Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed
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Hey, welcome back.
piefed.world hasn’t really invested much into populating their Explore menu, to make finding communities easier.
I’ve just added a few feeds though, check out https://piefed.world/feeds
Also https://feddit.online/topics is an amazing directory of all the communities. It’s a separate instance to piefed.world though so when you find good communities you’ll need to manually copy their address into your piefed.world account. Or just move yourself to feddit.online…
3·3 days agoCool diagram.
If you removed hexbear and lemmygrad (nearly everyone defederates them so they just clutter the place up) then the other information would be clearer. For example I didn’t notice that beehaw has defederated both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works until my third viewing.
There are 500 Lemmy instances and 80 PieFed instances which are too small to show on the graph :)
2·4 days agoYeah, it’s closed now.
0·7 days agoHey @organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org did you use a LLM like Ollama to write your post?
No shade if you did, I just want to make sure we’re categorizing things correctly at our end.
No, PieFed posts have a ‘canonical’ meta tag which sends search engines to the original post. The local copy of a remote post is never indexed by Google anyway.
https://ahrefs.com/blog/canonical-tags/
Deletion of unnecessary data is a cost-saving measure which makes it much less likely that piefed.social will need to shut down forever. Lots of fedi software doesn’t do this and it has bad outcomes. Check this out:
mastodon.cloud has 1,300 active users:
Their running costs are $800 per month and now they’re shutting down.
I don’t know all the reasons why they’re closing down but clearly that is an insane amount of money for a service supporting that many users.
PieFed.social has 1600 users and costs whatever the electricity for a 10 year old computer is. $5 per month? On a Hetzner VPS it was about $50 per month.
This isn’t big tech where more data means more share price or more AI training data or deeper ad-targeting user profiles. This is smol tech where more data means more problems. If we want to preserve any content we need to delete some content.