PieFed monthly active users hits new all-time high
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5808 active users, 2 more than in March.
Some of this will be due to new features in the latest version but I think most of it is because previously PieFed was not accurately keeping track of user activity. Now that it is, the numbers are bigger.
Is this just piefed.social, or does it include the instance I'm on as well?
It should be all instances, I believe.
Okay, thank you for the knowledge!
Congrats to piefed devs! This is a bit more of an accurate user tracker if anyone is interested:
https://fedigraph.fyi/graph/
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!!
I am sorry, but TWO more than in March? Am I missing a few zeros there?
March is near the left edge of the graph. So yeah, looks to be two.
I've been seeing a lot of new usernames but tbh I was writing them off as potential bots from the Tankie side trying to push election year propaganda.
I dont think people care enough about piefed for that sort of thing.
You'd be wrong. ML is literally a training ground for information warfare. Nobody is seeking influence on the fediverse yet, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have value as a training ground for teaching people how to curate influence on larger platforms like reddit and Facebook.
Right, they're not bots just zealots who got banned from everywhere else.
And yet Hexbear exists and it is overflowing with actual bot accounts. There is no debate, here, there is an active payed and militant psyops campaign aiming to radicalize users on the Fediverse.
Yeah the whole threadiverse is the size of one medium-sized Facebook group.
What's the ratio of difficulty to number of people there?
What exactly does PieFed do? I'm just on Lemmy, does PieFed let me see more fediverse content?
Edit: see below
~~It bans users for no reason, and without explanation~~
PieFed is software.
Many Lemmy instances also ban users, in fact its flagship instance Lemmy.ml is famous for it.
Yours is a very sensible instance, which btw also offers a PieFed equivalent in PieFed.zip.
EDIT: DISREGARD MY COMMENTS - This was in fact a bug, and seems to have been fixed with the latest update. Just checked my old account logins and they work now.
~~I was mainly referring to the flagship instances. I am on a smaller piefed instance as well, and have had no issues. At least with Lemmy, they would give you a reason, but in my case they acted like it was a bug. So draw from that what you will, but that has been my experience, and I am currently unable to register an account on a primary piefed instance, without being given a reason for that being the case.~~
PieFed is a lot newer than Lemmy and while it has some more features (also some less features, depending on the feature), it overall lacks polish in comparison.
I'm glad they were able to get you sorted out:-).
It's a different frontend for the same content. Also it has additional features. Same thing with a better interface IMHO.
the biggest thing is it aggregates lemmy and dedupes posts and aggregates other reddit like fediverse content thus its just all around better than lemmy imo -- people can still use lemmy you're just getting more high quality content with piefed
It adds a whole bunch of functionality that Lemmy lacks. In addition to not being run by tankies.
I am simplifying probably but essentially it is like Lemmy and the two are talking to each other. Source: me and you, since I am on PieFed and you are on Lemmy but you can see my comments and I can see yours.
There's also the political difference that the Lemmy devs are often labelled as Tankies, not the case with the PieFed dev(s).
I haven't noticed a real difference so far on my instance
I think the biggest technical differences right now are polls and combining comments from cross-posted posts. There is some back-end stuff that won't have a bearing on most users.
Thanks!
https://join.piefed.social/features/
4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.
Why the special treatment?
Guess it's because 4chan is a racist cesspool
Not really a trait unique to 4chan. If that were the reason there'd be a Twitter filter too.
On Lemmy there are still many reddit addicts, on the other hand,piefed users are detoxt ex redditors 😂
what happened at the start of the month
