#piefed — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #piefed, aggregated by home.social.
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Trans-friendly PieFed features
Trans people have a lot to deal with and there’s many of them on the fediverse so I’ve taken special care to ensure their voices influence the development of PieFed and have built some features with them in mind.
Pronouns
PieFed displays each person’s pronouns after their name, if they have provided them. Below is a post I made recently, showing mine.
On other platforms people achieve the same thing by putting their pronouns into their display name which achieves a lot of the same thing but is clunky and often looks out of place. PieFed reads pronouns from the profile’s Custom Fields, which federate with Mastodon.
Reporting transphobia
When reporting rule-infringing content one of the preset reasons for reporting is “transphobia”. Every PieFed instance supports and encourages people to report transphobia when they see it – this is not something an admin can opt out of unless they edit the code themselves.
Theme
PieFed comes with a theme that uses the Trans Pride flag colors. I’m not a designer so it’s a bit garish – help wanted!
Logo
piefed.social, the PieFed flagship instance, is currently sporting a Trans Pride flag style logo to support of the trans community on Lemmy which came under attack recently.
At other times the PieFed.social logo has been switched to flags of various oppressed groups or anti-imperialist movements such as Palestine, Ukraine, Tibet and others.
Safety
As a frequently discriminated against minority, trans people really benefit from safety, privacy and effective moderation tools, another strong area for PieFed.
- Abuse often comes through the direct messaging system, so it is possible to turn it off or only allow DMs from people on the same instance, or only from trusted instances.
- Moderation and admin tools on PieFed are far more advanced than similar platforms, enabling the provision of much higher degrees of safety with much less effort and admin burnout.
- Transphobia and fascism are often intertwined so PieFed’s anti-fascist features support and enhance the safety of the trans community on the fediverse. I’ll do another blog post on that facet of things soon.
It feels like I’ve barely scratched the surface
What’s been done so far are all quite obvious things. Any ideas for what comes next?
#lgbtq #piefed -
Trans-friendly PieFed features
Trans people have a lot to deal with and there’s many of them on the fediverse so I’ve taken special care to ensure their voices influence the development of PieFed and have built some features with them in mind.
Pronouns
PieFed displays each person’s pronouns after their name, if they have provided them. Below is a post I made recently, showing mine.
On other platforms people achieve the same thing by putting their pronouns into their display name which achieves a lot of the same thing but is clunky and often looks out of place. PieFed reads pronouns from the profile’s Custom Fields, which federate with Mastodon.
Reporting transphobia
When reporting rule-infringing content one of the preset reasons for reporting is “transphobia”. Every PieFed instance supports and encourages people to report transphobia when they see it – this is not something an admin can opt out of unless they edit the code themselves.
Theme
PieFed comes with a theme that uses the Trans Pride flag colors. I’m not a designer so it’s a bit garish – help wanted!
Logo
piefed.social, the PieFed flagship instance, is currently sporting a Trans Pride flag style logo to support of the trans community on Lemmy which came under attack recently.
At other times the PieFed.social logo has been switched to flags of various oppressed groups or anti-imperialist movements such as Palestine, Ukraine, Tibet and others.
Safety
As a frequently discriminated against minority, trans people really benefit from safety, privacy and effective moderation tools, another strong area for PieFed.
- Abuse often comes through the direct messaging system, so it is possible to turn it off or only allow DMs from people on the same instance, or only from trusted instances.
- Moderation and admin tools on PieFed are far more advanced than similar platforms, enabling the provision of much higher degrees of safety with much less effort and admin burnout.
- Transphobia and fascism are often intertwined so PieFed’s anti-fascist features support and enhance the safety of the trans community on the fediverse. I’ll do another blog post on that facet of things soon.
It feels like I’ve barely scratched the surface
What’s been done so far are all quite obvious things. Any ideas for what comes next?
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PieFed is 3 years old today
https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2241694/piefed-is-3-years-old-today
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PieFed is 3 years old today
https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2241694/piefed-is-3-years-old-today
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Hey #mastodon! Less than 48 hours to sign up for The Button before it goes live!
What is The Button, I hear you ask?
It's a game where you press a button. No, really, that's mostly it.
I made a very silly #webgame that a got a bit out of hand and now we're on to Season 4, with hundreds of players.
You can sign up at https://thebutton.social and sign in with your #fediverse account!
#TheButton #SocialExperiment #InternetCulture #BrowserGame #Gaming #IndieGame #lemmy #piefed #activitypub
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Hey #mastodon! Less than 48 hours to sign up for The Button before it goes live!
What is The Button, I hear you ask?
It's a game where you press a button. No, really, that's mostly it.
I made a very silly #webgame that a got a bit out of hand and now we're on to Season 4, with hundreds of players.
You can sign up at https://thebutton.social and sign in with your #fediverse account!
#TheButton #SocialExperiment #InternetCulture #BrowserGame #Gaming #IndieGame #lemmy #piefed #activitypub
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Less than 4 days until The Button starts!
You can pre-register now at https://thebutton.social for a couple of bonuses when the game starts.
Each season brings with it a new theme and a new way to play!
If you've played before, then I look forward to seeing you again. If you're new... do YOU push the button?
#thebutton #game #fediverse #fedigames #mastodon #lemmy #piefed #social #experiment
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Less than 4 days until The Button starts!
You can pre-register now at https://thebutton.social for a couple of bonuses when the game starts.
Each season brings with it a new theme and a new way to play!
If you've played before, then I look forward to seeing you again. If you're new... do YOU push the button?
#thebutton #game #fediverse #fedigames #mastodon #lemmy #piefed #social #experiment
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You can now block posts based on their flair
You can join /c/technology and then block all the posts in there about Windows, for example. Or join /c/politics and block all the USA news.
In the video I demo this with [email protected]
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You can now block posts based on their flair
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You can now block posts based on their flair
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@mailbox Instagram → Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/) und Vernissage (https://joinvernissage.org/).
Pixelfed ist als direkter Instagram-Ersatz vorgesehen. Man kann sogar komplette Instagram-Konten nach Pixelfed importieren. Vernissage ist jünger und nicht ganz so dicht an Instagram dran, es scheint auch die Funktionsweise von Flickr abzudecken.
Beide sind Teil des Fediverse wie auch Mastodon. Das heißt, beide sind mit Mastodon und miteinander verbunden.
Noch mehr Alternativen im Fediverse, alle miteinander und mit Mastodon verbunden:- X, Bluesky, Threads, W Social → z. B. Sharkey (https://joinsharkey.org), Akkoma (https://akkoma.social)
- Facebook → Friendica (https://friendi.ca), Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org), (streams) (https://codeberg.org/streams/streams), Forte (https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte)
- Reddit & Hacker News → Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/), Mbin (https://joinmbin.org/), PieFed (https://join.piefed.social/)
- YouTube → PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org)
- Twitch → Owncast (https://owncast.online)
Gruß übrigens von Hubzilla.
#Instagram #Instagram-Alternative #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Twitter #X #Twitter-Alternative #Bluesky #Bluesky-Alternative #Threads #W Social #Mastodon #Sharkey #Akkoma #Facebook #Facebook-Alternative #Friendica #Hubzilla #(streams) #Forte #Reddit #Reddit-Alternative #Hacker News #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #YouTube #YouTube-Alternative #PeerTube #Twitch #Twitch-Alternative #Owncast #Fedi #Fediverse #Digital Independence Day #DI.Day #DI.Days #DI.Days 2026 -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@stuartml/116857338780957801
If anyone is curious, I did find an alternative to reddit, over at
https://piefed.social - so far it's awesome - I'm sharing the science facts into the Science Facts community over there. -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@stuartml/116857338780957801
If anyone is curious, I did find an alternative to reddit, over at
https://piefed.social - so far it's awesome - I'm sharing the science facts into the Science Facts community over there. -
The closing post in the "Fediverse Beyond Mastodon" maps forums, social reading, and music, the formats that don't fit the microblog.
The Threadiverse (Fediverse's answer to Reddit): Lemmy, Kbin/Mbin and PieFed (created by Rimu - @rimu).
Forums that predate federation: NodeBB (created by @julian) rewrote its core so every new forum federates by default.
Discourse (@Discourse) ships it as an opt-in, per-category plugin.
Both were built years ago to replace phpBB and vBulletin, and both now speak ActivityPub.Social reading: BookWyrm (created by @tripofmice), a federated Goodreads where your shelves and reviews show up in a Mastodon timeline.
Music: Funkwhale (@funkwhale) - a self-hosted Grooveshark successor.
Bandwagon (created by @benpate) an online music storefront where musicians sell directly, built on the Emissary framework.
Read the full post here:
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Lemmy #PieFed #NodeBB #Discourse #BookWyrm #Funkwhale #Bandwagon #OpenWeb
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The closing post in the "Fediverse Beyond Mastodon" maps forums, social reading, and music, the formats that don't fit the microblog.
The Threadiverse (Fediverse's answer to Reddit): Lemmy, Kbin/Mbin and PieFed (created by Rimu - @rimu).
Forums that predate federation: NodeBB (created by @julian) rewrote its core so every new forum federates by default.
Discourse (@Discourse) ships it as an opt-in, per-category plugin.
Both were built years ago to replace phpBB and vBulletin, and both now speak ActivityPub.Social reading: BookWyrm (created by @tripofmice), a federated Goodreads where your shelves and reviews show up in a Mastodon timeline.
Music: Funkwhale (@funkwhale) - a self-hosted Grooveshark successor.
Bandwagon (created by @benpate) an online music storefront where musicians sell directly, built on the Emissary framework.
Read the full post here:
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Lemmy #PieFed #NodeBB #Discourse #BookWyrm #Funkwhale #Bandwagon #OpenWeb
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Season 4 of The Button is coming soon!
The Button is a #fediverse #game where you press a button. Yes, really.
You can pre-register now if you want. No pressure. https://thebutton.social
Season 4 starts in just under 2 weeks, with new features, a new theme, and a brand new puzzle to mash your brains :)
#games #webgames #bluesky #mastodon #lemmy #piefed #fedigames
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Season 4 of The Button is coming soon!
The Button is a #fediverse #game where you press a button. Yes, really.
You can pre-register now if you want. No pressure. https://thebutton.social
Season 4 starts in just under 2 weeks, with new features, a new theme, and a brand new puzzle to mash your brains :)
#games #webgames #bluesky #mastodon #lemmy #piefed #fedigames
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Small fedviserse SEO hack for fediverse awareness: remove utm's trackers in URL, then add `utm_source=fediverse` everywhere.
#technology #fediverse #mastodon #Lemmy #pixelfed #piefed #mbin
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Small fedviserse SEO hack for fediverse awareness: remove utm's trackers in URL, then add `utm_source=fediverse` everywhere.
#technology #fediverse #mastodon #Lemmy #pixelfed #piefed #mbin
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PieFed monthly active users hits new all-time high
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PieFed monthly active users hits new all-time high
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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Café & Canvas: Painting the Fedivnvas 17/07/2026 - Grant - E95
Special thank you to @[email protected]
🚀 #VOD https://tubefree.org/w/nmkrU9EH4VmzA85GtfRJFr
Never miss an episode!
📡 #RSS tubefree.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934
🎧 #Podcast tubefree.org/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934 #FiresideFedi #FiresideChat #Podcast #VideoPodcast #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #DecentralizedSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #VodCast #lemmy #mbin #piefed #canvas
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Café & Canvas: Painting the Fedivnvas 17/07/2026 - Grant - E95
Special thank you to @[email protected]
🚀 #VOD https://tubefree.org/w/nmkrU9EH4VmzA85GtfRJFr
Never miss an episode!
📡 #RSS tubefree.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934
🎧 #Podcast tubefree.org/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934 #FiresideFedi #FiresideChat #Podcast #VideoPodcast #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #DecentralizedSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #VodCast #lemmy #mbin #piefed #canvas
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: @[email protected] - Threadiverse CANVAS
I run various fediverse things. fediverse.events . Canvas social.fediverse.events/@can... . sc07 mastodon.social/@sc07
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 10/07/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @[email protected] (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @[email protected] (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @[email protected] (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #threadiverse #lemmy #piefed #misskey #canvas #community #event
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: @[email protected] - Threadiverse CANVAS
I run various fediverse things. fediverse.events . Canvas social.fediverse.events/@can... . sc07 mastodon.social/@sc07
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 10/07/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @[email protected] (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @[email protected] (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @[email protected] (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #threadiverse #lemmy #piefed #misskey #canvas #community #event
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Improvement for the vote quota implementation
After a couple days of discussions about the newly implemented vote quota, I’m kinda exhausted. It seems like a situation we won’t ever agree on. Me personally, I don’t want to argue like this over a piece of software that I have high regards for. It tears us apart, where we should work together.
It’s okay if there is a quota on piefed.social the instance.
It’s not okay if there is a default quota of 240 on PieFed the software - and thus for all instances.I suggest it should be implemented like this:
- It should not be a default value
- It should be an empty input in the admin interface, where instance admins can set a vote quota if they want to, or leave it empty to disable the vote quota.
- The /about page should display the set vote quota.
That way all instances can decide for themselves and users can see the instances’ vote quota transparently.
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Improvement for the vote quota implementation
After a couple days of discussions about the newly implemented vote quota, I’m kinda exhausted. It seems like a situation we won’t ever agree on. Me personally, I don’t want to argue like this over a piece of software that I have high regards for. It tears us apart, where we should work together.
It’s okay if there is a quota on piefed.social the instance.
It’s not okay if there is a default quota of 240 on PieFed the software - and thus for all instances.I suggest it should be implemented like this:
- It should not be a default value
- It should be an empty input in the admin interface, where instance admins can set a vote quota if they want to, or leave it empty to disable the vote quota.
- The /about page should display the set vote quota.
That way all instances can decide for themselves and users can see the instances’ vote quota transparently.
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Liste de compte Mastodon à suivre
https://piefed.social/c/forumlibre@jlai.lu/p/2195058/liste-de-compte-mastodon-a-suivre
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Liste de compte Mastodon à suivre
https://piefed.social/c/forumlibre@jlai.lu/p/2195058/liste-de-compte-mastodon-a-suivre
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Aaah maintenant que Piefed commence tout juste à fédérer avec Mastodon, la fédération n'est pas complète il manque juste 2-3 trucs...
Je vais pouvoir migrer une partie de mes abo et crossposter le contenu du microblog (mastodon) sur le threadiverse (lemmy, mbin, piefed) 😁
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Aaah maintenant que Piefed commence tout juste à fédérer avec Mastodon, la fédération n'est pas complète il manque juste 2-3 trucs...
Je vais pouvoir migrer une partie de mes abo et crossposter le contenu du microblog (mastodon) sur le threadiverse (lemmy, mbin, piefed) 😁
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La fonction que j'attendais le plus de Piefed : le support de mastodon 🤟😎
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La fonction que j'attendais le plus de Piefed : le support de mastodon 🤟😎
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Unlike Mastodon, in Lemmy and PieFed, upvotes and downvotes determine the ordering of the post feed.
Of the 37,000 active users of #Lemmy & #PieFed, 10 of them (0.02%) cast as many votes as the bottom 22,000 people (59%).
Among the most active 5000 users, the top 147 (2.94%) cast as many votes as all the others (4853 people) combined.
This has implications in terms of power imbalances and productive use of the tech commons that supports the fediverse.
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Unlike Mastodon, in Lemmy and PieFed, upvotes and downvotes determine the ordering of the post feed.
Of the 37,000 active users of #Lemmy & #PieFed, 10 of them (0.02%) cast as many votes as the bottom 22,000 people (59%).
Among the most active 5000 users, the top 147 (2.94%) cast as many votes as all the others (4853 people) combined.
This has implications in terms of power imbalances and productive use of the tech commons that supports the fediverse.
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A Lemmy thread (visibly a ragebait thread) from someone who used AI to make a movie: 18 rage comments from anti-AI puritans in less than 1 hour.
Meanwhile, posts and threads made months ago by human amateur artists (e.g. me) who make things mostly (if not all) without AI:
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A Lemmy thread (visibly a ragebait thread) from someone who used AI to make a movie: 18 rage comments from anti-AI puritans in less than 1 hour.
Meanwhile, posts and threads made months ago by human amateur artists (e.g. me) who make things mostly (if not all) without AI:
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Still a long way to go on the Mastodon integration front
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Still a long way to go on the Mastodon integration front
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A new version of #PieFed has been released, with initial support for following Mastodon accounts directly. Among many other things!
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A new version of #PieFed has been released, with initial support for following Mastodon accounts directly. Among many other things!
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PieFed now has a font for people with dyslexia
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PieFed v1.7 is released: Following Users, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation
This release saw contributions from some new people, which is great to see.
In this release you can now follow other people, not just join communities. When you follow someone their posts will show up in your ‘Subscribed’ feed, regardless of whether you have joined the community it was posted in or not.
You can also follow Mastodon+ accounts. Getting Mastodon integration working really well is going to be a long journey but this release gets us headed in that direction. Eventually I hope that this integration will provide a steady source of timely content to cross-post into threadiverse communities as well as being a peer citizen in the Mastodon-flavored parts of the fediverse.
New:
- You can follow other users and their posts will always show up in your ‘Subscribed’ feed, regardless of the community they were posted into. Following Mastodon users works also but should be considered as very experimental. This will improve soon.
In the future you will be able to upload a list of people that you exported from your mastodon profile and follow them in one go. And add people that your instance doesn’t already know about – but not yet. These features will be rolled out in future versions once the dust settles on this version.
- Mastodon posts have a new design that is distinct from threadiverse posts – there is no post title and larger author profile pic.
- Communities can be marked as being a favorite, which makes them more prominent in the ‘Communities’ menu.
- Clicking anywhere in a post teaser takes you to the teaser – you don’t need to aim for the title
- Dramatically improved page load times on Chrome-based browsers (Speculation Rules API).
- Little spinner thing while a vote is being cast
- Updated translations
- Preview markdown when editing a wiki page
- RSS feeds on the home page, including a feed of posts from your subscribed communities
- Topic selection during onboarding looks way nicer now.
- Accessibility improvements to headers.
For Developers:
- Massive CSS reorganisation by travis-jeans. Lots more usage of CSS variables. Improves maintenance and accessibility.
- API: Users can now log out
- API: Follow and unfollow users
- API: video file upload works now
For Instance Admins:
- Communities where every moderator is a bot or inactive are flagged as un-moderated. Reports about posts in un-moderated local communities go to admins.
- Warnings on domains can be 3 types instead of only a warning – the other two are ‘helpful context’ and ‘recommendation’
- Send a DM to a user asking them if they are a bot, with 1 click. If they do not respond their account is automatically flagged as a bot
- Email bounce inbox can now be accessed through POP3, not just IMAP
- Tokens used by mobile apps can be set to expire, using the JWT_EXPIRY_DAYS environment variable
- More accurate tracking of when a user was last active. This will significantly increase your MAU stats.
- Strict allowlist mode to reduce attack surface exposed by federation
- /admin/federation form split up into 3 separate pages rather than one long confusing page.
- Option to disable DM sending for individual users if they lack the self-control to use it responsibly.
- compose.yaml has changed a bit: For most containers the build target is now “runtime’ instead of ‘builder’.
For example
celery: build: context: . target: runtime- Topics can be associated with countries, for more targeted onboarding suggestions based on the viewer’s location.
- To reduce server load and network traffic, a maximum number of votes that can be cast each day has been set at a level that will only affect the top 2% of voters, leaving the bottom 98% unaffected. This quota can be altered with an environment variable. View a profile to see how much of their daily quota has been used.
To upgrade from 1.6.x
git pull git checkout v1.7.xAt this point you might see an error message about a merge conflict with compose.yaml. To preserve your custom compose.yaml you will need to copy it somewhere else, then
git checkout compose.yamlthengit pullagain (or use git’s stash feature). This time the pull will succeed so after that copy your custom compose.yaml it back, overwriting the one from git.Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.shIf you had to do the compose.yaml fix up earlier then you might want to compare what you have with https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/compose.yaml and manually copy and paste some improvements in particular the
target:part of the db container.Donations
PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features.
Donations can be made via Patreon, Liberapay or Ko-fi.
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PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation
