Want a piece of PieFed? I’m now running a PieFed instance: https://feddit.online

A long time ago I had a #KBIN instance, feddit.online. KBIN is part of the “threadiverse”, a Reddit replacement.

When KBIN was abandoned, I shut it down. KBIN became #MBIN and Jerry Bell opened a fantastic MBIN instance, fedia.io, to go along with the mother ship instance. I didn’t see a reason to open yet another MBIN instance. So feddit.online remained parked … until now.

Ending its time in beta, there is a new #Reddit #Fediverse replacement, #PieFed, which is similar to MBIN in how it works, but is built with different technology.

While MBIN is mainly written in PHP and Node, and uses RabbitMQ for queuing, PieFed is written using Flask/Python, with Celery for queuing.

I’m much more familiar with Python than PHP, and so PieFed is particularly interesting to me. I might even be able to contribute to the project someday when I get through learning the codebase and learning Flask.

More information about PieFed is here: https://join.piefed.social/features/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/

Want to play with PieFed?

https://feddit.online is available now. Registration is immediately available while I’m available to watch, but restricted when I’m not watching. If restricted, you just need to give a quick reason for joining and then be patient.

Also, some email providers have an issue with email addresses ending in .social, especially that come from a mail server hosted on Digital Ocean. If joining, check your spam filter and white list notitifications@feddit.online

Remember, it’s beta. So there may be issues and there may be downtime at times to address upgrades and what not. Also, I’ve been so busy bringing up the server that I haven’t had a chance to learn everything yet about it, so I may not have answers to questions.

It seems to run efficiently, but I’m unsure if I sized the server optimally. I will grow it if need be.

Welcome to anyone interested in checking out PieFed!

@jerry@infosec.exchange @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @_elena@mastodon.social
#Fediverse #Lemmy