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- Comment on Is there an easy way to create blocklist of post or comment for other people? 1 week ago:
This idea is quite similar to what Bluesky is doing, with "Labels" https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation.
We'd need some way to crowdsource the verification and validity of the labels so people can't just put low-quality or abusive labels everywhere.
It could potentially reduce the amount of work moderators need to do because spam would be labelled as such by anyone and if a few others also label it the same then it would reach a threshold where the label becomes active.
Does anyone have experience with this way of moderating content on Bluesky? How well does it work in practice?
- Comment on Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch? 1 week ago:
Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL and you start out by importing SQLite into your project and building on top of that. To you it seems like a good idea because you've never written a DB app before and the only DB you've ever seen before is SQLite. You'll get a prototype real fast but you'll never build a PostgreSQL equivalent because you never learned the foundational knowledge of how a DB works and because SQLite forecloses all the pathways you need to get there.
Same thing.
- Comment on Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch? 1 week ago:
Because outsourcing your core business processes is a bad idea. A fediverse app that relies on a library to do all the fediverse stuff is going to have a bad time. Not straight away, but eventually.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 1 week ago:
Compact mode has been added now, FYI. Screenshots at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/540#issuecomment-3788240
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
Even teenage girls?
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 2 weeks ago:
Active is the worst one I have no idea why it's the default.
- Comment on Is it technically feasible to just move incorrectly submitted with all their comments and votes to a different instance and community, instead of removing them? 2 weeks ago:
It is theoretically possible, the devs of NodeBB, Mbin and PieFed were discussing it the other day - https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18737/moving-topics
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
A nice comment is worth more than 1000 upvotes, emotionally.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Cool! Before you dive in, check this out https://join.piefed.social/docs/developers/
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
I've never seen a Lemmy DB, sorry.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Ok. Watch this space: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/540
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
We won't 100% know the answer to that until we get there. But in 2025 fear of a lack of CPU cores is NOT what keeps me awake at night.
Early performance results are positive. Check these links out:
https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/
https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/
There are many many ways to ruin web app performance and choice of backend language is not really a big one. It's what you do with it that counts.
https://piefed.social is running on a low end VPS which costs $7.50 per month. Load average is about 1.45 during the busiest part of the day. Most of the load is caused by federating with lemmy.world and that won't increase as more users come on board.
PieFed is already really efficient with storage. After 16 months of operation, subscribed to every popular community, the piefed.social DB is 30 GB and the media storage is 28 GB. A Lemmy instance would be 10x that.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to the jungle
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
If you use a mobile app then whether your account is on Lemmy or PieFed makes no difference - most of your experience will be determined by which app you choose.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 2 weeks ago:
Maybe reduced demand in USA will lower prices everywhere else...
- Comment on A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
IMO poor security is more about a lack of eyes on the code. Projects that have a single developer will be pretty easy money.
- Comment on A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I can't wait to find out which project has the most security holes 🔥
Any guesses?
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
Google has put a lot of effort into detecting and blocking stuff like this. They call it "click fraud", if you want to look it up.
It'll just mean they start ignoring clicks from you.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on 1 month ago:
something like this perhaps https://piefed.social/f/movies
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Nice one!
Today I added a feature which will help you invite people to join your community - go to https://piefed.social/community/movies/invite
- Comment on The Anti-Intellectualism of Social Media Design 1 month ago:
As well as the algorithm, there are also structural things.
For example tweets limited to 160 characters favor simplistic solutions, which the far right provide. An endless stream of random unrelated nuggets of ideas create a fugue of confusion, perfect for injecting disinformation. Ruined attention spans can only grasp simplistic solutions. Video-based media means surface appearance matters more than substance. And so on.
- Comment on Protests across USA 1 month ago:
heh heh heh
- Submitted 1 month ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
Preach!
- Comment on Download a Lemmy conversation as a PDF? 1 month ago:
Lemmy has no print stylesheet
- Comment on GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls 1 month ago:
How do we feel about the idea of reply controls on Lemmy threads? Limit replies to members of the community, same instance, etc...
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 months ago:
Bummer.
It depends what your threat model is. Admins being dickheads about who downvoted what was the main issue at the time so I made it about choosing which admins to trust.
If future Lemmy versions show votes to mods (not just admins) then Pandora's box would be well and truly open so we'd need to rethink this.
- Comment on Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server 2 months ago:
MailCow is similar except uses docker. I expect that will mean easier maintenance as it is less tightly bound to the underlying OS.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 2 months ago:
One time, in 2008. It was an envelope, tho.