Just a quick note to recognize that the first lines of PieFed code were published on the 28th July 2023, just over a year ago. Since then there have been 1400+ changes made by 9 people, involving adding 88,000 lines of code and removing 28,000 lines. The issue queue has 98 open and 99 closed issues.
While join.piefed.social went live in October 2023, it wasn’t until time off work over the christmas holidays enabled a big push to get it ready that piefed.social went live on 4th January 2024.
Since then piefed.social has federated 190k posts, 2.3M comments and 19M votes with 1900 other instances of various types. Besides piefed.social there are 5 other PieFed instances that I know of.
What a year it’s been! I’ve grown significantly as a developer, had a lot of fun and hopefully contributed something meaningful to whatever the fediverse is becoming. Long may it continue!
Ha, I don’t know, ask me again when the issue queue is smaller. I’m all about the little details of implementation (and fixing broken things) at the moment and don’t spend much time looking at the big picture.
I will say this, tho.
I remember the 1990s. We knew the internet would change the world and we were sure it would be for the better. Instant access to all knowledge, connection to everyone, freedom, abundance. We thought it was all within grasp. A lot has happened since and not much of that came to be. But the tendrils of that vision still hang around the back of my head. I remember when there was hope and I see some sparks of that here, now. I’ll tend that spark while I can.