Thank you so much for this medal, I will cherish it 😁

Since the PieFed API was only enabled recently, there aren’t that many apps out yet. !interstellar@kbin.earth is the one that people recommend right now. Voyager has plans to add it.

As more people use it, hopefully more apps will support it :)

Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)

Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then

They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons

• piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
• An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.

I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works

Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user’s profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca

Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.

It’s nice timing! Looking forward to seeing you and your instance in the world of pie :)

Here is a list

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven’t tried it yet

I’ve been using threadiverse, but I prefer forumverse

It’s immediately clear what it’s referring to, and it leaves it open to other compatible platforms once they implement activity pub nicely. Being able to subscribe and post to official support forums from the forumverse would be a cool promo point

Also people refer to many things as “threads”. Conversations, comment sections, discord has threads. Forum is much more clear

Interesting

What does the money go towards, since it’s all online?

I’d also be worried about battery issues

Don’t want to find it having overheated / turned into a pufferfish