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.
Since this is tagged on lemmy.zip I’d like to point out that it might not be the best idea for existing lemmy.zip users to also use piefed.zip since if the admin(s) are no longer able to continue both of your presences would go down. In the true spirit of the fediverse it makes sense to spread your logins around.
On the other hand, dot zip admins are known to be chill and not likely to cause a defederation.
Oh, yeah, this is not a knock against the admins at all. The .zip team might have an amazing set of contingency plans, etc - I have no idea - which would make this more or less a moot point. I’m just not a fan of single points of failure.
At the very least, backups have been fire-tested. We were back up and running within a day when one of the recent upgrades went all to shit.
I have a non-zip alt that sits idle and hopefully will stay idle :)