Added a basic plugin system
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 ( @heiseBotti) and none on #Pixelfed, #Lemmy, #Piefed, #Misskey & Co. Are there really none there, or did I miss some?
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
Idea 7: technology. I really appreciate #PieFed’s deliberate choice to pick a tech stack and coding style that is low barrier to entry. Perhaps something “boring but stable” like Python or Node.js is the way to encourage contribution. For sure this needs to be web first, with the ability to build native apps if people feel inclined. The web is the only open platform that remains, and using modern #PWA features like ability to add web sites to the home screen and support push notifications are now supported on practically all platforms.
Am I Bias For The 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).
PieFed is seeing a surge in new users as a prominent Lemmy server retires, lemm.ee
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.
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.
PieFed reaches 1.0 status, and two Lemmy apps announce experimental support for PieFed - @voyagerapp and @interstellar
I’ve tried Interstellar and it works! Voyager app I couldn’t login - yet.
I continue to be impressed with #piefed - am playing now with their new feeds effort….@piefedadmin cc: @rimu
https://join.piefed.social/2025/04/30/how-piefed-federates-feeds-aka-multi-reddits-or-multi-comms/
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?
The stunning amount of development that has been done this month on #PieFed: https://feddit.online/post/776015
It's an amazing, productive, and fantastic group of developers.
And PieFed is seeing incredible growth in both its user base and new communities that have come over from Lemmy, especially from lemm.ee after they announced they are shutting down by the end of the month.
So far, this month, there have been 178 commits, many for major changes. And there's still 10 days to go.
PieFed 1.0 is released - dev update
I really like the idea of this #Lemmy community: https://feddit.online/c/dadforaminute@lemmy.world . I wish it were more active.
Most on the Fediverse can follow it at, and post to it at: @dadforaminute
Note. Those on my Friendica instance can't access lemmy.world because the 240K requests per day coming in from Lemmy instances overwhelmed the server and the database, and I had to block Lemmy. Friendica just can't handle it.
Quote from an experienced #Lemmy user who checked out #PieFed:
"... was floored by the features that it has over Lemmy, and that's with it still being worked on"
Curious? You can find a PieFed instance here: https://join.piefed.social/try/