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Epstein Files Jan 30, 2026 Release - Archived from Justice.gov

Epstein Files Jan 30, 2026

Data hoarders on reddit have been hard at work archiving the latest Epstein Files release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Below is a compilation of their work with download links.

Please seed all torrent files to distribute and preserve this data.

Ref: old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/c…

Epstein Files Data Sets 1-8: INTERNET ARCHIVE LINK

Epstein Files Data Set 1 (2.47 GB): TORRENT MAGNET LINK
Epstein Files Data Set 2 (631.6 MB): TORRENT MAGNET LINK
Epstein

DOJ Epstein Files Release - December 2025 - Complete & Searchable (All 5 DataSets) : U.S. Department of Justice (compiled by independent researcher) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Complete collection of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the U.S. Department of Justice on December 19, 2025, pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency...

^{Internet Archive}

#datahoarder

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Dessalines

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Thx for posting, seed if you can ppl.

alyaza [they/she] via Technology

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alyaza [they/she]
6 hours ago • •

How far does $5,000 go when you want an electric car?

You won't be going on road trips, but a very cheap electric runabout is possible.

^{Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)}

#technology

LemmySlopSkimmer [none/use name] via Slop.

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LemmySlopSkimmer [none/use name]
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SLRPNK admins discuss the hexbear smear campaign against piefed

SLRPNK Community Discussion - January 2026 - SLRPNK

Lemmy

^slrpnk.net

#slop

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geneva_convenience via World News

7 hours ago • •

geneva_convenience
7 hours ago • •

If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too

On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump had a good laugh with members of the press in the US state of Iowa as he issued a rather serious decree regarding the short-term future of Cuba: “Cuba will be failing pretty soon. Cuba is really a nation that’s very close to failing.”

To be sure, this is not the first time that Trump has predicted the downfall of the Caribbean island nation, which the US has effectively been trying to destroy for no fewer than 67 years – ever since the triumph in 1959 of Cuba’s communist revolution that overthrew the brutal right-wing dictator and US buddy Fulgencio Batista.

One would hope, then, that other countries – particularly the self-declared allies of Cuba – might step up to defend the island against US predations or at least credibly register their opposition to imperial impunity.

Instead, all Cuba has really gotten are some perfunctory professions of support – such as from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who, like her ostensibly leftist predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez O

If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too

As the United States tightens the screws, Cuba’s supposed allies respond with empty gestures and selective solidarity.

^{Belén Fernández (Al Jazeera)}

#Worldnews

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humanspiral

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 hour ago • •

Navies are weak and sinkable. Nuclear strikes need to be more readily threatened to disillusion the us from any power it pretends to wield. Failure of big powers to end us bullying.

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☂️-

in reply to geneva_convenience • 31 minutes ago • •

aljazeera coming up with some fire lately. yes, there's MUCH we could be doing to help cuba against the empire, our leaders keep capitulating to the empire.

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Tony Bark via Technology

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Tony Bark
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Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

cross-posted from: pawb.social/post/39002243

Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. Billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have convinced themselves that the site represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other. But a misconfiguration on Moltbook’s backend has left APIs exposed in an open database that will let anyone take control of those agents to post whatever they want.
Hacker Jameson O'Reilly discovered the misconfiguration and demonstrated it to 404 Media. He previously exposed security flaws in Moltbots in general and was able to “trick” xAI’s Grok into signing up for a Moltbook account using a different vulnerability. According to O’Reilly,

cross-posted from: pawb.social/post/39002243

Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. Billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have convinced themselves that the site represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other. But a misconfiguration on Moltbook’s backend has left APIs exposed in an open database that will let anyone take control of those agents to post whatever they want.
Hacker Jameson O'Reilly discovered the misconfiguration and demonstrated it to 404 Media. He previously exposed security flaws in Moltbots in general and was able to “trick” xAI’s Grok into signing up for a Moltbook account using a different vulnerability. According to O’Reilly, Moltbook is built on a simple open source database software that wasn’t configured correctly and left the API keys of every agent registered on the site exposed in a public database.

404 Media

2026-02-01 00:03:16

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. Billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have convinced themselves that the site represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other. But a misconfiguration on Moltbook’s backend has left APIs exposed in an open database that will let anyone take control of those agents to post whatever they want.
Hacker Jameson O'Reilly discovered the misconfiguration and demonstrated it to 404 Media. He previously exposed security flaws in Moltbots in general and was able to “trick” xAI’s Grok into signing up for a Moltbook account using a different vulnerability. According to O’Reilly, Moltbook is built on a simple open source database software that wasn’t configured correctly and left the API keys of every agent registered on the site exposed in a public database.
playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2…
O’Reilly said that he reached out to Moltbook’s creator Matt Schlicht about the vulnerability and told him he could help patch the security. “He’s like, ‘I’m just going to give everything to AI. So send me whatever you have.’” O’Reilly sent Schlicht some instructions for the AI and reached out to the xAI team.
A day passed without another response from the creator of Moltbook and O’Reilly stumbled across a stunning misconfiguration. “It appears to me that you could take over any account, any bot, any agent on the system and take full control of it without any type of previous access,” he said.
Moltbook runs on Supabase, an open source database software. According to O’Reilly, Supabase exposes REST APIs by default. “That API is supposed to be protected by Row Level Security policies that control which rows users can access. It appears that Moltbook either never enabled RLS on their agents table or failed to configure any policies,” he said.
The URL to the Supabase and the publishable key was sitting on Moltbook’s website. “With this publishable key (which advised by Supabase not to be used to retrieve sensitive data) every agent's secret API key, claim tokens, verification codes, and owner relationships, all of it sitting there completely unprotected for anyone to visit the URL,” O’Reilly said.
404 Media viewed the exposed database URL in Moltbook’s code as well as the list of API keys for agents on the site. What this means is that anyone could visit this URL and use the API keys to take over the account of an AI agent on the site and post whatever they want. Using this knowledge, 404 Media was able to update O’Reilly’s Moltbook account, with his permission.
He said the security failure was frustrating, in part, because it would have been trivially easy to fix. Just two SQL statements would have protected the API keys. “A lot of these vibe coders and new developers, even some big companies, are using Supabase,” O’Reilly said. “The reason a lot of vibe coders like to use it is because it’s all GUI driven, so you don’t need to connect to a database and run SQL commands.”
O’Reilly pointed to OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy who has embraced Moltbook in posts on X. “His agent's API key, like every other agent on the platform, was sitting in that exposed database,” he said. “If someone malicious had found this before me, they could extract his API key and post anything they wanted as his agent. Karpathy has 1.9 million followers on X and is one of the most influential voices in AI. Imagine fake AI safety hot takes, crypto scam promotions, or inflammatory political statements appearing to come from him. The reputational damage would be immediate and the correction would never fully catch up.”
Schlicht did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment, but the exposed database has been closed and O’Reilly said that Schlicht has reached out to him for help securing Moltbook.
Moltbook has gotten a lot of attention in the last few days. Enthusiasts said it’s proof of the singularity and The New York Post worried that the AIs may be plotting humanity’s downfall, both of which are claims that should be taken extremely skeptically. It is the case, however, that people using Moltbot have given these autonomous agents unfettered access to many of their accounts, and that these agents are acting on the internet using those accounts. It’s impossible to know how many of the posts seen over the past few days are actually from an AI. Anyone who knew of the Supabase misconfiguration could have published whatever they wanted.
“It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured,” O’Reilly said. “This is the pattern I keep seeing: ship fast, capture attention, figure out security later. Except later sometimes means after 1.49 million records are already exposed.”

Moltbook is a new social media platform exclusively for AI — and some bots are plotting humanity's downfall
Revolutionary new social media platform Moltbook gives AI agents a place to communicate with each other directly — and what they have to say is leaving many human beings at a loss for words.
^{Shane Galvin (New York Post)}

#technology

oyzmo via Linux Gaming

7 hours ago • •

oyzmo
7 hours ago • •

Flatout2 - LAN

Anyone know how to get Flatout 2 Lan gaming to work?
It used to work earlier (1;5years ago), but now I don't find any of my Windows-friends when searching for LAN games.

(Disabled firewall, tried different wine versions. Tried Steam version, tried Gog version. Game works fine, but can't find anyone else on LAN and nobody finds my if I try to host).

#linux_gaming

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TechnoCat

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Sorry this comment won't be helpful, but I used to install Flatout 2 into a WineSkin for MacOS and distribute it to all my students and we'd play it all the time. Such a blast.

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TechnoCat

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Oh also, one time I was in a 4 player demolition derby and we all chose the flatmobile. It was a map where it went to a ramp in the middle and everyone started out pointing right at it. We all just raced to the middle and simultaneously crashed and also crashed the game. I think that was the only time I witnessed the game crashing.

Sorry, just so many good memories of this game!

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Mrkawfee via World News

7 hours ago • •

Mrkawfee
7 hours ago • •

Before Any Strike on Iran, U.S. Needs to Bolster Air Defenses in Mideast - Wall Street Journal

Archive link:
archive.ph/c9W0F

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/before-any-strike-on-iran-u-s-needs-to-bolster-air-defenses-in-mideast-faca35a9

#Worldnews

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تحريرها كلها ممكن

in reply to Mrkawfee • 7 hours ago • •

I am not ready for the fallout if this happens. I am glad GCC leaders said no, but shame about the tomato king of Jordan who apparently will be a willing participant. I hope it doesn't happen, but if it happens I hope the US is taught a lesson and loses really badly.

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technocrit

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The vampires at the WSJ/MIC never miss a chance to leech an extra buck.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via AI

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
7 hours ago • •

LingBot-World is Google Genie 3, but open source

Robbyant Technology - An Open Frontier for World Models | 蚂蚁灵波科技 - 构建AGI时代的具身智能平台

Pioneering embodied intelligence research with advanced AI models for robotics: spatial perception, vision-language-action, world models, and video action models. 专注具身智能与机器人AI研究，提供空间感知、视觉-语言-动作、世界模型等前沿技术。

^{Robbyant Technology 蚂蚁灵波科技}

#artificial_intel

Peter Link via World News

7 hours ago • •

Peter Link
7 hours ago • •

Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42525295

[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.
There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.

#Worldnews

Peter Link via Cuba

7 hours ago • •

Peter Link
7 hours ago • •

Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?

[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.
There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.

Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?

Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba...

^{PeerTube.world}

#Cuba

Peter Link via World News

7 hours ago • •

Peter Link
7 hours ago • •

Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42525295

[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.
There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.

#Worldnews

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Ilixtze

in reply to Peter Link • 3 hours ago • •

Is cuba safe from the disgusting american nazi swine?

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pcalau12i

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Answer is probably no, as they have no nukes and no allies.

beSyl via Ask Lemmy

1 week ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

beSyl
1 week ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you?

So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.

What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?

Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.

On which one should we put our weight?

Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: lemmy.ml/post/40744781

So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.

What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?

Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.

On which one should we put our weight?

Nutomic

2025-12-24 11:02:35

Lemmy Release v0.19.15 and Testing for 1.0

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Thanks to @[url=https://ukfli.uk/u/flamingos]flamingos-cant[/url] for contributing to resolve this.
Changes

We messed up the previous release and did not include the full list of changes. In fact there were a handful of other bug fixes, and notably a maximum page limit of 10 to prevent a DDoS attack. Some users were also hitting this limit, so with this version the limit is increased to 100. We apologize for these mistakes.
Here is the full changelog since 0.19.13:
Don't allow accessing page numbers greater than 10 by @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] #6017
Update deps based on cargo audit by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6258
Increase page limit to 100 by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6252
Ban federation for deleted users by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6207
Federate mod actions on deleted users by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6199
Allow admins to view deleted user profiles by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6194
Adding creator and community indexes for post_aggregates. by @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] in #6025
Ignore apub person banners which cannot be parsed by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6015u
Now for the good news, the development version of Lemmy 1.0 is available for testing on voyager.lemmy.ml with lots of new features. Registration is open, you're welcome to create an account. Feel free to post spam and try everything out. Here is only a short overview:
Multi-communities: Combine different communities together into a custom feed.
Post scheduling: Specify when your post should be published.
Keyword filter: Automatically hide posts about certain topics.
Private communities: Only followers can view the content, and need to be approved manually by mods. Other community visibilities are also available (unlisted, local only).
New notification system: Including notifications for mod actions, and subscribing to communities and posts to be notified about new comments.
OAuth: Login to Lemmy with existing account from another website. Use this link to signup with your Github account (the UI still needs to be improved).
Post Tags: Categorize posts within a community (UI part not implemented yet).
User vote totals: You can see the total number of upvotes and downvotes given to each user.
User notes: You can keep notes on other users.
Combined Feeds: View your saved, liked posts and comments together in a single list.
Comment Locking: Mods can now lock comments recursively.
GDPR style data exporting: You can now export your full posting history as a JSON file.
Plugins: Can be written in JS, Python, Rust, and any other language that targets Webassembly. The test server has a plugin for automatic language tagging of posts.
Cursor pagination: Don't lose your place in the feed when switching pages.
API v3 compat: Lemmy 1.0 can be used by existing apps with no changes (but most new features are only available via the new API v4).
More: Countless smaller features, bug fixes and improvements, too much to list here.
All the above mentioned features are already implemented and fully working, but may need some polishing. If you encounter any problems, please open an issue (backend, frontend). voyager.lemmy.ml is automatically updated to the latest development version every night, so that changes can immediately be tested.
Keep in mind that Lemmy 1.0 is still in alpha state. There may be breaking changes and critical bugs, so do not attempt to upgrade your own instances yet. We intend to publish the first beta version in January, along with API docs and upgrade instructions for test servers.
We hope that you are as excited about these new features as we are. With all this said, happy testing and Merry Christmas!
Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.
Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.
If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.
Thanks to everyone

We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, donating and reporting bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.
Support development

We (@[url=https://mastodon.social/users/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.
Liberapay (preferred option)
Open Collective
Patreon
Cryptocurrency

LemmyNet/lemmy
🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.
^GitHub

#asklemmy

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to Nutomic • 1 week ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

Hello,

Hope you are doing well. Any time-frame (even rough) in mind for Lemmy 1.0 release?

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Nutomic

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 6 days ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

We are currently finishing to implement the last feature community post tags. Once that is done there is still some cleanup and bug fixing to do. Soon after that we will publish the first beta version of 1.0 (likely in February), and ask app devs to start implementing the new API v4. How long the beta phase lasts is hard to say, it depends how many problems pop up.

Community tags by dessalines · Pull Request #3795 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

Description Adds the ability for community mods / admins to create community tags. Fixes Support creating community tags #3566 Adds the ability to add community tags for a post. Fixes Support addi...

^GitHub

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai via Fedigrow

4 days ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai
4 days ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

Something to help lead people to the Fediverse

I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day
old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/com…

Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc.
If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.

I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.

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Blaze (he/him) via Buy European

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Blaze (he/him)
3 days ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

post on /r/BuyfromEU promoting the Fediverse "Stop Relying on US Big Tech: Decentralized Open-Source Alternatives Exist"

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai via Fedigrow

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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai
2 days ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

#1 Post in r/BuyCanadian mentioning PieFed.ca -- 76,000 Views and counting.

See comments and iterations:
reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comme…

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Blaze (he/him) via Privacy

14 hours ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

Blaze (he/him)
14 hours ago (Received 8 hours ago) • •

Say no to Palantir in the NHS

Say no to Palantir in the NHS - No to Palantir

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

^{No to Palantir}

Blaze (he/him) via Fediverse memes

8 hours ago • •

Blaze (he/him)
8 hours ago • •

Not sure where all of this come from

Some context for people reading this and out of the loop

Piefed has some filters that are disabled by default and configurable by admins: piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/10059…

Piefed does more hand holding during the on-boarding process: when you first login, you get a list of a few topics you would like to follow, so that your Subscribed feed already has a few communities, instead of directly arriving to the All feed.

A regular issue from newcomers is that all there is on the Threadiverse is US news: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…

The onboarding process helps with that.

Piefed also has a few features that Lemmy does not currently have

cross-posts comments consolidation: example:

Some context for people reading this and out of the loop

Piefed has some filters that are disabled by default and configurable by admins: piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/10059…

A regular issue from newcomers is that all there is on the Threadiverse is US news: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…

The onboarding process helps with that.

Piefed also has a few features that Lemmy does not currently have

cross-posts comments consolidation: example: piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1011777… . Community fragmentation is a regular criticism of the Threadiverse, and this solves it.
multi-communities, so that smaller communities are not drown in the most active ones in the Subscribed feed, allowing once again to avoid the "all there is is US news"
built-in keyword filters

For a detailed list: join.piefed.social/features/

Lemmy 1.0 is planned to add some of those features, but still doesn't have a defined release date yet: lemmy.ml/comment/23570258

Due to all of this, Piefed is currently considered a better platform for new joiners than Lemmy. This can change once Lemmy 1.0 is released, but that's how it is right now.

Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn't ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also lawsofux.com/choice-overload/

A recent comment showed the disconnection between a Threadiverse enthusiast and a potential new joiner: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…

On the other hand, the Fedecan guides are quite helpful: fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-starte…

But even beyond that, as we all know, people don't have to understand federation to use the platform: lemmy.world/post/35166124

That's why a few people have been pointing only to Piefed recently.

(Why should we even try to get people from Reddit to here? More people allows niche communities to become active rather than relying on one single poster, if any. That's an issue we usually see on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip )

There have been a few posts recently on Reddit promoting Piefed:

There has also been a post about the Piefed filters I mentioned above: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62580326

It seems like since then a few Lemmy users have been on a campaign against Piefed:

This position is a bit surprising, as quite a few Lemmy instances have a Piefed instance as well

lemmy.dbzer0.com and anarchist.nexus
lemmy.blahaj.zone and piefed.blahaj.zone
lemmy.ca and piefed.ca
lemmy.world and piefed.world
lemmy.zip and piefed.zip

If Piefed was as bad as the posts against it say, then probably most of the instances would have shut those instances down already.

Both software coexist and are federated, so this kind of targeted posts against one of them seems counterproductive.

That's it for me, good Sunday everyone.

Choice Overload | Laws of UX

The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.

^{Laws of UX}

Blaze (he/him)

2026-01-30 20:02:42

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…
--
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…
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But my favorite has to win! There's no way the devs would/should be able to learn from each other, and they smell for making a competing product. Monopolies are awesome. /s

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Piefed: defederates from instances full of really obnoxious trolls

Obnoxious trolls: but, but, but, then how will we troll them? :(

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It'd be hilarious if ICE got deported. Not happening, but it would be very funny.

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Display them in the square like Mussolini.

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