There used to be a Kbin instance called feddit.online, which was shut down. @Jerry@hear-me.social 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 @rimu@piefed.social and of course itās fully free and open source on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
It has some cool features like āTopicsā, 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).
Great news!
Edit : sad to see the first comment being really negative
Thatās great!!
I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! Itās nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so itāll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.
I would warmly recommend checking it out!
(Thatās https://feddit.online and https://piefed.social)
I migrated to the flagship PieFed instance a while ago and havenāt 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, Iād try to make one myself. Very exciting to see more instances popping up!
Whoaā¦ !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io looks really good in PieFedās tile views! Itās 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.
@Jerry@hear-me.social, 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!
@hitstun @rimu @Andromxda
Wow. Youāre right. The display is beautiful! I never saw any communities that showed this feature so well!
Iām glad you joined the server! Welcome.
And a GB is but a drop. Donāt worry about resource usage.
Good to see another public PieFed instance. Any idea if this one allows subscribing to NSFW communities? Theyāre entirely blocked by piefed.social, unfortunately.
Nothing against @rimu (or any other individual admin) for not wanting to deal with having NSFW content cached on his server, but I find the collective prudishness of the threadiverse disheartening. I think it hinders our growth, and fosters a worse culture overall. Itās kind of ironic that Reddit, for all itās other flaws, is more sex-positive than the threadiverse is.
Thereās plenty of NSFW content on lemmysnfw.com, I can understand why someone would block NSFW instances for their project flagship instance
Itās not that I want the threadiverse to deliver porn to me. Iām capable of finding that myself. Itās that I like sex-positive culture and think itās a good thing for humanity overall.
As I noted, my complaint isnāt about any specific instance admin. Individually, no one should be required to host or cache anything that they donāt want to. However, the overall trend of blocking NSFW communities is still concerning, and we should advocate for admins to not do that where feasible.
The design decision to hide NSFW communities from logged-out users also plays a part here. Community discovery is bad enough as it is, and this makes it even worse. Last I checked, lemmynsfw was having to maintain their own patch to fix it, and keep updating it as new lemmy versions are released. Kbin and PieFed also copied this behavior, and I assume Mbin inherited it.
If this is so important to you, you are still very much free to start your own instance and see how far it goes.
