Piefed split from lemmy
there was no split, they were never the same project, and they interop with each other well
PieFed now allows you to follow users instead of just communities, so you can follow Mastodon users
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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Tesseract (the lemmy front end) no longer exists.
The dev snuck in his own personalised block list, hiding thousands of people, communities, and instances that he personally didn't like, as well as hiding any comment that contained certain words/phrases. It was a huge json file of blocked items.
When called out for this, he had a massive crashout, shut down his own instance (the one place he was free to block whatever he wanted), and turned it into a ddos tool that causes anyone that visits his 'fuck you I'm leaving' message to send thousands of requests to another instance. (DBzer0 iirc)
Why does it almost feel like instances were a mistake
the whole point is you can choose a difference instance. with something like reddit, all you get is reddit or nothing.
True. And different instances have their own features
I don't think that's accurate. PieFed is a different server software, written in a different programming language and using a different tech stack, ... but they both serve the same network. There wasn't ever any splitting or noteworthy fight between the devs that I'm aware of?!
I suppose Lemmy devs will be working on the 1.0 version. PieFed keeps rocking and gets new features all the time. Latest thing: we can subscribe to Mastodon accounts.
And if you've been absent for a while, there will probably be a few new instances and communities.
Also: Welcome back!
Ooh what are the new instances that are popular?
What I remember is Grail setting up an instance about half a year ago on multiverse.soulism.net
We also got fedinsfw.app replace the old defunct porn place...
We had a few other instances pop up like nord.pub or retrofed.com ...seems some online forums and local communities launched some Lemmy instances for their neighborhood... and maybe a tad bit more content in languages I don't speak.
But overall, I think the Threadiverse settled down a bit... We don't get a lot of new AND popular instances. Neither did we grow in active users during the past year. There's a list on fediverse Observer for Lemmy and PieFed you can sort by age in months.
Holy cow fedinsfw has the most active user base π°
PieFed news - https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta?sort=new&layout=list&content_type=posts&flair=Monthly
Man, can't believe it was 6 months between 1.6 and 1.7. There were 23 releases in the 1.6.x line...
Definitely a journey!
Check out this handsome sludgeman I helped draw on c/soulslike@lemmy.zip
Yeah, he's doing a Jojo pose. I already knew you'd ask
Good enough, welcome back Oasis!
Nothing much. You?
Doing some DSA/Sunrise stuff
Well there was that whole ordeal with Nob and Doug... i dont really want to talk about it.
Who are those ppl
Other than some dramas here and there, it's more or less the same. Engagement feels higher though.
Also PieFed now has experimental microblogging integration, probably linked by Rimu in one of the other comments (didn't get the chance to check either yet). But from my experience with Mbin, microblogging + RSS Parrot + Bridgy Fed makes so the struggle becomes following just what you can consume.