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....
  • 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.

  • borisentiu@feddit.org
    5·
    3 days ago

    Great, comprehensible talk! Liked Rimu pointing out footprint implications one should take into account in development (around the 28 mark). When I once learned about piefed (or piefed instances) ‘deleting’ older posts tho, I found it not a good fit for the archive-ish threadiverse. The way he explains it here that content is not totally wiped out, rather boiled down. That seems to be a reasonable compromise.

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

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

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    3 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.

  • julian@activitypub.space
    7·
    3 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

  • 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.