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Piefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

    The 3 posts I made on reddit promoting the Fediverse and PieFed got over 300,000 views together.

    More people getting involved in fedigrow could see much higher numbers, but let's not spam.

    Blaze (he/him)B This user is from outside of this forum
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    Blaze (he/him)
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    #12

    As a small comment, !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com is supposed to be the community for promotion outside of the Fediverse, so Reddit and others.

    !fedigrow@lemmy.zip is dedicated about community growing.

    Maybe the names are confusing and we should switch community growing to a new !communitygrow@piefed.zip or something

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    • S sloelk

      thx,
      this fediverse seems for me more usable than others like mastodon a half if a year ago.

      Blaze (he/him)B This user is from outside of this forum
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      Blaze (he/him)
      wrote last edited by
      #13

      Welcome!
      Piefed/Lemmy are closer to Reddit than Mastodon is to Twitter. Feel free if you have any questions!

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      • Blaze (he/him)B Blaze (he/him)

        As a small comment, !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com is supposed to be the community for promotion outside of the Fediverse, so Reddit and others.

        !fedigrow@lemmy.zip is dedicated about community growing.

        Maybe the names are confusing and we should switch community growing to a new !communitygrow@piefed.zip or something

        Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE This user is from outside of this forum
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        Ek-Hou-Van-Braai
        wrote last edited by
        #14

        Ah thanks for the clarification, I never looked that closely at what exactly they are, there's some overlap

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        • C cinoreus@lemmy.world

          Is there any particular reason for this?

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          not_rick@lemmy.world
          wrote last edited by
          #15

          One of my friends finally joined for two reasons. First he was disgusted by the Reddit ICE ads, and second he realized his Reddit feed was half shit he doesn’t subscribe to.

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          • S Skavau

            Some promotional posts were made on Reddit in the right comms, although none of them specifically exploded - albeit one was made also in r/buyCanadian and it seemed to surge.

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            JamieDub86
            wrote last edited by
            #16

            Reddit also upped the enshittification but i cant remember why.

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            • S Skavau

              Just thought I'd note this. Main beneficiary so far seems to be piefed.ca.

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              biltong
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              #17

              Welcome new users!!

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              • not_rick@lemmy.worldN not_rick@lemmy.world

                One of my friends finally joined for two reasons. First he was disgusted by the Reddit ICE ads, and second he realized his Reddit feed was half shit he doesn’t subscribe to.

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                cinoreus@lemmy.world
                wrote last edited by
                #18

                That's actually also the reason I am here, lol. Reddit feed. has gone down the drain, although I don't get Ice ads. I ain't American.

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                • S sloelk

                  thx,
                  this fediverse seems for me more usable than others like mastodon a half if a year ago.

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                  cinoreus@lemmy.world
                  wrote last edited by
                  #19

                  It is lol. Reddit is a forum disguised as social media, something which does not require complicated recommendation systems to feel complete. Hence lemmy/piefed feel more usable in my opinion.

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                  • S sloelk

                    thx,
                    this fediverse seems for me more usable than others like mastodon a half if a year ago.

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                    B This user is from outside of this forum
                    big_slap@lemmy.world
                    wrote last edited by
                    #20

                    the great part about all this is you still being able to interact with people on mastodon. killer feature

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                    • S Skavau

                      Just thought I'd note this. Main beneficiary so far seems to be piefed.ca.

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                      bb84@mander.xyz
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                      #21

                      I wonder, would these users still use PieFed if they have seen its codebase? Maybe it can be one day but right now it's 100% not production-grade software. Nonsensical hardcoded bans and blocks everywhere. >1000 lines of Python in a single file. Uses regex to parse HTML. The list goes on...

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                      • B bb84@mander.xyz

                        I wonder, would these users still use PieFed if they have seen its codebase? Maybe it can be one day but right now it's 100% not production-grade software. Nonsensical hardcoded bans and blocks everywhere. >1000 lines of Python in a single file. Uses regex to parse HTML. The list goes on...

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                        Skavau
                        wrote last edited by
                        #22

                        If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?

                        And most people are not coders. What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?

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                        • B biltong

                          Welcome new users!!

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                          squirrel
                          wrote last edited by
                          #23

                          Greetings to South Africa

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                          • 3 3jane

                            Here from Reddit.

                            It's about time to move over.

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                            zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                            #24

                            Welcome to the Threadiverse! 🎉

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                            • S Skavau

                              If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?

                              And most people are not coders. What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?

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                              bb84@mander.xyz
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                              #25

                              If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?

                              That's what makes it particularly sad. The people who didn't read the code have no idea what they're in for.

                              What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?

                              How about this one?
                              'enoughmuskspam', 'political_weirdos', 'piracy', 'memes' are hardcoded banned. 196 used to be banned to but they removed it from the "bad list".

                              Also "can be disabled" does not excuse hardcoded filtering. If they're serious they could implement a config system in an hour.

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                              • B bb84@mander.xyz

                                If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?

                                That's what makes it particularly sad. The people who didn't read the code have no idea what they're in for.

                                What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?

                                How about this one?
                                'enoughmuskspam', 'political_weirdos', 'piracy', 'memes' are hardcoded banned. 196 used to be banned to but they removed it from the "bad list".

                                Also "can be disabled" does not excuse hardcoded filtering. If they're serious they could implement a config system in an hour.

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                                Skavau
                                wrote last edited by skavau@piefed.social
                                #26

                                What are they in for? The site seems to work fine from a user perspective.

                                That is from an auto-federation system for instances to bulk add new comms across instances. Any community can still be manually added. And I think most of those may have been removed now a few weeks ago. I can literally access enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world from piefed.social and all those other terms.

                                All new admins need to do to change things is to untick boxes.

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                                • B bb84@mander.xyz

                                  If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?

                                  That's what makes it particularly sad. The people who didn't read the code have no idea what they're in for.

                                  What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?

                                  How about this one?
                                  'enoughmuskspam', 'political_weirdos', 'piracy', 'memes' are hardcoded banned. 196 used to be banned to but they removed it from the "bad list".

                                  Also "can be disabled" does not excuse hardcoded filtering. If they're serious they could implement a config system in an hour.

                                  fujiwood@lemmy.worldF This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  fujiwood@lemmy.world
                                  wrote last edited by
                                  #27

                                  Can you show me Reddits code?

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                                  • fujiwood@lemmy.worldF fujiwood@lemmy.world

                                    Can you show me Reddits code?

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                                    bb84@mander.xyz
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                                    #28

                                    The version from 10 years ago, yeah. It's here https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit.

                                    There's a modern and production-ready open source alternative. It's called Lemmy. You can find the source here https://github.com/lemmynet/lemmy

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                                    • S Skavau

                                      What are they in for? The site seems to work fine from a user perspective.

                                      That is from an auto-federation system for instances to bulk add new comms across instances. Any community can still be manually added. And I think most of those may have been removed now a few weeks ago. I can literally access enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world from piefed.social and all those other terms.

                                      All new admins need to do to change things is to untick boxes.

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                                      bb84@mander.xyz
                                      wrote last edited by bb84@mander.xyz
                                      #29

                                      What are they in for? The site seems to work fine from a user perspective.

                                      Fox News would seem like a perfectly fine source of news if you get all your news from Fox News, wouldn't you agree?

                                      Any community can still be manually added.

                                      And you can still manually get any news you want from other channels, Fox News just won't show them.

                                      (I am not saying PieFed is as bad as Fox News, just trying to make an analogy to show that something that "seems to work fine" can be pretty bad for the users nonetheless)

                                      BTW, !enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world (with the exclamation mark up front) to correctly refer to communities. Without the ! that's an email address.

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                                      • B big_slap@lemmy.world

                                        the great part about all this is you still being able to interact with people on mastodon. killer feature

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                                        sloelk
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                                        #30

                                        sounds great, but how do I interact with them? can I choose another server to login from here?

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                                        • C cinoreus@lemmy.world

                                          It is lol. Reddit is a forum disguised as social media, something which does not require complicated recommendation systems to feel complete. Hence lemmy/piefed feel more usable in my opinion.

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                                          sloelk
                                          wrote last edited by
                                          #31

                                          you right. reddit is just a good, easy to use forum, but this piefed here, too. That is what I like about it.

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