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Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

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2022
Joined
3 yr. ago

Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

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

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  • Oh, right.

    There was a Lemmy instance that had lots of communities being populated from RSS feeds, is that still running? I have bot posts hidden so I don't see them...

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

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  • Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean.

    Here are the new rss feeds on the home page:

  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • It's endless!

  • The ring around Mt. Taranaki

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  • I can confirm that Pouakai Circuit Reflecive Tarn is indeed reflective.

    My legs took a week to recover from the walk there and back.

  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • No, it doesn't stop posts in their communities (except their posts in their communities). It might stop their moderation actions from being accepted though, which effectively makes the community unmoderated and a liability.

    This seems like a bug. Probably when someone is banned all the communities they're the sole active moderator of should be locked. Or a warning shown to the admins, or something.

  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • Yes all his communities will never go anywhere, he's banned from most instances.

  • The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts

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  • The human brain uses 20 watts of power.

    There's no way using AI (easily 1000 watts, many thousands of watts if using multiple agents in a swarm like Claude does) to make yourself 20% more efficient results in less energy per task done.

    Ask your chatbot about it if you want to be sure.

  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • Thanks for reminding me, I've added a comment to the bottom of the blog post about that.

  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • Yes I should have said "similar to what people in the west think China has" but that's not the focus of the blog post. Instead I just linked to the wikipedia article which is pretty clear about that.

  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • I just had a look at that community.

    Those people are all Donald J Musk's alts and that guy is universally hated.

    Working as intended in that case.

  • What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

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  • Yeah

  • [PC] Send the Demons Back!

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  • Good to hear :)

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

    join.piefed.social /2026/08/06/what-piefeds-social-credit-system-actually-does/

  • YSK All PieFed instances block links to "right-wing" sources by default

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  • Lemmy or Piefed?

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  • Hide & mark a post as read without voting on it

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  • Way better!

  • What does "Posts older than 365 days will be removed." mean exactly?

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  • No, PieFed posts have a 'canonical' meta tag which sends search engines to the original post. The local copy of a remote post is never indexed by Google anyway.

    https://ahrefs.com/blog/canonical-tags/

    Deletion of unnecessary data is a cost-saving measure which makes it much less likely that piefed.social will need to shut down forever. Lots of fedi software doesn't do this and it has bad outcomes. Check this out:

    mastodon.cloud has 1,300 active users:

    Their running costs are $800 per month and now they're shutting down.

    I don't know all the reasons why they're closing down but clearly that is an insane amount of money for a service supporting that many users.

    PieFed.social has 1600 users and costs whatever the electricity for a 10 year old computer is. $5 per month? On a Hetzner VPS it was about $50 per month.

    This isn't big tech where more data means more share price or more AI training data or deeper ad-targeting user profiles. This is smol tech where more data means more problems. If we want to preserve any content we need to delete some content.

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  • Not a use-case I expected, for sure...

  • Returning to the fediverse is hard.

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  • Hey, welcome back.

    piefed.world hasn't really invested much into populating their Explore menu, to make finding communities easier.

    I've just added a few feeds though, check out https://piefed.world/feeds

    Also https://feddit.online/topics is an amazing directory of all the communities. It's a separate instance to piefed.world though so when you find good communities you'll need to manually copy their address into your piefed.world account. Or just move yourself to feddit.online...

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Hide & mark a post as read without voting on it

  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world
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    The futility of existence

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Anti-fascist PieFed features

    join.piefed.social /2026/08/04/anti-fascist-piefed-features/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Trans-friendly PieFed features

    join.piefed.social /2026/07/28/trans-friendly-piefed-features/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed 1.7.9 includes Anubis-like scraper blocking

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed is 3 years old today

  • Astronomy @mander.xyz
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    See stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

    edition.cnn.com /2026/07/24/science/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2026
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    New front in US-Iran war escalates as Houthis fire at Saudi oil facilities

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/7/26/new-front-in-us-iran-war-escalates-as-houthis-fire-at-saudi-oil-facilities
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    ePaper + eInk community

    piefed.social /c/epaper
  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    How learning te reo Māori in her 70's transformed one Pākehā grandmother's view of Aotearoa

    www.rnz.co.nz /news/te-ao-maori/794950/how-learning-te-reo-maori-in-her-70-s-transformed-one-pakeha-grandmother-s-view-of-aotearoa
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Huge wildfires in Canada, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia

    www.theguardian.com /world/live/2026/jul/25/france-spain-wildfires-latest-news-updates-madrid-cap-ferret-bordeaux-gironde
  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Debian is debating the use of LLMs

    www.debian.org /vote/2026/vote_002
  • Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related @lemmy.world
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    Bryan Johnson says he cloned himself as a newborn to grow organs and young blood

    www.newsnationnow.com /us-news/strange/bryan-johnson-clone-himself-newborn-organs/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem

    deadsimpletech.com /blog/tech-aint-deep
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Bank of England to stop accepting bonds linked to coal for key loans

    www.theguardian.com /business/2026/jul/19/bank-of-england-bonds-coal-loans-assets
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Drawing a PieFed logo in the top left of the canvas right now

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    You can now block posts based on their flair

  • Nature and Gardening @beehaw.org
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    The Naturalist’s Library

    www.c82.net /naturalists-library/
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race

    www.euronews.com /2026/07/14/solar-generated-record-25-of-eu-power-in-june-with-germany-spain-and-poland-leading-the-ra