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!

  • 鴉河雛@PieFed@pf.korako.me日本語
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    3 months ago

    (Please excuse me for writing in Japanese)

    Lemmyが複雑になってきたのでPieFedはどうだろうというという軽い気持ちで使い始めました。
    インストールは簡単でわかりやすく私のようにコードがわからなくてもある程度の修正ができるなど非常に気に入っています。

    現在は日本語の翻訳と自分のインスタンスに対する改造にも手を少しずつ出しています。

    英語は話せず、Pythonもあまりわからないため技術的協力をあまりすることができませんが、これからも応援しています。

      • 鴉河雛@PieFed@pf.korako.me日本語
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        3 months ago

        今のところ問題はおきていないと思います。
        私はまだLemmyをメインで使っているのでPieFedは参照程度ですがそれでも問題は無いです。

        日本ではあまりLemmyの様なものは人気ではなくコミュニティもインスタンス単位でしかないので、サンプルはかなり少ないです。

        （少し関係ないですが、私はブログの代わりとして使っている事が多いのでPieFedでも本文中で画像をアップロードできると良いなと思ってます）

  • 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!

  • Remy Rose@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Congrats!!! It’s looking great so far, love the low bandwidth aspect.

    My Lemmy instance seems to have been abandoned, and it’s been slowly losing functionality over the last few months. So, I’ve been begrudgingly trying to decide on a new one for when this one fails entirely… Piefed seems like it’d be a great choice, except I’ll definitely need to wait until it either works with a Lemmy app, has its own app, or at least has a PWA. Anyway, great work!! Lovely to see multiple interoperable platforms shaping up.

    • Rimu@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Thank you!

      Yeah the lack of mobile app is a sticking point for a lot of people. PieFed is set up to operate as a PWA - try opening the site in Chrome and then looking for the “install as app” option.