What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?
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Yep but considering your activities, you can tell them more about PieFed and Mbin. It will help reach a more balanced software's use.
Didn't I with the Mbin post yesterday?
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I can add a piefed account as a mod to a community I mod right now.
How many people like you are using PieFed right now?
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Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.
Single mod who didn’t want to create a meta posts to ask for more mods.
But the sidebar does say to DM them if you're interested in modding. Not wanting a meta post is weird though.
Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.
I just checked the graph, its now 4.26 days.
Not wanting a meta post is weird though.
Every time I had a mod refusing meta posts it lead to power tripping. Better safe than sorry
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If only activitypub c2s didn't suck.
ActivityPub C2S is not the the solution. It still requires a server and it still keeps the admins in control of everything.
ActivityPods seems to be going in the right direction, though...
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You guys are a lot braver than me lol, I'd never run the Lemmy main branch in prod.
Running a main branch in production is beyond insanity.
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Interstellar works with PieFed now although the API it uses is only enabled on one instance https://preferred.social as we're still testing it out.
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Fair point, but mobile apps and inertia seem to outweigh those additional features
If you use a mobile app then whether your account is on Lemmy or PieFed makes no difference - most of your experience will be determined by which app you choose.
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Running a main branch in production is beyond insanity.
Welcome to the jungle
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You may not be from the US, but in the US smartphone market, as of late 2024, iOS (Apple) holds a larger market share than Android, with iOS at around 58% and Android at 42%.
The US isn't the only country, and I bet people using the fediverse skew heavily toward android in the US anyway.
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If you use a mobile app then whether your account is on Lemmy or PieFed makes no difference - most of your experience will be determined by which app you choose.
Indeed, but at the moment only Interstellar has alpha support for Piefed.
Once the Thunder for is released, and Voyager, Arctic, Summit etc start to support Piefed, then it will be the case.
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Interstellar works with PieFed now although the API it uses is only enabled on one instance https://preferred.social as we're still testing it out.
Is Interstellar support complete? I thought it was still in alpha/beta phase
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We have data on what it costs to run a sizeable instance of Lemmy and it's not a lot. How does Piefed compare? Anyone starting an instance who envisions it growing large has to contend with this question.
There are now sizeable communities run on Lemmy instances that are reinforced by network effects. There needs to be a significant reason for them to migrate.
We won't 100% know the answer to that until we get there. But in 2025 fear of a lack of CPU cores is NOT what keeps me awake at night.
Early performance results are positive. Check these links out:
https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/
https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/
There are many many ways to ruin web app performance and choice of backend language is not really a big one. It's what you do with it that counts.
https://piefed.social is running on a low end VPS which costs $7.50 per month. Load average is about 1.45 during the busiest part of the day. Most of the load is caused by federating with lemmy.world and that won't increase as more users come on board.
PieFed is already really efficient with storage. After 16 months of operation, subscribed to every popular community, the piefed.social DB is 30 GB and the media storage is 28 GB. A Lemmy instance would be 10x that.
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Is Interstellar support complete? I thought it was still in alpha/beta phase
Definitely alpha, yeah. But moving fast!
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Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.
I just checked the graph, its now 4.26 days.
Not wanting a meta post is weird though.
Every time I had a mod refusing meta posts it lead to power tripping. Better safe than sorry
Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I don't know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They're too big. But while we're still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we're trying to achieve critical mass I also don't know if endless fragmentation is well advised.
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My biggest issue with Piefed is how much space the UI uses. Last I checked it didn't have a "compact mode" like current Lemmy or Alexandrite. Browsing communities is also a bit awkward since it shows you so many topics without a way to sort or remove them.
Ok. Watch this space: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/540
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We won't 100% know the answer to that until we get there. But in 2025 fear of a lack of CPU cores is NOT what keeps me awake at night.
Early performance results are positive. Check these links out:
https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/
https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/
There are many many ways to ruin web app performance and choice of backend language is not really a big one. It's what you do with it that counts.
https://piefed.social is running on a low end VPS which costs $7.50 per month. Load average is about 1.45 during the busiest part of the day. Most of the load is caused by federating with lemmy.world and that won't increase as more users come on board.
PieFed is already really efficient with storage. After 16 months of operation, subscribed to every popular community, the piefed.social DB is 30 GB and the media storage is 28 GB. A Lemmy instance would be 10x that.
That's nice info, thanks! Do you know why the db difference?
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That's nice info, thanks! Do you know why the db difference?
I've never seen a Lemmy DB, sorry.
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I've never seen a Lemmy DB, sorry.
Can confirm. When we took over the running of feddit.uk migrating the images took forever as it was around 300GB.
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There's more than that.
Stuff like feeds, topics and better onboarding.I run a Pixelfed instance. The code is faaaaaaaarrrrr from polished. Its buggy and the admin interface either doesn't work or is poorly implemented. I'd rather run and moderate Lemmy than Pixelfed. I have considered just shutting it down several times. I run the instance https://social.photo/.
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Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I'm blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.
Whats the catch? Why aren't we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?
App support is one thing I can think of.
Probably app support. If Lemmy didn’t have wefwef/voyager during the API debacle of 2023, I probably would not have stuck around. The default UI is terrible for mobile.
