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The onboarding will offer you a lot of topics to sign up to. These contain communities in them. The idea is to populate subscription feeds, however it can leave some users with a lot of undesired subscriptions if they click too many.

Some (or maybe all?) of the time, posts I’ve previously voted on seem to show now visual indicator. When I click again, the number changes in the opposite direction as expected meaning I undid some previous vote. I’m just using this in firefox on PC. Is anyone else seeing this? I can definitely see the style directly after I vote but before I refresh the page. Thanks!

I’ve deployed piefed.social on a Raspberry Pi and made it public using a Cloudflare Tunnel. Now I’d like to add a Zulip chat instance and, if possible, share login credentials between the two services like the main instance does.

Let’s gooo

I can’t paste images into the body anymore, so here’s a link to one example: https://piefed.zip/post/1645895#comment_6124522 (user “makeshif*”).

IIRC, PF-dev Rimu recently explained exactly why he was trialing such limits in a recent software update post. I.e., to create a more efficient internal & external software / HW backbone, for us users, AFAIK. Based on network / host / server loads etc, as I read the updates.

After a couple days of discussions about the newly implemented vote quota, I’m kinda exhausted. It seems like a situation we won’t ever agree on. Me personally, I don’t want to argue like this over a piece of software that I have high regards for. It tears us apart, where we should work together.

So, I used to vote on posts constantly—not really to give karma, but as a quick way to mark them as read to get them out of my feed. It was perfect: a single click, much faster than actually opening the post. But now with the new voting quota in place, I can’t do that anymore without hitting the limit. According to discussions on the instance, the quota was implemented to limit voting activity, and it’s already affecting users who vote frequently.

Comments with images tend to take up a lot of screen space, and usually they’re not very constructive in the first place, so it’d be nice if there was an option to collapse them, and even to hide them by default.

There seems to be an issue with pulling in post titles sometimes, either from Lemmy or other PieFed instances, resulting in the text “(content in post body)” rather than the actual title.

If you’ve been playing with PieFed’s new Follow functionality at all you’ll notice that it’s a bit limited. Yeah you can follow people but you were probably seeing all their posts already anyway - the threadiverse is really not very big.

Since yesterday, the page layout looks different, and I tried adjusting my font size and UI Compactness settings, but it’s not those that changed. The headline text is a lot larger and it looks weird on a desktop monitor. I think I’m getting fewer posts fitting on the screen.

I noticed that cross-posting doesn’t move alt text to the new post, at least when cross-posting an “image” post.

I noticed in my files today that it said “You are using 51.9 MB out of a quota of 50.0 MB” - apparently without any enforcement, i.e. I was able to upload a new photo and use it in a post without any problem.

So I was just thinking, the way I look at PieFed is that I like to have the main site up, when I find an article I’m interested in I center wheel click it to open it in a new window and then keep going to find other articles. I then go look at all of the articles one at a time and then come back to the main website.

I asked about this some time ago, and Rimu said that it was coming, but I was checking in to see if it’s still on the roadmap.

There are people on mastodon, mbin and other places that “microblog” into the fediverse and I’m wondering whether it’s possible to follow them on piefed

If you’re on a piefed instance, or are administrating one, make sure your instance is able to receive Fediverse Auth messages

Honestly this is the one thing that’s keeping me from for real switching to piefed. I love, like, everything about it. I wish it was a little busier, but I could be a part of the solution there!

Site was down for ~8 hours or so yesterday and I didn’t know where to look for updates or any kind of status page.

On lemmy.world, this is a link to a post and works. Piefed tries to make it a video link which does not.

This link breaks when federated to Lemmy: https://pad.tchncs.de/form/#/1/view/bHySC3F243ze02BAsF69Tg/DCWDXrExoUA+RtdSaR97wSz0PosipmJaHtAoZdtb2LQ=/auditor=UUdTT3VLWjVzQytMbGk3cUs1SG1vem5IODl3RkNNY2o=/

I just made a discussion post to !Openstreetmap@feddit.uk, which is visible here: https://piefed.social/c/osm@feddit.uk/p/2091360/towards-an-open-federated-review-platform-based-on-osm

The search isn’t terribly useful for finding new communities, tbh. Lots of results with 0 active users. Is there a community here dedicated to helping people find other communities?

If I recall correctly, mods of subreddits had the option to exclude the sub from r/popular or r/all or the front page or whatever it was. And that they’d do this to avoid a sub with specific rules about participation getting broken by people not from that subreddit just driving by because it was popular and posting something against the rules that they didn’t bother to read, because when you’re scrolling through a mass aggregate feed you might not check the subreddit’s participation rules.

Since I asked about memes, what about just clip art? This could add TONS of fun built into Piefed with connections to open clip art.

Right now when I go to a post and read it, if I hit back, I go back to where I was at the point I found the interesting post. So I can keep scrolling from there.

In a post, I’m prompted to upload the media in question and then to select and paste it. However, in comments, I don’t get prompted. It only pastes . I don’t know how I am supposed to know the link and hash to a piece of media that I haven’t been prompted for to upload yet. 🥺

UPDATE: we’re back! But having a copy of your subscriptions and settings is always a good idea.

Just now I used the classic “OH NO! Anyway” meme from Jeremy Clarkson. How many folks might have uploaded that before?

https://hear-me.social/@codewizard/116546338265386095

I’m creating posts on piefed, and then l need to upload images in the comments. The feature was working fine two days ago, but images have stopped uploading all of a sudden. I’m taking the link of my post to my mastodon account, opening them there and uploading the images successfully.

Leaving a reaction emoji automatically causes an upvote to be given to the post, even if I’ve already downvoted the post.

I was wondering whether the Piefed Zulip could be bridged with XMPP, through, for example, Matterbridge.

I like having piefed pull in peertube channels.

Most of us probably (?) came to the fediverse to escape the claws of big tech. Endless scrolling feeds are their way to trap you in their platforms to waste more time there (more data, more ad revenue). Those incentives are not applicable here. Currently the feed has 75 posts per page, which while not infinite achieves close to the safe effect. Personally that leads to excessive time spent.

But why should we be compelled to install apps ?

I recently made a video post using a link that I got from xcancel on a Twitter post. I can see the video when viewing from Lemmy, but when using PieFed, Voyager, and Blorp the video does not load.

After reading about other instances using LLM assisted moderation to analyze users. I thought about how they could easily be used on a user’s voting history as well.

I was curious because I tried to do a test search using site:https://piefed.social into google and didn’t get many results. If its not indexed I’m not complaining, to me that has plusses and negatives. I feel the internal search is actually useful compared to something like reddit.

None of the actions are showing up in the Lemmy modlogs and when I search for recently banned users it shows up blank.

I wrote out a very long and detailed reply to someone, citing sources and putting quite some time into crafting my message, only to be presented with a message “replier blocked” in red font. Or if I attempt via a direct URL to the comment, I get a different presentation of the similar message saying “Your reply was not accepted because Replier blocked”, in black text against a pink background (in my dark mode view with PieFed theme, using Firefox on Android).

When I create a new url post, the web app has started listing all previous posts with the same url. In principle this is a good idea, except for on the daily games community. Most urls on that community get reposted daily, so there are always long lists of posts with the same url.

Hi there,

Sometimes community mods set their community-specific themes to something that is entirely unreadable - like dark text on top of a black background for a spoiler box, itself on top of a light-colored background (where the dark text would have been readable, except the spoiler box changing everything). I am having to turn off community theme overrides entirely as a result if I want to read the content.

Is there a reason the topic for chill posts is named “Chilling” as opposed to “Chill”? It sounds like True Crime or something.

In Admin->Moderation (/admin/reports) I see a bunch of reports. I open one and I see that the object of report has been already deleted. I think in such case the report should be taken down from the list or grayed out - the latter idea so admin team don’t loose history Or maybe the list should be split in two, like registration does?

I assume I’m blind, but I moved over from mbin where I could just go to a magazine (community) and click a block button. My browsing strategy is to browse all and not use subscriptions to mostly not limit what I see. However, I don’t want to see certain types of porn (for instance).

I recently posted a link on Reddit pointing back to a guide that had been created on one of the communities here.

I’m on mobile and currently I am unaware if there’s a way to see who reacted how without pressing on the emoji and adding myself as someone who reacted in the same way.

I am experiencing a strange situation where when I try to log into piefed.social, I get a notification that says “You have been banned.”. I initially took this at face value, and assumed I had somehow broken a rule, but upon trying to see why I was banned, I could not find any evidence that I had actually been banned, besides my login credentials producing that message.

There has been this thing where a user seems to be able to make special posts that don’t follow my feed format including bluring nsfw when my setting says not to but also making them pop out over the rest. I very much am big on user control of their experience. Is this something that actually happens. Can it be blocked or overwritten or something? Only thing I can think to do is block users who do whatever causes it.

On the Connect app, there’s an option that users can enable to make user notes global. This applies a user tag to all accounts with the same username across instances. Any accounts that get a copy of the tag has an added * to denote that it wasn’t originally tagged; as a reminder since some people may simply have the same username on different instances.

Hi. I’ve set up a new single-user instance for myself today and I’m trying to create a local community.

I find posts and comments from Mastodon to be almost unreadable because they are loaded with hashtags in-line with the content.

With Hetzner’s price rises taking effect, I’m moving piefed.social to somewhere else. Most likely it’ll be during a quiet time when few people will notice, around 00:00 to 3:00 UTC on Saturday.

Hoping someone can help here.

I have heard people talk about tagging people instead of blocking them and I did not think much about it. I had a person with a one month history though who had some comments that had me evaluating them for a block. Their history is just to small atm. So I thought. Hey this would be great for some sort of tag like under review or probation or something so I can remember to evaluate down the line. I looked around but did not see anything. I think its very possible people are talking about something that is specific to an app or maybe lemmy has it. On the other hand maybe I am just missing how to do it. So this is a question or an ask depending.

Sorry, cannot reasonably report this in any more proper manner in the hurry.

I’m having trouble seeing functional differences at least in my limited ways of using the platform, between blorp & interstellar. Blorp probably fits my screen a little better. How have you decided on a default between these and/or others and what am I missing? Thanks.

I have two communities on SDF and I’d like to move them to Piefed. But the SDF instance is dead.

So currently, we have two different closed-off developer chats on Zulip and Matrix. This means, that new devs will be confused about which channel to join and experienced devs have to actively look around in both channels for questions to answer. This seems like a really inefficient system, so we should at least decide on one official communication channel.

It shouldn’t be too hard to have a client track 20 minutes in a given day then upload it to the website.

On piefed.social i can only see a couple posts even in this community. When on the voyager app i can see all the posts

I posted about this a week ago:

Hi all, I think I am facing some bug. My main feed is empty whatever I try to filter. If I click on specific feed that I follow, I see the posts there. Please, help!

I wanted to do something like this, do you know if there is something like pythorhead I can use for piefed or where can I find the API docs?

I made two posts in the Science Fiction Community. One of them is opening up fine. But the recent one, when l’m clicking on its speak icon, is not opening up.

I’ve recently started getting intrigued by Latin Are there communities that exclusively use the language?

As I understand, there are currently no real guidelines for this, even though AI is currently a big topic in FOSS. In my opinion, AI can be quite dangerous for free software and that’s why we really need to discuss how we can address this issue. Here are some of the reasons for that:

I’m curious if this is an oversight, an intentional design decision, or a bug. If it’s just an oversight, it’d be nice if blocked communities no longer appeared on the communities page; hence why I’m flairing this as both a question and a feature request.

are there any plans to extend the rss feeds to other possibilities like those in Lemmy or Reddit? Search related, user personal feeds (as in my home or my notifications as a secret rss I can use), ranking related (top month top week etc) and so on.

I’m not sure if this is an existing feature since I mostly use an app with Piefed. I like how some forums would alert you before posting if during the time it takes to write your post, some new comments were posted already.

I can’t access piefed on my phone anymore, just spits out a 403. Can access it here fine. Did I get caught in some blanket IP ban?

We had an issue today in which it seemed like we were getting flooded with posts from a new member. I found the current settings were either too drastic (unfederate community, block user) or weren’t available (those in title), so I settled on temporarily restricting posts to mods only, plus adding a warning message for other posters, which unfortunately was again on the drastic side. (that message now appears all over the place)