Here are some nice photos from around the fediverse: https://home.scoobysnack.net/gallery/. That page updates automatically as new photos are posted. How did they get there? Well… People from all over Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy and more posted photos into these communities: https://piefed.social/c/photography https://lemmy.world/c/photography https://lemmy.world/c/japanpics … and a few others. Moderators curate those communities to filter out anything […] The post A Crowdsourced Photo Gallery from the Fediverse – the Open Social Web in action appeared first on PieFed.

If you’d like a PieFed instance of your own but don’t want to deal with setting up a server, installing PieFed, and maintaining it yourself, get in touch with the team at fedihost.co! They’re currently offering reduced-price PieFed hosting to a limited number of instances as part of a beta program. They’re looking for a […] The post Managed PieFed hosting with fedihost.co appeared first on PieFed.

When Cloudflare had problems recently pretty much every PieFed instance went offline. This was a real “wtf are we doing” moment, for me. What’s the point of having multiple instances (there are now 64 PieFed instances!) if they all have a single point of failure. Due to some technical limitations of the way I wrote […] The post Reducing PieFed’s dependence on Cloudflare appeared first on PieFed.

PieFed 1.2 has just been released. Details and links to examples at https://piefed.social/post/1278967 The post PieFed v1.2 is released appeared first on PieFed.

RSL is a new initiative by a group of big internet publishers that seeks to define the conditions under which AI crawlers can harvest their content. Their guide describes the various ways the content can be made available, including for free or a paid royalty but only by digging deeper into their reference material was […] The post How to use Really Simple Licensing (RSL) to block all AI crawlers appeared first on PieFed.

Anubis uses a javascript-based challenge to stop scrapers from hammering your server. Installing it is easy enough but then you need to figure out how to configure it and it’s pretty intense. Here is the config I have for piefed.social, so far: bots: - name: allow-api-json-xhr user_agent_regex: .* # Required dummy pattern to pass validation cel: expression: > request.path.startsWith("/api/") || ("accept" […] The post An Anubis config for PieFed appeared first on PieFed.

Out of the box PieFed has some pretty conservative settings, intended for small (less than 10 users) to medium (less than 200 active users) instances running on small servers where memory is constrained. Now that piefed.social is becoming busier I’ve needed to tweak a few settings: Gunicorn Gunicorn is the service that runs the web […] The post Tuning PieFed for scale appeared first on PieFed.

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 […] The post Several new PieFed instances appeared first on PieFed.

https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/static_files_caching-scaled.png https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/activitypub_caching-scaled.png https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/mastodon_caching-scaled.png The post Optimal Cloudflare caching config for PieFed appeared first on PieFed.

On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts […] The post How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments appeared first on PieFed.

Recently PieFed added a way to group communities into collections of related communities, which we called a “Feed”. Unlike Topics, Feeds are federated, can be created by anyone and can be public or private. There are now hundreds of feeds at https://piefed.social/feeds. A feed being federated means that people using other instances can subscribe to […] The post How PieFed federates feeds (aka multi-reddits or multi-comms) appeared first on PieFed.