What features made you choose PieFed over Mbin/Lemmy?
What features do they have that you’d like to see in PieFed?

    • r.endtimes@piefed.socialEnglish
      64·
      5 个月前

      votings never private when someone can spin up a friendica instance and see it all, or since its activityhub anyone could make an app exclusively to see downvoters.

      • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineEnglish
        26·
        5 个月前

        It’s private because there are essentially two of you, and your vote is the anonymous you.

        https://piefed.social/post/205362

        “PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account …”

        • r.endtimes@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          5 个月前

          Wouldn’t that make it easy for ppl to run a piefed instance and mass downvote without showing whos doing it?

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
          2·
          5 个月前

          I bet it would be fairly easy to match comments with upvotes/downvotes and get a pretty good idea of who’s ‘anonymous’ accounts are pretty quickly.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart
              1·
              5 个月前

              Yeah but I bet you upvote or downvote other comments in the thread around the same time you make comments.

              That activity would make an educated guess pretty easy.

              • ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev
                2·
                5 个月前

                Interesting. It would probably also depend on the number of other people downvoting and commenting. Also this assumes that someone consistently downvotes and comments on one post.

                • lol_idk@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  5 个月前

                  Fundamentally obsessing about votes and building a community based on votes will corrupt the whole system. We’ve been here before

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    5 个月前

    Peertube integration works really well.

    The combinational multi communities that it has makes maintaining multiple similar communities much easier.

    I really like that the UI has so many options you can chose from.

    User flare.

    There’s more but yeah I’ve been enjoying it.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    5 个月前

    Please get rid of the trusted instance concept for private voting. Or at least let me lick which instances I trust.

    • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 个月前

      I’ve complained about the ‘trusted instance concept’ too … I’ve a horrible feeling that it exists to protect piefed.social from the DB bloat it inflicts on everyone else, lol.

      • MrKaplanAEnglish
        1·
        5 个月前

        how does that affect db bloat? or rather, how does it protect from that?

        • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
          2·
          5 个月前

          piefed.social is hard-coded in the source as a ‘trusted instance’, so other PieFed instances won’t ever send votes to it using alternative profiles. Untrusted instances that receive traffic from PieFed instances will end up generating one row for the main user, and one row for the alt user. It’s typically only one extra row (per user), but I think that unticking and ticking ‘Vote privately’ in settings generates a new random username for the alt everytime, so it could end up being more.

          • MrKaplanAEnglish
            4·
            5 个月前

            at least in lemmy’s db structure, it wouldn’t make that much of a difference compared to other tables that use significantly more space:

            • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              5 个月前

              The scale of LW is impressive as always.

              Is the post_read table where info on what a user has or has not read is stored? I am wondering now if a huge db like that is the cost of implementing features like marking unread comments or posts.

              …not that I have a great idea of how to do that since I don’t know js at all, but db size is something to keep in mind when the intention is to have federated instances, each with their own infrastructure.

              • MrKaplanAEnglish
                2·
                5 个月前

                yes, post_read marks which posts a user has marked as read. it links post ids with user ids and adds a timestamp on top to allow for sorting.

                edit:

                for comments, lemmy only stores the number of read comments per post, which is what goes into person_post_aggregates. this is a tradeoff, it has some limitations, e.g. when comments are deleted or removed, which affects the total count. as there is also a timestamp attached it might be possible to use that in combination with comment creation times, though this would likely impact query performance quite a bit more.

          • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            5 个月前

            piefed.social is hard-coded in the source as a ‘trusted instance’,

            That’s probably inherited from the past, from a time where Piefed.social was the only active instance around. Quite a few of those settings are being made customizable in the last few days, so that every instance can configure it as they wish.

          • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            5 个月前

            Is this where that happens? I am having a hard time untangling all the AP stuff in the codebase.

            For what it’s worth, I don’t think this is the case any longer. I have been spinning up new dev instances a ton with docker and the trusted instances list is empty. The one place that piefed.social is listed in the admin panels I found is in the “Warn if new account banned from these instances” box:

            I have been on a bit of a mission to try to make a lot of the more opinionated moderation tools in piefed optional at an admin level or remove them (so far rimu has been receptive). So, if this is in the code, I would want to make a PR to remove it.

            • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
              1·
              5 个月前

              Is this where that happens?

              Yeah. That function is for adding instances as they are encountered. Your dev server won’t initially know about any other instances (‘trusted’ or not), but as soon as it engages with anything from ‘piefed.social’, then it will get added to the instance list and the ‘trusted’ flag will be set to True

  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    5 个月前

    Onboarding.

    So many people give up on Lemmy because they have login issues and once they’re logged in they don’t understand how things work etc.

    PieFed makes it easy to create a account and login, and guides you once you’re logged in