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Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • A PSA to any meme poster of PieFed

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  • 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.

  • Mastodon has been awarded a €614k service agreement

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  • This addresses some really difficult and long-standing problems and I really look forward to seeing the result.

    I've had my eye on FIRES for some time and this funding will take it from fringe niche thing to the big time.

  • I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it

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  • I've noticed a lot of those big-in-microblogging folks have figured out what gives viral among their audience and just keep repeating it over and over in different forms.

    Why? Hooked on the validation? It doesn't seem healthy.

  • World’s first 100% battery-electric cruise ship unveiled with 1,856 passenger capacity.

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  • This comm is 'futurology', if you don't like dreaming about what might happen, perhaps this isn't the comm for you.

  • World’s first 100% battery-electric cruise ship unveiled with 1,856 passenger capacity.

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  • industry forecasts indicate that roughly 100 European ports will have the necessary charging infrastructure by 2030.

  • A PSA to any meme poster of PieFed

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  • 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 ;-)

  • A PSA to any meme poster of PieFed

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  • It is off by default. Admins can set the content retention policy on any community.

    On piefed.social I've set pretty much every meme, shitpost and anime community to expire after one year or less. Check the sidebar of the community to see, it's beneath the moderator list.

  • Linux

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  • Yes, it is on a PieFed instance. So: flairs, hashtags, emoji reactions, mods equipped with the tools they need and so on.

  • An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.

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  • Ahh, so maybe on Google Maps that's just a copyright statement rather than really when the imagery was taken. So I'm looking at quite old information.

  • An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.

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  • My Google Maps says 2026 on the bottom of it.

    I've highlighted the solar panels I could see, around Salloum Hospital:

    It's great to see so many but it's way more scattered and patchy than in the OP photo.

  • An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.

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  • In Google maps you can use satellite mode to look at their roofs. There are some panels but nothing like this.

    edit: satellite mode is out of date, see further conversation below.

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Linux

    piefed.blahaj.zone /c/linux
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Retrocomputing

    piefed.social /c/retrocomputing

  • I want to move my communities to piefed.social but the original instance is dead: how does that work?

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  • PM me the community names, I can do it unilaterally.

  • Post that were read come back

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  • PieFed only stores 90 days of read post history.

    Now that we have had that feature running for a long time I can see how much space is used by this (430 MB) and I think it's fine to increase this to 180 days.

    I've also added an admin option at /admin/misc which will let you increase it to any value. If you want to keep read history 'forever' than just put a really big value in there. On a single user instance the amount of data used by this table will probably be much smaller than it is on piefed.social.

  • Who Would Win?

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  • We can adapt and the process of doing that in capitalism involves prices rising and rising until people can't afford things and stop buying them, thus reducing demand.

    That's super tough on people who don't have much money and they don't consume much anyway so when they tap out it doesn't reduce demand much. So prices need to rise enough to hurt the middle class in developed countries, meaning the lower classes everywhere else have a really shit time.

    Meanwhile there are some oil uses that are completely unable to be reduced, such as emergency services, food distribution, etc so the govt will intervene in the market to ensure that happens. This means all non-essential sectors of the economy must reduce usage by significantly more than 20%.

    Meanwhile every country's govt is doing everything it can to try to lock in 100% of their usual supply and some will succeed, leaving other countries to make much bigger cuts than 20%.

    There will be lots of people making 100% cuts while a few make none. Humanity isn't great at sharing especially at a global level.

  • Melania Trump says she did not have relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

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  • Pretty weird to do this out of the blue. Feels like she's trying to frontfoot something big that's about to come out.

  • We should rethink how the communitcation channels for piefed devs work

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  • We should rethink how the communitcation channels for piefed devs work

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  • I love Loomio but I'd love PieFed even more if it had some of Loomio's features...

  • We should rethink how the communitcation channels for piefed devs work

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  • At the moment the chat features of PieFed are quite neglected and minimal, because we have Zulip and Matrix. If we were PieFed-exclusive then there is a strong incentive to improve that part of PieFed.

    What is the MVP chat experience that PieFed needs to provide before we could start to dogfood it? Group chats?

  • Can only see a couple posts when browsing piefed.social

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  • Your 'Default post sort' setting is 'Top' which shows you the top posts in the last 24 hours. Some communities have only had a handful of posts in the last 24h so those are the only ones you see. (sticky posts are always shown, even if older than 24h).

    I recommend 'Hot'.

  • Poetry @lemmy.world
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    A whole civilization will die tonight

  • Pyrrhic Victory

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  • He was a trier though, sounds like he did his best:

    Realising that he could not win a war against the Romans, Pyrrhus accepted a request from the Greek city-states of eastern and southern Sicily to help them against the Carthaginians in western Sicily. He went to Sicily and campaigned there for three years. His allies in southern Italy were aggrieved because he abandoned them. He took over all the Carthaginian domains in Sicily except for the stronghold of Lilybaeum. His siege of this city was unsuccessful. After this he wanted to build a large fleet to invade Carthage's home territory in Africa. He needed to man and equip these ships and to do this he treated the Greek city-states despotically. These cities turned against him. He was forced to return to southern Italy. He fought the Romans at the Battle of Beneventum (275 BC), where he was defeated. He then left Italy and returned to Epirus.

    That's a pretty long multi-year rampage, taking on all the big players in the region. We can't all be winners 😅

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    PieFed gets /r/random, like reddit used to have

    piefed.social /r/random
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed gets /r/random, like reddit used to have

    piefed.social /r/random
  • Space @beehaw.org
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    Watch the Artemis II launch here

    www.nasa.gov /live/
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Fuel Crisis

    piefed.social /c/fuel_crisis
  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    Preparing for supply disruptions (NZ edition)

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    NZ Fuel Reserves Monitor

    nzoilwatch.com
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give - Kenneth Reitz

    kennethreitz.org /essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Mt Cook carpark, New Zealand

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    7 LLM bots banned from PieFed.social in the last 24 hours - a new daily record

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Managed PieFed hosting with elastio

    elest.io /open-source/piefed
  • News @lemmy.world
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    British tourist among 20 charged in Dubai over videos of Iranian missile strikes

    www.theguardian.com /world/2026/mar/12/british-tourist-among-20-charged-in-dubai-over-videos-of-iranian-missile-strikes
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    H-3 airstrike - Wikipedia

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries

    www.rnz.co.nz /news/national/587964/government-deciding-whether-us-should-get-access-to-new-zealanders-biometric-data
  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world
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    A man launched from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the truck was traveling.

    mstdn.social /@nexta/116082250273036211
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Healthy expectations in open source

    www.donmccurdy.com /2023/07/03/expectations-in-open-source/
  • FoodPorn @lemmy.world
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    Something Swedish