Just a quick note to recognize that the first lines of PieFed code were published on the 28th July 2023, just over a year ago. Since then there have been 1400+ changes made by 9 people, involving adding 88,000 lines of code and removing 28,000 lines. The issue queue has 98 open and 99 closed issues.

While join.piefed.social went live in October 2023, it wasn’t until time off work over the christmas holidays enabled a big push to get it ready that piefed.social went live on 4th January 2024.

Since then piefed.social has federated 190k posts, 2.3M comments and 19M votes with 1900 other instances of various types. Besides piefed.social there are 5 other PieFed instances that I know of.

What a year it’s been! I’ve grown significantly as a developer, had a lot of fun and hopefully contributed something meaningful to whatever the fediverse is becoming. Long may it continue!

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m running one of those instances just as a single user instance after failing to upgrade my Lemmy instance to the latest version because of lack of resources on my server. PieFed fits much better into this space of low profile single user instances, and it’s much easier to tailor to my needs because of how it handles themes and templates.

    My PieFed instance is my main source for news and the website I visit most of all the Websites on the Internet, it replaced Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and to be honest even Mastodon and News sites - I used to go to frequently - for me.

    Thanks a lot for this huge amount of work you guys have been doing and I’m using for free!