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- Comment on Blocking Threads 8 hours ago:
It doesn’t matter, Threads has crippled their ActivityPub implementation so badly that I’ve never once seen a post from a threads user. Meta gave up on the idea, effectively.
- Comment on 11 hours ago:
No, it’s legit. Elena has been tooting and peertubing about the fedi and her self hosting journey for over a year.
- Comment on Seach for Threadiverse communities more easily by adding a custom search engine to your browser 15 hours ago:
You could probably do something similar with your instance, like
https://piefed.ca/communities?search=%s. Any big instance is going to have 99% of communities already added. - Comment on What are some Fediverse server hosting tips? 18 hours ago:
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 1 day ago:
Yes I expect it will be a while before client apps add it.
The author has been set as a bot, too. That is a very old feature so it should show up everywhere.
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 1 day ago:
Don’t worry, you’re on PieFed where we flag stuff like this. It’s the Lemmy users who are getting played.
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 1 day ago:
Copy and paste the post into https://copyleaks.com/ai-content-detector or https://gptzero.me
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 1 day ago:
Don’t you see that by running a LLM and impersonating a real person you are being deceptive and decrease trust?
- Comment on About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP 2 days ago:
The author makes some pretty strong claims about Mossad involvement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)#Beginning%E2%80%932018
matrix was created by Amdocs in 2014 and it wasn’t until 3 years later that it spun off to a separate company.
Amdocs was founded in 1983 in Israel but since ~2000 has been a huge multinational and their current HQ is in USA. I was not able to find anything other than conspiracy blogs that link Amdocs with Mossad and in 2000 an FBI investigation turned up nothing - https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/06/us/israeli-spy-inquiry-finds-nothing-officials-say.html
There has been a ton of water under the bridge since then so it’s probably just a normal soulless corp with no specific ideology or agenda other than money.
- Comment on Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires 2 days ago:
In some places it’s fairly common. Check out this network of 257 cooperatives in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
- Comment on What are some Fediverse server hosting tips? 2 days ago:
Yes, that’s normal especially if you have been offline for a while - there will be a backlog that is sent quickly.
Every vote on every post and comment generates a new POST to /inbox, so there are a lot of them. PieFed batches votes up into a single POST but Lemmy sends them individually.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 2 days ago:
Thing is, what is ‘best’ depends on the criteria you apply. If one of them is “allows US govt snooping” or “allows US govt to cut you off whenever” then none of Google’s stuff is ‘the best’.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Banned from piefed.social as of now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is there any way to know this is legit?
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 1 week ago:
OpenWRT is basically Linux for routers and can be installed on a variety of devices - https://openwrt.org/
There is also https://www.gargoyle-router.com/
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There is a FEP for this - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md it’s not something dansup came up with originally. We’ll see how close Pixelfed adheres to it.
PieFed has implemented basic support for that FEP since August 2025 and I just added more today.
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 1 week ago:
Yes, do the S3 integration before moving, for sure.
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 1 week ago:
Oh right, yeah, Wordpress does tend to use up an awful lot of storage - every image gets copied 5 or 6 times, in different sizes just incase you need that size. It’s nuts.
You don’t need to store those images in your server though, they can be uploaded to S3 (object storage) where it is 10x cheaper to store them and then you can have a cheaper VPS.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/
There are many providers of S3-compatible storage, you don’t need to use AWS. Cloudflare R2 is super cheap - https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/r2/ or Hetzner - https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Lemmy has a wikipedia page…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
As well as API endpoints for feeds, these are on my mine
Cross posting non-link posts
When sorting posts by new and then viewing a post should default to sorting comments by new
Browser hang (JavaScript loop) when typing community name in certain situations
- Comment on ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App (Mobile Fortify) Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are 1 week ago:
The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.
- Comment on Best retro-styled/Frutiger Aero/Y2K/Aqua clients? 1 week ago:
!piefed_css@piefed.social has examples of how to make small tweaks by passing CSS into a field in your profile. Nothing y2k themed but it shows a route someone could take to create one.
- Comment on Looking for guidance on modernizing a high-traffic WordPress news site 1 week ago:
This is good advise, listen to dan. WP Super Cache is amazing although getting it working just right can take some tweaking.
The Redis Object Cache plugin is worth a try. It’ll only take a minute to set up.
Is it 200k users or 200k page loads? Those are really different as each user will load multiple pages in a month.
- Comment on Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement 1 week ago:
It exists and I’ve tried it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davfs2
Thing is, when an app thinks a directory is on a local disk, it does things which do not scale well over a network. e.g. reading every file in the directory to make thumbnails.
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 2 weeks ago:
You can tell that’s not a real border patrol agent because he’s showing his face.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 weeks ago:
No advantage, in fact a massive disadvantage.
Fascists lie.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
A handful of people - https://mastodon.social/tags/noltosocial
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Check out this one I came across earlier - https://github.com/Jtensetti/fediverse-career-nexus/blob/main/README.md
- Comment on Where do we go from here? 2 weeks ago:
Your first post was fine. You can leave it to the moderators to delete anything that doesn’t belong.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 2 weeks ago:
Laptop CPUs are crippled garbage compared to desktop CPUs of the same generation. So there’s that.