Hi All,
As the Fediverse continues to expand, we’re looking at other platforms we can run with our ethos - open federation, user choice, and fair moderation.
We’ve seen lots of talk about Piefed, and the benefits of the platform, such as better moderation, combining multiple communities into topics i.e piefed.zip/topic/cats, and the ability for users to better control their own experience.
To that end, we’ve decided to run our own Piefed instance, located at piefed.zip (I know, original!)
This is very much still under construction, but we feel is now able to accept new users, should anyone wish to join.
If you’re interested please check it out, or feel free to ask any questions!
PS - this doesn’t affect our Lemmy instance in any way.
Congrats on the new service.
I’m a UK user and unlike lemmy.zip, piefed.zip appears to be accessible to me.
I assume this is simply because you haven’t got around to geoblocking it yet?
slight edit to this reply from when it was posted
Currently under review - there are other tools built in to Piefed we might be able to use other than a full geoblock. We could comply with the OSA by preventing UK IP addresses from creating accounts. Unfortunately we’d need a country level NSFW toggle to allow UK users to join.
Still early days, so I can’t rule it out though.