Paige and Victor get into the weeds with Rimu the creator of Piefed. What is the secret to Piefed's rapid development and what direction is is Piefed rapidly developing? Find Rimu: [@rimu@mastodon....
  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Is there any background context to the chat? I’m not familiar with you and Victor… what your projects / specialties might be within the Fediverse and without. Also, did you set up this chat with any specific questions in mind or goals to aim for?

    • Paige@piefed.caOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      There’s lots of episodes of the podcast, it follows our adventures as we’ve built FediHost and the projects and people like Rimu we have been meeting along the way. If you’ve got questions about Piefed let us know and we’ll ask next time.

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    Oh, a * peek * at piefed. I thought it was going to be some doom and gloom about user count peaking. It’s actually just an introspective.

  • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    “Admins are important stakeholders, as they are the one who choose what software to install on their servers” 👌

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Great video and talk … I appreciate being able to listen to the person who made Piefed possible.

    However, I am a bit tech literate but not enough so especially with the Fediverse to know all the ins and outs of what is happening and who is involved or even who anyone is or what they do or even to know what is being done.

    I think you guys making these presentations should take into consideration that you are talking to people who know absolutely nothing or very little about the people who are speaking and also very little about what they are doing. If it was more personable and presented down to the level of talking about these things to a random person on the street, it would be more informative and helpful for people.

    This presentation as much as I enjoyed it felt more like I was thrown into a conversation mid way through a talk at a dinner table I happen to sit down at by accident. I don’t know the people, I hardly know what they are talking about but I know I want to know more about them.

    I guess what I’m saying is that if these presentations were geared more to those of us who don’t know so much about the fediverse, we would be more likely to join into these projects like Piefed.

    And when I say more personable I mean being able to talk about simple straight forward questions like …

    • What is your name?
    • Who are you? Where do you live?
    • Are you a family man? Do you have a family?
    • What do you do? What is your background?
    • When did you start Piefed? How did it get started?
    • Why did you start it?
    • Who started it? Was it just you? Was there a group of people?
    • How did you start it? How did it all come about?
    • Where is all this happening? Is it just with you or is it a project happening and evolving in multiple places?

    I know that people are careful of wanting to dox themselves … but there has to be a level of presenting yourself and your identity to the public to show them they we can trust them and they can trust us. I don’t want to know your address, identity or government issued information … I want to get to know a little bit about you as a person. The more I know about you, the more I can feel attached to you and the more I can trust you and the more enthused I can become about wanting to join your cause and your group. If its always the message of ‘here is the project, use it, good luck, bye’ … then there is no connection to the people and no personal feeling to anyone and there is less likely to form any kind of trust or bond with anyone.

    Personally I’m liking Piefed but it feels like an uphill struggle to get to know the developers, the people behind it all and the history and evolution of it all because I had to go dig around and search for this info myself. Most people won’t do the digging and searching that I did and will just dismiss it all and move along and wait until Piefed hits a million users before they will want to do anything with it.

    So in short, I appreciate Piefed and its developer but if you want people to be more interested in the project, we (the public) need to have more personable simple straight forward info about the who, what, where, why and how so that we can start to feel that connection to everything and have more of a personal link that will make us want to join Piefed.

      • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        That was a fun interview and informative and personal … which I really enjoyed. It’s also amazing to get a response from the creative head of the project.

        It’s not so much for praise worship or to become a mindless fan … I want to get to know who the person and people are that are behind a software project that I want to use. I got into Lemmy and enjoyed it for a while before I started hearing about who the developers are. Although I was disappointed by who the developers are and what they represent, I also didn’t fully understand the animosity between everyone - if they are so terrible, why do people work with them or use their software - and if they are so terrible, why do they share their work and allow it be freely used by their opponents. It feels a lot more like sibling rivalry … where the siblings are fighting one another but can’t bear or are incapable of living without each other.

        As you alluded to, Piefed is a breath of fresh air as the extreme politics are removed from the conversation. It feels good to know a bit more about who the person is behind the project and what they think and how they see the world. It makes me feel more comfortable to use this software.

        I also noted the books you mentioned and will add them to my reading list …

        • ‘The Ministry For The Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson
        • ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey

        … and we already watched the film ‘Don’t Look Up’ and even though it seems to be panned by others as a lacklustre film, like you, we thoroughly enjoyed it as it was a great mirror to our world and how we should look at what we are doing to ourselves and how we are dealing with global problems.

        Thanks again for sharing this interview … it’s a great insight into your mind and now I feel a whole lot better about staying in Piefed and using it more. I definitely feel a whole more confident in promoting it to others around me and to grow this corner of the fediverse.

          • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            Greetings from northern Ontario in Canada … it’s a balmy -22 degrees Celsius tonight … and that’s not even wind chill as the air is perfectly still tonight … hopefully it’s a bit warmer where you are

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    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      For the personal questions, @rimu@piefed.social is probably the best person to answer them.

      For explaining what PieFed is in a succinct way, those links can maybe help

      I’m a regular poster on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , and what I’ve observed over time is that most of the people don’t really care about the platform or how it’s run. They are just looking for an alternative to Reddit. Nowadays I just point to https://piefed.zip and let them have a look by themselves.

      The UI is similar enough to Reddit that they can figure it out on their own : https://lemmy.zip/post/47438646

      • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Great … thanks for the response … it’s amazing for me to jump into something new and to be able to talk to the people developing the project. It’s nice to see the community in its infancy and be part of it. Good luck to you all and thanks for everything you guys do.

  • julian@activitypub.space
    7·
    4 days ago

    What’s the secret to Rimu’s speed? Piefed is young, so any accumulated technical debt doesn’t interfere with new functionality…

    Yet…

    Sorry rimu@piefed.social, that time will come for you 😂

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      The solution is simply to implement all the features before it gets old enough for technical debt to be a problem. Easy as that.

    • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Old programming joke:

      Q: How did god create the world in only 7 days? A: There was no installed base