PieFed.World is now open
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How can I subscribe to piefed.world users and communities etc from my lemmy.world account?
lemmy doesn't support subscribing to users, but you can subscribe to communities the same way you'd subscribe to other communities from other instances.
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I see, that’s nice. I know a LOT of people were turned off by Lemmy because of the .ml devs, hopefully PieFed is more appealing to them.
I have not found it hard at all to just ignore the .ml devs and people in general. Why is this such an issue for literally anyone?
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Piefed solves that issue: https://piefed.zip/post/100161
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A few other options
- https://piefed.social/ - flagship instance
- https://piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
- https://piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
- https://feddit.online/
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I dunno how I missed that. Thank you! I will be avoiding this community then, unfortunately
Why, have they done something wrong?
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what kind of error did you see and what did you click on? a link to a post?
I clicked on the “Communities” drop down and got a site wide error.
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Oh, fascinating! I'm going to have to take a look. Everyone's talking about topics and feeds, I didn't know they'd made that advancement.
It's pretty critical to topic feeds. The app I'm using doesn't understand the link consolidation thing that Piefed offers, so I'll see 5 of the same post all together in it. Really I just need to start using a PWA instead of the app until Piefed has better app support.
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I clicked on the “Communities” drop down and got a site wide error.
did you see an orange/white cloudflare error page or something else? i tried searching for it in our server logs but i don't find it.
you may however have hit an outage we had for several minutes around an hour before your comment due to running out of memory on the host.
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did you see an orange/white cloudflare error page or something else? i tried searching for it in our server logs but i don't find it.
you may however have hit an outage we had for several minutes around an hour before your comment due to running out of memory on the host.
The communities tab now gives a dropdown menu that appears to be correct.
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On Reddit, I kinda get it. You wouldn't want to connect the same link across (for instance) /r/antiwork and /r/conservative; the crosstalk there would get horrifyingly bad. But on a federated platform, when you could have multiple /c/antiworks on different instances, it fragments the conversation.
Reddit sorta half did it with the "other discussions" or duplicate tab.
As an example,
https://old.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/1lvi6kb/a_clicktocancel_rule_intended_to_make_cancelling/
I never saw any apps implement it, but it does look like it was part of the API, but maybe it wasn't robust enough.
I also know at one point, and possibly still, is that it lacked URL normalization. So for example, exanple.com/headline and example.com/headline#topstory would be treated as two different articles.
Similarly https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Would be treated as separate articles.
These are all fixable problems, but require work.
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I'd rather see feature parity so that Fediverse and Threadiverse in particular won't EEE itself.
Longer translation without commonly accepted terms:
I'd rather see Lemmy/PieFed/Kbin/Mbin have the same features overall, so that there wouldn't be one of them trying to extend on others and then make it standard so that others die out because they lack something that is now important
That seems to me to be akin to saying that you would like everyone to use Windows? Or less insultingly, only a single distro of Linux:-). Indeed, not everything needs to be a competition, but if someone wants to write code and make a better thing, and then turn around and allow everyone else to use it for free, then I for one am all for that!
But I do see your point, e.g. in how there are all these apps, making it confusing how people will view content when they differ in even fundamental things like how images are displayed or markdown syntax. It seems just the nature of the world, even FOSS where new features could theoretically be applied to all apps, if only people weren't as lazy, as to e.g. not integrate the new freely offered feature, or to continue to use an app long after it ceases to be updated routinely by its cohort of devs.
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Piefed solves that issue: https://piefed.zip/post/100161
All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view
A few other options
- https://piefed.social/ - flagship instance
- https://piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
- https://piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
- https://feddit.online/
And you sold me.
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I'd rather see feature parity so that Fediverse and Threadiverse in particular won't EEE itself.
Longer translation without commonly accepted terms:
I'd rather see Lemmy/PieFed/Kbin/Mbin have the same features overall, so that there wouldn't be one of them trying to extend on others and then make it standard so that others die out because they lack something that is now important
There's two factors to this. Lemmy has been slow on developing new features. Eventually people give up despite all the promises. This sort of competition was inevitable, and two - and this cannot be changed - there's a lot of resentment and resistance to using their software for political reasons.
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I have not found it hard at all to just ignore the .ml devs and people in general. Why is this such an issue for literally anyone?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Some users don’t want to support a project that’s being developed by people they don’t like.
It’s kind of how some people left Reddit because of Spez, even though the amount of money Lemmy devs make doesn’t remotely compare, and the risk of enshittification/powertripping is minimal due to the whole project being open source.
I personally don’t see it as a huge issue, but I can see why it would be for someone (and I’d definitely see it differently if I was actively supporting the platform through donations).
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Why, have they done something wrong?
They ban discussion of all kinds of normal things, such as Luigi Mangione.
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It's pretty critical to topic feeds. The app I'm using doesn't understand the link consolidation thing that Piefed offers, so I'll see 5 of the same post all together in it. Really I just need to start using a PWA instead of the app until Piefed has better app support.
As somebody that has done a lot of recent work on the UI for piefed, I have tried to make sure that it works even at quite small screen sizes. I actually just submitted a couple commits in the past couple hours to make the navbar across the top of communities/feeds/topics flow smoother across different screen sizes. The PWA is so far my preferred way to use piefed.
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piefed doesn't support animated media yet, iirc it doesn't work in posts either
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ugh...this one still frustrates me a lot. If I could wave a magic wand and have a different contributor do two things for the project, animated gifs would be one and a more consistent compact layout would be the other.
Edit: Just want to add that when I was working on the gif problem, I got it working for posts...but you have to click through into the lightbox or to the complete image url...the thumbnail isn't animated. So, I got partway there, but ran into technical limitations of the specific python library being used. Relevant issue.
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Piefed solves that issue: https://piefed.zip/post/100161
All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view
A few other options
- https://piefed.social/ - flagship instance
- https://piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
- https://piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
- https://feddit.online/
Also
https://quokk.au - if you want a smaller community.
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There's two factors to this. Lemmy has been slow on developing new features. Eventually people give up despite all the promises. This sort of competition was inevitable, and two - and this cannot be changed - there's a lot of resentment and resistance to using their software for political reasons.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Fair. But standards need to be made eventually based off something, or Fediverse will fail to deliver on its promise.
At least, same things should be able to be displayed.
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That seems to me to be akin to saying that you would like everyone to use Windows? Or less insultingly, only a single distro of Linux:-). Indeed, not everything needs to be a competition, but if someone wants to write code and make a better thing, and then turn around and allow everyone else to use it for free, then I for one am all for that!
But I do see your point, e.g. in how there are all these apps, making it confusing how people will view content when they differ in even fundamental things like how images are displayed or markdown syntax. It seems just the nature of the world, even FOSS where new features could theoretically be applied to all apps, if only people weren't as lazy, as to e.g. not integrate the new freely offered feature, or to continue to use an app long after it ceases to be updated routinely by its cohort of devs.
Of course we should only use one distro of linux, as long as it's the one I use
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Fair. But standards need to be made eventually based off something, or Fediverse will fail to deliver on its promise.
At least, same things should be able to be displayed.
But standards need to be made eventually based off something, or Fediverse will fail to deliver on its promise.
That's what the FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal) system is for.
Piefied is the only project among the three (Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed) to give a list of supported FEPs.
