in different social networks I often see a table of fediverse alternatives to centralized social networks like twitter = mastodon and so on, but I noticed that the alternative to reddit is piefed and not lemmy, can someone explain what kind of fediverse project this is, and is it different from lemmy?🤔
Lemmy is the alternative to reddit but some people really dislike communists so they
vibe-coded(apparently a human wrote all of it, I thought otherwise based on some coding patterns.) their own platform called piefed. So now we have two. Use whichever you like, though personally I don’t trust piefeds security and that was vindicated just last week when someone asked an LLM to check it’s security and it immediately found a hole the size of jupiter.Piefed is not vibe coded:
Lemmy had a similar SSRF issue recently, the main difference is that it was disclosed using the proper process: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/security/advisories/GHSA-q537-8fr5-cw35
As far as I understand the piefed bug was more severe with an attacker being able to post create and update activities impersonating other instances and users? The original post is down so my memory might be incorrect.