Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Mbin.
Much better to add features to your software that make it unusable in totalitarian situations.
For example
…and so on. The possibilities are endless.
I’m a PieFed dev.
Thanks for looking into it. I totally understand why you’d want to prioritize Lemmy at the moment.
The API is 99% ready to be enabled on all instances but we haven’t pulled the trigger on that yet.
Recently the developer of Intersteller, an app that does Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed, has been working with us. So yeah it’s doable but you have to really want to, obvs.
Yep, I’ll document it in some way. A FEP seems overkill as it’s really just adding a bit more data onto Actors and Activities, not a big deal.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Lemmy users missing out is THE reason they’ll become PieFed users.
I did the DB structure changes at the same time as the ones needed for community flair as they’re quite similar. Might be able to do the rest tomorrow.
Tags, aka hashtags, are instance-wide (not just in a community) and interoperate with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Mbin. Anyone can make a new hashtag and they are completely unmoderated.
Flairs are a limited list determined by each community’s mods and are only used in that community. They will federate with other PieFed instances and with Lemmy (when they finish coding what they’re calling “tags”, a really unfortunate choice of name).
Watch this space.
Lol, rip
IMO framing this as a way to protect the feelings of the poster sets us up to debate how people should react to downvotes. That was my initial reaction, anyway. It’s not a productive discussion, too much judgement.
But there are heaps of other good reasons why you might want to just show a single number (upvotes minus downvotes), for everyone, not just when viewing one’s own content.
Reddit and PieFed both just show one number - the score - and it works fine. On PieFed you can hover your mouse over the score to get a tooltip that breaks it down into up and down but afaik no one cares.
If other people can see that I got downvoted a lot but I can’t then every little snarky comment about how many downvotes I’m getting is going to trigger extreme FOMO and the urge to turn the downvote hiding feature off. An unknown amount of downvotes is worse than knowing how many downvotes there are.
You want to be more welcoming to the people who freak out about downvotes? The people for whom the slightest criticism is a huge problem?
I’ll keep the sh.itjust.works one for a few weeks so we can go back to it if the move doesn’t work out.
You’re going to have to prioritise.
Find changes that:
Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don’t take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of
There are probably a variety of mindsets that will do it.
For me, I think it was just really wanting to get away from being under the boot. Get away from the walled gardens. Like that feeling after using LinkedIn, except for the OS. Hearing the call of freedom, authenticity and humanity.
Cool, but now SSH into a remote server and then try to open nano. It doesn’t.
After using it for 3 weeks I concluded that as Kitty breaks the fundamentals all the nice shiny isn’t worth it.
This idea is quite similar to what Bluesky is doing, with “Labels” https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation.
We’d need some way to crowdsource the verification and validity of the labels so people can’t just put low-quality or abusive labels everywhere.
It could potentially reduce the amount of work moderators need to do because spam would be labelled as such by anyone and if a few others also label it the same then it would reach a threshold where the label becomes active.
Does anyone have experience with this way of moderating content on Bluesky? How well does it work in practice?
Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL and you start out by importing SQLite into your project and building on top of that. To you it seems like a good idea because you’ve never written a DB app before and the only DB you’ve ever seen before is SQLite. You’ll get a prototype real fast but you’ll never build a PostgreSQL equivalent because you never learned the foundational knowledge of how a DB works and because SQLite forecloses all the pathways you need to get there.
Same thing.
Because outsourcing your core business processes is a bad idea. A fediverse app that relies on a library to do all the fediverse stuff is going to have a bad time. Not straight away, but eventually.
Somewhere in your profile settings there’s an export. It won’t export your posts, just which communities you follow and who you’ve blocked, etc. Import those into your new account on the new instance.
Bear in mind that it has 10% as many subscribers.
The things I paid attention to was
USB3 - you need this otherwise connecting external drives will be a joke Motherboard needs to accept up to 32 GB of RAM. Mine currently has only 8 but knowing I can upgrade is nice.
Quiet - must be silent when idle.
CPUs of less than 8th? gen will suck at video transcoding due to lacking certain capabilities. Important if running jellyfin, etc.
The beauty of self hosting is it’s all about your individual circumstances so you priorities and acceptable tradeoffs will differ.