I’m a squirrel. The german word for squirrel is Eichhörnchen, which is hard to pronounce for english speakers. The english word for Eichhörnchen is squirrel, which is hard to pronounce for german speakers. And I think that’s beautiful :)

formerly known as @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de or @squirrel@piefed.zip or @squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi

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Cake day: April 19th, 2026

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  • A couple of things come to mind:

    • More public institutions need to be on Mastodon or similar microblogging services, so they can publish public service announcements openly via Fediverse and RSS for everyone to read
    • More video creators and public broadcasters need to publish their videos or mirror their channels to PeerTube/Loops etc.
    • More donations or funding in general for fediverse developers and instance admins
    • More enthusiasts who post about their niche interests in niche communities on Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin










  • Keep in mind, too, that you can add as much or as little data as you want. If you want to map the species name of every tree, feel free; if you want to trace over a building and just call it a “building” with no other details, that’s helpful too. So don’t get intimidated; it’s about what you can do, not what you can’t.

    Thanks for this! I wanted to add a public ping pong table a couple weeks ago but got overwhelmed by all the data fields in Vespucci. I didn’t want to submit an incomplete dataset, but couldn’t figure out which additional fields are needed. Next time I’ll just submit it.






  • With all the drama lately, I had many moments where I thought this can’t be good for your health. It isn’t good for mine, that’s why I didn’t engage in the threads and focused on more positive things. Most of Threadiverse development and conversation is way more positive, but the drama can paint it in a different light if you’re deep in it. PieFed has brought so much joy to so many of us and continues to do so. Thank you for all your work. I hope you can find some peace in all this.