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Just thought I'd note this. Main beneficiary so far seems to be piefed.ca.

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[–] biltong@piefed.co.za 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 15 points 1 day ago

Greetings to South Africa

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago (24 children)
[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

As i asked there, which is the 4chan image blocking as the checks there simply say images from 4chan cause reputation loss.

I know you are amazing at promoting the fediverse but feels odd to see you ignore all the issues people bring up about piefed

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Edit : asked Rimu, here's the answer:

I wrote a long message about how that checkbox only notifies about federated posts.

So the difference is for local posts it blocks the creation of the post entirely, but for federated posts it just notifies the admin.

https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/3-general/topic//near/10529

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Maybe that filter is the one missing, if that's the case, that will be changed soon, as it always has been for every time a similar issue was raised

  • the thorn character filter
  • 196 and other memes communities not being federated by default
  • the "this filter" being configurable

My personal stance is that Piefed has several features that Lemmy has been lacking for more than a year, and that prevent the Threadiverse from growing

  • multicommunities
  • onboarding process asking new joiners what they are into
  • crossposts comments consolidation
  • communities moderation features
  • posts and user flairs
  • keyword filters

None of the Piefed users ever said Piefed was perfect, that the code was elegant, or that there were no issues with filters such as the the three examples I listed above.

What we see from time to time is people spreading literal misinformation about Piefed, saying that those filters can't be disabled by an admin (they can), and/or that a fork is needed to do so (it's not) .

That's why I created that post, because for whatever reason Piefed seems to now have haters, which seems counterproductive as it has the unique features listed above.

I personally would prefer people to say "Lemmy is fine, PieFed is fine too, both can operate with each other, my personal preference is X" rather insulting Piefed or Lemmy devs.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 minutes ago

Piefed just reminds me too much of sublinks where people simply hated the devs so instead of helping improve the software or even fork it just started fresh on something new.

None of the Piefed users ever said Piefed was perfect, that the code was elegant, or that there were no issues with filters such as the the three examples I listed above.

I'd argue poor code will cause issues as users increase, both for instance admins and user performance.

Overall the issues brought up keep coming back to piefed bringing in some of the worst parts of reddit to the fediverse, like the reputation system. It's designed how rimu wants people to interact in specific ways. And does not seem to care if it actually works with other non piefed instances.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 6 hours ago

All the "features missing on Lemmy" could/should be implemented on the client. The fact that developers don't understand that and go on to reimplement a whole part of the stack (instead of joining forces and helping the existing effort) is counterproductive.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

That was an interesting read.

Seems like piefed should fix a lot of that. For some of it, at least make it configurable and not hard coded. But that blocked user stuff seems like a real problem.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Most of it is configurable and off by default. But the haters don't mention that.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I’m reading that in other replies. Still you would put this in configs, for which you could have templates that come with certain defaults populated, rather than hard coding like this.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm doing this because I love doing it. Often that means the boring bits like documentation or config or general finesse get left out. I'm trying to paint with broad strokes in the hope that when others see what I'm trying to do they'll join in and fill in the details.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah no worries. I’m happy with any effort that brings more people to the fediverse. My comments were honest and constructive criticism. Wasn’t meant to offend. Keep up the good work.

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[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Is there any particular reason for this?

[–] sloelk@piefed.social 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I‘m coming from an promotion in r/buyfromEU

[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sloelk@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (7 children)

thx, this fediverse seems for me more usable than others like mastodon a half if a year ago.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 27 points 1 day ago

Welcome! Piefed/Lemmy are closer to Reddit than Mastodon is to Twitter. Feel free if you have any questions!

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is lol. Reddit is a forum disguised as social media, something which does not require complicated recommendation systems to feel complete. Hence lemmy/piefed feel more usable in my opinion.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Some promotional posts were made on Reddit in the right comms, although none of them specifically exploded - albeit one was made also in r/buyCanadian and it seemed to surge.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of my friends finally joined for two reasons. First he was disgusted by the Reddit ICE ads, and second he realized his Reddit feed was half shit he doesn’t subscribe to.

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[–] BB84@mander.xyz 19 points 1 day ago (36 children)

I wonder, would these users still use PieFed if they have seen its codebase? Maybe it can be one day but right now it's 100% not production-grade software. Nonsensical hardcoded bans and blocks everywhere. >1000 lines of Python in a single file. Uses regex to parse HTML. The list goes on...

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe it can be one day but right now it’s 100% not production-grade software.

Why should we only use "production-grade software" software on the Fediverse? Isnt the beauty that we can use all kind of software as long as it interacts decently via the relevant protocols?

Also I am already using Lemmy, which is pretty known for its opinionated devs. This does not seem to be anything that would stop, especially when I can actually read the code as its in a language I can atleast understand somewhat

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 9 hours ago

Lemmy, which is pretty known for its opinionated devs

The opinions of the devs have so far (at least as far as I know) not spread into the actual code though.

[–] BB84@mander.xyz 5 points 21 hours ago

I just want to make sure people know what they're getting into before they decide to use PieFed. If you know about the issues and decide to use it, I totally respect that decision.

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