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- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
Some instances have used it to do something like a dynamic message of the day. That is the most I have seen it used for so far.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
Previous threads about these filters were people complaining about them being hardcoded, completely ignoring that they are completely optional and off by default. It would go something like this:
Look at this awful thing PieFed does!
def do_the_thing(): # relatively simple code that does the thing
It completely ignored the context that the
do_the_thingfunction is only called if the admin wants to do the thing. - Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
They’re just making shit up. In their mind I guess Javascript that is intentionally included by an admin to customize their instance counts as ACE. In that sense any webserver you ever browse to is capable of ACE.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
arbitrary
You mean the Javascript that would need to be written and added by the instance admin? Something that any admin with infra access could do anyway? Hardly seems arbitrary at all. ACE usually means something not intended.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
I’m sure you will be pleased to know that the filter this post is about and most of the others mentioned in this thread are, in fact, off by default.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
It’s also a checkbox on the admin/misc settings to make it easier to disable.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
I know the blocking stuff is actively being worked on as we aren’t happy with it yet. However, that is an issue where it would be literally impossible for every user to be happy with whatever end state it results in. That is an area where the different software platforms can offer people different experiences so that they can seek out the type of experience they are looking for.
Almost everything else you listed here can be turned on/off by an admin. I didn’t know about the 8-character username thing, probably worth revisiting that. The downvotes being disabled with low attitude is one I don’t see being removed, but could be an admin-set threshold (or disabled) in a future version. In fact, I suspect that the formula was written this way to make the threshold more well bounded instead of a simple up - down calculation.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
If you are seeing those on lemmy or in a different client than the web ui, that would have to be something else. The red triangles don’t federate at all, nor are they in the api, they are just based on the local content of a user on that instance.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
the whole þ fiasco
That has since been removed. Yeah, rimu is certainly opinionated and passionate about what he believes in, but has also been pretty receptive to feedback, both from users and from admins (like in the private voting case). Fortunately, there are alternative threadiverse platforms out there for people that want them. Both lemmy and mbin do some stuff better than PieFed, and that’s ok. The different projects have maintained working relationships at the dev level to try to make sure interoperability outside the base activitypub spec doesn’t completely break (the post-moving feature/FEP was a collaboration between PieFed, lemmy, and NodeBB for example).
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
I don’t necessarily disagree. I haven’t really taken a close look at how this is implemented, but it also hasn’t really been a high priority to revisit, at least not for me. There are still plenty of more fundamental features to get right first in my opinion. The big one I have worked on for the next piefed version is to get local sticky posts working for example.
My experience from working with rimu though is that he has been pretty receptive with contributions to make it less opinionated in these kinds of ways. I have removed or made optional tons of stuff that he spent time coding and I haven’t really gotten any pushback from him over it. I know it kind of makes me sound like a douche to just say open a PR, but if somebody out there feels strongly about this filter, that is probably the fastest way to get it changed.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
Also fun fact, you can probably upload it to most other piefed instances just fine.
rimu has pretty strong opinions on social media. This filter is optional and can be turned on/off by an admin. Some of my contributions to piefed have been to make filters or features that are strongly opinionated like this optional. For piefed.social specifically though, rimu has all of them on because that is his instance and he runs it the way he wants.
- Comment on Desktop Client Apps? 2 weeks ago:
Interstellar has a standalone desktop app and supports all three threadiverse ecosystems (lemmy/piefed/mbin).
- Comment on PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters 1 month ago:
I don’t think so, but I wasn’t working on it. Tagging @rimu@piefed.social for awareness.
To do this, they would need to be an admin running a modified version of the software no? If that was really happening with any kind of regularity, it would surely be grounds for defederation.
In any case, if this were to become an issue, then I am sure we can change it. We have already had to change how community flair federates a few times to try to keep up with lemmy’s PRs on the feature to try to make sure it is compatible.
- Comment on PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters 1 month ago:
As a contributor to PieFed (by my count, 7 of those bullet points in rimu’s post were done by me)…there is not more to this story as this is just some rando’s perceived grievances. If there was such animosity with the lemmy devs, why would piefed.social remain federated with lemmy.ml? There are definitely ideological differences between the devs of the two platforms, but the working relationship has been cordial and I truly believe everybody involved is aligned in the goal of promoting federated alternatives to corporate social media.
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- Comment on My Happy Marriage (New Anime) Visual 2 months ago:
I think they are planning a couple OVAs next year. I think they are running out of source material from what I can gather, so there might not be enough left for a whole other season.
- Comment on [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff 2 months ago:
Some that I haven’t seen others suggest yet would be The Tale of The Princess Kaguya by Studio Ghibli and the recently-aired Apocalypse Hotel.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 months ago:
Is there a software solution on the app developer level that combines like posts together?
As mentioned in this thread already, piefed consolidates all the comments for crossposts when it detects them. As an example, you can look at this post on piefed.social. The link I shared is for the post on !news@lemmy.world, but below it you can see comments from the same article posted in !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk as well as !world@lemmy.world in their own sections as you keep scrolling. So, problem solved, right? Well…
One of the key phrases I used above is “when it detects them”. So, how does piefed detect crossposts? The answer is pretty simple, it basically just looks for other posts that point to the same destination url. In the example I linked, that would be the Guardian article that is being discussed. This is the same way that lemmy detects crossposts. This approach is nice and easy and computationally cheap on the database (quick), however, there is a big shortfall of this method…posts that don’t point to a url (discussion posts) can never be detected as crossposts. Lemmy offers the ability to hit the crosspost button on a discussion post and it will create a big block quote of the original post for you, but it isn’t actually recognized as a crosspost in the software.
I don’t have a good technical solution to be able to make discussion posts (and other non-url posts, like piefed events or polls) be crossposted properly. It likely would need to be tracked in the database somehow, but it would rely on users somehow indicating that the post they are making is meant to be a crosspost. I don’t know really…
Anyway, that is the current state of crossposts. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
- Comment on Does piefed not have a modlog view? 2 months ago:
Alright, after another user pointed it out to me, I suspect the reason you aren’t seeing links to the modlog is likely because you were on piefed.world. They have been slow to update their piefed instance and are still on the 1.1 version. That means that updates to piefed that have been introduced in 1.2 (current stable version) and 1.3 (current dev version) are not present. Some updates to the modlog since then:
- (1.2) searching and filtering the modlog if you are logged in
- (1.3) introducing a dedicated link to the modlog on the footer of every page
- (1.3) adding a link to the modlog on each community’s sidebar
- (1.3) adding a link to the modlog on a user’s profile page
- Comment on Does piefed not have a modlog view? 2 months ago:
I just added it there a couple days ago, so don’t feel like it’s always been there hiding under your nose. 😀
- Comment on Does piefed not have a modlog view? 2 months ago:
piefed.world is on an older version of piefed where that wasn’t added yet. Similarly, instances that are on older versions of piefed won’t have links to the modlog on a community’s sidebar or on a user profile’s dropdown.
I’m not sure what is holding up piefed.world from updating. They are still on the 1.1 branch when 1.2 has been stable for some time now and we are preparing 1.3 for release very soon.
- Comment on Does piefed not have a modlog view? 2 months ago:
Without being an admin you won’t be able to see the username of the mod that banned you. This is also true for lemmy.
- Comment on Does piefed not have a modlog view? 2 months ago:
It is in the dropdowm on their user profile page. Putting it on every single post/comment feels like overkill to me. Or, I just use the modlog way less than most people.
- Comment on Does piefed not have a modlog view? 2 months ago:
It’s also linked in the footer of every page.
- Comment on TIL about this Fediverse software database 3 months ago:
Not the person you are replying to, but I wouldn’t call it obscure, no. It’s getting used more and more in recent years and there are pushes to even use it for parts of the Linux kernel. However, it is a language that you wouldn’t be familiar with unless you are most likely a professional software engineer (or a very dedicated hobbyist).
One of the benefits of python is its relative ease of learning and readability make the codebase easier to understand and make contributions. I don’t work in software, but I have made numerous contributions to Piefed for features that I have wanted in lemmy, but I haven’t ever been able to wrap my head around rust.
Nothing against lemmy though. Their codebase is a couple years more mature, and since they develop api-first, it is more feature complete from a mobile app’s perspective. Piefed is developed web ui-first by comparison.
- Comment on [News] Frieren Werewolf game on sale Dec 18 3 months ago:
Interesting that Aura is on the cover art along with Frieren. I guess she would be the closest thing to an antagonist from the first season of the anime. I do find it interesting how popular Aura has become after the anime aired. It’s not like Aura wasn’t liked before, but I think episodes 9 and 10 of the anime took that whole sequence to a new level and cemented Aura (and her end) into a ton of people’s minds.