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PieFed.social - my instance (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/instancereview@lemmy.ca
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My ratings:

Communities - 5/5 (tons are local, most others are federated)
Culture - 4/5 (nothing is perfect)
Moderation - 5/5 (seems reasonable, stays out of the way most of the time)
Availability - 5/5 (no issues for one year, beyond quick updates and such)
Performance - 5/5 (hosted in New Zealand but works well for me)
Federation - 5/5 (just a handful of servers are not federated and the list is public, can be reviewed)

Their home page tagline:

Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords.

I moved to my piefed.social account last year when the lemm.ee instance I'd been on for 2 years prior shut down. Piefed, the lemmy-compatible software has lots of additional quality of life features, so that's great, and piedfed.social's admins stay mostly out of the way and just let us converse. There are about 700 daily users, from what they self-report and that to me is plenty of people to always find someone to chat with.

I mod a few communities on here, including !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social , !raygungothic@piefed.social and !artporn@piefed.social.

I'd love to hear what others, both on and off piefed.social think of this instance.

Cheers,

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[–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Wow, great, fair comment. Thanks for filling in the gaps I left.

PieFed.social deletes images after some time, I believe it is one year. I forget the details here, like if it is an instance-level setting, or perhaps can be overridden by community mods, etc.

Yes. 1 year. I've seen that happen in my art community. I understand why they do that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yes and it does make perfect sense just... people should be told. As a mod, were you able to tweak that setting - like could you make it shorter? Longer? Disable altogether?

    Also, I took a look at a couple of them, like !artporn@piefed.social, and I see no words of any kind in the community sidebar that would indicate removal after one year. Especially if this is an instance-level setting over which a mod has zero control over anyway, then this text really should have been added automatically to the community sidebar, imho - and all the more so when others post to the community from other instances and so may have no idea how PieFed ones (those that have this setting enabled - although again, how are people supposed to know which ones have vs. have not? Afaict there is zero ability to discover this).

    Otherwise, PieFed risks alienating people who find out the hard way and then nope out to Lemmy or PyLova and complain bitterly about PieFed in the process. This kind of insensitivity does not bode well for the future of the PieFed software. Then again, it's freely offered as FOSS, so as long as people know what they are getting into, it can be a great experience. Though like Lemmy, it's a great experience for an instance admin who has total control over their machine, a bit less so for mods who still have many settings available to be tweaked, and quite a lot less so for end-users who aren't even told what those settings are so that they can make informed decisions about which instances or communities to support with their efforts and attention.

    Sorry - we were discussing the instance PieFed.social, but it seems impossible to not dip into issues with respect to the platform it runs, especially seeing as it is the flagship instance for that.

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