I want to find out more about the origins and development of Piefed … but I can’t seem to find any central write up or basic history. I have to search through past comments and posts to cobble together any info and the Piefed websites, tech descriptions from other sites or anywhere are all very generic and just say it’s a fediverse software similar to Reddit and Lemmy.

I don’t want people to completely dox themselves and expose themselves online if they don’t want to … but at the same time I want to know who the people are that working on the software I want to support. I want to know the people and their organization. I dug around the internet and found the main Piefed developer Rimu Atkinson and he seems like a very decent person.

I guess what I am asking is … it would be nice to have a central place of information for Piefed. A description of its history, how it came about, when it started, who the people are that are making it happen, how many of them there are. If you guys are worried about corporate espionage, a public blog wouldn’t make any difference because these big corporations already have detailed profiles on everyone as it is … it’s just not public.

The thing about public easy to read and quick information site descriptions, articles and stories about people and their work is very informative for us who are new to your community. I had to really do a lot of digging and reading about Piefed over several months (not because it took me that long but because I just did it in my spare time, wasn’t terribly interested and it took a lot of coaxing on my part to look things up). If I was unsure and I wanted to know this history but I had to look up this info on my own … there are probably many more people out there who just wouldn’t bother and pass over Piefed because they just don’t know, can’t find out and don’t want to be bothered searching for the info.

It’s just basic marketing and communications … if people don’t know you, your work or what you’re about … most people won’t take the time to research it all and just won’t bother with it. If there is an easy place to just read up on all this stuff in a few hundred words, a photo or two even, then people would feel a lot more comfortable about wanting to try Piefed.