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@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • Why doesn't Lemmy/Piedfed use ALT tags as much as Mastodon?

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  • Yeah, could do. PieFed already does fairly ok at this, explaining the rationale for providing alt text:

    All the mobile apps I checked do something similar, with no extra nudging, just an empty text field. Generally the mobile app devs are keen on new ideas like this, maybe do a post in the Voyager or Blorp community and see where that goes.

  • Why doesn't Lemmy/Piedfed use ALT tags as much as Mastodon?

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  • There it is - Mastodon goes out of it's way to warn the user that they haven't provided alt text whereas Lemmy says (optional)

  • What comes after postmodernism?

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  • After postmodernism there has to be an attempt to take the best from postmodernism, modernism, traditionalism and use them in a situation-appropriate way, fluidly and naturally. Because none of those previous stages had the full picture and each has something to offer.

    Ken Wilber called this stage "Integral"

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • "oh ho ho, I'm going to have some fun with that!", she said

  • In peertube how can I choose an instance and how can I have cross platform interactions??

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  • Not in the same way, no.

    Most of the fediverse is open to all by default and the control admins have is to create a block list of instances they'd rather not federate with. With Peertube it doesn't federate with anyone until admins on both sides add each other to an allowlist.

  • In peertube how can I choose an instance and how can I have cross platform interactions??

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  • One thing that took me a looong time to realize is that Peertube federates weirdly - it's all under control of the instance admin, not it's users. Admins decide which instances federate with each other and then all the videos are copied between instances that have agreed to federate with each other.

    But there's no way to see this in the UI, as an ordinary user!

    So it's all super fragmented. Discoverability is atrocious, even by fediverse standards.

    If you look at https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInstanceFollowers then that'll help you find a well-connected instance. Then post onto that one.

  • ADHD Dosing Has Two Failure Modes, and Trials Are Designed to Miss Both

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  • It did, yes.

  • Iranian State Media Admits Over 2 Million Child Laborers Trapped by Hyperinflation

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  • No mention of the war or sanctions. Seems like a deliberate oversight.

  • Links to YouTube posts get turned into broken video URLs

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  • I didn't know about Youtube posts (as opposed to videos), thanks!

    Big improvements to the search tool coming in the next PieFed version, out in a few weeks.

  • me_irl

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  • I see 449 posts, posting 24 hours a day. It's a bot.

  • Wanted to say thanks for this feature

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  • You're welcome :)

  • Character encoding breaks link when federated to Lemmy

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  • I created a test post with that link in the body, on Lemmy: https://voyager.lemmy.ml/post/17124

    The link is broken in that post.

    So I think this is more of a Lemmy issue than a PieFed issue.

  • How To Parse JSON Data To A Human Readable Format [SOLVED]

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  • In the Homarr docs, there is this: https://homarr.dev/docs/widgets/iframe/

    Towards the end there is a link to https://github.com/diogovalentte/homarr-iframes which contains many examples of some content formatted nicely to fit within Homarr iframes and a docker container you can use to make a url that the iframe widget can consume. They used Go which is only a little harder than Python to read.

    Seems like this one - https://github.com/diogovalentte/homarr-iframes/tree/main/src/sources/changedetectionio - makes a request to a JSON api, for example.

  • The World’s Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is…North Korea

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  • The article also says

    North Korea’s economy expanded 3.7% in 2024, its fastest rate in eight years

    and

    Let's see how things go once the Ukraine war ends and they can't profiteer off throwing their people into a meat grinder any more.

  • 10 Careers Once Considered Stable Are Now Seeing Major Layoffs (Latest Data)

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  • This is AI slop, btw.

    Don't trust any of the numbers in that article.

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Coastal village in Italy

  • Email ownership, I give up.

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  • Fair enough - I got it working recently but it was the hardest self-hosting install I've done. No way most people would succeed. Email is 50(?) years of questionable design decisions piled on top of each other so it's become a whole world of weird stuff. Doing email should be it's own tech specialty, like 'devops' or 'db admin' is. There's enough depth to it.

    There are a ton of email providers who are not Google, though. e.g. https://proton.me/mail. You don't need to run it on your own hardware.

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Temple at sunset

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Yellow grass during golden hour is too easy

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Laos river scene

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Mongolia, 2012

  • Spray coming off the sea in late afternoon catches the sun

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  • I've queued up 4 more over the next 12h or so.

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    One of the places we walk our dog

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Spray coming off the sea in late afternoon catches the sun

  • Total Reciprocity Public License

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  • If you Deploy the Program on hardware (consumer electronics, IoT devices, or cloud infrastructure), you must provide "Installation Information." This includes all authorization keys, cryptographic signatures, or passwords required to install and execute modified versions of the Program on that specific hardware.

    That clause would make it impossible to deploy the software as it would grant the world access to your systems.

  • Flood of AI 'gаrbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit

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  • Recently AI was weaponized against the fediverse when someone intentionally published a big AI generated security report about a popular fedi platform. Not a PR that might be useful, just a huge pile of allegations. The author is a professional developer so they knew what they were doing and how much urgent work that would create.

    Bit of a dick move.

    Then they had the gall to opine at length about what AI means for open source and how foss projects will need to change their ways.

    Such a douche.

  • Man killed in shark attack off Western Australia

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  • Guess how many sharks Australians kill each year.

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

    medium.com /@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
  • Space @beehaw.org
    Rimu @piefed.social

    New telescope could find 100,000 planets

    phys.org /news/2026-05-peering-milky-side-roman-unveil.html
  • Android @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    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
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Browsing PieFed using Vivaldi's 'follower tab' feature is very nice

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

    Christchurch is back on

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

    MUST READ

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

    What worked at 100 users broke at 5,000

    join.piefed.social /2026/05/12/what-worked-at-100-users-broke-at-5000/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    PieFed v1.6.23 is released

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

    The 10 biggest climate risks that NZ faces

    www.rnz.co.nz /news/environment/594507/climate-change-commission-report-urges-decisive-action-as-major-risks-loom
  • Palestine @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel - and about itself – is finally being burst

    www.middleeasteye.net /opinion/west-bubble-illusion-israel-about-itself-finally-being-burst
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    AI policy for contributions to PieFed

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/project_management/contributing.md
  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
    Rimu @piefed.social

    The enshittification multiverse - A guide to applying "enshittification" to things other than digital platforms

    pluralistic.net /2026/04/27/analogs-and-analogies/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Piefed.social will be offline for maintenance this weekend, for an hour or so