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- Comment on 19 hours ago:
Also Terrorgram.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 21 hours ago:
If that's been their goal for decades then there would be something written down to that effect. Policy statements, press releases, meeting minutes.... Got anything?
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
Some admins really love watching who votes for what and banning people based on that.
You can disagree with that if you like but if it means they get pissed enough to defederate your whole instance, you lose.
If your instance is just you and a handful of others, no one will notice or care. But once you have 1000 users the amount of anonymous votes will be noticed and there will be consequences. Maybe not defederation but everyone banned for upvoting bigoted content will migrate to your instance and you'll be hosting the biggest shitbirds around.
I don't see a solution to this. As long as lemmy and mbin let admins snoop on people's votes that will be the dynamic and PieFed puts itself at a disadvantage by doing anything different.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
Cheers :)
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
pls join !pies@piefed.social
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
This only effects about 3.5% of accounts.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
The -10 can be changed in your settings. Set it to -1000 to show everything :)
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
That's how it used to work but I got rid of it because there were too many unintended side-effects. Now a private vote is just one that is not federated.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
Private votes are just normal votes except without the federation. So their effect is only felt on the local instance.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
I wrote that code. It can be turned off or on by the instance admin. When an instance is created It's off by default.
Originally, when I wrote the feature comparison page, it could not be turned off.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
It's on the 3 dot menu on every post.
Makes sense to have it on the community too, tho. I'll find a place for it.
- Comment on Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations 2 days ago:
Imagine a junior dev called "Big Balls" starting up Claude Code and telling it "Hey I need you to make this app great, remove all unnecessary code" and then just accepting whatever it proposes.
Literally vibe coding a country.
- Comment on What is piefed? 2 days ago:
If only it was that easy. Check out these examples of what Voyager does: https://vger.social/comment/8605586
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
I really need help with anubis. I can get it to block but not in such a way that also allows API access and federation and web clients like blorpblorp.
Anyway I only need to turn anubis on for 10 minutes and all the scrapers go away for days. They really really hate it!
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
Yes, I've been trying to make anubis work for a while. It's tricky to get right.
Here is an early experiment - https://join.piefed.social/2025/07/09/an-anubis-config-for-piefed/
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
No, admins designate it.
Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
This is a temporary measure to reduce load on the server from AI scrapers.
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
Yeah just until the latest scraper wave goes away.
- Comment on Madagascar man guilty of rape and murder of child sentenced to surgical castration 1 week ago:
lol catholic bishops speaking out against harsher punishment for child abuse offenders, wow
- Comment on In China, delivery robots now ride the subway to restock 7-Eleven stores 1 week ago:
more than 1,600 robotics companies.
In one city. Christ.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What would happen if I changed fedi server software but keep same domain? 2 weeks ago:
quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.
Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.
- Comment on Federated Social Media with Topic-Based Following and Blocking? 2 weeks ago:
PieFed does that. See https://piefed.social/feeds which are basically collections of communities that you can join or leave with 1 click.
- Comment on Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to how it’s designed: Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior. 2 weeks ago:
Yep
It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with tankie memes — interspersed with photos generated by AI
I've really tried to provide tools to tame the meme flood and put them into effect on https://PieFed.social - compare that with the front-page (or All feed) of any Lemmy instance (or most PieFed instances, to be fair).
Gen AI filter is coming.
- Comment on Epstein died by suicide, did not have 'client list': govt memo 2 weeks ago:
I checked in on the fash trumper forums earlier, they're in full meltdown about this. So good to see.
- Comment on found my Civilization ][ poster while going cleaning 3 weeks ago:
I love how interlinked the tech tree was. In later versions it became a much simpler tree-based hierarchy which is easier to mentally navigate but way less realistic.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like I need a better DNS provider!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Using fake information is mandatory otherwise you'll get doxed - the domain ownership is public information, including your full name, physical address, email address and phone number. If someone knows you own the domain, they can look it up using
whois.I got death threats that way, one time.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 3 weeks ago:
Although, replacing the battery on the Fairphone is so much easier that 1000 cycles is acceptable.