Is just the same as lemmy? What makes it different? Is it similar to kbin? Why is it meant to be better according so some people?
Is just the same as lemmy? What makes it different? Is it similar to kbin? Why is it meant to be better according so some people?
I’m not able to see any content behind those links or even the root site of https://piefed.social/ without what looks like creating an account and logging in. Is account creation and login required to interact with piefed at all? No anonymous reading?
This is a temporary measure to reduce load on the server from AI scrapers.
!lego@piefed.social is an example of Piefed commmunity
Same here, so I’d assume so.
Gotcha. That’s a non-starter for me then. I hope I’m not the intended audience for piefed. I never visit Facebook pages for the same reason.
I could be entirely wrong, but that’s what it looks like, yeah.
Absolutely hate registration walls as well.
“I just want to see what’s there”
“Make an account first.”
“Is it worth making an account?”
“Make an account and find out” “Oh you must provide a valid email to verify” “Surprise fucker its spam forever”
You could check out another instance, for example https://feddit.online/ , which is visible without signing in.
Piefed.social used to be open for all, but I suspect it needed to be restricted due to AI scrapers. Not sure exactly what the reasoning is though.
You can find a list of instances here: https://fedidb.com/software/piefed
Seems to be 100% Lemmy content
There’s no real difference, content flows freely between the two platforms.
I’m writing this in piefed - does it make my comment “piefed content”, while your comment is “Lemmy content”?
The distinction makes no sense. And that’s the point - use whatever platform you prefer, enjoy the same content anywhere you go. There is no “piefed content” or “lemmy content”, only content. :)
I suppose its good that there is a fediverse alternative to Lemmy. We’ve seen some things to be concerned about from the authors of Lemmy. Should Lemmy go too far, there’s an active alternative in place to take over.
!lego@piefed.social is an example of Piefed commmunity
Also @rimu@piefed.social , is the login wall new?
Yeah just until the latest scraper wave goes away.
Have you considered https://anubis.techaro.lol/ ?
Yes, I’ve been trying to make anubis work for a while. It’s tricky to get right.
Here is an early experiment - https://join.piefed.social/2025/07/09/an-anubis-config-for-piefed/
Good luck! I think Lemmy.zip uses it, @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip is this the case?
I really need help with anubis. I can get it to block but not in such a way that also allows API access and federation and web clients like blorpblorp.
Anyway I only need to turn anubis on for 10 minutes and all the scrapers go away for days. They really really hate it!
I don’t use it currently (except on one of the front ends we use as a test) but I believe the easiest way would be to use nginx to separate the paths you want to pass traffic to, so it doesnt apply to api traffic etc, only the ui. I use traefik for piefed so I don’t know how it integrates in there yet, but I know a few people have got it working for lemmy by using the nginx paths.
There is also go-away as an alternative option.
I have made extensive use of cloudflares challenges too
If only it was that easy. Check out these examples of what Voyager does: https://vger.social/comment/8605586
People on an admin channel can probably help you