there is currently a #Piefed Hackathon going on if anyone is interested in partaking. There are groups working on spanish, german, french and japanese translations, and a bunch of other things.

https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/fediverse/p/221411/hackathon-this-week-7-8-febuary #fediverse #fedidev #activitypub

Also: i talk up the idea of #Lemmy and #Mbin and #Piefed and the #Threadiverse in the idea on surfacing content...

Much of that idea was spurred by this from Piefed on it's potential feed format that can pull in multiple other community fediverse acocunts into one feed:

https://join.piefed.social/2025/04/30/how-piefed-federates-feeds-aka-multi-reddits-or-multi-comms/

And would love to hear what @rimu thinks of my riffing on this for discovery fedi wide, and if he had notes.

#PieFed v1.6 (coming soon) will make it possible to quote boost PieFed posts in Mastodon!

#fediverse

RE: https://join.piefed.social/2026/01/24/a-crowdsourced-photo-gallery-from-the-fediverse-the-open-social-web-in-action/

This use case shows why activtypub based "feeds" standardization is so imporant and can open up content like this. #Piefed doing great work on that front and look forward to feeds being more standardized across fediverse apps.

A Crowdsourced Photo Gallery from the Fediverse – the Open Social Web in action

Here are some nice photos from around the fediverse: https://home.scoobysnack.net/gallery/. That page updates automatically as new photos are posted.

How did they get there? Well…

People from all over Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy and more posted photos into these communities:

https://piefed.social/c/photography

https://lemmy.world/c/photography

https://lemmy.world/c/japanpics

… and a few others. Moderators curate those communities to filter out anything obnoxious and people upvote the best ones.

Jerry used his PieFed account to create a “Feed” of 6 photography communities at https://feddit.online/f/photos. In PieFed a Feed is a bundle of communities with all their content shown together in a list. Those communities can be on any Lemmy, PieFed or Mbin instance. In the sidebar you can see all the communities in the Feed. That feed can be Followed, just like an account on Mastodon can be.

Someone on https://piefed.social followed ~photos@feddit.online (the ~ distinguishes it from a person, which uses @ at the start) which created this: https://piefed.social/f/photos@feddit.online. (Following a feed automatically subscribes one to all the communities within and if Jerry adds a new community to the feed all the subscribers auto-follow the new community. But I digress).

The author of home.scoobysnack.net looked up PieFed’s API spec and wrote some JavaScript which uses PieFed’s API to retrieve all the photos in the feed on piefed.social:

GET https://piefed.social/api/alpha/post/list?feed_id=47&limit=40&page=1&nsfw=Exclude&minimum_upvotes=0

… and finally their JavaScript displays the images.

So the journey these photos took went through 6 steps:

Mastodon / PixelFed / author -> Lemmy / PieFed / Mbin communities -> Feddit.online feed -> PieFed.social feed -> PieFed.social API -> home.scoobysnack.net

I think that’s pretty cool.

There's a Fediverse platform that I'd like to explore - and it's PieFed - by @rimu - on FreeBSD. Stay Tuned!

#PieFed

Is there a way to quote post #Piefed posts from Mastodon yet? If not, why not?

I've seen the raw HTML for some #piefed post content showing in the spoilerText field on some platforms via the mastodon api, including #gotosocial, #neodb (takahe/incarnator) and I think #pleroma. My current kludge is to check the spoilerText for html tags (specifically, a beginning <p>).

I wish I had #fediverse (#mastodon #pleroma #akkoma #friendica #hubzilla #iceshrimp #snac #lemmy #mbin #kbin #piefed ) #client , I mean like #ELK #lmst #pl-fe #phanpy #tooty #sengi #pinafore #halcyon . That would allow me to sort my subscription feed & browse sorted feed, to see ONLY relevant posts (on topic updates follow-up's?).
Well, the mastodon feature of "LISTS" tries something similiar by allowing to make a sorted list of people\subscription, sorted by your custom category/topic. But it doesn't include #tags. Each #tag must be browsed separately, individually, manually, and there is no feature of list of tags in mastodon.
Lemmy, mbin, kbin, piefed and other #reddit #forum like #activitypub implementations allow you to have topics-threads, but each thread does not replicate very well across multiple servers/instances. Can't be easely crossposted ( by pinging multiple category-bots). And doesn't replicate & easily-searchable as classic mastodon #tags.

Other things I don't like:
- twitter like reposts. they make you feel you subscribed not to the original "reposter" friend, but to "reposted content" that you never subscribed for. the #f2f p2p architecture of #scuttlebot (#scuttlebutt) kinda eliminates that, they don't have nor show reposts. you see there only original posts, original content, of friends you follow. Kinda helps to slow down the mind from informational overflow. You can opt out to see posts of friend's friends, if you want more. Tags are also supported there.
- threads consist only of information aggretator url sharing in reddit like clones. Without having OP OC like in bbs|AgoraRoad , they just silo you to clickbait to other web sites.

!fediverse@piefed.social @fediverse

#PieFed 1.2 has just been released.

- Event posts
- 3D rotating tag cloud
- Built-in translation
- Set a reminder on any post/comment
- Log in with LDAP
- and so much more.

Details and links to examples at https://piefed.social/post/1278967

#fediverse

Reppin’ the Fedi:

“I don’t use Youtube, I use #Peertube,
(for uploads, #Invidious for viewing),
I won’t use Insta, it’s #Pixelfed,
I f**ked off Facebook for #Friendica,
X/Twitter, whatever, find me on #Mastodon,
I shed it: Reddit for #Piefed, 🔵
TikTok it won’t take long for your groups, 🩴
to flick flock to #Loops.”

🎶 https://spectra.video/w/mNieEJNJbV2Xg5zmUnsFsG 🕺

@peertube @invidious @pixelfed @Mastodon @andypiper @piefedadmin @dansup

I'm really happy to see #PieFed doing so well, and third-party apps are picking up API support for it.

Support your Fedi Devs.

https://piefed.social/donate

@jsJohn Spurlock Love this. Do you think this might be able to support podcast feeds directly or would it need additional work? BlueSky Feeds? Future Mastodon (or existing #Piefed feeds of fediverse content? cc: @rimu

This web based onboarding UX for #Piefed is perilously close to my suggestion as to how to fix fediverse onboarding that I made back in June.

(IIt seems to lack round robin in place, but other than, it has a simple, single main choice clearly featured UX placement, but with an offramp to a more complex wizard for those who want one)

cc: @rimu
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/24/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux.html

AFAIK, the "fed" suffix in both "pixelfed" and "piefed" is short form "Fediverse".

"Fediverse" is often shortened to both "fedi" and "fed".

@atomicpoetChris Trottier

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/54cf9fd5-8326-400c-8834-3630b9181038

#fediverse #piefed #pixelfed

This is another core reason why #Lemmy and #Piefed are better than #Reddit.

On Reddit, if a head mod of a major subreddit goes toxic or starts power-tripping, the community is stuck. That mod only got control because they lucked into claiming a name like r/movies or r/pics first—and now they hold the keys.

On the #Fediverse, it doesn’t work that way. If people don’t like !movies@lemmy.world, they can move over to !movies@piefed.social. Even if lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy server, it has no monopoly on access.

And that’s exactly what happened. People voted with their feet. Which is why !movies@piefed.social is now the most active movie community on the Fediverse.

I know a lot of you still think of the #Fediverse as just “Mastodon”.

But it’s far more than that. There’s an entire ecosystem of federated message boards that’s already proven popular: #Piefed, #NodeBB, #Lemmy, #Mbin, and #Discourse.

Even the classics like #Friendica and #Hubzilla have solid forum features baked in.

If you’re only here for the microblogging, you’re missing a key piece. Communities built around interests are something #Twitter never offered, and #Bluesky still doesn’t.

So if you’re looking to replace your #Facebook Groups, the Fediverse already has you covered.

Piefed has a new official test instance and the url is perfect.

https://crust.piefed.social/

#piefed #activitypub

It's GAME DAY! 👏🎉🥳

I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Human Web Collective.

It is a #fediverse social web forum, powered by #PieFed, with the express goal of promoting #ProCraft tools, services, and creators who believe in an ecosystem for the humans, by the humans.

The power lies with we, the people. Rather than simply complain about the bait-and-switch of digital media morphing into the Torment Nexus, let's build our alternative!

Welcome to the Resistance. 😎

https://humansare.social

Huh, I like the way #Piefed displays #PeerTube channels. Here’s how the #FediCon videos look from there:

https://piefed.social/c/fedicon_videos@spectra.video

Differences between #Lemmy and #PieFed

https://join.piefed.social/features/

#fediverse

I have now found 1070 verified accounts from media organizations in the #Fediverse, but only on #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Bluesky, #Ghost and #Peertube.

Just one is on #Sharkey (👋🏻 @heiseBottiBotti ͻ-'(Iı,)'-ϲ) and none on #Pixelfed, #Lemmy, #Piefed, #Misskey & Co. Are there really none there, or did I miss some?

Source:
https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

@fediverse

Noticed that #Piefed autolinks URLs without https and the linkification federates to Mastodon, are there other fediverse servers that do this? Seems like a huge quality of life improvement

We have opened up PieFed.World for registrations.

Please see the announcement post if you are curious to what PieFed is: https://piefed.world/post/237378

#PieFed #threadiverse

Today I coded something I've been dreaming about for many months - a solution to the #ActivityPub scaling problem.

The problem is that if 20 people cast 5 votes and those votes are federated to 500 servers, the instance hosting the community needs to do 20 * 5 * 500 = 50,000 network requests.

The solution is to bundle the activity up into chunks. I describe the solution and how #PieFed does it here https://peertube.wtf/w/v5aWpxjS2P4pJSn62a2AYG (probably only of interest to developers).

#fediverse

PieFed is seeing a surge in new users as a prominent Lemmy server retires, lemm.ee

https://piefed.zip/post/167564

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #PieFed

@box464Jeff Sikes @renewedresistance Ok one area on this I’d like your opinion on Jeff: do you think this technique might hold promise for more complex ActivityPub based feeds in general beyond just #piefed and upvoting services? For things like @newsmastNewsmast Foundation or @surf feeds one day? cc: @rimu @evanEvan Prodromou

Here is a general call for folks who know the latest #Piefed - and especially its new feeds function, to help us set this up: https://piefed.social/f/renewedresistence

The #threadiverse is far more activated than most know and we would like to make PieFed our home base for upvoting links, and to federate them out to THIS account to boost.... We want to be organizng ALL across the open social web, and so much good work is being done on #Lemmy #PieFed #Mbin... (and maybe elsewhere, let us know if we miss any)

cc: @piefedadmin @rimu

PieFed reaches 1.0 status, and two Lemmy apps announce experimental support for PieFed - @voyagerappVoyager for Lemmy and @interstellarInterstellar App

I’ve tried Interstellar and it works! Voyager app I couldn’t login - yet.

https://piefed.social/post/956553

#PieFed #Fediverse

@christianpChristian Lawson-Perfect

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

#mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon

I think Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed will soon see an influx of new users.

Reddit is going to use Sam Altmans sketchy iris-scanning "Orb" to verify users.

What in the Black Mirror is this shit?

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

#reddit #iris #orb #worldID #lemmy #mbin #piefed

Le silence du #fediverse.

Quand le protocole #ActivityPub lui même donne une partie d'une conversation au lieu de tous les posts répondant au billet initial.

Réflexion sur comment y remédier:
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/quiet-fediverse-two-approaches

By @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

#fediverse #fedidev #Mastodon #Pixelfed #conversations #NodeBB #Discourse, #WordPress #Frequency #Mitra #Streams #Lemmy #Piefed

#PieFed is taking off

Get on board - https://piefed.social

#fediverse

A great video about the Community Moderation Features in #PieFed.

I love PieFed. It has many great features, well implemented, and is easy, and fun, to use. If you want to start a community, it's a great application to start it in. And good moderation features are vital for managing a community.

And every day PieFed is much better than the prior day because the development team, no lie, comes out with new features daily along with bug fixes and improvements. Actually, it's breathtaking speed. I usually pull new updates twice daily. The other day I had to do it 5 times in one day!

Anyway, here's a 7.5 minute overview of the Community Moderation Features.
https://feddit.online/post/718489

#PieFed, a federated #Reddit alternative, may well be the most actively updated volunteer-maintained FOSS application. There are new features (not minor ones either) every day along with a number of bug fixes. And it's rock solid.

I update the software on my Piefed server a minimum of twice a day, and even doing this, I'm always afraid I'm falling behind.

For example, these are the changes made last month: https://link.fossdle.org/post/1605. It's a huge list.

And, as a plus, unlike Lemmy, the developers are not tankies. They are great human beings. I never went to Lemmy because of the developers. I just couldn't.

I'm impressed, and I want to throw some public Kudos and thank yous toward the team.

If you would like to explore PieFed, here's the server list: https://join.piefed.social/try/

@rimu

#Fediverse #FediverseApplications

#PieFed just added a multi-reddit feature, which we're calling "Feeds". It combines multiple Communities (actors of type "Group" in ActivityPub) into one.

Feeds can be followed from other PieFed instances, which will subscribe the follower to all the communities in the feed.

Try it out at https://piefed.social/feeds

It's similar to PieFed's concept of a Topic https://piefed.social/topics, except topics are maintained by the instance admins. Feeds are crowdsourced and federated topics.

#fediverse

What does it take to get a PieFed instance setup?

@firesidefedi
@rimu
@ozoned

RE: https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/t4M5fXeXqhfJ39MjbCmA7s

#ActivityPub #DeSo #Fediverse #FediverseHistory #FireSideFediClips #PieFed #SocialMedia #Threadiverse

PieFed adds PassKeys! As in, log in only with your passkey. Not just as a 2FA addition to your username/password.

https://piefed.social/post/762082

#ActivityPub #FediDev #PieFed

Federated flair for PieFed communities and users is here. Think of them similar to hashtags that follow these objects around. It gives you a sense of the user's specific interest in a topic, or a way to filter a community to posts about a specific flair. Your community flair can be associated to a specific color.

https://join.piefed.social/2025/05/10/how-piefed-federates-flair-on-posts-and-comments/

#PieFed #ActivityPub #Threadiverse

How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments

On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts or comments in the community. This can be helpful for giving a hint about someone’s background, interests or expertise.

However PieFed is federated and there are copies of the communities on multiple servers (instances). The way to use ActivityPub to create and maintain those copies is described in FEP 1b12 which makes no mention of flair. I have made some minimal additions to that FEP, described below:

For flair on posts, the Lemmy devs have already done quite a bit of work on this, which I added a little to, so that flair can have colors. Community actors have an additional type of tag:

{
    "type": "Group",
    "id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta",
    "name": "piefed_meta",
    /* ... */
    "lemmy:tagsForPosts": [
      {
        "type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
        "id": "https://piefed.socia1/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
        "display_name": "Some Post Tag Name",
        "text_color": "#000000",
        "background_color": "#dedede"
      }
    ]
  }

lemmy:tagsForPosts is a list of lemmy:CommunityTag objects.

So now all the different copies of the community will know which flair can be used there. When creating a post in the community we just need to add one or more lemmy:CommunityTag objects to the Page activity:

{
    "id": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
    "actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
    "type": "Page",
    /* ... */
    "tag": [
      {
        "type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
        "id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
        "display_name": "Some Post Tag Name"
      },
      {
        "href": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
        "name": "asdf",
        "type": "Hashtag"
      }
    ]
  }

In this example the post also has a #asdf hashtag on it.

User flair is simpler because it’s not managed by the community moderators and is not a fixed list. PieFed simply adds the author’s flair to every comment (federated as a Note activity) they make. When a Note is received the author’s flair is updated on the receiving instances.

{
    "id": "https://piefed.social/comment/1",
    "actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
    "type": "Note",
    /* ... */
    "flair": "PieFed dev"
  }

This means that when someone changes their flair it will take effect immediately on their instance but until they write a comment it won’t propagate to other instances. As flair is primarily used on comments and the people using flair will tend to be posting a lot of comments this is kinda “good enough”.

It would be trivial to add a “flair” attribute onto posts too and have receiving instances read that. User flair shows up next to the author’s name on their posts so arguably it makes sense to send it then too.

Let’s see how it goes.

#asdf #fediverse #Lemmy #piefed #threadverse

I've just added Stripe integration to #PieFed so now every instance can collect their own donations.

Are there any other #fediverse platforms with integrated donation functionality?

What do you notice about the comments on this post?

https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world #Lemmy community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

#PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in your timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in the same list.

Fedi fragmentation = solved

#fediverse