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There used to be a Kbin instance called feddit.online, which was shut down. @[email protected] just announced on Mastodon, that he brought feddit.online back to life, this time using PieFed. PieFed is a pretty neat alternative to Lemmy and Kbin/Mbin, created by @[email protected] and of course it's fully free and open source on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
It has some cool features like “Topics”, which are basically groups of multiple communities that you can view all at once (similar to these Lemmy feature requests: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113).

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Great news!

Edit : sad to see the first comment being really negative

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm not really sure why they say that, looking at it the UI looks pretty sleek

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's great!!

I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It's nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it'll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.

I would warmly recommend checking it out!
(That's https://feddit.online and https://piefed.social)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I migrated to the flagship PieFed instance a while ago and haven't regretted it at all. This place rocks! I would love it if there was an app though, not a big fan of PWAs lol. If I was smarter, I'd try to make one myself. Very exciting to see more instances popping up!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Thank you for your work!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Whoa... [email protected] looks really good in PieFed's tile views! It's kind of what I was going for with my CSS. I think PieFed has a ton of potential, and I want to mess around with it more.

@[email protected], if you just saw a spike of like 1GB of data getting federated in, that was me manually retrieving my first few hundred posts.

Edit: Oops, I tagged the wrong instance admin named Jerry!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

@hitstun @rimu @Andromxda
Wow. You're right. The display is beautiful! I never saw any communities that showed this feature so well!

I'm glad you joined the server! Welcome.

And a GB is but a drop. Don't worry about resource usage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It very much does, I didn't even know they had that view!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

is that view native to piefed?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it, piefed.social had it too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is good news that the instance is back up again. But as an Outsiders pov, I'm going to be super hesitant on wanting to interact with the instance since it's already proven to be shut down once.

Being said, I love to see people monopolizing on better technology that have more feature sets, and honestly it looks pretty dang cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but still... Fair enough. I'm hopeful :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jerry also operates fedia.io, which runs Mbin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a different Jerry! (Jerry Bell)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Aaah, I got confused!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Perfect! I was looking for a PieFed instance for my next alt.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Definitely not for me. The UI looks worse than Lemmy, which I already can't get behind.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PieFed has some design principles, including being accessible on lower-end devices and for those with unreliable bandwidth, which mean that it's default UI is never going to look like apps which involve downloading a sizable chunk of Typescript.

I'm okay with its look. Partly because it's themeable, and there's a theme called 'Card Shadow' which looks more modern imo. And partly because Lemmy can feel quite slow showing 20 posts at a time, whereas PieFed throws 100 at a time. And also because there will eventually be an API, allowing people to view it how they want (similar to Lemmy - lemmy-ui is maybe not that great, but there's other frontends which I think are an improvement)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I'm not trying to recruit you, or present rivalries where none exist. We can communicate reasonably well regardless of whatever platform we prefer, which is the whole point of this Fediverse thingy anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's always room for improvement, and your free to submit a pull request.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I'm no coder.