ProdigalFrog
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Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin are all entirely different and unique attempts at creating a self-hostable software package for a reddit-like website. In the same way that Reddit was trying to be like Digg, but with it’s own codebase starting from scratch.
Despite using different codebases, Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin are all compatible with each other, like if you could leave comments on reddit threads from your Digg account while on Digg.
The reason they can talk to each other is they were all built with one thing in common: at the core of them is something called the ActivityPub Protocol, which in simple terms means the way they send messages, make posts, etc, are all using one standard, so they can all understand each other, like speaking the same language. An upvote from lemmy is understood as an upvote by Piefed, same for comments, posts, etc.
A similar thing on the web that functions just like that is E-mail. No matter what email provider you use, you can send an email to any other email provider, and it all just works because at the core, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL mail, Proton Mail, etc, they all use the standardized E-mail Protocol.
Just like with email, where you can’t log into a Gmail account from the Yahoo Mail log-in page, you also can’t log into a lemmy account from a Piefed login page.
But if you’re familiar with how you can use an E-Mail client, like Thunderbird or Outlook Express to log into almost any email account regardless of where it’s hosted, so to with lemmy/piefed mobile apps, which only act as a front-end like Thunderbird.
Each lemmy/piefed instance is like it’s own email provider (instance just means server, a server is a computer that hosts the software and makes it available on the internet for us to find). So lemmy.world is like Gmail, but piefed.social is an entirely different provider, equivalent to Yahoo mail. You could access either from a mobile app, which acts as a client, but if you went to them with a web browser, you’d have to go to lemmy.world directly if that’s where your account was, similar to how you would have to for email.
All of these servers are ‘federated’ with each other, which basically means once they establish a connection, they will continually offer new data to each other automatically. So Lemmy.world will always send out to piefed.social any new posts, comments, or upvotes that occur on lemmy.world, as well as pass forward any posts, comments, or upvotes that any lemmy.world user makes on a community hosted on piefed.social.
Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin are open-source, which means they are developed collaboratively online for anyone to see or participate in (if you’re familiar with how Linux is developed, it is very similar to that).
As for who develops these softwares, you can see who has contributed to them on their respective development platforms.
- Lemmy is mainly developed by Dessalines and Nutomic on Github.
- Piefed is mainly developed by Rimu (and others) on Codeberg
- Mbin is developed on Github
But as for the instances themselves, they are owned by the individuals who run the physical servers that each instance runs on.
There are still active cinema and TV show communities, the ones from lemm.ee mostly moved over to piefed.social.
You could try I think a grub probe command to get grub to rescan for other operating systems.
Setting up a dual boot while tired can be a bit risky, since it’s possible to slip up and install onto the wrong partition or drive and overwrite the other OS. Hopefully not the case here!
If your other OS is on a separate drive, you could also check your BIOS to make sure the SATA or PCIe slot its connected to is enabled.
5·2 days agoFennec is also the name of a privacy focused Firefox Mobile fork available on F-Droid, which is what I thought you were referring to.
1·2 days agoExcellent info, thanks for digging into that and sharing! :)
Hey, just wanted to give you a heads up that the ASF-IWA’s website maintenance appears to be complete and the website is fully functioning again, so it seems it was indeed only down for a short time from what I can tell. Definitely worth shooting them an email since they seem to be active :D
If I had to guess, their Facebook pages are likely intended to extend their outreach to non-unionized people who may not know to look for the website.
If by Mesh Network you mean Meshtastic, they have very different use-cases.
Meshtastic requires regular nodes/repeaters within its somewhat short range to be effective (putting repeater stations atop hills or mountains can drastically extend that effective range), it also exclusively operates via text, not audio.
NVIS is just a small long-range portable radio that bounces radio waves directly off the ionosphere which is reflected in a circular radius of 150 to 300 miles from the transmitting antenna, and is not reliant on being atop mountains to attain that range due to the reflected bouncing. The video gives details on how it is generally used.
21·4 days agobut at the moment - until further support - GNU Taler is for tech savvy people whereas WERO is in the middle of a broader rollout even at merchants.
I fear that without more Bank adoption and dog-fooding of GNU Taler, it may not ever get that additional support, as it is diverted in favor of the ‘good enough’ solution of Wero. I can’t say I’d mind having Wero in addition to Taler as an option.
For exchanges, yes. For merchants, no.
After looking around a bit more, I found this link here, which seems to suggest a KYC implementation is still in progress, since existing services don’t meet their criteria.
Merchants can’t take possession of the funds, the exchange determines when the money is sent.
The Wire deadline as you mentioned later limits how long they can keep the money, and if they are purposefully delaying, they could be investigated by an oversight body or go unused compared to an exchange that does not.
but given that shortening it makes the refund UX worse I’m not sure it’s ideal. It’s weird to have this be a tradeoff anyway.
I can’t say I disagree entirely, and I would hope that such oddities would be improved in the future.
Fees differ per country […]
Cheers for the info and link, that does make it quite cheap, I must say.
Based on that, Wero is objectively an improvement over the credit card monopoly or paypal. However I fear that if it wins out this payment war, it will end up being the only option, and I very much doubt that it will ever implement the privacy features from GNU Taler that I consider absolutely paramount for a future digital payment system to not be abused in the future. We’re already seeing how governments are pushing for less online privacy with the constant Chat Control legislation, which we’re only narrowly avoiding, and with far right parties across Europe gaining more and more of the vote, I very much think it prudent to advocate for privacy respecting technologies wherever possible, even at the expensive of some convenience.
3·4 days agoThe most effective non-violent action we can take is joining local mutual aid groups, reading Full Spectrum Resistance for more details, and ultimately preparing and organizing for a General Strike.
The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), please consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one, as most unions have a strike fund that can supplement your income during a general strike to make it more financially bearable (you should also save as much money as you can reasonably do, so it can also be used to keep yourself afloat during a strike).
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above, and they’ll help you set up a new local branch.
the anonymous aspect might sound nice but KYC laws prevent merchants from accepting it
GNU Taler’s documentation already covers KYC laws.
This means a store has to wait 2 weeks at minimum before they get their money (modern payment methods are instant or next-day, 2 weeks is exceptionally long). That’s a massive dealbreaker.
They would only need to wait 2 weeks if they specifically want to be able to reverse a charge, but AFAIK a merchant can take possession of the money much earlier, and can still send a refund to a buyer’s Taler wallet at any time as a separate transaction.
It also means exchanges can make tons of money by keeping the transferred funds in their account and collecting interest on it.
I’m not sure how that’s a problem specifically? Why does it matter if they gain a little interest on it on the time that they have it until the merchant exchanges their tokens for the money? Is that worse than the fees associated with Wero?
The European Payments Initiative (EPI), which developed Wero, has indeed promised that the new payment method will not be more expensive than iDEAL for the first two years. However, it’s unclear what exactly this means. In any case, the rate will increase after two years, creating uncertainty about what the exact costs will be. And even if the per-transaction fee remains the same, the extra procedures around chargebacks will still cause a significant cost increase for businesses.
I’m assuming that source is financially biased against Wero’s success, but I couldn’t find anything else about Wero’s fees except from Wero themselves, which was very vague:
Our pricing is clear and merchant-friendly: a small percentage fee with built-in caps, so you stay in control of costs - whether you’re processing €5 or €5,000. One model that works for businesses of all sizes.
If you have a more clear source, let me know.
It’s also quite funny to me that Taler claims to be immune to chargeback fraud, when it doesn’t offer chargebacks in the first place. Makes it easy, don’t it?
That is a legitimate downside of Taler. Personally I think the trade-off is worth it for the increased privacy, since corporations and states will inevitably use your purchase history against you at some point in the future if fascists take power once again.
GNU Taler does the same job that Wero is attempting (replacing Paypal, Mastercard, etc), only better and anonymous. We should be pushing for a long-term solution that can’t be abused, and GNU Taler is that solution.
You‘re missing the point that Android and iOS are still the predominant platforms and realistically won’t go away anytime soon.
Android and iOS have both made it clear that they will only become further enshittified and consumer hostile. We should be advocating for non-corporate opensource replacements for them as well to truly take back our computing freedom and privacy, in same way that we should advocate for GNU Taler to free us from any corporate control over our payment systems, and give us a genuine cash-like anonymity that cannot be abused by states or corporations.
51·4 days agoPer wikipedia:
Wero is managed by banks via their mobile apps. This creates a dependency on iOS (Apple) and Android (Google) systems. Consequently, Wero exchanges its reliance on payment networks like Visa and Mastercard, for a reliance on two Big Tech giants—Apple and Google, with the new dependency focusing on online availability and distribution through their application stores.
Needing to rely on two pro-fascist tech companies seems like a particularly bad idea. Wero also does not appear to be anonymous.
A better alternative to Wero is GNU Taler, which is a properly open standard that is a true anonymous digital cash, and offers real independence from tech-bro corporations.
We have a community that discusses GNU Taler over at !money@slrpnk.net
Per wikipedia:
Wero is managed by banks via their mobile apps. This creates a dependency on iOS (Apple) and Android (Google) systems. Consequently, Wero exchanges its reliance on payment networks like Visa and Mastercard, for a reliance on two Big Tech giants—Apple and Google, with the new dependency focusing on online availability and distribution through their application stores.
Needing to rely on two pro-fascist tech companies seems like a particularly bad idea. Wero also does not appear to be anonymous.
A better alternative to Wero is GNU Taler, which is a properly open standard that is a true anonymous digital cash, and offers real independence from tech-bro corporations.
We have a community that discusses GNU Taler over at !money@slrpnk.net
6·5 days agoThe migration to Piefed has been planned for quite a few months now, and has been brought up in previous Monthly Meta posts as far back as July 2025. I can see how it might seem like it’s coming out of nowhere if you hadn’t come across those threads.
The main reason we’ve been wanting to switch is the technical difficulties with hosting Lemmy itself, @poVoq@slrpnk.net goes into more details here. While poVoq has been able to manage the problems of Lemmy by diligently resolving odd issues and implementing workarounds as they come up, overall it has been a troublesome piece of software to host reliably.
Piefed has developed quite quickly, and nowadays is mostly comparable in features to Lemmy, as well as having some unique features of its own (the July 2025 link goes over the big ones). Piefed appears to be more stable than Lemmy due to using proven standard frameworks, and would bring with it some fairly dramatic improvements in efficiency and resource usage.
If the migration goes well, then it is unlikely that we would continue to host Lemmy in addition to the Piefed. However this should not cause too much disruption. Piefed is now 100% compatible with multiple popular Lemmy mobile apps, such as Voyager, Summit, Blorp, etc, so if you already use those apps, everything will still work exactly the same on that end. And Piefed is 100% federation compatible with Lemmy instances, so you will still be able to access all the same communities we have access to today from Lemmy. Our alternative Lemmy frontend Photon is also Piefed compatible, so that will remain the same as well for anyone who uses that. Even the creator of our Lemmy site theme is switching to Piefed, so that would carry over too. The only major change that would occur is the change to the main website UI from a browser, but Piefed is laid out fairly similarly, and shouldn’t take much to get used to (you can try it out here).
Migrating an existing Lemmy instance to Piefed is still technically experimental, so we’ll have to reevaluate if turns out to cause too many problems, but if everything goes well, we are likely to make the switch at some point.
I think what’s now known as Utopian Scholastic has a particularly solarpunk-y vibe, IMO. You can hear an example here.
1·7 days agoI had no issue making Wii Sports Resort with motion plus.
Looking at it again, I misremembered the Dolphin wiki entry for it. Apparently it only has problems unless using Bluetooth Passthrough mode, which I didn’t really want to mess with to get working with my bluetooth dongle.
you can completely erase the pain point of this by using Playnite as front end (in windows) and configuring your emulators (Dolphin, PCSX2 etc) to start full screen WITH controller support started at run time, along with enabling hot key macros for shutting down game and returning to dashboard etc. Playnite has native scripting control.
Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to use Playnite, as I’ve fully sworn off Windows personally in favor of Linux. However, even if Playnite were on Linux, I’m honestly not sure I’d go that route for myself. Even though it’s fully configurable powerful, with macros that can be set up to get things just right, and specific versions of Dolphin may be more ideal for a particular game, I’m kind’ve at a point in my life where that type of fine-tuning and tinkering is far less appealing compared to when I was younger, where I would’ve seen it as a fun challenge.
The original merit of consoles was that they’re simple plug-n-play devices that don’t require much though to use, and that aspect is really appealing to me nowadays, as it leaves me more time to troubleshoot or experiment with non-gaming things, like tinkering to get a good audio production setup going on my Linux PC with certain outboard audio (which can be time consuming to figure out). So for me, a jail broken Wii really fits the bill of a simple box that I can just turn on and know everything will just work, and no update will mess anything up and require me to look into it.
But that’s just me! For others, that tinkering and the end result of it is highly gratifying, and more power to em, I say :)
Maybe I only tried Impossible after they perfected their formula, but in all the meals I’ve cooked with it, like burgers, chili, stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff, meatballs, etc, I wouldn’t be able to tell that it’s not real beef in either flavor or texture unless someone told me.
I cannot say the same for some other alternatives like soy curls, tvp, beyond meat, all of which have a certain ‘off’ flavor. Beyond meat as an example uses pea protein, which seems more difficult to mask.
The only other alternative that I’ve found that can convincingly be beef is Quorn, which if cooked with a bullion cube or marmite can very effectively replace ground beef in most recipes.
Oh, and those mushroom based Meati steaks are also really good and beefy. The texture is softer than real steak, but it works great for steak tacos.
51·8 days agoYou yourself posted about how 31 people died in ICE custody. The video maker shows how privately owned Flock cameras which are installed around the country are used by ICE without a warrant to track and detain people; he has shown in past videos how to effectively trick those cameras into not recognizing your license plate, and in the OP video now how to detect the cameras.
And you’re calling him a conspiracy theorist without having even watched it? The hell dude.
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Glad you found it helpful! Though for people new to this, depending on their tech savvyness, less info might be more.
An average user doesn’t really need to know exactly how Lemmy/piefed work to actually use it effectively, and depending on how interested they are in learning how things work, the longer explanation I gave may be off-putting to some people, or make it seem too complex.
As an example; I’m not sure most people actually know how email works at all on a technical level, they just know that if they log into their Gmail and put the right address for the person they’re trying to reach, everything works. They may not even understand that the @whatever.com part means their email is being sent to a totally different server (if it’s not also Gmail) being hosted by different corporations somewhere else in the world, or how exactly an email is shuffled across all the different ISP’s, cabling, repeaters, etc. Explaining the details of all those things would make email seem horribly complex and off-putting to many. Without any of the that knowledge, as long as they know just the steps to accomplish what they want, all is well.
With Lemmy or Piefed, an equivalent could be just sending them a link to a known reliable general instance (Piefed.social would be a good choice) and telling them to create an account there and to use it just like they would reddit. For the most part, that’s all anyone really needs to know to have a pretty good experience. They may wonder why different users have different domain names at the end of their name, and if they ask you could explain further, but they’ll still be able to navigate around, comment, find communities and all the rest without knowing, which should lessen the feeling that it’s complicated.