List of instances: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack
- instance blocking
- comments combination, posts only appear once
- keyword filter
- topics (admin-managed feeds)
- user-managed feeds, public and private
- ability to reduce the amount of Trump and Musk content
It doesn’t have an app yet, but it’s in progress
At the moment, it only has 352 monthly active users, so it seems like people aren’t very interested in it yet
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7
Is this the lack of app, or is there anything else?
There is another way to read this graph. In fact it is slowly gaining more and more user. We jumped from 100 people to 300 people. The MAU has doubled.
We are pretty close to the tipping point and i invite users from jlai.lu to try out. So more people will tell about PieFed as you do. I regulary present all PieFed features and will probably do an english version soon, just for you 😁
I’m not worried about that and fully commited to it. :)
For our instance jlai.lu, i think they are slowly convainced by PieFed but we need to take our time. I do lot communication about it because it is a good software. Each update improve it in a tremendous way. I enjoy it a lot and the best part are our thought on how to improve our relationship between mod team and users.
Some part lacks polishing but it’s a very good beggining. I give them lot feedback.
However to benefit from PieFed to the fullest, we need to migrate our communities to PieFed. For example : managing vote per communities, using tags, moderation and admin board, or waching peertube channel, or later mastodon…And that’s not an easy task.
We need :
PieFied is written in Python, the first language of lot developpers. So the development will be easier. Once those areas are covered, we may jump.
Our instance is small and we have a hard time convaincing french redditor as their mods simply delete any comment about Jlai.lu.
But i see a way to get out of this bottleneck : Nastodon. Why ? Because when french reddit users will see our communities an tremendous activities with pixelfeed, peertube, owncast, loops…They may joins us. They would no longer have the excuse : “it is empty.” “There is only 100 people” because those number are irrevalent in the fediverse.
Mastodon’s users may be also interested in forum discussion. We may come back to the forum era.
We if you don’t know abouc PieFed, come and give a try. I hope you will enjoy it :3