PieFed Meta

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Hi there,

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

Not about whether they’re read, but the long list of comments and posts? Seems tedious having to get rid of them one by one.

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.

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

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

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.

I like having piefed pull in peertube channels.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

But why should we be compelled to install apps ?