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
Definitely not for me. The UI looks worse than Lemmy, which I already canāt get behind.
PieFed has some design principles, including being accessible on lower-end devices and for those with unreliable bandwidth, which mean that itās default UI is never going to look like apps which involve downloading a sizable chunk of Typescript.
Iām okay with its look. Partly because itās themeable, and thereās a theme called āCard Shadowā 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 thereās other frontends which I think are an improvement)
Fair enough. Iām 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.
Thereās always room for improvement, and your free to submit a pull request.
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.
Perfect! I was looking for a PieFed instance for my next alt.
This is good news that the instance is back up again. But as an Outsiders pov, Iām going to be super hesitant on wanting to interact with the instance since itās 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
It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but stillā¦ Fair enough. Iām hopeful :)
