Recently there have been two more PieFed instances created, which offer accounts to anyone who wants one:
Feddit.online is hosted in USA which should make it a little faster for people there. It also has a different topic structure at https://feddit.online/topics than PieFed.social has.
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What is the status of migration tools for DBs from lemmy to piefed? I know jlai.lu was receptive to making a switch if we could migrate.
No code has been written for this yet but the url structure (e.g. “/c/community_name”, “/u/username” and “/post/int” was intentionally made the same as Lemmy in order to make it possible, eventually.
Does feddit have a blog or no? I’m curious to know if there are any other differences between piefed and feddit other than topic structure if anyone knows
Hi. I assume you mean feddit.online, the Piefed instance in North America? feddit.online is my server.
Nope, no blog.
piefed.social may be a couple of days ahead of feddit.online for software changes. I generally redeploy the Piefed code every 2 days. The amount of development is incredible and so code changes are constant. The instance would fall behind swiftly if I didn’t deploy several times a week.
The topics are entirely different between feddit.online and piefed.social as they are assigned by the Admin for each community and no two Admins will ever create the same topic structure. I have no idea if one did a better job than the other.
piefed.social is the mother ship. Feddit.online tries hard to match the mother ship in terms of performance and features.
As for infrastructure differences, I don’t know the differences because I don’t know the piefed.social infrastructure. Feddit.online is split between two servers running on Digital Ocean. – The application itself runs on a 4GB 2 vCPU general purpose server. – The PostgreSQL database is on a separate 4GB 2 vCPU database-optimized server
I use feddit.online all the time and I like how it runs.
Let me know if there’s any other information you’d like about it.
Very cool Jerry! Incredible detail and response time.
As a fellow (though admittedly quite ashamed with our current geopolitical situation) USian, I’d like to swap to feddit.online as my daily fedi-driver if the performance/stability is decent, and if it’s cool with you of course :D
Only other question I have is–What is the intended purpose of feddit.online? Is it just a hobbyist project for fun?
Honestly, I am also ashamed to say I’m an American these days. I still can’t believe how the election turned out. I am so distressed.
There are two reasons I opened feddit.online, and the other 9 public decentralized instances.
First, I want to do my part to promote publicly owned social media. I believe centralized, billionaire-controlled social media is messing up people’s heads. Turning them into stupid zombies. They caused the political problems we face because they want more power and money. Nothing else.
Second is to get the technical experience. Running these websites has taught me a lot. And some day I’d like to focus this knowledge into helping Open-Source projects.
My other open servers are: Mastodon, Friendica, Peertube, Pixelfed, Matrix, XMPP/Jabber, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and Mobilizon. I also have 3 private servers (WordPress, NextCloud, and an Email server).
You’re welcome to join. Everyone is. The light is on for you!
If you mean Piefed and Lemmy, Piefed has https://join.piefed.social/blog/
For Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/news/
I was really only lookin for more info on feddit.online, but after scoping out here: https://feddit.online/c/feddit_online I’m only seeing 3 members and little to no activity
It’s not that active, you’re actually on the most active Piefed instance https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
Yes, the mother ship is much more active than any other Piefed instance.
Great to see! I’m gonna stick on piefed.social, the performance has been fine for me. But it’s nice to have a North American server up and running
What is a PieFed?
Similar to Lemmy or Mbin.
What are its differences from Lemmy?
what are the system requirements? (sorry I think you already said it once but I can’t recall)
Roughly 2 GB of RAM, 2 cores of CPU. PieFed.social has 8 GB and 4 cores for 150 users and that is more than enough power. We haven’t had a very busy instance with thousands of users so the only scaling tests have been to do with federation - “what happens if I join every community”. The UI is very lightweight, tho.
It really depends how many communities you subscribe to. A single user instance might be able to use less.
Thank you!
So someone like me that has a couple hundred subscriptions is a far bigger server load that someone who browses via all?
Yeah, sort of. The total number of subscriptions (by all users) determines the load caused by federation. If you subscribe to 200 communities then I subscribe to the same 200 the federation load will not increase.
So once an instance has more than a dozen users pretty much every community that exists will be subscribed to and adding more users will not increase federation load (but it would increase load caused by the UI)
Great news !
Wonderful news!:-)
