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Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • 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...

  • How has the voting quota impacted power users and content creation?

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

  • How has the voting quota impacted power users and content creation?

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  • A neutral read thing sounds ideal, yeah!

  • Anti-fascist PieFed features

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  • There is no middle ground with fascism. There really isn't.

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

  • Lemmy or Piefed?

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  • There's just you and me here, 1 person isn't a pile on.

    Sorry you're having a bad time, I hope you feel better soon.

  • Anti-fascist PieFed features

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  • I've been seriously considering adding this to PieFed's onboarding process. Admins could provide a default block list and people could untick them individually just after registering (or in their settings, any time).

  • Trans-friendly PieFed features

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  • Thank you 😊

  • Anti-fascist PieFed features

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  • Maybe a better Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph?

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  • Cool diagram.

    If you removed hexbear and lemmygrad (nearly everyone defederates them so they just clutter the place up) then the other information would be clearer. For example I didn't notice that beehaw has defederated both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works until my third viewing.

  • [PieFed] Anti-fascist PieFed features

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  • A clone, you say.

    It sounds like you want me to do a post where I do a side-by-side comparison between Lemmy and PieFed. Maybe run through the admin area and see what options PieFed has and then see if Lemmy has anything similar.... I'm sure that will be a fun time.

    Give me a couple of days.

  • Anti-fascist PieFed features

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  • I made that chart while reading a book (reference in the corner of the image) and I'm sure the author of it was familiar with Eco's work. He may have even mentioned the term "Ur-fascism" because it sounds familiar to me.

  • Anti-fascist PieFed features

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  • I'd rather not go into it because it's quite easy to bypass if you know how it works. It's pretty dumb!

    For twitter screenshots I think you'd need some kind of machine learning model because those are less distinctive than greentext.

  • PieFed 1.7.9 includes Anubis-like scraper blocking

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  • I saw that someone on Mastodon tried that. It doesn't stop them they just scrape more and more until your server melts.

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  • a public retraction

    Lemmy users wouldn't have seen it anyway because they don't have that feature :-/

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  • Fair enough.

    How websites are labelled is up to the instance admin. It used to be that all labels were warnings but in the latest version of PieFed it became possible to use neutral or positive icons as well:

    It still says 'warning type' and 'warning on posts' in the UI which is an oversight I've just noticed!

    This change was a result of criticism I read. Often when people write that stuff they think they have discovered some nefarious thing that exists that way because I want it to. The fact is it was all thrown together very quickly so it's not always well thought-out but when people don't like things I listen and make changes. Nothing is set in stone.

  • 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

  • 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
  • Python @programming.dev
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    Serving a Frontend with FastAPI: A Practical Guide

    modernpython.io /serving-a-frontend-with-fastapi-a-practical-guide/