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- Comment on 6 hours ago:
You are very welcome 🤗
- Comment on 13 hours 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!!)
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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 14 hours 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 ☕ 1 day ago:
German… what now?
- Comment on Great Tits 1 day 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time 1 week ago:
Uh… lower profit margins for the CEOs?
- Comment on Positive affirmations from your favorite captains 1 week ago:
But if he were, you would get to kill him every loop…?
- Comment on IBM 1979 variation 1 week ago:
*Shudder*, so, so Very, deliciously evil!
- Comment on IBM 1979 variation 1 week ago:
Don’t be(do ALL the) evil! - Comment on IBM 1979 variation 1 week ago:
Tbf it doesn’t care if people live or die… so long as they refill its supply (it ran out of red ink, it would seem).
- Comment on Positive affirmations from your favorite captains 1 week ago:
We all have to make sacrifices, in order to kill Tuvix.
But the important thing is, can she find a way to also get coffee out of the situation?
If the answer is anything at all related to proton torpedos, then the answer is an obvious yes!
- Comment on Positive affirmations from your favorite captains 1 week ago:
No fucking way. Janeway like her coffee SO MUCH (how much is that, you ask? I will tell you, she loves her coffee SO MUCH!!) that she would even go to the extreme ends of not murdering someone to get it.
Possibly not Tuvix though, bc fuck that one guy in particular.
But a normal everyday murder, on a Tuesday, she would absolutely forego in order to have her coffee fix.
- Comment on Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments 2 weeks ago:
We have so chosen to not be ready for what is to come.
- Comment on Need a hand? Or eight? 3 weeks ago:
8 legs and not one hand among them…
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 3 weeks ago:
PieFed, at the discretion of community mods, offers restriction of voting to only subscribed community members. This limits drive-by downvoting from All, where people would not have read the community rules (which in PieFed are repeated in their entirety at the bottom of every post from that community).
It also offers restriction of voting to only “trusted” instances, thereby introducing a third category between the binary federation vs. defederation.
I have also seen communities on PieFed that disable downvoting entirely, even to subscribed members, even on the same instance.
Community mods can enable or disable these settings at will iirc.
- Comment on Nomenclature 4 weeks ago:
Get with the times - apparently we are past that, and it is borbs that aren’t real
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 4 weeks ago:
“B-b-but my side virtuous (in all ways, and can do no wrong), while their side ignoramus (everything they do is because they are poopy-heads)!”
I wish I could add /s here but a good half the population on earth seems to hold to this as an invariant position, solidarity in the face of all obstacles, i.e. the Nazi bar effect.
Case in point: who doesn’t love it when a religious institution offers food and shelter and medical care to the needy, or counsels people to forgive, laying down their burdens and seek therapy to thereby travel lighter through the world? It is the diddling kids part that for some strange reason (/s on this one) people tend to get upset?
Since we were talking about Zionism here, I will mention that Deuteronomy 13:5 (in the Torah, part of the Old Testament for Christian and Muslim and offshoot religious branches such as Mormonism) provides an EXTREMELY stern warning about those who would misuse their authority to lead people astray.
TLDR: intolerance paradox - if you tolerate the intolerant, it corrupts the entire system, giving it a bad reputation when people see the worst excesses and extrapolate that to infer the properties of the whole. e.g. Reddit is fascist, hence we did not stay and put up with it but rather moved here.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ghost of Lemm.ee? 1 month ago:
It would have been helpful yeah.
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 1 month ago:
Like all of it?! At once!?
I doubt you have what it would take to satisfy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Like phone calls, and texting, bad actors ruin everything that they touch.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 month ago:
Okay so you have some good points, especially towards the beginning, but just so we are on the same page: are you aware that moderation reports do not federate? Or rather, that they do in PieFed but not in Lemmy. Things are rarely so black and white, good and evil, healthy or not. (I forget, will Lemmy 1.0 add this capability? Anyway PieFed already has it.)
introducing arbitrary metrics that can be used to limit the visibility of expression
Investigate just a tiny bit into the moderation practices going on at lemmy.ml.
not just on the local instance but across many
That one is harder to investigate but there too - Lemmy devs (who also are the same ones moderating lemmy.ml, and yes monetary funds donated towards “Lemmy development” absolutely go to that, rather than code changes, with no way to opt out of that, unless you donate to Nutomic directly, which brings up… shall we say other issues relating to limitations on free expressions, particularly for trans people) in the last year added a hard-coded instance name that can provide a list of which communities it wanted to suggest to new instances as being popular, essentially giving that instance veto power. ONE instance, controlling all new instances, unless the admin does additional work to discover those shadow-banned rejections and add them manually.
Take one guess which instance was chosen to have that veto power? Yeah, lemmy.ml, surprise. Tbf, this has since been walked back, and while the instance names are still hard-coded, the new instance admin now has multiple options that they can select from (so the selection of any particular one of those is not, anymore). I am not sure how transparently this is presented to them.
Things get better with time and even more with attention. The PieFed devs are extremely receptive to feedback. The Lemmy devs… well, they are at least somewhat receptive - tbf Rust is a difficult language and that seems to constrain how much they are willing to do in any given timeframe (unless there is some other reason that requests go for years and years and years without being done?). Lemmy is just older, and also it receives funding (except again, it is exceedingly difficult to ensure that such funding actually goes towards code development), so then in that light, PieFed’s development is SUPREMELY impressive. Yes more work will need to be done with it still.
Let’s get busy and make the Threadiverse healthier - all of us, together!?:-)
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 month ago:
lolz, so much disinformation there though. Like:
What’s sad is that since lemmy.ml is blocked by default, most PieFed users won’t see it.
I think there might be one major instance that chose to do this, and I cannot even recall offhand which one, so obviously it’s not THAT major. This is some LLM-level of analysis right there (Lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net are blocked from many instances, and people often lump lemmy.ml together into a triad, hence lemmy.ml must be automatically blocked as well!).
Funny enough, Lemmy.ml disallows what they consider cuss words, which were even hard-coded, and when asked they told the community to take a hike ("create a fork and stop bothering us about it"), until after a huge outcry they did eventually relent.
Lemmy users be like “why can’t we all get along…”, yet feel absolutely free to criticize every tiny aspect (including - in fact especially - fictional ones) of PieFed, while ignoring how e.g. lemmy.ml kicks people out of communities they’ve never even so much as heard of for not praising Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough.
My side always does good and never bad, other side always does bad and never good. Much tribal, so cringe.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 month ago:
To be clear, defederation has nothing whatsoever to do with PieFed.
Defederation happens on Lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, nodeBB, and every other type of software across the entire Fediverse. It is even an absolutely crucial tool to prevent CSAM which depending on the locality of the affected instance could get it shut down and potentially the instance owner exposed to actual criminal charges. (There are other ways, but typically defederation is the easiest.)
Likewise, lemmy.ml famously censors what they consider cusswords on their instance - with a hard-coded list even, iirc, at least it was at one time, years ago - but then after much outcry this censorship was made optional in the code.
So defederation is a reason to not join an instance in favor of some other one, but has nothing to do with wanting to either avoid or preferentially pick an instance running PieFed. In fact the opposite is true, as the PieFed software allows additional options beyond simply federate vs. defederate, allowing instance admins choices between those two extremes. This finer granularity is so helpful! e.g. the PieFed.zip instance blocks Hexbear.net by default for new users, but explains how to remove that, thereby offering hexbear as opt-in content, rather than having to choose between treating it identically the same as all other instances or else cutting it out entirely.
PieFed also allows notes to be placed onto content, which is particularly helpful for places such as Beehaw where their stated ToS differs from the usual across the rest of the Threadiverse.
In fact I am not aware of any particular reason to avoid running PieFed, but anyway even presuming that such exists, defederation is definitely not among them.
