Welcome! What brings you to PieFed and how did you find out about it?

I moved to Piefed ~6 months ago (after about a year of Lemmy), so I am not part of this wave (although I think there was a mini-wave when I joined), that being said, welcome to all newcomers!

Shameless self-promotion; if you like gaming, check out the sidebar of this community:

!strategy_games@piefed.world

It links to a bunch of active gaming communities, both general/mainstream and indie focused.

This is where we need people to be redirected to !newcomers@piefed.zip

Question.. Am on old.lemmy.zip - which rules my world as I'm a Redditor from the Olden Days and love the layout.. but I've only been here since the start of October.. Is there a graphic flow chart type thing that shows all the federated sites with a list of the comms on each one?

Uh, I don't know. You can however filter communities by instances on any Piefed community browser and then sort by weekly activity if you want a good overview of weekly users and culture.

The communities are all connected. It doesn't really matter how you access them.

Perhaps someone else can highlight a piefed instance with a WebUI option similar to old Reddit.

https://piefed.social/explore

https://piefed.social/f/forumverse

https://piefed.social/f/highsignal

How about twitter sucks so many racists

I've been on lemmy for like 6 months and saw I can look at Piefed through Voyager.

Compact mode is very similar to old Reddit.

I checked out the community right after I got here, and the last weekly thread was posted three months ago. Honestly, I’m kinda scared to start new posts in places that usually have weekly threads. My past subreddit experiences still haunt me.

I think the idea is that new people would post in weekly threads, but there's no real directing users to that. Did you get directed to that community when you arrived? I can easily schedule posts if necessary.

Hello new friends :)

I'd recommend taking a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@feddit.org to check out new communities, or even start/promote your own!

Those communities aren't hosted on Piefed, but that's sort of the beauty of this place.

Does anyone know if there's a https://lemmyverse.net/ equivalent that covers Piefed/Mbin?

Click at the Lemmy logo and you will be able to choose it

Did something happen to cause a new flood of users?

No, but Piefeds built in Community Browser has basically similar functionality.

There was a pro-Piefed post dumped in fediverse@lemmy.world and a couple of Reddit threads, they weren't like explosive in size but they did have some activity.

Understandable when some mods go down hard on people who break the unwritten rules.

Today I learned. Thank you!

!communitypromo@feddit.org is mainly for german speaking communities

For the english equivalent go to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Me too!

The key difference is that if your instance doesn't know about it, you won't see it. You need a way to find new communities, whuch is where Lemmyverse.net comes in. Apparently you can change the setting to Piefed or Mbin so it's there, I was just hoping for a single search across everything.

Thanks! Would be nice to be able to search across communities across the Threadiverse but this is pretty good.

That's true. But a lot of comms are on piefed.social at least.

Heard of piefed while browsing lemmy, and people were saying it did a good job of combining communities. Before that, was a reddit refugee after the api fiasco.

Thanks for the clarification!

Welcome new people! If you're an anarchist, check out https://multiverse.soulism.net and https://anarchist.nexus

I was on midwest.social and they were having some federation issues. I decided to try out PieFed instead of another lemmy instance. So far I have tried kbin (RIP), lemmy and now piefed.

You can look at piefed through anything, piefed and lemmy are essentially transparent to the clients.

(Yes I know it's more complicated than that, but that doesn't really matter here)

Same! Also a good opportunity to check out different Threadiverse clients.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1qp8z20/stop_relying_on_us_big_tech_decentralized/

Found it on reddit alternatives. Want to desperately get off reddit! Lemmy was too complicated

I think newcomers won't post unless there's sign of life, and there won't be signs of life unless newcomers post.

Maybe a weekly thread posting boring stats or something could be a nice way to indicate it's not a dead community?

Edit: Or what sunshine said, I'm not familiar but that sounds like a problem.

And piefed is fine?

If so that's really good news, a lot of people around here seem to interpret "Lemmy is too complicated" as meaning "anything decentralized and not big tech is just too difficult'. I suspect the reality of the matter is that Lemmy is just not extremely user friendly.

This post just turned up on Lemmy.

Same, with multiple Lemmys (Lemmies?:-P) - I think many of us share a similar journey.

I am so glad that you are enjoying PieFed - welcome to the Threadiverse! :-D

You succinctly described my case. +1 to that

Happy to have you here of course, but I hope midwest.social is doing alright! I like that crowd.

I also really love https://quokk.au. It's slightly more quokka than anarchy themed, but I find the two to make an appealing duo. Seems like a friendly place as well.

We are ok. The admin is fighting scrapers.

State of the internet. Ugh. Well, happy to hear it's not being abandoned. :)

I heared about it from r/BuyFromEU and I'm on the road to reduce the use of US services.

It's good to have options and try out different clients to see what you like best

As mention the admin is fighting scrapers which is blocking some larger instances. I still have an account

It's good to see what is out there. Helps you get used to different views and let's you keep using the verse if an instance goes down

Hello from Lemmy!

Absolutely - CloudFlare issues keep striking randomly but somehow every time it does, at least one of my prior alts is still working. It is ironic that I left them for their technical issues (extreme slowness) but now turn to them for reliability at a later date! :-P

yea you summed up my thoughts pretty well.
Since the posts are so old, I wasn't sure if it's still a thing, or my questions would be just going to the void.