Weekly thread - New people, feel free to ask your questions here

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Hey there, I’ve spun up my own instance and am experimenting with that, but I do have three questions.

  1. what is the difference between topics and feeds? on the surface, they seem to do the same thing. i’ve read the description in the docs/intro stuff but i guess it’s still a little unclear to me, especially as a potential admin of an instance.
  2. is there an easy way to customize the interface of my instance? i haven’t found any docs on customizing my site or making a custom theme.
  3. is there a way to support piefed financially? i am excited by the possibilities here, and it does seem like a huge upgrade from lemmy, so id like to support it if i can.
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Piefed.social Staff OP

  1. Topics are instance-level run and can be embedded into an auto-subscription system for new user onboarding via a plugin. Feeds are user-level run.

  2. That I don’t know.

  3. is there a way to support piefed financially? i am excited by the possibilities here, and it does seem like a huge upgrade from lemmy, so id like to support it if i can.

https://piefed.social/donate

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I can elaborate on your second point as I wrote a theming guide as part of the developer docs.

As an admin, you have a couple options to apply a custom theme:

  1. You could take all the css you want to apply to your site and stick it in the additional css field at /admin/misc. This applies that css to every page and for every user though. So, it might create conflicts if the css you stick there is too specific or if it conflicts with a different theme that a user might select.
  2. Since you have infrastructure access, you can create your own theme and stick it in the app/templates/themes/ folder on your server. As long as you follow the file structure and naming conventions I wrote about in the theming guide, then PieFed will automatically detect it and add it as an option for users to select the next time PieFed starts up. You can also select your site’s default theme for new and logged-out users at /admin/misc.

If you are happy with your theme and are so inclined, feel free to reach out to us and we can look at upstreaming it into the main codebase. Half of the current themes in PieFed started as admins just like you customizing their site and were willing to let us simply incorporate it directly so others can use it too.

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Piefed.social Staff OP

Btw I would recommend joining the Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-general:matrix.org

For these questions.

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Is it possible to hide posts from the feed only if I’ve voted on them? In the settings I see something similar but it includes having visited them.

Happy to use a custom script for it (already did that with opening links into new tabs).

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Piefed.social Staff OP

No. Sounds like an idea though

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Is there a good place to post feature requests/suggestions?

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Is there a way to follow mastodon accounts from PieFed? I see some mention of it in codeberg issues, but can’t figure it out if it works or not. e.g. I want to follow @forgefed@floss.social , how to go about it?

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Piefed.social Staff OP

Do you see a little bell on their page? That notifies you if they make threads, but maybe not comments.

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oh right, I see it thanks. Their page says 0 posts, but they last posted last year https://floss.social/@forgefed@floss.social Is that because there hasn’t been users following their instance, so no history have been exchanged between PieFed.social and floss.social?

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Piefed.social Staff OP

That, I don’t know. I am not familiar with the level of interaction between Mastodon and Piefed rn.

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that’s alright, thanks for your help!

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