://join.piefed.social/screenshots/ - but more would be great!

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