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The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

A nice comment is worth more than 1000 upvotes, emotionally.

U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Check out https://piefed.social/f/50501 , protests everywhere right now

U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What are you talking about

500k people in USA went to a protest against the Iraq war. 6 million globally. That was a big day. There were others too.

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Cool! Before you dive in, check this out https://join.piefed.social/docs/developers/

Luxon says New Zealand won't launch reciprocal tariffs against US in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Trump can stay irrational longer than NZ can stay solvent...

Murders of two female students prompt calls for a ‘cultural rebellion’ in Italy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I appreciate your posts, keep it up!

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I've never seen a Lemmy DB, sorry. But I hang out in the Lemmy matrix rooms and read about admins struggling with their 300 GB databases quite often.

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? in c/[email protected]
What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Definitely alpha, yeah. But moving fast!

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

We won't 100% know the answer to that until we get there. But in 2025 fear of a lack of CPU cores is NOT what keeps me awake at night.

Early performance results are positive. Check these links out:

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/

There are many many ways to ruin web app performance and choice of backend language is not really a big one. It's what you do with it that counts.

https://piefed.social/ is running on a low end VPS which costs $7.50 per month. Load average is about 1.45 during the busiest part of the day. Most of the load is caused by federating with lemmy.world and that won't increase as more users come on board.

PieFed is also really efficient with storage. After 16 months of operation, subscribed to every popular community, the piefed.social DB is 30 GB and the media storage is 28 GB. A Lemmy instance would be 10x that. I haven't bothered to add S3 storage code because we just don't need it (yet).

Anyway, all this focus on costs and downsides is only half the coin. There are massive benefits that come from using Python:

  • Easy and fun
  • Fast development velocity
  • Huge amounts of developers know Python
  • Extensive and mature libraries with good documentation
  • Good readability
  • Cross-platform without re-compiling

For a FOSS project where volunteer contributions from people play a big part these things are really important. There are many ways a project can fail (not just technical reasons but social & governance too) and running out of CPU is way way down on the list.

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Welcome to the jungle

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you use a mobile app then whether your account is on Lemmy or PieFed makes no difference - most of your experience will be determined by which app you choose.

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Solar Array 250 Miles Long to Power Beijing (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
 

At 250 miles long, 3 miles wide, and currently generating 5.4 gigawatts, the Kubuqi Desert solar array will be the world’s largest by a country mile when finished in 2030.

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Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? (charleshughsmith.substack.com)
 

scary graph time

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No billionaires at FOSDEM (drewdevault.com)
 

Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.

Dorsey and his colleagues want to get us up to speed on what Block is working on these days. Allow me to give you a preview: in addition to posting $5B in revenue and a 21% increase in YoY profit in 2024, Jack Dorsey laid off 1,000 employees, ordering them not to publicly discuss board member Jay-Z’s contemporary sexual assault allegations on their way out, and announced a new bitcoin mining ASIC in collaboration with Core Scientific, who presumably installed them into their new 100MW Muskogee, OK bitcoin mining installation, proudly served by the Muskogee Generating Station fossil fuel power plant and its 11 million tons of annual CO2 emissions and an estimated 62 excess deaths in the local area due to pollution associated with the power plant. Nice.

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Amazon removes section on LGBTQ+ rights from its policy page (www.lgbtqnation.com)
 

Amazon has joined the slew of companies rolling back its DEI efforts in apparent celebration of Donald Trump’s “anti-woke” agenda. The changes specifically target LGBTQ+ people, with the section on LGBTQ+ rights being completely removed from its Positions page.

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A hurricane of fire (cdn.masto.host)
 

Source https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113796085255452817

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DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review (www.theguardian.com)
 

DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

The DoJ’s findings acknowledged the role of Tulsa law enforcement in the massacre, including that of Tulsa police who “deputized hundreds of white residents, many of whom – immediately before being awarded a badge – had been drinking and agitating for [a lynching]”. According to the report, more than 500 men were deputized in less than 30 minutes.

he was told he “could now ‘go out and shoot any [N-word] you see and the law’ll be behind you’”.

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Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer? (news.ycombinator.com)
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[email protected] - documenting the antisocial behavior of social media corporations (piefed.social)
 

[email protected] is dedicated to antisocial behavior of social media corporations, censorship, algorithmic bias, filter bubbles, privacy and psychological effects of mainstream social media.

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Boudin - Deauville - O rio morto - 1890 (piefed.social)
 

Eugène Boudin was especially good at clouds and water and loved to paint port scenes. At the time the paintings that sold best were ones of the idle rich hanging out at the beach so he did a lot of those too.

Plenty more at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Creator/Eug%C3%A8ne_Boudin

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Monet - Meadow with Poplars - 1875 (piefed.social)
 
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Pissarro - Two Peasant Women in a Meadow - 1893 (piefed.social)
 
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River view - Frits Thaulow - 1890 (piefed.social)
 
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