11h ago

We have launched a PieFed instance!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571

Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/
What is PieFed
PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!
We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created !newtopiefed@piefed.ca for us to learn from each other. There is also the official !piefed_help@piefed.social community which has a similar purpose.
We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going 🙂
Other Links & FAQ
lemmy.ca is not migrating to PieFed. We will run both instances at the same time. You can use whichever one you prefer.
Learn about the differences between PieFed & Lemmy: https://join.piefed.social/features/
A tour of the community moderation features in PieFed: https://piefed.social/post/844065
One of the first mobile apps to implement support for PieFed, with more to come: https://interstellar.jwr.one/

21 comments

People must really like Pie! We just did the same thing with Blåhaj Lemmy yesterday!
- It's nice timing! Looking forward to seeing you and your instance in the world of pie :)
- Great minds think alike!

I really want to use Piefed, but Voyager app is so, so good
- Hopefully voyager dev takes a look at piefed integration. I would absolutely love to get back to voyager but for me getting away from lemmy was more important than sticking to voyager.
  
  Why
  
  For me it was the deduplication that takes me to PieFed. I'm only using Voyager at the moment as I'm lying on my side and the PieFed PWA rotates.
  Here's hoping Voyager updates to support PieFed.
  
  @aeharding@vger.social mentioned working on Lemmy v1 support before considering PieFed. Lemmy v1 hasn’t launched yet.
  I am considering adding support in my Lemmy client, but that likely wouldn’t be for a few months. And I also think Lemmy V1 would be the priority.
  
  why get away from lemmy?

I like the logo
- Very tasty compared to the blue default :)

So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I'm not really clear on how communicating freely between them works. I understand that's how the Fediverse supposedly works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven't sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I'm not sure what the integration actually means in practical application? Maybe someone could help me understand.
- So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then?
  Separate things, just the same admin I guess. You can follow the same communities from either one.
  I have a Mastodon account and I haven’t sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it
  On Mastodon, follow the account for this community, just Mastodon uses @ instead of ! so it's @fediverse@lemmy.world and you can post to the community by mentioning it
  You can paste URLs of Lemmy posts/comments into the search bar of Mastodon to pull it up. Just make sure you use the real URL and not a mirror, so you need to get the URL from Lemmy's Fediverse icon
  it has on every post/comment