I haven’t had to restore from my backup in production yet, but I run two instances and just periodically rsync the mapped volumes to a backup folder. I also use S3 for my media, so it is really just the database that is critical.

Doing dev work, when I know I am about to really fuck up my database doing an experiment, I will rsync myself a backup…blow everything up…tear down the docker stack and swap back in my database folder and it is good to go.

Great minds think alike! @[email protected] made this issue to track the feature: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/717

A PieFed admin can disable not-logged-in users from viewing NSFW content. IIRC, this was added after the recent UK laws about NSFW content.

Yeah, I think I see the issue in the jinja template. PieFed handles some video hosting sites a bit specially to make the compatibility a bit nicer, but the blur setting was not being passed on to those special cases. I think this is a pretty simple fix.

In the meantime, if you switch to either of the compact view settings, then the videos won’t be loaded in the feed.

I don’t think so, but I wasn’t working on it. Tagging @[email protected] for awareness.

To do this, they would need to be an admin running a modified version of the software no? If that was really happening with any kind of regularity, it would surely be grounds for defederation.

In any case, if this were to become an issue, then I am sure we can change it. We have already had to change how community flair federates a few times to try to keep up with lemmy’s PRs on the feature to try to make sure it is compatible.

As a contributor to PieFed (by my count, 7 of those bullet points in rimu’s post were done by me)…there is not more to this story as this is just some rando’s perceived grievances. If there was such animosity with the lemmy devs, why would piefed.social remain federated with lemmy.ml? There are definitely ideological differences between the devs of the two platforms, but the working relationship has been cordial and I truly believe everybody involved is aligned in the goal of promoting federated alternatives to corporate social media.

It is slightly different in PieFed compared to lemmy. On the search page there is a button labeled “Retrieve remote post” that lets you do it.

tl;dr - Very specific way that lemmy.world broke means that there is a gap in activities that isn’t going to federate

From a brief discussion on matrix with MrKaplan, it seems like the specific way in which lemmy broke for them (only really possible at their scale), the activities that happened during that period were marked as successfully sent even though they weren’t. Going back and resending all activities from that point on could do really weird things and end up duplicating tons of posts/comments all across the fediverse, so they have opted to not do that. So, we will just have to live without those posts/comments in the wider fediverse unless you manually force federation for them.

It’s been an issue on the codeberg for a little while now. It is currently on the board for the next piefed version, but it has gotten bumped before. There is only so much dev time/effort to go around. However, it is on the board, so it is something we are aware of and want to make happen.

I think they are planning a couple OVAs next year. I think they are running out of source material from what I can gather, so there might not be enough left for a whole other season.

This just made me think of that crazy In Win pc case, the Z Tower:

Some that I haven’t seen others suggest yet would be The Tale of The Princess Kaguya by Studio Ghibli and the recently-aired Apocalypse Hotel.

Edit: Missed the MAL link. Looks like you have already watched Princess Kaguya.

I think it was just so that the triangle lined up with how the piefed logo normally looks. Just a stylistic choice.

Is there a software solution on the app developer level that combines like posts together?

As mentioned in this thread already, piefed consolidates all the comments for crossposts when it detects them. As an example, you can look at this post on piefed.social. The link I shared is for the post on [email protected], but below it you can see comments from the same article posted in [email protected] as well as [email protected] in their own sections as you keep scrolling. So, problem solved, right? Well…

One of the key phrases I used above is “when it detects them”. So, how does piefed detect crossposts? The answer is pretty simple, it basically just looks for other posts that point to the same destination url. In the example I linked, that would be the Guardian article that is being discussed. This is the same way that lemmy detects crossposts. This approach is nice and easy and computationally cheap on the database (quick), however, there is a big shortfall of this method…posts that don’t point to a url (discussion posts) can never be detected as crossposts. Lemmy offers the ability to hit the crosspost button on a discussion post and it will create a big block quote of the original post for you, but it isn’t actually recognized as a crosspost in the software.

I don’t have a good technical solution to be able to make discussion posts (and other non-url posts, like piefed events or polls) be crossposted properly. It likely would need to be tracked in the database somehow, but it would rely on users somehow indicating that the post they are making is meant to be a crosspost. I don’t know really…

Anyway, that is the current state of crossposts. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

I think hendrik covered the basics. Plugins within piefed are pretty basic right now since there are only so many hooks that they can tap into. However, if you come up with a use case that the current set of hooks don’t allow you to do, please reach out and we can add more hooks in as the need arises.

The system itself can be extremely powerful, but similarly dangerous. Plugins have full access to the piefed database and any functions/modules in the codebase. If you want an example of a plugin that is currently being used in production (by at least two instances I know of) you could look at the onboarding plugin that I wrote.

I think the developers welcome people finding use-cases and expanding on the concept

Absolutely! It was actually an admin reaching out like this that led me to add some hooks for plugins to use and to create the onboarding plugin.

Alright, after another user pointed it out to me, I suspect the reason you aren’t seeing links to the modlog is likely because you were on piefed.world. They have been slow to update their piefed instance and are still on the 1.1 version. That means that updates to piefed that have been introduced in 1.2 (current stable version) and 1.3 (current dev version) are not present. Some updates to the modlog since then:

• (1.2) searching and filtering the modlog if you are logged in
• (1.3) introducing a dedicated link to the modlog on the footer of every page
• (1.3) adding a link to the modlog on each community’s sidebar
• (1.3) adding a link to the modlog on a user’s profile page

I just added it there a couple days ago, so don’t feel like it’s always been there hiding under your nose. 😀

piefed.world is on an older version of piefed where that wasn’t added yet. Similarly, instances that are on older versions of piefed won’t have links to the modlog on a community’s sidebar or on a user profile’s dropdown.

I’m not sure what is holding up piefed.world from updating. They are still on the 1.1 branch when 1.2 has been stable for some time now and we are preparing 1.3 for release very soon.

Without being an admin you won’t be able to see the username of the mod that banned you. This is also true for lemmy.