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PieFed (https://wetshav.ing) has been running smoothly from what I can tell.
Fun fact, since the images are handled differently than Lemmy and I still want to keep them in an object storage bucket, I was forced to learn how to route everything through Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a corporation and is therefore evil in some eyes, but it does come with a lot of free features that prevent being spammed by AI bots, for example.
Lemmy sometimes suffers from AI bot attacks (at least I think that's what causes the slowdowns). In the future I'd like to get Lemmy routed through Cloudflare as well, but I'll need @djundjilla's help.
PieFed does run smoothly and everything is loaded very fast.
Cloudflare has a few critiques, but if the alternative is AI bots and DDoS attacks I think it's the better alternative. Just look at how vanilla YT comment sections look nowadays. You can't say certain words but the spambots for crude scams run rampant. I really hope the Fediverse finds a good way to combat this and if Cloudflare is part of the solution, so be it. They also work with Mozilla, so they can't be totally evil IMHO.
Piefed works well! Feels much snappier than Lemmy.
You're in Europe, right? I would have thought PieFed would be slower since the server is in the USA. Lemmy is in Finland.
Yes, I am in Europe. Lemmy still feels slowers