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Can you imagine, years ago how the internet was before? We know Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Youtube. We knew blogger, Tumblr, Skyrock... and long before, it was the forum era as phpBB..and mail-lists.

And now with ActivityPub, we are reshaping the web, and achieving much with lots of freedom. So thank you all, and welcome 🤟😁

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We all make mistakes,

If your comment is reported, and brings up a complex issue, we will reach out to you and ask you to rephrase it.

Our goal, is to create a serene space for discussion. Nothing more.

If the post isn't edited to remove hurtful language element, we will have to remove it. It would be a shame because your comment was interesting and you took some time to write it.

In case of xenophobia, racism, transphobia, homophobia or harassment, it will be a permanent ban.

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PieFed Wiki (draft) (piefed.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Snoopy@piefed.social to c/fediverse@piefed.social
 
 

Hi All !

I did my best to do a little wiki about PieFed. I'm not completly sastified with what i wrote but it is the first step. We will improve it :D

We are missing some feature as notification. Maybe its organization is messy. X)

Feedback are welcome. I also want to do a FAQ, so do hesitate to send us your questions in comment.

Thank a lot for your help :)

PieFed wiki

Contribute to PieFed


Edit : Very cool thank you to you all :D i added some line to developp another topic about conspiracy and alt-right pipeline.

As for the wiki on piefed app, i will do a table with the most essential features of Piefed :

  • multicommunity
  • flairs and tags
  • mod and admin tool
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Inspired by a new introducing video and its reference to https://jointhefediverse.net/ , see link and discussion here: https://piefed.social/post/889659

Jointhefediverse is a great resource for interested people/new users, and for those a link to a community dedicated to questions re the whole fediverse and interaction with regulars could be a nice addition.

I'm only aware of 'Fediverse' communities not specifically for that group, or communities tailored to new users of Piefed (https://piefed.ca/c/newtopiefed) or Lemmy (https://lemmy.ca/c/newtolemmy ). Am I missing something?

The community itself could be set up rather quickly, but maybe we talk about things like name and other basics before?

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35 000! Thanks to your many contributions, we have reached the €35,000 goal for our crowdfunding! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! 🩷

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Elena Rossini's accounts/blogs regarding fediverse, hosting etc. are worth following anyway, now she produced this cool video. Several subtitles were already contributed.

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FSE Meets the FBI! — FSE Blog (blog.freespeechextremist.com)
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What if the Fediverse met... in real life?

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publication croisée depuis : https://lemmy.ml/post/31047498

Here are some of the major changes made over the past month:

  • @travis-jeans added themes from RBlind.com to lemmy-ui (#3159).
  • @Nothing4You made improvements for media deletion and purging
  • @momentary-lapse also improved image deletion, and cleaned up database forms.
  • @dullbananas implemented federation for community reports (#5496)
  • @xaegit made changes to show nsfw images by default if content_warning is enabled.
  • @SleeplessOne1917 removed the browser cache for lemmy-ui which will reduce storage use.
  • @dessalines worked on various changes for the 1.0 release.
  • @nutomic made different changes to speedup compilation, and reported bugs with slow compilation in Rust (first, second).

Full list of changes by user

travis-jeans

MrKaplan-lw

Nothing4You

Dullbananas

matc-pub

momentary-lapse

xaegit

SleeplessOne1917

Dessalines

Nutomic

Or see the full list of changes at the links below:


An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

Donate

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Snoopy@jlai.lu to c/fediverse@piefed.social
 
 

publication croisée depuis : https://dubvee.org/post/3504627

Highlights in 1.4.39

  • Enhanced the content filtering options
  • Revamped the comment section display
  • Tweaked some mod tool behavior
  • Spruced up the modlog
  • Quite a few bugfixes

Changelog

Bugfixes

  • Fix bug where expanding/collapsing the post image would trigger unwanted reactivity causing the comment section to refresh.
  • Comments now respond to the "lockPost" event in order to disable/enable the reply button appropriately.
  • If an inbox item is expanded, switching accounts or refreshing the list as a new item arrives would keep the text from the previous comment while updating the heading info correctly. Caused the wrong comment/reply to be displayed.
  • Same as above but for moderation reports
  • Don't invalidate/refresh Reports page when resolving a report (not needed).
  • When removing a post/comment, if you enabled the option to send a reply message and left it blank, it would throw a toast message informing you as such but not reset the "loading" variable and kept the "submit" button disabled.
  • When distinghishing a mod comment, only push top-level comments to the top of the tree. e.g. if you need to distinguish a comment that is a reply to another comment, that would previously push a copy of that distinguished reply up as a top-level comment.
  • Fixed unhandled error when an admin enters the community settings when there are no moderators.
  • Fixed "Local Community" toggle not reflecting API state after reload.
  • Fix truncation in post headings to account for community display names where the community creator thinks "Display Name" and "Community Long Description" are the same picture :sigh:
    • Note: Backported to 1.4.38
  • Svelte was URI-encoding ampersands when rendering links
  • The absolute time displayed in the tooltip of the RelativeTime component was not updating correctly when re-rendering due to a reacctive event.
  • If you linked an image in markdown, the image would render but without the link. Now, the link will be below the image.
    • e.g. [![This is a linked image](https://europe.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffoo.com%2Fimage.jpg)](https://example.com/article/page.htm)
    • The cause is that zoomable image takes precedence over the hyperlink.
    • Known "bug": Badges (e.g. img.shields.io are still kind of ugly and don't really fit the model. Working on some exceptions for things like those, but that didn't make it into this release.

Content Filtering Revamp

The filtering subsystem has been refactored and enhanced. Prior to this release, anything that was filtered was simply discarded before being rendered.

Now, filtered objects will show a placeholder that indicates which filter was triggered (or which keywords triggered the filter). Clicking the "eye" button on the placeholder will show the hidden content.

This is the case for both posts and comments that are hidden by your filter preferences.

Notes on Filtering

There are a few safety checks in place that will disable the filters under certain conditions. The first two are to prevent moderation blind spots, and the rest are just sanity checks/compromises to keep from over-complicating things.

  1. If you are a moderator, the filters will not apply to content posted to any community you moderate. This includes viewing reports.
  2. If you are an instance admin, the filters will not apply to content posted to any local communities.
  3. The filters will not apply when viewing your own content anywhere in the app.
  4. Filters are not applied when viewing someone's profile.
  5. If you have a community filtered, going to its /c/ page or browsing it in a modal will show the community's content, though any other filters are still applied (keywords, user filters, etc). Reason being, you went to the commmunity, so the content shouldn't be filtered out by default.

Finally, filters are global and apply to all accounts in use in the app. You cannot have different filters on one account than on another. I may change my mind at some point, but it made much more sense to have one set than one set per profile. It also eliminates the need to have extra management tools to copy them or sync them between profiles and other things like that.

Keyword Filters Now Apply to Comments

Keyword filters now apply to comments! I had always meant to apply them there, but until the work done to the comment section in this release, I didn't have a way to apply them that wouldn't nuke the rest of the thread. Now, just the offending comments will be hidden with the rest of the chain remaining intact.

Filtered comments will hide the score and creator as well. Unless manually revealed, the "creator" will be Tesseract@your-instance.xyz with the Tesseract logo as the avatar. Revealing the comment will replace that with the actual creator. This is to both further hide/mask content you don't want to see as well as keep the formatting/rendering consistent.

User Filtering (Soft Blocking)

You can now filter users rather than blocking them. This is especially helpful for those who moderate large communities. Think of filtering out a user like a "soft block".

Why would you want to filter a user rather than block them?

Lemmy's blocking has a couple of glaring issues:

  1. Content from blocked accounts does not show up in communities you moderate. This leaves a huge blind spot when you don't want to see content from certain users but it is not warranted to ban them from your communities.

  2. When you block a user, not only are their comments not visible in the comment section, you will not see any replies to them, either. Depending on who you block, this could cause you to miss out on quite a bit of discussion.

If you filter those users instead, both of those are addressed:

  1. Filters are automatically disabled on communities you moderate, so you will still see content from the filtered users there but you won't anywhere else.

  2. Only the filtered user's comment will be masked; all the replies will be visible.

Community Filtering (Soft Blocking)Similar to users, you can also filter/soft block communities.

Why would you want to do this instead of block the community?

Think of it like a soft unsubscribe. Need a break from a community but don't want to unsubscribe completely? Filter it! You'll see a placeholder stub in the feed for it, and you can reveal if you want to. Otherwise, it's out of sight, out of mind. When you're ready to get back into the community, just un-filter it.

How-to Use User/Community FilteringTo filter (or un-filter) a user, click their username to bring up the User Profile Modal. From there, use the "Filter User..." (or Un-Filter User...) button in the modal. When a user is filtered, all of their content in the current area will collapse to a placeholder (or un-collapse if you're un-filtering them).

Communities work the same way except from the community profile modals.

You can also manage the filtered users directly from Settings->Filters->User Filters. Be aware that is pretty low-level, and you're basically editing a list of actor IDs. It's best to only use that to remove items, though you can add them there as well. It will also accept a comma-delimited list of actor IDs, so you can add them in bulk:

e.g.

https://instance.xyz/u/jerk1, https://instance.xyz/u/jerk2, https://other-instance.abc/u/AnotherJerk

Again, the users you enter directly must be in the actor ID format as that is what's compared when running the filters. An incorrectly formatted entry will not break anything, but it won't work, either.

Comment Section Revamp

  • Added color-coded conversation lines to comment threads.

    • The conversaton lines are clickable buttons and can be used to collapse/expand threads.
    • The user avatars in the comment header have ring borders corresponding to the thread color
    • Avatars are now de-coupled from the user links; clicking them will expand/collapse the thread
    • Are color-coded by default but can change to monochrome if you prefer.
    • Setting is in Settings -> Posts and Comments -> Color Coded Conversation Lines
  • Tweaked comment renderers / layout

    • Removed "card" effect
    • Distinguished comments now render fancier.
  • Comment text height can be limited to 120px and be expanded/collapsed (similar to post bodies in the feed).

    • Disabled by default
    • Can enable via Settings -> Posts and Comments -> Limit Comment Height

Tweaks to Moderation Options

  • When removing a post/comment and opting to reply with a reason via comment, automatically distinguish the comment.
  • In the Community Profile Modal -> Ban/Unban User panel, you can now search for a user as well as enter the actor ID, @user@instance.xyz, or https://lemmyverse.link/u/user@instance.xyz format.
  • Added a quick shortcut to "Moderator View" in the sidebar. Will not show unless the current account is moderating at least one community (e.g. if you're an admin that isn't explicitly a moderator of any community, it will be hidden).
  • Added a button on reports that will copy the report text to the clipboard if you want to use it in the removal reason.

Tweaks to User and Community Profile Modals

  • Added button to view user's modlog history in the full modlog (without having to open the embededded, mini-modlog first.
  • Both can be middle-clicked to open the full modlog in a new tab on desktop
  • Added "View in Full Modlog" button to User Profile Modal -> User Modlog panel (Thought I already had this, but it was in the moderation modal)
  • Added button to filter (or un-filter) users or communities.

Tweaks to the Inline Comment Removal Reasons

  • Clicking the "hand" icon will now load the modlog details for the comment even if you have the setting disabled. If the setting is enabled, then it will take you to the full modlog for the entry.
  • Moved comment removal reason box above the comment text.

Enhancements to the Modlog

Gave the modlog a slight visual and functional refresh

  • Can now +/- quick filter by action type
  • More consistent and uniform layout
  • Removed redundant components
  • Moved filter options out of sub-navbar and into page proper
  • Cleaner mobile/desktop reflow
  • Can switch between relative timestamps (1 hr ago) and absolute timestamps for modlog events

Additionally, it can now lookup the moderatee on "remove post" action types. The API very stupidly doesn't include the person details on the "Remove Post" (or lock post) events, so Tesseract can optionally/automatically perform a lookup based on the post's creator ID if you have that option toggled on.

Note that an API-lookup is a "last resort". In the modlog loader, it will attempt to resolve the creator_id by looking at other entries in the batch of modlog entries it retrieves. If it finds a person object matching that id, it will add it transparently and not trigger an API-lookup. The API lookups are also cached for 5 minutes (too short, and they're not useful, too long, and ban indicators may not show when they should). Attempting to resolve those in the loader, synchronously, caused too much delay in loading the page, so they fill in dynamically/asynchronously after the modlog renders.

Get Tesseract

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Snoopy@piefed.social to c/fediverse@piefed.social
 
 

New design for video management and publication pages, rework of the display and filter system for sensitive content… this new version is ready for the summer!

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Well, actually, PieFed.social has enabled it's API which means that the Android app Interstellar can be used with it. Find out more about the app at https://interstellar.jwr.one/.

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

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Because, even if it is about reddit, we also deal with sad stuff and try to support each others.


What can you do when someone on social media says they are feeling suicidal?

Most social networks allow users to report posts anonymously so the site can send them links and numbers to organisations offering support.

But Reddit is also trying a different approach.

It hosts a thread called Suicide Watch. This subreddit is set up specifically for people who are feeling suicidal to talk through their feelings.

Someone submits a post to the sub with a title explaining how they feel and why, then other redditors reply to them.

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!opensource@lemmy.ml

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Blaze@piefed.social to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Blaze@piefed.social to c/fediverse@piefed.social
 
 
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There's no need to pay Kagi for this cool feature!

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Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 18 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Nik Clayton! Principled Software Engineer, Gentleman Programmer and is a current packli steward. Nik also posts some excellent looking food.

Pachli - pronounced PACK-Lee
https://pachli.app/
@pachli@mastodon.social
@nikclayton@mastodon.social
pachli.app/about/#who-are-you https://nikclayton.writeas.com/
https://opencollective.com/nivenly-foundation/projects/pachli

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