PieFed continues to gain integrations with Lemmy apps. Blorp (love the name) is the most recent addition, initially in the web app with a TestFlight to come.

https://blorpblorp.xyz/home/

#PieFed#Fediverse#Threadiverse

We have opened up PieFed.World for registrations.

Please see the announcement post if you are curious to what PieFed is: https://piefed.world/post/237378

#PieFed #threadiverse

A large #Lemmy instance is shutting down - https://lemm.ee.

Fortunately, #PieFed provides a way to migrate the posts in all the communities on it to somewhere else!

See https://piefed.social/post/667044 for a demo.

#fediverse

I update the software on my Piefed server a minimum of twice a day, and even doing this, I'm always afraid I'm falling behind.

For example, these are the changes made last month: https://link.fossdle.org/post/1605. It's a huge list.

And, as a plus, unlike Lemmy, the developers are not tankies. They are great human beings. I never went to Lemmy because of the developers. I just couldn't.

I'm impressed, and I want to throw some public Kudos and thank yous toward the team.

If you would like to explore PieFed, here's the server list: https://join.piefed.social/try/

@rimu

#Fediverse#FediverseApplications

Every single #Fediverse server of all types should do this. Every one. “PieFed now includes a simple plugin engine so third parties can extend PieFed functionality without adding their code to the main #PieFed project.” https://piefed.social/post/1031211 cc: @piefed_meta

I'm going to try setting up a brand-new instance of #PieFed, software I feel has quickly become the flagship example of the awesomeness that is the #threadiverse

(Imagine if Lemmy were, um, just a lot better. That's PieFed! 😅)

Wish me luck!

cc @rimu

Today I coded something I've been dreaming about for many months - a solution to the #ActivityPub scaling problem.

The problem is that if 20 people cast 5 votes and those votes are federated to 500 servers, the instance hosting the community needs to do 20 * 5 * 500 = 50,000 network requests.

The solution is to bundle the activity up into chunks. I describe the solution and how #PieFed does it here https://peertube.wtf/w/v5aWpxjS2P4pJSn62a2AYG (probably only of interest to developers).

#fediverse

#PieFed is a cool project so while I'm always sad to see a well-used fediverse service die, this is definitely a silver lining.

While we're talking about the #threadiverse, I just came across a community that hosts itself;

https://dullsters.net/

Making it effectively independent of account-hosting aggregator services like lemm.ee. In the absence of fully federated groups, this seems sensible.

PieFed is seeing a surge in new users as a prominent Lemmy server retires, lemm.ee

https://piefed.zip/post/167564

#Fediverse#ActivityPub#PieFed

@box464 @renewedresistance Ok one area on this I’d like your opinion on Jeff: do you think this technique might hold promise for more complex ActivityPub based feeds in general beyond just #piefed and upvoting services? For things like @newsmast or @surf feeds one day? cc: @rimu @evan

PieFed reaches 1.0 status, and two Lemmy apps announce experimental support for PieFed - @voyagerapp and @interstellar

I’ve tried Interstellar and it works! Voyager app I couldn’t login - yet.

https://piefed.social/post/956553

#PieFed#Fediverse

Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.

I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html

Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.

I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.

I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.

My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!

Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.

#mastodon#webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization#edgeComputing#webGL#W3C #activitypub#AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon