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Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • Help! I need a really simple image hosting solution

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  • You could use apache to create a webdav share. I bet there's a pre built container for it.

    Webdav is really underrated, imo.

  • Self hosting on retro computer?

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  • Really old CPUs (486 or earlier) lack the computing power to do SSL at any decent speed. So you're limited to serving http, gopher, nntp, or telnet. Maybe IRC.

    You could have a modern computer handle the SSL connection and proxy requests through to the antique but some of the purity of the thing is lost by doing that.

  • PieFed now has a font for people with dyslexia

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  • PieFed has that font too :)

  • PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

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  • You're only seeing a handful because those are the ones who posted in a community at some point or replied to a post in a community. The vast majority of Mastodon users have never interacted with any threadiverse content so they won't show up on piefed.social.

    Obviously this is very limiting :) Intentionally, for now.

  • PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

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  • A per-minute rate limit wouldn't work here because people go through bursts of activity - I might do 50 votes in 3 minutes, then none for 10 hours. If the rate limit was 50 votes per 3 minutes then people would still be able to cast thousands of votes per day.

    is Piefed unable to do so

    PieFed is able to do so, and has been doing so.

    But I don't think think it should have to and I don't think we should let a handful of people have the amount of influence they have been having. Did you see the graphs I shared in the matrix room?

  • What are the platforms on the Fediverse doing to prevent data scraping and prevent bots?

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  • To clarify - we've had that setting for a long time and it won't be automatically changed on existing instances unless an admin chooses to. I've just changed the default of it for new instances (of which there are much less, lately).

    It's the easiest way to stop scrapers, way easier than getting Anubis or fail2ban working properly. Unfortunately it comes at the cost of walling off an instance but most instances are for individual / small group use so it's an ok default to have.

  • What are the platforms on the Fediverse doing to prevent data scraping and prevent bots?

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  • Scrapers are not federating.

    Activitypub could be used to harvest content on a ongoing basis but to get all the historical data, which is the stuff they want, they can't use activitypub. Lemmy only has the last 50 posts in each community's outbox.

  • What are the platforms on the Fediverse doing to prevent data scraping and prevent bots?

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  • In the latest version, PieFed defaults to a mode which requires a login to browse. An admin needs to tick a box to expose themselves to scrapers.

  • Lemmy community sidebars need more "related communities" links

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  • If Lemmy automatically generated a list of related communities then mods wouldn't need to manually maintain a list.

  • Fedigraph, a data visualization site for the fediverse

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  • Very nice!

    Yuu might want to move Pixelfed down into the Photos clump.

  • PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

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  • Yes, I haven't made it easy to find people yet, intentionally.

    Mastodon is 20x bigger than Lemmy, in terms of the amount of people using it. So once they start sending us their toots in earnest, we could be looking at a 2x increase in federation load, easily. Could be 10x within a few weeks.

    So I'm not keen to unleash that flood all at once. I'll adjust PieFed to cope with it as it builds up slowly.

  • OpenDyslexic Font

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  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed now has a font for people with dyslexia

  • PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

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  • Thanks :)

  • OpenDyslexic Font

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  • Terrible boss!

    I'll add that font to PieFed.

  • PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

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  • We have rate limits (a quota by another name) on posting and commenting. Why not on votes? Casting a vote causes as much network activity as posting a comment.

    On everyone's profile is a bar showing how much of their quota has been used. I'll be monitoring this to see what happens. If it's cramping everyone's style too much then it'll be removed.

  • PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

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  • Not currently. But that could change!

    I'm pretty sure that on shared instances with more than a few dozen users All would become swamped with trash from Mastodon and basically unusable. But maybe the Hot sort would cope, if Mastodon posts had few likes...

    This is one of those things that can only be found out once it's in production and the feature is being used a bit. So far https://piefed.social/c/microblogs?sort=new is pretty tame but it could become a flood, easily.

    Sometimes development is like feeling your way through a dark room.

  • GUI for my OS (D.eSystem 6.0.6 alpha)

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  • That is the convention. It is also common for devs to make a new branch for each release so you can issue updates for that version by adding a commit to that branch.

  • OpenDyslexic Font

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  • PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

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  • There's a follow button on each account's profile. So first find one of their posts/comments and then go to the author of it.

    Also if you go to https://piefed.social/instances, find the instance you like and then go to the people in that instance, there are Follow buttons everywhere.

    I'm not making this slick and easy to use, yet. I don't want everyone to suddenly follow tons of people and cause the server to melt or whatever. This following functionality could increase the federation work the server needs to do in unpredictable ways so I'll be monitoring things and dealing with issues as they arise for a while, before going big on it.

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.7.0
  • Python @programming.dev
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    LWN.net

    Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future

    lwn.net /SubscriberLink/1078367/eaa511915870fdb2/
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Almost three tonnes of cocaine found buried under Sydney property in Australia’s biggest ever seizure

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2026/jun/22/almost-three-tonnes-of-cocaine-found-buried-under-sydney-property-in-australias-biggest-ever-seizure-police-say
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    According to Wikipedia, the winner of the Iran war is...

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2026_Iran_war
  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Coastal village in Italy

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    Temple at sunset

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Yellow grass during golden hour is too easy

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Laos river scene

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Mongolia, 2012

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    One of the places we walk our dog

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Spray coming off the sea in late afternoon catches the sun

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

    medium.com /@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
  • Space @beehaw.org
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    New telescope could find 100,000 planets

    phys.org /news/2026-05-peering-milky-side-roman-unveil.html
  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2026/05/googles-android-powered-laptops-are-called-googlebooks-and-theyre-coming-this-year/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Browsing PieFed using Vivaldi's 'follower tab' feature is very nice

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    Christchurch is back on

    www.stuff.co.nz /culture/360979971/once-lifetime-was-more-concert-it-was-christchurchs-rebirth-party
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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