Let me know how that goes! I've actually been looking into PieFed a lot recently. I just have no desire to microblog myself, so I don't want to host it. Though, like I've said many a time I don't run my instance for me, so maybe that shouldn't matter. I also want to look into the performance side of things (storage, CPU usage, etc).
If I decide I like PieFed, I might even switch r1b.it over to it while it's still small. I've been writing a little script to convert the databases, so I should be able to do so without losing data. Also, since they're both built on ActivityPub, federation shouldn't be affected. I'm yet to look into that, though, so we'll see.