Piefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.
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Can you explain what it does then? Below is my understanding. Correct me where I am wrong.
The "bad list" blocks any community with that name from being federated. So for example if I go to a random PieFed instance and search for the 'piracy' community, I get no results
https://piefed.co.za/communities?search=piracy&language_id=0
The admin can circumvent this by manually adding the community. Some big instances (including yours) have done that, but smaller ones (like the one I linked) haven't.
Rimu built a tool for new instance owners to bulk federate external communities on their instance to populate it. Kind of like a piefed lemmy-federate. In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up. The keywords were taken from another function that piefed.social has to stop listing posts and comments after 6 months applied to specific communities.
This didn't translate well, and he removed multiple keywords referenced here from the mass federation tool when 196 mod complained.
Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet. The owner literally said it's all set up now but he's tired and doing other things now in the Zulip chat.
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Try !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com from MULTIVERSE again, I just subscribed to it. You can't manually trigger federation if you don't have an account on MULTIVERSE. Thanks for the recommendation, I definitely want piracy on My instance. But I won't be subscribing to the Musk community, I've had enough of that Nazi.
By the way, I use capitalised pronouns in all three grammatical persons.
And there's no block on memes or piracy or the space pedophile. I can tell you what that code actually does if you ask. It doesn't block federation to the communities.
Just to confirm, did You find the 'piracy' comm in the search menu (like I was trying to)? Or did You have to manually type in the URL and subscribe first for it to federate?
If You found it in the search menu, then my understanding of the code must be wrong. In that case would You please explain.
PS: The musk community is against musk. Apologies about not using Your pronouns earlier.
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Rimu built a tool for new instance owners to bulk federate external communities on their instance to populate it. Kind of like a piefed lemmy-federate. In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up. The keywords were taken from another function that piefed.social has to stop listing posts and comments after 6 months applied to specific communities.
This didn't translate well, and he removed multiple keywords referenced here from the mass federation tool when 196 mod complained.
Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet. The owner literally said it's all set up now but he's tired and doing other things now in the Zulip chat.
Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet.
That cannot be true. I can see a bunch of communities federated on that website. For example, search for 'news':
https://piefed.co.za/communities?search=news&language_id=0In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up.
Okay. I call that a hardcoded block (that can be manually worked around).
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Just to confirm, did You find the 'piracy' comm in the search menu (like I was trying to)? Or did You have to manually type in the URL and subscribe first for it to federate?
If You found it in the search menu, then my understanding of the code must be wrong. In that case would You please explain.
PS: The musk community is against musk. Apologies about not using Your pronouns earlier.
I used the federate remote communities page on the web UI, but I could also have typed the ! notation into a comment. I didn't try using the search to find it, but I don't think it would have worked. When I used the federation machine two weeks ago, I only grabbed communities over a certain size on certain instances. MULTIVERSE has to be told to look for smaller communities.
Still, communities like femcelmemes and dankchristianmemes and lemmyshitpost (shit is also on the list) were picked up by the community federation machine with no tinkering.
So here's what the code does. That list you found, of the seven_things_plus, it's Rimu's idea of "low effort communities". As an admin, when I click on a user, I can see their "reputation", which shows if they've been getting lots of downvotes or lots of upvotes. And I also have a checkbox that says something like "ignore reputation from low effort communities". It's designed to prevent karma farming. Rimu designed it so if a robot posts a lot of memes to 196 to farm karma and then starts posting ads for RAID SHADOW LEGENDS, I have the option of ignoring the meme reputation and still seeing that the bot isn't contributing anything of value. But I have the checkbox turned off because I like memes.
This week I'm gonna try making a PR to change that list's name to something more descriptive and make it configurable by admins. I've never contributed to PieFed before so we'll see if I can understand enough of the code to do it. Wish Me luck.
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Is this new users or users switching from Lemmy ?
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Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet.
That cannot be true. I can see a bunch of communities federated on that website. For example, search for 'news':
https://piefed.co.za/communities?search=news&language_id=0In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up.
Okay. I call that a hardcoded block (that can be manually worked around).
Does he have all minor communities on there too?
Yes, but again - it has been adjusted to pretty much just refer to slurs. I actually spoke to him about this weeks ago.
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Is this new users or users switching from Lemmy ?
Reddit adverts, so many new users
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Just to confirm, did You find the 'piracy' comm in the search menu (like I was trying to)? Or did You have to manually type in the URL and subscribe first for it to federate?
If You found it in the search menu, then my understanding of the code must be wrong. In that case would You please explain.
PS: The musk community is against musk. Apologies about not using Your pronouns earlier.
The search menu on a piefed instance isn't going to find and federate new communities. It has never worked like that.
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I used the federate remote communities page on the web UI, but I could also have typed the ! notation into a comment. I didn't try using the search to find it, but I don't think it would have worked. When I used the federation machine two weeks ago, I only grabbed communities over a certain size on certain instances. MULTIVERSE has to be told to look for smaller communities.
Still, communities like femcelmemes and dankchristianmemes and lemmyshitpost (shit is also on the list) were picked up by the community federation machine with no tinkering.
So here's what the code does. That list you found, of the seven_things_plus, it's Rimu's idea of "low effort communities". As an admin, when I click on a user, I can see their "reputation", which shows if they've been getting lots of downvotes or lots of upvotes. And I also have a checkbox that says something like "ignore reputation from low effort communities". It's designed to prevent karma farming. Rimu designed it so if a robot posts a lot of memes to 196 to farm karma and then starts posting ads for RAID SHADOW LEGENDS, I have the option of ignoring the meme reputation and still seeing that the bot isn't contributing anything of value. But I have the checkbox turned off because I like memes.
This week I'm gonna try making a PR to change that list's name to something more descriptive and make it configurable by admins. I've never contributed to PieFed before so we'll see if I can understand enough of the code to do it. Wish Me luck.
Okay. It's still unclear to me why piracy was not picked up by default. It's a very big comm.
Anyhow, good luck on the merge request! Would be great to let the admin decide what to block instead of the weirdly random selection of comms and words on the list now.
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Okay. It's still unclear to me why piracy was not picked up by default. It's a very big comm.
Anyhow, good luck on the merge request! Would be great to let the admin decide what to block instead of the weirdly random selection of comms and words on the list now.
Not block. Just karma-devalue. I'm gonna rename the variable to something like "unwanted reputation sources". If an admin doesn't want people farming rep by posting porn, they can put porn on the list. That's not blocking, it's just a data filter for admin eyes only.
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The search menu on a piefed instance isn't going to find and federate new communities. It has never worked like that.
That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming.
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That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming.
So there's an "Add remote community" button that you use to individually federate comms. You may only see this logged in.
Or if you manually put in the url as it would be seen from that piefed instance, it will federate that way.
It won't populate the added communities with new content AFTER federation though until they have a local subscriber.
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Not block. Just karma-devalue. I'm gonna rename the variable to something like "unwanted reputation sources". If an admin doesn't want people farming rep by posting porn, they can put porn on the list. That's not blocking, it's just a data filter for admin eyes only.
So there are two purposes for this "bad list"
- for filtering which communities to federate with in the beginning
- to calculate user reputation score
correct?
The federation filtering is blocking IMO. It affects what comms users of the instance can find (via search).
Anyway maybe in Your PR You should make a separately configurable list for each purpose. I don't see a reason why it should be the same list.
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Yes. So? Piefed.ca is receiving the bump here. Other instances have turned it off.
You know Rimu made a thread in !piefed_meta@piefed.social so you can ask questions or express concerns.
Because it's a piefed feature set.
Based on rimus responses here and elsewhere they do not seem interested in feedback.
Even in their comment linking to a thread saying they welcome it, they were attacking someone providing it
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Because it's a piefed feature set.
Based on rimus responses here and elsewhere they do not seem interested in feedback.
Even in their comment linking to a thread saying they welcome it, they were attacking someone providing it
Where do you see that in the thread?
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Been looking to migrate off .ml, can y'all sell me on switching to piefed?
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Here = comm
And https://lemmy.world/comment/21861362 which leads to
https://piefed.social/comment/9670365
Where both calls anyone but them looking at the code amateurs and can't understand people wouldn't provide feedback if thought bad things in code were purposely done as so many projects will do that
There’s no need to listen to rumors and amateur speculation when we’re right here and happy to help. Come on in, the water’s fine!
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I've been on the microblogging side of the fediverse for some time (the misskey style forks), but really started to miss forum style discussion. 8 joined Lemmy and realized that a huge portion of comments simply weren't displaying on that instance, so I moved to Piefed and am really happy with it so far. There's a lot of features that I like.
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Is some new drama going on over there lately?
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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.
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