Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)
Edit about the 4chan image blocking, I asked Rimu directly:
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.
chat.piefed.social/#narrow/cha…
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Original message:
codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/c…
A few people in the other thread assumed that it was required to fork the code to disable those filters. That's not the case, the filters can be configured, and are off by default.
To hide the reputation system, here's a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user
piefed.social/c/piefed_css/p/1…
That CSS line can also be used by any user wanting to hide the score at the user level.
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Israel bans MSF from Gaza after charity refuses to hand over staff list
The organisation said it was unable to secure basic assurances regarding the use and protection of that information. "Despite repeated efforts, it became evident that we were unable to build engagement with Israeli authorities on the concrete assurances required," MSF said.
The charity added that it sought guarantees that staff details would be used only for administrative purposes and would not place employees at risk.
MSF said those assurances were not provided and that it therefore "concluded that we will not share staff information in the current circumstances".
Israel bans MSF from Gaza after charity refuses to hand over staff list
Israel has banned the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after the organisation refused to hand over a list of its Palestinian and international staff.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services
USU: Finland's justice ministry could still cancel Amazon cloud plans
Benefits agency Kela and the Finnish Tax Administration also have plans to switch to US-based cloud storage.Yle News
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It probably comes down what you expect the average new joiner experience to be.
Piefed.zip (and lemmy.zip) for instance gives the choice to the user. A message from the main .zip admin from a few weeks ago
Hey so I’m like a week behind here, but piefed.zip (and lemmy.zip) already blocks hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmynsfw by default, and sends a PM to the user when they sign up to let them know why we do this, and how to remove it.
piefed.social/post/1649716/com…
I don’t know why fediverse Devs seem allergic to giving users control of their own experience.
I've seen first hand a vast majority of potential new joiners drop due the platform requiring too much configuration to be usable. I understand why some instance admin want to have "good defaults" so that new joiners would at least stay for a bit rather than saying "this whole thing is nonsense, I'll just stay on Reddit"
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Not really, it was a post on .world by a shitjustworks user.
It's a software similar to Lemmy. It's fediverse too so really it all works together. You'll see Piefed users and posts just like any Lemmy user.
Same situation back when Kbin/Mbin was a thing.
The way .zip does it kinda seems ideal, having default block lists that can be disabled by users that want to once they are accustomed to the software. Is this a feature of piefed or something zip added?
But it also backs up one of my points, this rational system gets them labelled with "Defederation: Negligent" in the piefed onboarding flow. (Although I don't know how much that affects what order they appear in.)
I understand why some instance admin want to have “good defaults”
Good defaults are good, as long as they are just defaults.
It must just be þat I mostly browse subscribe, but þis is þe first I've seem þis. I block þe most caustic sites, þough, so perhaps þat's þe reason.
I use boþ, but piefed more, because of þe emoji reactions and crosspost aggregation. Lemmy is ... conservative, let's say, about adding features.
Is this a feature of piefed or something they’ve added?
I'm not quite sure to be honest.
Hello @demigodrick@lemmy.zip, could you maybe provide some details?
The Lemmy webUI is just better UX engineering and layout which conforms to mental norms which were invented by Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, even Freshmeat back in the day or HowardForums of old.
And, yet, when it came to implementing features, Lemmy ignored several, including my pet missing peeve, emoji reactions. A feature so valuable, Reddit monetizes it.
Piefed was missing it, too, but þe devs recognized þe gap and added it. I have more faiþ in piefed to improve þe UX over time.
Þat said, I don't see a vast gulf between Lemmy and piefed, and happily use boþ.
I agree with you.
Piefed is great, but there is so much bias built into it. Say what you want about lemmy's devs, AFAIK there is none of their bias built in to lemmy.
The whole jump to piefed movement has not sat well with me. I get the extra features, but for it to really be something for everyone the dev has to consider their approach. Who knows what might be targetted next because the dev doesn't like it. (Hyperbole btw, but its akin to censorship)
Calling piefed.zip negligent because we give users control of their experience speaks volumes about either a poorly thought out system or a purposeful bias which shouldn't exist in federated services. At least add the csam or far right instances to it if its a genuine tool, or remove it entirely
What is now happening to Marx’s theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie.
All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!).
As stated, most of the things here can be turned off
Is it possible to disable how user blocking works?
and one part specifically is a complete misrepresentation
If you're talking about defederation, then no: it's an updated version of the comment that properly explains how it works. To be honest, I think the correct interpretation is even worse: lemmy.ml/post/42415919/2366476…
No more than an instance on Lemmy can make it so blocked a counts can't reply to someone who blocked them. That's just contradictory blocking philosophies at play.
The way that the defederation claim was originally made was that Piefed automatically blocks lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad and automatically repopulates those instances as blocked if an instance owner wipes their defederation. This wasn't true. And lemmy.ml has never been on the autoblocklist.
In my opinion, this blocking philosophy is hurtful to the Fediverse. To me it feels like EEE from the PieFed devs who clearly dislike the Lemmy devs.
The way that the defederation claim was originally made was that Piefed automatically blocks lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad and automatically repopulates those instances as blocked if an instance owner wipes their defederation. This wasn’t true. And lemmy.ml has never been on the autoblocklist.
Yes, you're correct! And the message I linked no longer includes this disinformation.
No, this particular feature is not related to a dislike of the Lemmy devs. I just wanted to say that I don't like this feature.
But some of the features mentioned in the linked comment are related. Sorry if that wasn't clear, I'm not a native speaker.
Also featuring extra serving of drama slop
hexbear.net/post/7507322?scrol…
SLRPNK admins discuss the hexbear smear campaign against piefed
And on top of that looks like the guy who posted this meme: lemmy.ml/post/42415919
Got his account deleted on PieFed: lemmy.ml/post/42415919/2368740…
thank you for your vote. Would you like to finish the child I've been eating?
It's been very funny to see the rhetorical slide in the last decade.
- Sure I'm a progressive but I'm not a socialist
-Sure I'm a socialist but I'm not some communist
-Sure I'm a communist but I'm not some kind of tankie
The overton window will continue to shift as conditions deteriorate, reform continues to fail, and us "tankies" continue to be proven correct about everything. Enjoy the ride
Me, who didn't even recognise the icon on the left:
Why is this blue clock guy so mean?
piefed exists becase the lemmy creators are leftist.
your standard anticommunism, nothing different to the norm really.
That looks like two posts from one user.
The piefed dev also posts about tankies on MWoG.
piefed.social/c/meanwhileongra…
So I feel like there's bad faith enough to go around, (like with anything where 'tankie' comes up). The user posting on .ml there was just outright deleted off Piefed by the dev. There's clearly an ongoing thing with those right now.
Tankies celebrating financial problems at the UN
Hypothetically if the UN stopped functioning, all their aid programs would stop and millions would starve and die of disease.
I am said non tankie commie. Its so weird being told I'm a lib by them because I don't like any repressive regime.
Edit: I find it fascinating that I a trans woman am supposed to support multiple governments that have outright said I ethier don't exist or jailed people like me.
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, Piefed has a lot of anti-communist shit in its code.
It essentially exists because some libs were whining about supposed tankie censorship, and then made their own lemmy with ~~blackjack and hookers~~ censorship had coded into it.
Piefed literally has a social credit score for users. You can't make this shit up ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I just wnat to complain about lemmy users and stop having 20 piefed bros lecture me how how if i go to piefed everything will be rainbows and sunshine and my farts will smell like cotton candy.
everyone is weirdly insufferable about their little tribe being the best because they use it. might as well be lecturing people about what brand of milk to drink.
Why would one go to pie fed if their main concern was moving away from big tech?
I get that the devs aren’t popular but it’s fully open source isn’t it?
PieFed is FOSS. It runs in a docker container with fewer resources than Lemmy so you could self-host your own instance if you wanted - see e.g. jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-pief… for one person's irl story attempting to do both.
Other alternatives, besides Lemmy, are Kbin, now forked into Mbin, nodeBB, and flarum at least announced that it would but I am not so sure it will follow through. And that's just the Threadiverse: there's still so much in the wider Fediverse as well, like besides Mastodon there's Pixelfed, and Friendica, Loops is coming up, etc.
You don't ever have to go back to big tech again.
Unless you want content, since we don't have endless varieties like them. This is the price we who stay here pay.
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The main reason was Lemmy hogging server resourcesjeena.net
It's easy to make allegations like that but you haven't provided any evidence so far
Also maybe the reason why some people aren't such big fans of Hexbear/Lemmygrad is because they justify and endorse imperialism, invasions, and murdering, as long as it's non-western countries doing those things.
Contrary to lemmy where blocking instances at user level doesn't block the users and you still see their posts if they crosspost to another instance that federates with them.
ask @hamid@crazypeople.online about how healthy sunshine is for the fediverse
But nobody seems to want to fork the software for some reason.
Sorry I don't understand what you mean here, but in the worst case sharing links has never worked well across the Threadiverse - depending on how you mean that, as in if it is on a different instance than what they are on it will take them instead to that other place where they have no account and so cannot vote or comment - while in the best case PieFed has solved this long-standing issue by auto-translating links to be on the same instance as the sender. I do not know how that work for the recipient - I don't think that it would, or could go back to the above scenario.
Anyway this is not unique to PieFed, as I thought PieFed was at least no worse than Lemmy in this regard and ever so slightly more functional - at least I've been ecstatically happy (yes I'm odd:-P) with this new capability it offers, as I've been waiting for it since the Rexodus and it is finally here!!!
The links were functional, but odd looking. The recipients didn't like seeing characters that don't usually show up in links and considered the links suspicious as a result, sometimes not clicking them.
Not exactly a flaw with the tech, but also a reasonable precaution by the recipients. I'm flattered that you assume my friends are on the fediverse but most of them aren't so trying to explain instances and such to them wouldn't go smoothly.
Irelephant's OP criticism seems legit, yes. The comment replies on the other hand are chock full of misinformation - e.g. PieFed does not defederate from lemmy.ml right out of the box, nor is that nonexistent capability hard-coded into the software. I don't remember all the details but I do recall Irelephant pushing back against some of those incorrect replies.
PieFed needs help to get better, it's not perfect. The main dev Rimu has always asked for exactly that kind of not only direct aid but even critical feedback, or see this post from a month ago: piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/… That's fairly open and transparent, it looks to me?
We're here to answer any questions you have about PieFed's code
I have received word that there are people combing through the PieFed code looking for anything that might be harmful. This is excellent and can only make PieFed better and less harmful.We appreciate their interest in PieFed and look forward to answering any questions and showing people around the code. Please join us at chat.piefed.social or matrix.to/#/#piefed-developers…
There's no need to listen to rumors and amateur speculation when we're right here and happy to help. Come on in, the water's fine!
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Plus they can still vote on your content, and send you DMs, which at first did not but the next version increased the rights of the so-called "blocked" users further to also include pinging you. Which is made all the worse by Lemmy not allowing you to stop notifications for any of your content. That "instance block" is so incorrectly misnamed as to be active disinformation, especially when it was promised to us beforehand as the ability to block instances with problematic users (i.e. hexbear and Lemmygrad), but then instead it merely lets users trolls you incessantly unless you move your account to an instance that dares to actually defederate from them (except virtually nobody does to lemmy.ml).
PieFed's set of features is so nice. Like you can set, or deselect, notifications on pretty much anything - get notifications for every single post by a community, or by a user account, or for a comment that is not yours, etc. I have never once regretted switching to PieFed!
both user bases are full of a lot of nut jobs and people with extremist and crazy beliefs.
platforms don't change people. that's what nobody gets. fediverse is not going to 'solve' the problem of being people nutjobs seeking other nutjobs to compete over how 'true' their nutjob commitment is.
What's not cool? Infighting, it drives away new users.
That's an ironic comment, given how loaded the image you've included is...
i've seen nothing but piefed users being smug jerks about piefed and treating lemmy users like they are unwashed plebes. myself included. i've used piefed and it's the same flavor of shit in a different layout.
i have not seen it go the other way around. most are going 'wtf is piefed and why are these people so weird'.
this is pretty much what i have seen too. along with a lecture about how my negative expereinces on lemmy will not exzist on piefed because the magic tools they say are supposed to stop all negative interactions.
despite the users and communities... being exactly the same. it's just a different interface for interacting with them.
piefed seems to be a lot of fart smokers who just want to feel they are part of the latest greatest thing and lemmy instances are 'old and uncool'.
Two points:
1) If you believe in evil, your view isn't as nuanced as you think it is
2) The assumption that "tankies" (communists with an understanding of history, geopolitics and systems theory) are simply swapping one set of unthinking blanket loyalites for another out of some kind of contrarianism or intellectual laziness is itself an intellectually lazy assumption based in a lack of understanding. If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't have had to read so many damn books. The actual truth is that the "tankie" worldview is by far the most nuanced out of all the mainstream political tendencies. It is built on dialectical and historical materialism rather than a static liberal idealism composed of floating signifiers. Rigorous analysis, critique and self-critique are built into it's foundations. To put it simply, the liberal and western leftist understanding of the world is a static, abstract diorama drenched in the residue of christianity while the tankie understanding is a scientific machine in constant motion. When western leftists who haven't yet examined their internalized propaganda and chauvinism say things like "just because the west is evil doesn't mean the east isn't" and think they're addressing something the "tankie" actually believes, they are projecting their own lack of nuance onto the tankie.
I started this comment felling a lot more snarky, but have ended it feeling a lot more up to the task of explaining in good faith. I've been exactly where you are, I've been you. You have not yet been me.
The Vanguard is in the East, not the West.
Disclaimer: this is not a personal attack. I am critiquing the Western-Marxist movement as a whole, if you're not a part of it, if you don't attack actually existing socialism or discredit them un-dialectically, then it's not aimed at you, thank you.
Or you can substitute East to Global South. You know what I mean.
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What is going on in Iran?
In the past I didn't really catch that the people were rebelling against the government and suddenly there is great violence against protestors.
I think I missed this completely. I am aware that the beginning was spiralling costs. Is this connected to international sanctions?
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Yes, Bessent was just bragging about this in Davos. These aren't international sanctions, they're not approved by the UN.
These are unilateral sanctions by the Burger Reich and their vassals used as a form of siege warfare against Iran.
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The UN doesn't have any particular claim to the word "international", except insofar as anything they do is international because the UN itself is international.
Other organisations, or even loosely affiliated groups of nations, can do international things because the word just means something like "between nations".
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Trump is still posting about arresting Obama and prosecuting election workers
Trump is still posting about arresting Obama and prosecuting election workers
The president’s response to intense national backlash over ICE: post through it.Mother Jones
Foreigners flock to Chinese hospitals for 'medical tourism'
Foreigners flock to Chinese hospitals for 'medical tourism'
Visiting a top-tier Chinese hospital has become a new "must-do" for many foreign tourists.City News Service
Home Assistant F-Droid version outdated?
I recently noticed, that the Home Assistant app on F-Droid has been stuck on 2025.11.4 since, well, November 2025.
I tried some searches, but couldn't find any info on why this is, does anyone here know?
The official releases include the minimal APK for all recent versions.
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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…Wiki Education
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Intressant om fisket i Stockholms skärgård. I en vetenskaplig artikel om fisket i Stockholms skärgård bekräftas väldigt mycket av detAnders Svensson (Svenssons Nyheter - Njord)
Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit
Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch one million satellites into Earth's orbit to power artificial intelligence (AI).
The application claims "orbital data centres" are the most cost and energy-efficient way to meet the growing demand for AI computing power.
Traditionally, such centres are large warehouses full of powerful computers that process and store data. Musk's aerospace firm claims processing needs due to the expanding use of AI are already outpacing "terrestrial capabilities".
It would increase the number of SpaceX satellites in orbit drastically. Its existing Starlink network of nearly 10,000 satellites has already been accused of creating congestion in space, which Musk denies.
Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit
The firm wants to create a network of "orbital data centres" to power artificial intelligence.Maia Davies (BBC News)
Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/54502961
Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch one million satellites into Earth's orbit to power artificial intelligence (AI).The application claims "orbital data centres" are the most cost and energy-efficient way to meet the growing demand for AI computing power.
Traditionally, such centres are large warehouses full of powerful computers that process and store data. Musk's aerospace firm claims processing needs due to the expanding use of AI are already outpacing "terrestrial capabilities".
It would increase the number of SpaceX satellites in orbit drastically. Its existing Starlink network of nearly 10,000 satellites has already been accused of creating congestion in space, which Musk denies.
Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit
Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch one million satellites into Earth's orbit to power artificial intelligence (AI).The application claims "orbital data centres" are the most cost and energy-efficient way to meet the growing demand for AI computing power.
Traditionally, such centres are large warehouses full of powerful computers that process and store data. Musk's aerospace firm claims processing needs due to the expanding use of AI are already outpacing "terrestrial capabilities".
It would increase the number of SpaceX satellites in orbit drastically. Its existing Starlink network of nearly 10,000 satellites has already been accused of creating congestion in space, which Musk denies.
Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit
The firm wants to create a network of "orbital data centres" to power artificial intelligence.Maia Davies (BBC News)
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