# PieFed

8 Hacker News commenters recommended PieFed and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend PieFed as a federated, Reddit-like forum that feels like the old internet, with higher signal-to-noise. No critical comments were recorded.

## Why people recommend it

- Reddit-like, old-Reddit feel (3 comments): "Lemmy/Piefed are a pretty good approximation of the "old" reddit" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644471)) "Lemmy/Piefed feels more like "old internet" and I like it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024298)) "Check out Piefed for a Reddit-like" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787904))
- Viable Fediverse alternative to Reddit (3 comments): "The more people who do this the more people will see it as a viable alternative" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117045)) "you could join the Fediverse (Mastodon, Piefed/Lemmy and co.)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641697)) "Try out Lemmy, Piefed or Mbin." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918775))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [vBulletin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vbulletin.md): 11 recommend
- [XenForo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/xenforo.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "PieFed", https://hackerapproved.com/p/piefed/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).