Notices by Rimu (rimu@piefed.social)

PieFed has some pretty intense ban-evasion countermeasures. I won’t go into details but yeah - good luck. It’s intentionally confusing because anyone trying to get around it probably deserves to have their time wasted.

Sorry if we have unintentionally caught you in this. Some false positives are likely.

Probably easier for you to just use another instance.

It’s not on the roadmap because the first time I heard of FASP was yesterday :)

It’s a nice idea. I’ll be interested to see how they solve the problems of

• Instances wasting a ton of space everyone ends up paying for.
• What will it cost and who pays. Something at this scale can’t be volunteer-run.
• Instances allowing stuff like lolicon which others find repugnant.
• Instances uploading CSAM.

The shared blocklists (FIRES) is more straightforward and I’m keen on doing that ASAP.

All piefed.social communities have infinite retention. Our stuff is high quality and worth keeping forever, it’s just the trashy Lemmy content that gets deleted ;-)

Even though you might post into a Lemmy community, piefed.social still has to store the original copy of the meme.

It would be good if the instance chooser showed content retention policies in some way so people could take that into account when they choose an instance.

Congrats!

PieFed does this but it needs to be enabled at the community level before replies can be flagged as answers. See !piefed_help@piefed.social

quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.

Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.

We only federate the deletion if it is in one of our local communities.

The activity is signed by the person who did it, so if Mastodon detects that the person deleting is not the author and doesn’t know how to find out if someone is a moderator or not, that’s their problem.

Mastodon has been dropping the ball on groups support for years so I didn’t even bother to find out if they handle it well - I bet they don’t.

I can make it so that web+pf://sopuli.xyz/post/32069389 opened it on your home instance. Would that do?

It has to start with web+ just because - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/registerProtocolHandler and I put pf after that because PieFed.

FYI piefed released v1.1.6 and v1.1.7 in the last week.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases

I'll put more fulsome release notes on minor point releases like that if I know people are going to link to them.

Rather than try to rescue the hamburger menu, I created a new always-there bottom menu which is only shown on mobile devices.

Please give it a try on https://crust.piefed.social/ if you're on a mobile when you read this.

Yes, a Delete activity is sent to all instances with actors that follow the category/community. Those instances then delete their local copy. In Lemmy/PieFed there is no distinction between deletion and removal.

The deletes are soft so it is possible to un-delete by sending an Undo activity. PieFed keeps soft-deleted posts (topics, in NodeBB language) for a few days then after a week deletes the content from the database.

All of these activities are enclosed in an Announce and the http POST is signed using the community key. So in a way the content 'belongs' to the community, not to the original author. With that model of ownership the idea of removal redundant - a post without a community is not a post.

Tangentially - it would be good to come up with a way to move a topic to another category and federate that so the move can happen on other instances, too. We could go off-piste and create a Move activity, or use Remove (from old topic/comm) followed by Add (to new topic/comm) to do the same thing. I feel more inclined to go with Move as it's a single atomic operation that either succeeds or fails, despite it not being in the spec.

The AP spec is so badly stretched by various implementation-specific differences that I don't think it's worth being ideological about adherence to it it anymore.

We have this running on https://crust.piefed.social if anyone wants to test the PieFed implementation of context out.

Please see https://join.piefed.social/features/ for some background and comparison ☺️

Your reply came through to me at PieFed. Fingers crossed that this reply reaches you!