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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PieFed.zip takes an interesting approach: it blocks the most controversial instances but not as defederations i.e. at the instance level, and instead does so automatically for every new account upon sign-up, then sends the user a message explaining how to remove that block. From there they can unblock, reblock, back and forth as they choose at will. It thus makes federation with hexbear and Lemmygrad as opt-in rather than opt-out or obligatory or neglected as all other instances across the Threadiverse do.

  I do not recall if it does this for lemmy.ml as well - I would suspect not, sadly, but then again it would be fairly unique in that respect if it did, as virtually no major instances do so.

  And as far as far-right instances, those do not really exist, though nonetheless the historical ones are in the defederation list (exploding heads, freespeechextremists, and ofc threads.net:-P), and surely over time new instances could be added as well.

  Finally I will add that I’ve never seen the tiniest hint of documentation for any of this - not in https://piefed.zip/defed_policy, or the welcome messages in their announcements or home local communities, and now I don’t see their listing anywhere in the instance picker site, despite trying multiple host instances of that including themselves. I only know about this since I took questioned how Newbie-friendly any instance was that federates with the above-mentioned pair, and the instance admin told me about this, but even now months later I still don’t see an official description written down about this somewhere easily accessible by people.

  The Threadiverse is still very much a Work-In-Progress! But… it’s getting better, and PieFed.zip is a major part of that progress, it looks to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are irl, whereas the toxic AF perpetually online among us here (e.g. hexbear and Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml) are likely not dating at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PieFed.zip is very new-user friendly (see very minimal instance blo ck list). I don’t see the requirement for an endless barrage of new instances being a blocker - the amount that we have now is sufficient to handle far more capacity than the entire Threadiverse is currently capable of demanding from the servers.

  Quite the opposite: most stories I see about people talking about the Threadiverse is how toxic AF we are, and elitist leftists, not welcoming to liberal centrists e.g. in the USA. So if the goal were to bring on more people from Reddit (setting aside for the morning whether that is truly a worthwhile aim), then more censorship of toxicity is what would more readily make that happen, not less moderation. e.g. one glance at hexbear and your average Redditor will never come back here again:-P.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dream 🦕 Big⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we should ask a dinosaurologist!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Lore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Lore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes you just gotta get creative!:-)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “yes”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend some Aerospace and STEM Fediverse spaces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of great STEM communities exist on mander.xyz, but it’s an older and sometimes very slow Lemmy instance, so I would recommend accessing them via a more modern and far easier to use PieFed instance such as PieFed.social or PieFed.zip, e.g. no login needed to view https://piefed.zip/c/astronomy@mander.xyz.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨optimal amount of syrup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr. Waffleologist!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Print some math.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I was terrified that the Eldritchian voices inside my head, and also you would say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Print some math.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Um, hypothetically speaking, for a ah friend, if I wanted to STOP slipping into the ever deepening abyss of further levels of hell, how might I, oh I mean my friend, accomplish this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pigbutt Worm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just now noticing this stealth pun in the episode title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can neither confirm nor deny this allegation, never having been on one personally. 🤪

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Authorities say:

  NO!

  _{(But actually its yes)}

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Population per capita of US states⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This does not work at smaller scales, of n=0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aerodynamics of Saddam Hussein⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next time do better - finding him was not very challenging this time! 😜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are very welcome 🤗

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are different parts to Reddit. The largest subs that appear on r/all (or rather pop) are one thing, the small niche subs are another, the interactions with Reddit admins one aspect, the less controversial subjects another, and so on.

  The Threadiverse is the same - like if you post the “wrong” thing in a tankie space then you will be brigaded with users following and downvoting you across many communities - they even brag about creating accounts specifically for this purpose, to get around bans (bc “no” means you need to keep pushing, consent be damned!!)

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  But even if the maximum experience here can be much worse than on Reddit, the average interaction is far kinder and nicer, imho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, PieFed has put all those features into its API, so at this point the burden is on each individual app designer to catch up to using them, if they decide they want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I edited my comment before you replied here adding a bit more.

  Yeah, I agree, Reddit is much easier to use than Lemmy, but PieFed has most definitely solved that problem, in most if not entirely all of them. You don’t even need to create an account - just visit one of them, like the flagship PieFed.social, and the difference is immediately recognizeable!

  For instance, I could in theory unsubscribe from all politics and news communities (or just the largest most controversial of them), but then still have access to all of that content just a click away in the category of communities News & Politics. I can (figuratively) both have my cake and eat it too!

  And if you do create an account, the sign-up wizard alone is likely to make you absolutely fall in love. Content discovery is a solved issue in PieFed.

  I like how I can control notifications for everything - e.g. for a low-volume community I sign up to be told for every single new post. You could get notified of content from a particular user, or a specific comment - even one that is not yours! - and crucially (even for your own), you can STOP being notified of replies, e.g. when you say something in Chapotraphouse or Lemmygrad.ml and strongly wish that you had not done so…

  The UI for Piefed is a bit less polished - it suffers from trying to look different from both Reddit and Lemmy, despite how those layouts simply make a great deal of sense. But its UX is superb! Yeah, check it out - you can always keep using your Lemmy as an alt, though if you are anything like me then you will find yourself doing so increasingly less often until you just use PieFed all the time, because why would you want to use the product with fewer features?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is Reddit easier to use?

  PieFed is extremely easy to use. Its searching sucks, but so too does Reddit’s (Lemmy sets an extraordinarily high bar there: Lemmy’s searching is supremely excellent).

  Reddit is definitely larger and has more niche communities - I’m not pushing back on that, just questioning why Reddit is easier to use than PieFed.

  Or did you mean that Reddit is much easier to use than Lemmy? That I would agree with - Lemmy is extremely lacking, e.g. user polls, user & post flairs, multi-communities, notifications for things, e.g. if you get banned then Lemmy will never tell you but PieFed will, and the list just goes on and on and on and on… but that’s just Lemmy, not all of the Threadiverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffee ☕⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  German… what now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a video. I’ll see if I can get it to auto play here:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the person you were responding to meant that the execs were not useful (see the parent comment), or at least not as useful to the overall enterprise as their salaries would have lead you to believe, in comparison to a standard developer.

  Yes workflow systems are useful. Jira is a bad implementation to a good idea. It might help if they listened to feedback from people who actually used their software to improve it. Tbf they do make some good changes occasionally, like adding dark mode (which isn’t perfect but also it isn’t nothing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prior Sprints do not Exist.

  There is your active Sprint, there is a huge pile of all tickets that ever were, unable to be sorted by any reasonable metric, and there are the interlinks between tickets. Nothing else exists.

  When your Sprint ends, say goodbye for you shall literally never see your helpful comment that you put all those details into again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yippie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1

  + Infinity