rimu

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.

Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Rumours like this have been circulating for a decade or more.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

PieFed does that. See https://piefed.social/feeds which are basically collections of Lemmy communities that you can join or leave with 1 click.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Yep

It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with tankie memes — interspersed with photos generated by AI

I've really tried to provide tools to tame the meme flood and put them into effect on https://piefed.social/ - compare that with the front-page (or All feed) of any Lemmy instance (or most PieFed instances, to be fair).

Gen AI filter is coming.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I checked in on the fash trumper forums earlier, they're in full meltdown about this. So good to see.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

I love how interlinked the tech tree was. In later versions it became a much simpler tree-based hierarchy which is easier to mentally navigate but way less realistic.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds like I need a better DNS provider!

[–] rimu@piefed.social 28 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Although, replacing the battery on the Fairphone is so much easier that 1000 cycles is acceptable.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 33 points 1 week ago

#fedihire hashtag on Mastodon is as close as it gets.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I was a Reddit mod, the only use of that feature was for people we'd banned to send us abusive messages. Or ask why their spam was deleted.

 

Cmon Japan, get it together.

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PieFed has a mobile app (interstellar.jwr.one)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

Well, actually, PieFed.social has enabled it's API which means that the app Interstellar can be used with it. Find out more about the app at https://interstellar.jwr.one/. iOS users can use the testing version at https://testflight.apple.com/join/JXRtHye2

https://feddit.online/, another PF instance, has enabled the API too and I expect others will follow in good time.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
 

!technology@piefed.social

This community is hosted on piefed.social which has flair to keep posts organized.

It's for tech-related news and discussion. Link to anything, it doesn't need to be a news article. But let's keep the politics and business side of things to a minimum.

No memes.

 

It's the pesticides in the grass...

 

Self-styled prophets are claiming they have 'awakened' chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT.

 

flair

Each community in PieFed can have it's own set of "flair" options that posters can attach to their posts. Clicking on a flair will filter the community to only show posts with that flair so they function as a filtering mechanism as well as a visual identifier.

Community moderators can manage the flair that are available in their communities:

flair mod area

When creating posts, expand the 'more options' area to assign one or more flair to your post:

assigning flair

See it in action at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta

Flair doesn't federate yet but it will in coming days.

 

The community https://sh.itjust.works/c/goodnewseveryone has moved to https://piefed.social/c/goodnewseveryone. Please join the new community and post any good news you find in there.

!goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

 

!california@piefed.social

 

When a community needs to move to another instance, it can be a rocky process.

It doesn't need to be, though - as long as someone on your instance has been a part of the community for a while your instance will already have quite a lot of the content from the old community. All we need to do is change our record of which instance the community belongs to and that's what PieFed's new 'Move community' feature does. Check out the video for a quick demo.

The full process is:

  1. Ensure the copy of the community on this instance has been active long enough to receive a decent amount of posts. The move process will not copy posts so having an account on this instance subscribed to it for a while is the only way to get old posts here.

  2. Lock the old community to by setting it to 'moderators only' so no one else can post in it.

  3. Create a post in the old community announcing the impending move to piefed.social. Paste the url of that post into the field below.

  4. Submit the 'move community' form (there is a link in the sidebar of every remote community) to send the request to piefed.social admins.

  5. piefed.social admins will review your request, turn this community into a local one and contact you.

  6. Update your announcement post in the old community to encourage people to join the new community at
    !whatever@piefed.social.

 

Complete shitshow.

 

What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.

The fragmentation problem is solved.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
 

One of the things that the recent addition of the Feeds feature highlighted was how many cross-posts / duplicate posts there are. When you display posts from linux@lemmy.world, linux@programming.dev, linux@lemmy.ml, etc all the cross-posts make it get repetitive, really fast. The same thing happens on the home feed too although it's a bit less obvious because there's a wider range of subjects involved.

Except now, it doesn't, because PieFed de-duplicates your feed! And your home page, and your topics. Attached to this post is a screenshot showing how it works out - an article posted to 7 different places is only shown once despite me having joined most of those communities.

We're still figuring out whether it's a good idea to merge all the comments from all the cross-posts into one page and how to do that in a way that respects the different culture/rules in the communities that the posts were made in. It's a tricky UX and social question.

I've held off on adding a cross-post function to PieFed until now but it'll be added soon.

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