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Weekly thread - New people, feel free to ask your questions here (piefed.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/newcomers@piefed.zip
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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

Hello! I was curious as to what's so different between Piefed and Reddit (I come from there), and if this is an European-based social :) Also, are there any plans to bring it on Play Store? How and why was this project born? Thank you in advance and have a great day

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Piefed is open source software that anyone can spin-up. It's not a single website as such. You're currently on piefed.social which is I believe hosted in Europe, but you can interact with other Piefed servers from here. You can see communities and users from piefed.ca for instance.

    The whole point is that its a federated structure.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Gotcha. What's the difference between a normal upvote and a federated one here?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Normal upvotes don't federate out to other servers, they only apply locally. This is because ActivityPub doesn't have private voting, so they can be seen by community moderators and instance admins.

    So you would untick that if you want privacy here, but your vote score won't apply on other servers.

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