Skip Navigation

User banner

Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

Posts
193
Comments
1957
Joined
3 yr. ago

Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

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

    Jump

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

    Jump

  • It doesn't limit that 10% minority, it limits the 0.02% minority. And that 0.02% were not the ones making posts the most, they were voting the most.

    Please see the numbers at https://piefed.social/c/fediverse@piefed.social/p/2190040/who-decides-what-you-see-on-the-fediverse-a-look-at-voting-patterns

    In this graph we see CPU usage (green line) and network activity (orange line) for the last month. The change was introduced around 3rd of July. Visible on the far left of the graph is a few days of what it used to be like.

  • ‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons | From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown

    Jump

  • I'm starting to think we need a climate disasters comm, there's lots of them.

  • Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again?

    Jump

  • In what way?

  • PieFed is 3 years old today

    Jump

  • No, you'd export a CSV of who you follow out of Mastodon, and then upload that into PieFed. Your PieFed account will then follow all the same people you were following on Mastodon.

    One day it'd be nice to support Mastdon's account migration functionality so you can do a proper move which automatically gets all your old followers to follow your PieFed account but that's a long way off.

  • Previews not showing?

    Jump

  • It could be compact mode.

    Also PieFed detects if you're using a device running on a battery and switches to a low power mode if so, which mostly means youtube videos are not loaded.

  • PieFed is 3 years old today

    Jump

  • Yeah, both!

    Any time you post in a community all your Mastodon followers already receive your post and can comment on it.

  • PieFed is 3 years old today

    Jump

  • I'm going to try putting it into the same view and see how it goes. It might be that the amount of votes Lemmy posts get vs the number of likes Mastodon posts get is so different that the ranking system that Hot/Scaled uses doesn't make sense... Only one way to find out!

  • PieFed is 3 years old today

    Jump

  • In the latest release I've started to go down a path towards proper Mastodon integration. So I'm looking to bust out of the threadiverse and be able to discard my Mastodon account because PieFed will be just as good at showing me Mastodon toots as it is Lemmy posts.

    There are 20x more Mastodon users than threadiverse users so this could be a step-change for the project.

    Eventually this ends with PieFed fulfilling the promise that the fediverse has for so long never really lived up to - that you can use one platform and access all the content from all the other platforms. But that might be the chapter after next.

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    PieFed is 3 years old today

  • How do I make the most out of a mediocre laptop?

    Jump

  • Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?

    Jump

  • Yeah, both. Like in Mastodon where there is a home timeline showing stuff from people you follow AND a feed containing everything your instance has received.

  • The bill we never see | The hidden costs of electricity, and the good news about counting them

    Jump

  • When will the Fediverse deal with the undisclosed self promo that is happening here, before it turns Piefed/Lemmy into sloppy spam links discussion platform?

    Jump

  • No problem!

    BTW in PieFed you can report a user account, not just individual posts. So if you go to https://piefed.world/u/stermy4u@lemmy.world then click on More -> Report that'll ping the piefed.world admins about it. It looks like in this case they've been responding to individual posts by removing them and not seeing the bigger picture but they will see it once they look at the user profile.

  • When will the Fediverse deal with the undisclosed self promo that is happening here, before it turns Piefed/Lemmy into sloppy spam links discussion platform?

    Jump

  • It varies by instance. PieFed has "spam detection" (not really) which is just a list of the posts and comments that have been downvoted a lot in the last 3 days so it's easy for admins to spot unreported badness and take action. I don't know how often other admins do but I check that report multiple times per day.

    For example I nuked unlogopoco from piefed.social a month ago

    Looking at the modlog for stermy, I'm seeing a fair bit of moderation action being taken on them and very few posts since then:

    On piefed.social I banned townflex.com entirely weeks ago, which must be why I'm not seeing their latest spams.

    Basically Lemmy has really poor tools for this which makes mods and admins do a lot more work then necessary, causing them to burn out. If they used PieFed they'd have a much better time.

  • The bill we never see | The hidden costs of electricity, and the good news about counting them

    Jump

  • So much AI slop on substack.

  • People are able to comment (locally) on posts remotely locked on Lemmy?

    Jump

  • People are able to comment (locally) on posts remotely locked on Lemmy?

    Jump

  • Yes, looks like the lock didn't federate for some reason.

    I'll test it out sometime, thanks.

  • Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?

    Jump
  • World News @beehaw.org
    Rimu @piefed.social

    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

  • ePaper + eInk community

    Jump

  • When the scrapers get really active I put poefed.social into private mode temporarily.

    The best way to view the community is with !epaper@piefed.social because then it'll open on Lemmy.world.

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    ePaper + eInk community

    piefed.social /c/epaper
  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
    Rimu @piefed.social

    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
    Rimu @piefed.social

    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
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Debian is debating the use of LLMs

    www.debian.org /vote/2026/vote_002
  • Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    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
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem

    deadsimpletech.com /blog/tech-aint-deep
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
    Rimu @piefed.social

    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
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Drawing a PieFed logo in the top left of the canvas right now

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    You can now block posts based on their flair

  • Nature and Gardening @beehaw.org
    Rimu @piefed.social

    The Naturalist’s Library

    www.c82.net /naturalists-library/
  • Europe @feddit.org
    Rimu @piefed.social

    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
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Serving a Frontend with FastAPI: A Practical Guide

    modernpython.io /serving-a-frontend-with-fastapi-a-practical-guide/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    S&P downgrades Oracle stock to BBB-

    www.heise.de /en/news/S-P-downgrades-Oracle-to-BBB-only-one-notch-above-junk-level-11363472.html
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    PieFed monthly active users hits new all-time high

  • Space @beehaw.org
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Beautiful aurora seen from ISS in 4K video

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Tracy Chapman - New Beginning

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
    Rimu @piefed.social

    The Lancet got a bunch of scientists to figure out what needs to change in our food production

    www.thelancet.com /journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01201-2/abstract
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Still a long way to go on the Mastodon integration front