People must really like Pie! We just did the same thing with BlΓ₯haj Lemmy yesterday!
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571
Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/
What is PieFed
PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!
We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created !newtopiefed@piefed.ca for us to learn from each other. There is also the official !piefed_help@piefed.social community which has a similar purpose.
We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going π
Other Links & FAQ
- lemmy.ca is not migrating to PieFed. We will run both instances at the same time. You can use whichever one you prefer.
- Learn about the differences between PieFed & Lemmy: https://join.piefed.social/features/
- A tour of the community moderation features in PieFed: https://piefed.social/post/844065
- One of the first mobile apps to implement support for PieFed, with more to come: https://interstellar.jwr.one/
It's nice timing! Looking forward to seeing you and your instance in the world of pie :)
Great minds think alike!
I really want to use Piefed, but Voyager app is so, so good
Hopefully voyager dev takes a look at piefed integration. I would absolutely love to get back to voyager but for me getting away from lemmy was more important than sticking to voyager.
For me it was the deduplication that takes me to PieFed. I'm only using Voyager at the moment as I'm lying on my side and the PieFed PWA rotates.
Here's hoping Voyager updates to support PieFed.
Oh my gosh, I was just experiencing the PWA rotating thing and it was driving me nuts trying to figure out how to stop it. Nothing else on my Android auto-rotates, and I didn't immediately see any settings that could stop it. It seems like all PWAs created from Chromium (Vanadium to me) do this on my phone. I created the PWA from my Firefox app (Ironfox to me) and it seems to work fine, though it uses my installed Firefox extensions on the PWA - notably I have uBlock Origin set to block images above 50kB until I click them, which I have mixed feelings about using in conjunction with PieFed.
Why
Strictly personal reason. When the lemmy devs asked for monetary donations I voiced my concern with Lemmy.ml, which they also maintain. In response one of the devs called me a cheapskate, so I decided I'm done with Lemmy until more normal people become maintainers
Edit: forgot to add that it wasn't the only reason. The devs themselves are rather controversial in their beliefs and moderation and I had reluctantly tolerated thoss things up to that point. The dev interaction was simply the last drop in the bucket.
100%. Not just controversial but childish. It's completely poetic karma that they've become a minority in their own network. Repeating the same patterns that got them exiled elsewhere. Basically doing it all again. Having learned nothing.
@aeharding@vger.social mentioned working on Lemmy v1 support before considering PieFed. Lemmy v1 hasnβt launched yet.
I am considering adding support in my Lemmy client, but that likely wouldnβt be for a few months. And I also think Lemmy V1 would be the priority.
I'm in no hurry. If it comes within a year I'll be happy. If it takes longer I'll probably check it out unless some other app has come out that I'm also happy with.
why get away from lemmy?
Saaame. I created an account on the new Piefed but Iβll only fully switch over once Voyager supports it. Iβll be sad to lose my two year user history on Lemmy.ca though :(. I wish account migrations that kept comment/post history and account age were supported
I like the logo
Very tasty compared to the blue default :)
So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I'm not really clear on how communicating freely between them works. I understand that's how the Fediverse supposedly works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven't sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I'm not sure what the integration actually means in practical application? Maybe someone could help me understand.
So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then?
Separate things, just the same admin I guess. You can follow the same communities from either one.
I have a Mastodon account and I havenβt sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it
On Mastodon, follow the account for this community, just Mastodon uses @ instead of ! so it's @fediverse@lemmy.world and you can post to the community by mentioning it
You can paste URLs of Lemmy posts/comments into the search bar of Mastodon to pull it up. Just make sure you use the real URL and not a mirror, so you need to get the URL from Lemmy's Fediverse icon it has on every post/comment
Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)
Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then
They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons
- piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
- An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.
I'm not really clear on how communicating freely between them works
Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user's profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca
Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.
Congrats!
This is fantastic news!
What good clients are their for piefed? I've been using eternity for lemmy. Preferably something on fdroid
Since the PieFed API was only enabled recently, there aren't that many apps out yet. !interstellar@kbin.earth is the one that people recommend right now. Voyager has plans to add it.
As more people use it, hopefully more apps will support it :)
Neato! I love the pie icon. I'll check it out!