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PyLova v0.5.0 Shareable Blocklists, Roles, UI Changes PyLova (Python+Pavlova) is a soft fork of PieFed, aimed at improving the user experience through UI overhauls, empowering users and admins with agency, improved administration and moderation functions, and general bug fixing. New in V0.5.0 New & Improved Shareable Blocklists: Users can create, maintain, and share block lists of users, communities, instances, or domains. Users can be hidden completely or muffled. Roles: Permissions have been changed into ‘Roles’, these offer expanded functionality. Admins can create multiple roles choosing what permissions they can be given, if any. As well as setting upload and storage limits, ability to post video, etc. Posts can be restricted to certain roles for matters of voting and commenting. Temporary Bans: Now users can be banned from an instance for a limited range of time. This also fixes the nasty bug that leads to temp bans from Lemmy never expiring on PieFed instances. Instance Chooser: Discovers new instances from Fediseer, as well as polling other instances. This removes any singular point of authority in seeding new instances and helps disperse discovery. Instances in the chooser also show Fediseer endorsements, and Fediseer tags can be searched for to help find instances based on content. New User Experience: New users are better presented topics when joining to help discover content, and a user with no subscriptions is shown a list of popular communities and feeds they may want to join. Bug-Fixes & Misc Inline Comment Editing: Edit your comments without leaving your position on the conversation. Visual Changes: Small changes to create a more unified modern look. Bento Tiles: Masonry Tiles are revamped into Bento boxes, masonry-wide has been removed. Removed security issue in tiles. Instance Vote Settings: Admins can select if up/downvotes are accepted from an instance. Instance Overview: When browsing instances additional information about them is displayed. New Fonts: Ubuntu and Open Dyslexic have been added. Ubuntu is now the default font for new instances. New Post: Starting a new post no longer changes targetted community when switching post type, non-allowed post types are hidden if that community does not accept them. Themes: PhpBB and Trans theme are currently removed awaiting some much needed fixing, they will return in the future.

Introducing FediDB Software Comparison, Lemmy vs Mbin vs Piefed We shipped a pretty cool feature to FediDB that allows anyone to edit and answer questions about software projects, like a wiki, and use that data to power a new software comparison feature.

That's really fucking cool. Someone made a frontend for #piefed/#pylova which emulates the #phpBB forums of early 2000s. Have it sorting by new comments instead of votes and it's basically the same experience! https://forum.retrofed.com/ #retro #fediverse

Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog Cross-posted from !fediverse@piefed.social I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy. So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it. The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know. We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it. Cheers =) #threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed

Thread view redesign in Catodon Today I merged many UI changes, mostly around how threads are viewed and navigated. I took some of the good elements of Reddit, so now we have sorting by Old/New/Top (the default for the microblogging timelines is Old, and for forums it’s Top - both can change in settings) and a flexible replies section with collapsible/expandable branches. Top-level posts now show the total number of replies under the whole thread, not just the direct/first level replies (but again you can change it back in Settings). I also saved much vertical space, so now you can read long threads with less scrolling. If I may say so myself, I honestly believe it’s one of the best UIs on fedi, especially for reading conversations. I think that if anyone tried it, they would agree. Really, really happy with the results. It’s still fresh, so I will probably refine things here and there, but it’s pretty much exactly as I envisioned it. Let us know what you think! #catodon

Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy. So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it. The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know. We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it. Cheers =) #threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed

PieFed 1.8 is released - multi-image posts, reposter filter, new admin tools Gallery posts, which is an image post with multiple images in it, compatible with Mastodon and Pixelfed. Check out this example from Mastodon. “Reposters” as a separate thing from “Bots” with the same Show and Hide options for filtering that bots have. Reposters are more targeted, with higher quality content than true bots and often have a human operator writing comments. However many people find this inauthentic so now they can be filtered out. More details /c/microblogs can show posts from people you’re following OR all posts. Recent hashtags shown on the home page sidebar. Support for receiving posts with jpegxl images. Communities can have a default hashtag for new posts - posters can edit or remove it if they want. For admins: Option to manually approve posts by new accounts, to cut down on spam while having open registrations (no approval on the new account). This will let people dip their toes in without waiting. Easily contact other instance admins, see /admin/instances Vote manipulation detection tools for simple sockpuppets and complex coordinated voting networks. See /admin/voting Serial downvoter report showing who made lots of downvotes against a single person in a short time. Other bot detection tools - e.g. easily spot unnatural runs of very quick post creation. Display list of alts on user profiles to more easily investigate activity by alts. Filter emoji with keywords rather than importing absolutely everything - this will speed up the emoji reaction dialog. Identify instances likely to be used by spammers in future. See /admin/instances?filter=liability Microblog posts with no replies can be automatically deleted - set the MICROBLOG_CONTENT_RETENTION environment variable to how many months you want to keep them for. To upgrade from 1.7.x git pull git checkout v1.8.x Then, ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh 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.

Not suprising in the least but disappointing to see Reddit move the wrong way. Less open, killing public API, ending RSS. #enshitification commences in a speed run. Looking forward to #Piefed and rest of #Threadiverse to work to take advantage of this moment.

W sumie, pytaniem jest ile jest wpisów na całym fediverse... #Fediverse #Mastodon #Wafrn #Pixelfed #Peertube #Lemmy #Misskey #Pleroma #Friendica #Piefed

@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services you ought to include the contacts of #opensource champions like the #developers of #linux #distros like #mxlinux #linuxMint #debian #archlinux, #developers of some prime #mastodon instances, #piefed instances, #codeberg , #github and email services like #mailo and #proton. That way, we would be able to reach out to them through #socialmedia whenever we need their support. This informal channel is oftentimes better than your regular email.

@rimu@piefed.social Are there upcoming #FASP offerings that might help with media storage? I think @Mastodon@mastodon.social may be building something like that that seems to apply to any fediverse software. Does #piefed have #FASP support on its roadmap? "We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers. The timeline for implementation is by the end of 2026."

MAU are tanking across every major platform and nobody wants to say what's obvious — the corporate social media model is broken. People are sick of being fed algorithmic garbage and influencer ads disguised as content. The fediverse is what social media was supposed to be. Human connections. No gamification. No bullshit. GotoSocial, Loops and Piefed aren't just part of the next chapter — we're writing it. 🚀 #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #GotoSocial #Loops #PieFed