Also: i talk up the idea of #Lemmy and #Mbin and #Piefed and the #Threadiverse in the idea on surfacing content...

Much of that idea was spurred by this from Piefed on it's potential feed format that can pull in multiple other community fediverse acocunts into one feed:

https://join.piefed.social/2025/04/30/how-piefed-federates-feeds-aka-multi-reddits-or-multi-comms/

And would love to hear what @rimu thinks of my riffing on this for discovery fedi wide, and if he had notes.

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

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

Here is a general call for folks who know the latest #Piefed - and especially its new feeds function, to help us set this up: https://piefed.social/f/renewedresistence

The #threadiverse is far more activated than most know and we would like to make PieFed our home base for upvoting links, and to federate them out to THIS account to boost.... We want to be organizng ALL across the open social web, and so much good work is being done on #Lemmy#PieFed#Mbin... (and maybe elsewhere, let us know if we miss any)

cc: @piefedadmin @rimu

Get on board - https://piefed.social

#fediverse

Quote from an experienced #Lemmy user who checked out #PieFed:

"... was floored by the features that it has over Lemmy, and that's with it still being worked on"

Curious? You can find a PieFed instance here: https://join.piefed.social/try/

I really like the idea of this #Lemmy community: https://feddit.online/c/dadforaminute@lemmy.world . I wish it were more active.

Most on the Fediverse can follow it at, and post to it at: @dadforaminute

Note. Those on my Friendica instance can't access lemmy.world because the 240K requests per day coming in from Lemmy instances overwhelmed the server and the database, and I had to block Lemmy. Friendica just can't handle it.

#Piefed#MBIN #dad

The stunning amount of development that has been done this month on #PieFed: https://feddit.online/post/776015

It's an amazing, productive, and fantastic group of developers.

And PieFed is seeing incredible growth in both its user base and new communities that have come over from Lemmy, especially from lemm.ee after they announced they are shutting down by the end of the month.

So far, this month, there have been 178 commits, many for major changes. And there's still 10 days to go.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.0.0

I think Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed will soon see an influx of new users.

Reddit is going to use Sam Altmans sketchy iris-scanning "Orb" to verify users.

What in the Black Mirror is this shit?

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

#reddit #iris #orb#worldID #lemmy #mbin #piefed

I continue to be impressed with #piefed - am playing now with their new feeds effort….@piefedadmin cc: @rimu

https://join.piefed.social/2025/04/30/how-piefed-federates-feeds-aka-multi-reddits-or-multi-comms/

Several new PieFed instances

The admin teams behind a few large Lemmy instances have also set up PieFed instances recently. If you’re looking for an instance run by people with plenty of technical experience and deep connections to the fediverse community, these are the instances for you:

piefed.ca – from the lemmy.ca team

piefed.world – from the lemmy.world team

piefed.blahaj.zone – from the lemmy.blahaj.zone team

More instances are listed at https://join.piefed.social/try/ and at https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list.

At the same time I have doubled the capacity of the flagship instance, piefed.social so there’s plenty to handle the influx we’re having.

#fediverse #piefed