I suppose it depends on the purpose of the community. Narrowly defined communities like eeveelutions or The Addams Family don’t really justify a glut of content in an hour.

OP seems to run a news community though, which is probably where they ran into a brick wall with the 5 post limit. There’s a lot of news. And I guess you’re not a very useful news community if you miss a lot of it.

And the unnatural and extremely sudden increase in mentions - over just the last week or so, it’s gone from Piefed almost never being mentioned anywhere to it being mentioned in hundreds if not thousands of threads a day. That also makes me suspicious.

It was gaining momentum anyway, but the big reason was the collapse of lemm.ee - which held many medium-sized communities having to find a new home. A lot (not all) chose piefed.

Piefed isn’t a centralised system itself. There isn’t just one Piefed instance.

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