I’m definitely not a socialist. .ml is where I landed when I joined due to not knowing any better and joining the largest (at the time) instance, and honestly the outside hate is keeping me there.

PieFed is absolutely a “derivative” in terms of its DNA. It’s basically built as a love letter to Lemmy’s specific flavor of ActivityPub.

If you look at the raw JSON, PieFed isn’t just “using ActivityPub”, it’s specifically implementing the “Lemmy-isms” that make the Threadiverse work. It uses the same Group actor logic, the same Dislike activity extensions for downvoting, and even mirrors Lemmy’s API routes so you can use apps like Jerboa.

In a way, it’s like how a 3rd-party controller is a “derivative” of a PlayStation controller. The internals are completely different, but it’s shaped exactly that way so it can plug into the same console and work perfectly. PieFed chose to speak “Lemmy-ish” instead of just “ActivityPub-ish” to ensure it wasn’t an island.

You said it not me.

Lemmy isn’t compatible with Reddit. Piefed is literally implementing Lemmy’s data structures to specifically be compatible with Lemmy.

So since your stated goal is counter to reality, I have to wonder what your real intent is. I only see this drama as weakening Lemmy and Piefed by extension, not strengthening anything.

Piefed is a derivative of Lemmy. So you’re not getting away from it.

That’s why

Which is? I’m still missing something here.

I really do not understand all the .ml hate. If you have it so much why are you using their technology (Lemmy)? So much bullshit being reposted as fact. Basically echo chamber brigading. I left Reddit to escape this shit…

Edit: although judging by your post history you lack conviction and joke about everything, so maybe I missed the mark

I’m don’t know how to link properly but this happened a couple weeks ago.

https://lemmy.ml/post/45529149

More “feel good” legislation that has no basis in reality. They obviously do not actually intend to enforce this for corporations because it would shut down modern software development and data centers overnight. Imagine spinning up a docker container or a VM with accounts created. Suddenly you’re violating the law because there’s no age attestation. Nor should there be.

If they want this to actually fly, they should be more targeted in their legislation, but that would require they actually know what they’re fucking talking about.

This is obviously targeted at individuals to “protect” them. Great. No thank you.

Looks like that user’s comments were all mod deleted. Maybe it’s a bot account? No idea

Such pretentiousness. That was quite a boring and very dull read. Nothing insightful.

Open source just means people are free to edit it and distribute their changes. Hardcoding things like this is bad practice no matter if it’s open source or not. It’s not maintainable. Maintainable as in easily maintainable, I.e., configuration files not code edits.

That isn’t how it works. They would have to FORK the code and maintain their changes going forward with every update. That is poor software development practices no matter how you look at it.

How is the hosting changed when needed (e.g., a different IPFS address)? What happens in a coordinated attack by someone with 51% of the seeds, can they overwrite all of the content? Is there any cryptographic way to ensure the content hasn’t been maliciously altered?

Each Lemmy server contains a user database, explicit federations with other Lemmy servers, and communities. Plebbit sounds like each instance is a self contained community instead of being hosted on an overarching server with other communities. And the Plebbit communities are hosted via BitTorrent style decentralized seeding.

If you do this, make sure to have a backup email on a different provider for all of your domain and DNS services in case something goes wrong you can still fix it. I’ve heard horror stories…

I’m running Proxmox and hate it. I still recommend it for what you are trying to do. I think it would work quite nicely. Three of my four nodes have llama.cpp VMs hosting OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoints (llama-server) and I run Claude Code against that using a simple translation proxy.

Proxmox is very opinionated on certain aspects and I much prefer bare metal k8s for my needs.

This is pretty rad! Thanks for sharing. I went down the same road with learning k3s on about 7 Raspberry Pis and pivoted over to Proxmox/Ceph on a few old gaming PCs / Ethereum miners. Now I am trying to optimize the space and looking at how to rack mount my ATX machines with GPUs lol… I was able to get a RTX 3070 to fit in a 2U rack mount enclosure but having some heat issues… going to look at 4U cases with better airflow for the RTX 3090 and various RX480s.

I am planning to set up Talos VMs (one per Proxmox host) and bootstrap k8s with Traefik and others. If you’re learning, you might want to start with a batteries-included k8s distro like k3s.

I followed the wiki tutorials for that. Make sure iommu is working, blacklist drivers on host, etc.

It’s on my lift of projects. I build a Proxmox+Ceph cluster and I have GPU passthrough working for LLM inference. I was planning to get docker headless Steam going and try to steam via Steam In Home Streaming as my first attempt then pivot to a full VM with Sunshine as a last resort.