cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571
Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/
What is PieFed
PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!
We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created [email protected] for us to learn from each other. There is also the official [email protected] community which has a similar purpose.
We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going 🙂
Other Links & FAQ
- lemmy.ca is not migrating to PieFed. We will run both instances at the same time. You can use whichever one you prefer.
- Learn about the differences between PieFed & Lemmy: https://join.piefed.social/features/
- A tour of the community moderation features in PieFed: https://piefed.social/post/844065
- One of the first mobile apps to implement support for PieFed, with more to come: https://interstellar.jwr.one/
So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I'm not really clear on how communicating freely between them works. I understand that's how the Fediverse supposedly works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven't sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I'm not sure what the integration actually means in practical application? Maybe someone could help me understand.
Separate things, just the same admin I guess. You can follow the same communities from either one.
On Mastodon, follow the account for this community, just Mastodon uses @ instead of ! so it's
@[email protected]and you can post to the community by mentioning itYou can paste URLs of Lemmy posts/comments into the search bar of Mastodon to pull it up. Just make sure you use the real URL and not a mirror, so you need to get the URL from Lemmy's Fediverse icon
it has on every post/comment