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<p>Someone just sent me a very angry DM because their replies to my <a href="/tags/akkoma/" rel="tag">#Akkoma</a> posts (I don’t use Mastodon) showed up on <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#Piefed</a>.</p><p>So let’s clear this up. When I tag a Piefed community like @[email protected] or @[email protected], your replies automatically appear on Piefed. On Piefed itself, the @ is swapped for a !—that’s how communities are marked.</p><p>That’s not a bug. That’s ActivityPub doing what it does best. Almost anything you post on Mastodon can show up elsewhere on the Fediverse.</p>

<p>PieFed v1.2 is released</p><p>PieFed 1.2 has just been released.</p><p>Event posts<br>3D rotating tag cloud<br>Built-in translation<br>Set a reminder on any post/comment<br>Log in with LDAP<br>and so much more.</p><p>Details and links to examples at <a href="https://piefed.social/post/1278967" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/post/1278967</a></p><p><a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a></p>

<p>It&#x27;s GAME DAY! 👏🎉🥳</p><p>I&#x27;m pleased to announce the launch of the Human Web Collective.</p><p>It is a <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> social web forum, powered by <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a>, with the express goal of promoting <a href="/tags/procraft/" rel="tag">#ProCraft</a> tools, services, and creators who believe in an ecosystem for the humans, by the humans.</p><p>The power lies with we, the people. Rather than simply complain about the bait-and-switch of digital media morphing into the Torment Nexus, let&#x27;s build our alternative!</p><p>Welcome to the Resistance. 😎</p><p><a href="https://humansare.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>humansare.social</a></p>

<p>Piefed has a new official test instance and the url is perfect.</p><p><a href="https://crust.piefed.social/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>crust.piefed.social/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a></p>

<p>A Crowdsourced Photo Gallery from the Fediverse – the Open Social Web in action</p><p>Here are some nice photos from around the fediverse: <a href="https://home.scoobysnack.net/gallery/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>home.scoobysnack.net/gallery/</a>. That page updates automatically as new photos are posted.</p><p>How did they get there? Well… </p><p>People from all over Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy and more posted photos into these communities:</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/photography" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/c/photography</a></p><p><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/photography" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy.world/c/photography</a></p><p><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/japanpics" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy.world/c/japanpics</a></p><p>… and a few others. Moderators curate those communities to filter out anything obnoxious and people upvote the best ones.</p><p>Jerry used his PieFed account to create a “Feed” of 6 photography communities at <a href="https://feddit.online/f/photos" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>feddit.online/f/photos</a>. In PieFed a Feed is a bundle of communities with all their content shown together in a list. Those communities can be on any Lemmy, PieFed or Mbin instance. In the sidebar you can see all the communities in the Feed. That feed can be Followed, just like an account on Mastodon can be. </p><p>Someone on <a href="https://piefed.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social</a> followed <a href="https://feddit.online/f/photos" rel="nofollow">[email protected]</a> (the ~ distinguishes it from a person, which uses @ at the start) which created this: <a href="https://piefed.social/f/[email protected]" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="piefed.social/f/[email protected]"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">piefed.social/f/photos@feddit.</span><span class="invisible">online</span></a>. (Following a feed automatically subscribes one to all the communities within and if Jerry adds a new community to the feed all the subscribers auto-follow the new community. But I digress).</p><p>The author of home.scoobysnack.net looked up <a href="https://crust.piefed.social/api/alpha/swagger" rel="nofollow">PieFed’s API spec</a> and wrote some JavaScript which uses PieFed’s API to retrieve all the photos in the feed on piefed.social:</p><p>GET <a href="https://piefed.social/api/alpha/post/list?feed_id=47&amp;limit=40&amp;page=1&amp;nsfw=Exclude&amp;minimum_upvotes=0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="piefed.social/api/alpha/post/list?feed_id=47&amp;limit=40&amp;page=1&amp;nsfw=Exclude&amp;minimum_upvotes=0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">piefed.social/api/alpha/post/l</span><span class="invisible">ist?feed_id=47&amp;limit=40&amp;page=1&amp;nsfw=Exclude&amp;minimum_upvotes=0</span></a></p><p>… and finally their JavaScript displays the images.</p><p>So the journey these photos took went through 6 steps:</p><p>Mastodon / PixelFed / author -&gt; Lemmy / PieFed / Mbin communities -&gt; Feddit.online feed -&gt; PieFed.social feed -&gt; PieFed.social API -&gt; home.scoobysnack.net</p><p>I think that’s pretty cool.</p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/mbin/" rel="tag">#mbin</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a> <a href="/tags/pixelfed/" rel="tag">#pixelfed</a>

<p>🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.9 👩‍🚀</p><p>The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed &amp; Mbin)</p><p><a href="https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu</span><span class="invisible">re-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/</span></a></p><p>with shout-outs to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@informapirata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>informapirata</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@Bro666" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Bro666</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dansup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dansup</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@phanpy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phanpy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fedidb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fedidb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@vjprema" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vjprema</span></a></span> @neblem <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FediTips</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/thefutureisfederated/" rel="tag">#TheFutureIsFederated</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#bigtech</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/threadiverse/" rel="tag">#threadiverse</a> <a href="/tags/mbin/" rel="tag">#mbin</a> <a href="/tags/kbin/" rel="tag">#kbin</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a> <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#lemmy</a> <a href="/tags/reddit/" rel="tag">#reddit</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a></p>

<p>How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments</p><p><a href="https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/flair_examples.webp" rel="nofollow">On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit</a> – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts or comments in the community. This can be helpful for giving a hint about someone’s background, interests or expertise.</p><p>However PieFed is federated and there are copies of the communities on multiple servers (instances). The way to use ActivityPub to create and maintain those copies is described in <a href="https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1b12/fep-1b12.md" rel="nofollow">FEP 1b12</a> which makes no mention of flair. I have made some minimal additions to that FEP, described below:</p><p>For flair on posts, <a href="https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5636" rel="nofollow">the Lemmy devs have already done quite a bit of work on this</a>, which I added a little to, so that flair can have colors. Community actors have an additional type of tag:</p><p>{<br> &quot;type&quot;: &quot;Group&quot;,<br> &quot;id&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/c/piefed_meta</a>&quot;,<br> &quot;name&quot;: &quot;piefed_meta&quot;,<br> /* ... */<br> &quot;lemmy:tagsForPosts&quot;: [<br> {<br> &quot;type&quot;: &quot;lemmy:CommunityTag&quot;,<br> &quot;id&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.socia1/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="piefed.socia1/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">piefed.socia1/c/piefed_meta/ta</span><span class="invisible">g/whatever</span></a>&quot;,<br> &quot;display_name&quot;: &quot;Some Post Tag Name&quot;,<br> &quot;text_color&quot;: &quot;<a href="/tags/000000/" rel="tag">#000000</a>&quot;,<br> &quot;background_color&quot;: &quot;<a href="/tags/dedede/" rel="tag">#dedede</a>&quot;<br> }<br> ]<br> }</p><p>lemmy:tagsForPosts is a list of lemmy:CommunityTag objects. </p><p>So now all the different copies of the community will know which flair can be used there. When creating a post in the community we just need to add one or more lemmy:CommunityTag objects to the Page activity:</p><p>{<br> &quot;id&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.social/post/1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/post/1</a>&quot;,<br> &quot;actor&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.social/u/rimu" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/u/rimu</a>&quot;,<br> &quot;type&quot;: &quot;Page&quot;,<br> /* ... */<br> &quot;tag&quot;: [<br> {<br> &quot;type&quot;: &quot;lemmy:CommunityTag&quot;,<br> &quot;id&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/ta</span><span class="invisible">g/whatever</span></a>&quot;,<br> &quot;display_name&quot;: &quot;Some Post Tag Name&quot;<br> },<br> {<br> &quot;href&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.social/post/1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/post/1</a>&quot;,<br> &quot;name&quot;: &quot;asdf&quot;,<br> &quot;type&quot;: &quot;Hashtag&quot;<br> }<br> ]<br> }</p><p>In this example the post also has a <a href="/tags/asdf/" rel="tag">#asdf</a> hashtag on it.</p><p>User flair is simpler because it’s not managed by the community moderators and is not a fixed list. PieFed simply adds the author’s flair to every comment (federated as a Note activity) they make. When a Note is received the author’s flair is updated on the receiving instances.</p><p>{<br> &quot;id&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.social/comment/1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/comment/1</a>&quot;,<br> &quot;actor&quot;: &quot;<a href="https://piefed.social/u/rimu" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/u/rimu</a>&quot;,<br> &quot;type&quot;: &quot;Note&quot;,<br> /* ... */<br> &quot;flair&quot;: &quot;PieFed dev&quot;<br> }</p><p>This means that when someone changes their flair it will take effect immediately on their instance but until they write a comment it won’t propagate to other instances. As flair is primarily used on comments and the people using flair will tend to be posting a lot of comments this is kinda “good enough”.</p><p>It would be trivial to add a “flair” attribute onto posts too and have receiving instances read that. User flair shows up next to the author’s name on their posts so arguably it makes sense to send it then too. </p><p>Let’s see how it goes.</p><p><a href="/tags/asdf/" rel="tag">#asdf</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a> <a href="/tags/threadverse/" rel="tag">#threadverse</a></p>

<p>PieFed adds PassKeys! As in, log in only with your passkey. Not just as a 2FA addition to your username/password.</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/post/762082" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/post/762082</a></p><p><a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/fedidev/" rel="tag">#FediDev</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a></p>

<p>Travel day today: 🚗 🛥️ 🚗 </p><p>We’ve got a 2 hour car ride before we reach our next destination… my husband is driving, our toddler napping… what am I to do? </p><p>I’m going to test out <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> on my phone (using the app <a href="/tags/voyager/" rel="tag">#voyager</a>) and sign up for <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#Piefed</a> 💁🏻‍♀️</p><p>Hope you’re all having a lovely day ✨</p>

<p>Me 2 weeks ago: oh I will just do a post about <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> interoperability with the rest of the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> for my blog series <a href="/tags/thefutureisfederated/" rel="tag">#TheFutureIsFederated</a>. <br>How hard can it be? I already federated my Wordpress blog and figured out <a href="/tags/friendica/" rel="tag">#Friendica</a>.</p><p>Me today: I now have accounts on <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> PLUS <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a> AND <a href="/tags/mbin/" rel="tag">#Mbin</a> because my initial federation tests had mixed results. Reading my notes makes me go 😵‍💫😅</p><p>Despite all this I still LOVE the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> and I’m in awe of <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a>’s interoperability (it comes out shining)</p>

<p>Managed PieFed hosting with fedihost.co</p><p>If you’d like a PieFed instance of your own but don’t want to deal with setting up a server, installing PieFed, and maintaining it yourself, get in touch with the team at fedihost.co! They’re currently offering reduced-price PieFed hosting to a limited number of instances as part of a beta program.</p><p>They’re looking for a mix of new and established PieFed instances so they can better understand real-world resource usage and what people need.</p><p>See <a href="https://fedihost.co/beta-program" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedihost.co/beta-program</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;m really happy to see <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a> doing so well, and third-party apps are picking up API support for it. </p><p>Support your Fedi Devs.</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/donate" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/donate</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a> just added a multi-reddit feature, which we&#x27;re calling &quot;Feeds&quot;. It combines multiple Communities (actors of type &quot;Group&quot; in ActivityPub) into one. </p><p>Feeds can be followed from other PieFed instances, which will subscribe the follower to all the communities in the feed.</p><p>Try it out at <a href="https://piefed.social/feeds" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/feeds</a></p><p>It&#x27;s similar to PieFed&#x27;s concept of a Topic <a href="https://piefed.social/topics" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/topics</a>, except topics are maintained by the instance admins. Feeds are crowdsourced and federated topics.</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a></p>

<p>I know a lot of you still think of the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> as just “Mastodon”.</p><p>But it’s far more than that. There’s an entire ecosystem of federated message boards that’s already proven popular: <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#Piefed</a>, <a href="/tags/nodebb/" rel="tag">#NodeBB</a>, <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a>, <a href="/tags/mbin/" rel="tag">#Mbin</a>, and <a href="/tags/discourse/" rel="tag">#Discourse</a>.</p><p>Even the classics like <a href="/tags/friendica/" rel="tag">#Friendica</a> and <a href="/tags/hubzilla/" rel="tag">#Hubzilla</a> have solid forum features baked in.</p><p>If you’re only here for the microblogging, you’re missing a key piece. Communities built around interests are something <a href="/tags/twitter/" rel="tag">#Twitter</a> never offered, and <a href="/tags/bluesky/" rel="tag">#Bluesky</a> still doesn’t.</p><p>So if you’re looking to replace your <a href="/tags/facebook/" rel="tag">#Facebook</a> Groups, the Fediverse already has you covered.</p>

<p>PieFed reaches 1.0 status, and two Lemmy apps announce experimental support for PieFed - <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@voyagerapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>voyagerapp</span></a></span> and <a href="https://kbin.earth/m/interstellar" rel="nofollow">@interstellar</a> </p><p>I’ve tried Interstellar and it works! Voyager app I couldn’t login - yet.</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/post/956553" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/post/956553</a></p><p><a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a></p>

<p>PieFed is seeing a surge in new users as a prominent Lemmy server retires, lemm.ee</p><p><a href="https://piefed.zip/post/167564" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.zip/post/167564</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#Piefed</a> supports the <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> v1 instance info</p>

<p>I have now found 1070 verified accounts from media organizations in the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a>, but only on <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a>, <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a>, <a href="/tags/threads/" rel="tag">#Threads</a>, <a href="/tags/bluesky/" rel="tag">#Bluesky</a>, <a href="/tags/ghost/" rel="tag">#Ghost</a> and <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#Peertube</a>. </p><p>Just one is on <a href="/tags/sharkey/" rel="tag">#Sharkey</a> (👋🏻 <span class="h-card"><a href="https://federation.network/@heiseBotti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>heiseBotti</span></a></span>) and none on <a href="/tags/pixelfed/" rel="tag">#Pixelfed</a>, <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a>, <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#Piefed</a>, <a href="/tags/misskey/" rel="tag">#Misskey</a> &amp; Co. Are there really none there, or did I miss some?</p><p>Source: <br><a href="https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p><p>@fediverse</p>

<p>Tuning PieFed for scale</p><p>Out of the box PieFed has some pretty conservative settings, intended for small (less than 10 users) to medium (less than 200 active users) instances running on small servers where memory is constrained.</p><p>Now that piefed.social is becoming busier I’ve needed to tweak a few settings:</p><p>Gunicorn</p><p>Gunicorn is the service that runs the web app within itself and accepts connections from nginx. When you get a lot of traffic sometimes gunicorn can run out of capacity to serve all the incoming requests.</p><p>Each request uses one thread so you need to have as many threads as your CPU cores can handle but not so many that they get flooded and start to context switch too much. The variables in gunicorn.conf.py called ‘processes’ and ‘threads’ determine this. The total number of threads will be processes * threads so keep ‘processes’ low and increase ‘threads’ as needed. </p><p>There will be a point where adding more threads makes things worse rather than better.</p><p>Celery</p><p>Celery is the service used to execute background tasks such as processing federation activity, sending emails and so on. If you can see the amount of RAM used by redis (used to queue up things for celery to work on) is growing larger and larger then you probably don’t have enough celery worker processes.</p><p>Bare metal celery: in /etc/default/celeryd, tweak the autoscale parameter in CELERY_OPTS. The numbers are the maximum and minimum amount of processes to run. Max should probably be no more than 2x your CPU cores.</p><p>Docker-based celery: in entrypoint_celery.sh, look for the autoscale parameter. You’ll need to rebuild the docker image after changing this.</p><p>Database connections</p><p>A default docker-based instance will be using postgresql with no tuning at all, which will not scale well. In .env.docker you can set some environment variables to give Postgresql more to work with. e.g.</p><p>POSTGRES_SHARED_BUFFERS=2GBPOSTGRES_EFFECTIVE_CACHE_SIZE=3GBPOSTGRES_WORK_MEM=8MB</p><p>and/or increase shm_size in compose.yaml to be 25% of RAM. See <a href="https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/" rel="nofollow">PGTune</a> for details.</p><p>Bare-metal servers can tune their postgresql server by creating a file in /etc/postgresql/14/main/conf.d/whatever.conf.</p><p>Ensure your postgresql server can handle 300 connections – it’s not just each gunicorn thread that will be connecting, there will be celery processes too.</p><p>Here is the piefed.conf I’m using on piefed.social with ~1000 MAU, 8 CPU cores and 16 GB of RAM:</p><p>synchronous_commit = off<br>wal_writer_delay = 2000ms<br><br>max_connections = 300<br>shared_buffers = 6GB<br>effective_cache_size = 9GB<br>maintenance_work_mem = 1GB<br>checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9<br>wal_buffers = 16MB<br>default_statistics_target = 100<br>random_page_cost = 1.1<br>effective_io_concurrency = 200<br>work_mem = 10MB<br>huge_pages = off<br>min_wal_size = 1GB<br>max_wal_size = 3GB<br>wal_compression = on<br>max_worker_processes = 8<br>max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 3<br>max_parallel_workers = 8<br>max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 4<br></p><p>max_worker_processes should be the number of CPU cores you have. </p><p>The main web app container / service has two environment variables that control the database connection pool and the defaults (used when no value is in the .env) are quite small. Try:</p><p>DB_MAX_OVERFLOW = 70DB_POOL_SIZE = 30</p><p>Don’t panic</p><p>This is an evolving situation and there is no one size fits all configuration. Drop in to <a href="https://chat.piefed.social" rel="nofollow">chat.piefed.social</a> to share what you find or ask for help.</p><p><a href="/tags/performance/" rel="tag">#performance</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a></p>

I’m glad I built my <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> communities on <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#Piefed</a>—because they’re rolling out a “move community” feature.<br><br>If site admins go toxic or a server is circling the drain, you won’t be trapped. You can just pick up and move elsewhere.<br><br>That’s the Fediverse’s killer feature, the one corporate social media can never match: the freedom to walk away.