rimu
@rimu@piefed.social
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
Some admins really love watching who votes for what and banning people based on that.
You can disagree with that if you like but if it means they get pissed enough to defederate your whole instance, you lose.
If your instance is just you and a handful of others, no one will notice or care. But once you have 1000 users the amount of anonymous votes will be noticed and there will be consequences. Maybe not defederation but everyone banned for upvoting bigoted content will migrate to your instance and you'll be hosting the biggest shitbirds around.
I don't see a solution to this. As long as lemmy and mbin let admins snoop on people's votes that will be the dynamic and PieFed puts itself at a disadvantage by doing anything different.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
Cheers :)
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
pls join !pies@piefed.social
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
This only effects about 3.5% of accounts.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
The -10 can be changed in your settings. Set it to -1000 to show everything :)
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
That's how it used to work but I got rid of it because there were too many unintended side-effects. Now a private vote is just one that is not federated.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
Private votes are just normal votes except without the federation. So their effect is only felt on the local instance.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 day ago:
I wrote that code. It can be turned off or on by the instance admin. When an instance is created It's off by default.
Originally, when I wrote the feature comparison page, it could not be turned off.
- Comment on What is piefed? 2 days ago:
It's on the 3 dot menu on every post.
Makes sense to have it on the community too, tho. I'll find a place for it.
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
If only it was that easy. Check out these examples of what Voyager does: https://vger.social/comment/8605586
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
I really need help with anubis. I can get it to block but not in such a way that also allows API access and federation and web clients like blorpblorp.
Anyway I only need to turn anubis on for 10 minutes and all the scrapers go away for days. They really really hate it!
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
Yes, I've been trying to make anubis work for a while. It's tricky to get right.
Here is an early experiment - https://join.piefed.social/2025/07/09/an-anubis-config-for-piefed/
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
No, admins designate it.
Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
This is a temporary measure to reduce load on the server from AI scrapers.
- Comment on What is piefed? 3 days ago:
Yeah just until the latest scraper wave goes away.
- Comment on Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts 4 weeks ago:
Wasn't that because of age verification though?
- Comment on US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a nerdy name 1 month ago:
It is almost comical how fucked this is.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
The giant red flag is the name "PayPal".
- Comment on Is it technically feasible to just move incorrectly submitted with all their comments and votes to a different instance and community, instead of removing them? 3 months ago:
It is theoretically possible, the devs of NodeBB, Mbin and PieFed were discussing it the other day - https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18737/moving-topics
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 5 months ago:
One time, in 2008. It was an envelope, tho.
- Comment on How to mute posts containing certain keywords on Lemmy? 5 months ago:
During onboarding of a new account, https://piefed.social asks you this:
... and sets up an appropriate keyword filter based on your answer.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 5 months ago:
There is more than one alternative and some of them involve having capitalism...
- Comment on When a country is ruled by a dictator, does it matter which party he belongs to? 5 months ago:
I read the whole thing and the constitution of China.
I didn't post the link to refute anything, just providing information.
- Comment on When a country is ruled by a dictator, does it matter which party he belongs to? 5 months ago:
- Comment on What my front page looks like with no-politics content filter on 5 months ago:
PieFed, which federates with Lemmy so you can get all the same content, just added a new step to the onboarding process which sets up a Trump and Musk filter based on your preferences:
- Comment on Am I the only one that think the new bitcoincash community is full of bots? 6 months ago:
I appreciate them clustering together on a single instance, much easier to block.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I had trouble believing you at first so I hunted down the study to verify. You're completely right!
- Comment on Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft 6 months ago:
I love how she's just casually living with all these things she's made each of which could potentially turn into a multimillion dollar business.
- Comment on Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft 6 months ago:
I had low expectations of this video but it turned out awesome. Give it a chance!
