Hope this is OK to ask, but would you be willing to share the CSS theme used for the Blahaj PieFed instance? I'm trying to make a theme for my own instance but I'd rather not do so entirely from scratch, and PieFed doesn't include any kind of "default" theme I can build on top of. Thanks!

We've just spun up a brand new photo sharing instance, based on Vernissage. It's similar to pixelfed, but more focused on photography (as opposed to general image and short video sharing).

Signups are open. Currently, it mandates an email address, but you can stick whatever you like in there, and it will be automatically verified. Signups do require approval, but you can also generate invites that (I believe) bypass the requirement for approval.

Anyway, you can check it out at https://photos.blahaj.zone/

As a consequence, we will be taking down our pixelfed instance. We'll leave it up until the end of August to give people a chance to migrate, but honestly, it had really low activity in any case, so it shouldn't have too much of an impact on people.

Vernissage may also end up having low activity, but even if it does, I like it so much more than pixelfed, that we'll keep it running even if it's just me using it :)

Anyone else having this issue? When I try to tap ‘Filters’ nothing happens, and only the first 10 or so entries are visible.

For me this is on iOS, haven’t tried it on desktop since I’m away from home.

I'm a mod on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, and recently I've been attempting to update that community's info. However, it looks like the changes I make aren't federating? So for example, if I update the community info with my piefed.blahaj.zone account, the updated info displays when viewed from piefed.blahaj.zone, but visiting that community on lemmy.world doesn't show the updated info.

Am I doing something wrong? is this a known issue?

Since the instance was updated to 1.6.0, I noticed some comments will have the :red: emoji replacing text that contains the characters ‘red,’ but other comments seem untouched. Example thread: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/progressivepolitics/p/554766/two-cbp-agents-identified-in-alex-pretti-shooting

I haven’t noticed this with any other emojis, just that one. It also doesn’t seem to consistently happen based on the commenting user’s instance or even the specific user, because some have comments in different threads that contain ‘red’ and don’t get emoji’d.

So, weird one, but I figured someone should know about it.

I'd love to hear everyone's ideas for how we can improve the way pronouns are shown in PieFed. Please let me know if this is the wrong place for this question and send people here if you think they'd like to contribute.

Currently, you can put pronouns in your display name, and in the extra fields on your profile. Display name federates fine to everywhere while extra fields only with Mastodon and friends. Like this:

Can we do better, though? How would you like it?

e.g. when showing a popup card, the pronouns in the extra fields could be more prominent, up near the name near the top?

Or maybe when someone is replying to you, the placeholder text inside the text entry field (before they start typing) could say what your pronouns are? Like this:

Those are just ideas to start a discussion, not options to choose from - maybe you have something completely different in mind?

There seems to be an issue federating images from Blahaj's piefed instance to other instances. Not just isolated to one user it would seem as others have commented here

https://lemmy.world/comment/21508940

Accessing from the permalink shows a full image, but accessing from other instances shows an incomplete image

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/36651064

I've recently found myself without much to do (short version: the company that my company was contracting to went into voluntary administration just before Christmas, while Ada and I were away in Melbourne), so I've had a little bit of time on my hands to do some work on the site infrastructure, free from meetings and corporate wankery. YAY!

One of the things I've wanted to do for a while now is setup some form of edge-node caching and geo-DNS to get the various sites we host closer to you folks who use our instances.

And yes, there's Cloudflare... and Akamai... and Bunny.net... however as a safe-haven for vulnerable minorities, and with the geo-political situation the way it is these days, we really need to be super careful about where we terminate your connections. Who are the intermediate people who can see and collect your data. Who can switch our servers off at a moment's notice, suspend the domain names, shut us down?

Until recently we've known that we are slow on the edge, but we controlled all our own hardware, and we've not had the capacity to do much about it.

So over the last few days, I've taken the time to setup a bunch of edge nodes, migrate DNS away from third party providers, move domain name registrars.

The end result is that (with a few minor site interruptions) now we have our own CDN that we control all the way from DNS resolution until you hit the database on our dedicated servers. Your traffic is encrypted all the way through, our core infrastructure isn't exposed to people who sniff around to see who they can try to report us and shut us down, nobody else can see your browsing it in transit, and for people not in or around Finland, it's noticeably faster to load the site and click around.

To make sure you're all fully informed, I'll carefully disclose our decisions and new structure.

Firstly our edge servers are on Vultr and DigitalOcean. These 2 providers from our research seem to be quite neutral and non-politically aligned, and neither one by themselves can take us entirely down, and neither one of them are where our core infrastructure is located.

Secondly our edge locations have been carefully chosen to be regions that are outside jurisdictions where we can currently see political turmoil, overly zealous conservatism and fascist activity. We've chosen Toronto Canada, Sydney Australia, Amsterdam Netherlands and Frankfurt Germany as our edge node and DNS server locations.

Thirdly we've moved our domains into EuroDNS registrar to minimize the chance that the USA pressures companies to take action against our domains. EuroDNS is a large company headquartered in Luxembourg, and with no ties to the US itself, it's parent company or any sibling companies, this gives us comfort that they can resist any political pressure which may be applied.

If there's any interest in how we setup the infrastructure, let me know and I can make a separate technical post about it.

My subscription to !postrock@lemmy.world still says "pending" even though I've posted there and tried subscribing a few times. This is a community I moderate, so I'm keen to resolve this issue if possible.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Kaity has just upgraded piefed to version 1.4 and imported all of our blahaj.zone emojis so you can now use them as reacts on piefed too!

There's also a few other nifty features, such as the ability to mark a comment as an Answer, Stack Overflow style, the ability to hide a post from yourself without blocking the account that posted it and the ability to mark and filter AI content.

You can see the release notes here https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.4.0

I have an older account, @verdare@beehaw.org, that I used before switching to this one. I made a lot of posts on !wholesomeyuri@reddthat.com from that account that I can’t see from this one, for some reason.

It seems like this instance is still federated with both beehaw.org and reddthat.com, and I can see other people’s posts. Any idea what’s going on?

EDIT: It’s not just !wholesomeyuri@reddthat.com; That whole account seems to have zero posts or comments, even though I can see them when signed into it.

This happens at least in Firefox, even on a blank browser profile (no addons, no privacy settings).

I detected it with both default theme and Fxomt. Piefed(dot)social doesn't have this problem.

I've noticed blocking doesn't seem to do anything in the all feed. I've tried blocking the community, the user, and even the instance for some posts but they still appear in my feed.

Is there anything I can do about this? Does blocking just not function in all?

Is anyone else having this issue? When I try to report something I get this error:

An unexpected error has occurred

Sorry for the inconvenience! Please let us know about this, so we can repair it and make PieFed better for everyone.

Not sure if this is an issue with Blahaj servers or Piefed.

I recently changed my email to a new one but I never got the verification email, I've tried with two email addresses from two separate providers and neither received the emails.

Is there an ability to hide posts on piefed? Sometimes I see a post that I no longer want to see but I don't feel the need to block the OP.

Something died in our old server, so Kaity is currently in the process of moving and rebuilding lemmy on a new server. Sorry for the unplanned disruption!

Blåhaj PieFed has been upgraded to mainstream commit hash 0af702e6 (Jun 10, 2025, 09:27 UTC).

The main dev, rimu, along with a host of bug reports, patches and code contributions by other users, devs and instance admins has resulted in a ton of activity in a short period of time. Much appreciation to all involved for their efforts. PieFed is certainly evolving at quite a pace at the moment. ❤️

Hey all,

The API on our PieFed instance has now been enabled, which should open up support for third party apps which support PieFed (e.g. Interstellar to be enabled on our instance.

For a more comprehensive view of the client landscape, see
https://piefed.blahaj.zone/community/meta/wiki/clients

Enjoy!