feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

https://hear-me.social/@Jerry/113240544262203511

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 fully free and open source on Codeberg: 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: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071 github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113).

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MxRemy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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!

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- rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We're working on it :)
  
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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thank you for your work!
    
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cacheson@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Good to see another public PieFed instance. Any idea if this one allows subscribing to NSFW communities? They're 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. It's kind of ironic that Reddit, for all it's other flaws, is more sex-positive than the threadiverse is.

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- Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s plenty of NSFW content on lemmysnfw.com, I can understand why someone would block NSFW instances for their project flagship instance
  
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  - cacheson@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It's not that I want the threadiverse to deliver porn to me. I'm capable of finding that myself. It's that I like sex-positive culture and think it's a good thing for humanity overall.
    
    As I noted, my complaint isn't about any specific instance admin. Individually, no one should be required to host or cache anything that they don't 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 maintaining it as new lemmy versions are released. Kbin and PieFed also copied this decision, and I assume Mbin inherited it.
    
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cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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 :)
  
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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Jerry also operates fedia.io, which runs Mbin
    
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Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Great news!

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- Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m not really sure why they say that, looking at it the UI looks pretty sleek
  
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