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Cake day: January 25th, 2026

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  • Alright, lets do this.

    I have been playing around with setting up my own little PieFed instance: https://nord.red/, the one I’m posting from now. Set it up in the weekend and I’m kind of surprised how smooth the process was.

    Why? Mostly for fun, but also because I feel like I would like to contribute what I can to there being non-American alternatives to Social media available, especially with the current climate and the appearance of increased censorship on Reddit. With about a decade of experience in systems administration and DevOps, and with a decent amount of free cash flow I thought perhaps this is something to try out and see where it leads.

    I don’t have any specific goal other than it being a “Nordic Reddit” and a gateway to the fediverse… but I know there are already at least feddit.nu and feddit.dk (and probably for Norway and Finland as well) and I don’t want to fracture a already small communities.

    For now the setup is a bit experimental, as in its completely dependent on a single computer in perhaps non-ideal conditions… but I do have a pretty solid plan for scaling it up (i. e. getting hosts from Hetzner in Finland)

    Should I commit to this? I dunno, probably not as I have like 2 weeks of experience of the Fediverse 😆