PieFed

Currently, if you copy a range of cells in a spreadsheet program like LibreOffice Calc, Microslop Excel, Google Sheets, etc. and then paste into a textbox in PieFed, it will upload that as an image file representing that range of data. If that is what a user intends to do, it works great for that. But I think that more often than not, what the user actually wants to do when pasting in from a spreadsheet is for that data to be a markdown-formatted table, not an image file. I would like to see this as the default behaviour for PieFed.

I made the following post: https://piefed.social/c/gothindustrial/p/1810616/cultural-death-by-verin around 11am EST. However, 4 hours later it still hasn’t shown up on other instances, ex: https://lemmy.world/c/gothindustrial According to the Federation Health overview everything’s caught up.

Try this: 1. Go to https://piefed.social/search 2. Search for something => search results are displayed, url looks something like this: https://piefed.social/search?search_for=posts&q=test&community=&type=0&language=0&software=&sort_by=&nsfw=&minimum_upvote=&submit=Search 3. From the search results page, perform another search => “an unexpected error has occurred" => url looks different: https://piefed.social/search?q=test&community=0&language=0&search_for=posts

I’m trying to understand how PieFed’s voting culture is different. I’ll admit, I usually upvote things I like and downvote the rest. Sometimes, if a post has a low score, I don’t even read the title, I just downvote and move on. I suspect I’m not the only one who does this.

Are there plans to make private communities accessible/usable without an account on the same instance ? Is it possible to switch from private to public (and vice versa)?

when making this post I tried to mention the OP but it was not possible. text would get inverted in direction and placed after the “m_”

I want it to be over here

Sorry if this is a dumb question. How do I go back to where I was in my feed after clicking on a story? I see there are options at the top like, Home, Community, etc, but how do I get back to where I was?

Piefed currently has anonymous — or more accurately, pseudonymous, voting.

Is there a tool that automates transferring of blocks from a Lemmy account to a Piefed account? I’m one of those people that curates All and have thousands of blocked communities so it’s not feasible to manually transfer that.

i honestly am very confused, i tried to make a post in a community and i got this 503 error page and then when i went to the main piefed.social page i was logged out and when i tried to log back in i got the 503 error page and now no matter what i just get the error page u less i turn on a vpn? its only on my other phone though? the phone im using now works fine with no vpn but the other one only works with a vpn. i even tried clearing the cache and all the site data but its still the 503 error without the vpn on. does anyone know how i can fix this?

I imported my Lemmy account but noticed some blocked people weren’t transferred over. Most of the ones that didn’t cross over seem to be from specific instances, such as kbin.social, leminal.space, etc. But one was from lemmy.ml; others were imported fine but one user was not for some reason. There’s around four dozen blocked accounts and I didn’t check them all but it seems like most made it over.

The one thing puts me off Piefed is the UI. I tried the different available themes, but outside of Irix - 1998, nothing felt right. Irix - 1998 itself is too bright, so i tried it with dark reader but it still feel off put

I’m not sure if this is being worked on or has already been suggested, but this seems to be a feature missing from Piefed. I personally used to use it when I was on Lemmy but haven’t been able to on Piefed. I understand if this is difficult to implement but I feel like it would be a good security feature that seems to oddly be missing from Piefed.

https://piefed.zip/c/politicalvideos/p/1152871/nuclear-bomb-any-day shows no video. The original link is https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64472762 and has a video.

Tried Connect since I used it for Lemmy, but no luck, keeps giving me “The page your browser tried to load could not be found” error when I try to log in.

Suggested this for Mlem, but with blocking being implemented directly by Piefed, perhaps this feature would be better suited here.

I tried out so far voyager and interstellar. It seems that both don’t support hashtags. I can see them but I cannot click on them like the web version.

Today I was just thinking about how PieFed (and the fediverse in general) reminds me of an earlier internet that I used to like, where “social media” was just phpBB forums running on old computers in peoples’ basements. And I thought, “I just wish PieFed looked a little different to reflect that. Too bad there aren’t any themes for it.”

I mainly want the feature to subscribe to posts and to see comments from all posts that have the same link

Not sure if this is the right place to report this, but any time I enter anything into ‘communities’ tab of search, the whole page freezes and dies. Tried on multiple browsers and devices.

If PieFed is so great at replacing chatrooms (like Discord), why are we on zulip and Matrix?

I’d like to post links with a tilde (~) but the tilde gets removed. Is there a way to put it ?

Expected

Test post from mastodon

I’m trying to figure out how to remove the recently added emoji reactions to posts. I don’t care about them, and each one moves the next post down a little, wasting screen space.

I tested on two browsers, the latter without any “protection” or addons, and I tried the same post on a Lemmy instance, where it’s fine. It’s clearly not happening on my side, and OP didn’t do anything wrong either.

Téléréalité stupide en ce moment : on enferme des rappeur·euses dans un labyrinthe avec des créatures génétiquement modifiées qui essaient de les tuer. En plus de survivre, les artistes se livrent à de vraies battles improvisées au hasard des rencontres dans le dédale de couloirs. Il y a un gros contrat à la clé. Je regarde pour les performances musicales. Tarm5l est carrée (tout le monde le dit), mais le niveau général n’est vraiment pas exceptionnel. C’est de la télévision: casting faible, prestations chaotiques avec l’équipement HF, pas de public, et la voix off n’y connaît rien en rap visiblement. De leur côté les monstres ont réussi à me surprendre. Déjà trois victimes et le dernier mort s’est fait liquéfier par une sorte de gelée vivante corrosive.

I don’t know the exact date when it happened, but I can’t connect to piefed.zip anymore with MLem or Voyager.

Ghost and Flipboard are federated, so newsletters and blogs that publish there automatically create activitypub messages. It would be awesome if we could have some way to automatically add posts to a community for which posts would be relevant. For instance, if I were to move my the community for my city’s soccer clubs to piefed, it would be awesome if I could create a post automatically for the local coverage here on the fediverse publishing on ghost. I’m not certain what the best way to do that would be – allowing communities to follow other actors would mean we could have posts straight from ghost and flipboard, plus we could aggregate up various communities into multi communities (I could run one for both the men’s and women’s sides for all the local soccer clubs and aggregate them up into a ${city}_soccer multicommunity, and would allow us to do the migration from the legacy lemmy community cleanly (since I could follow the old lemmy community and see posts made in the old community), and would allow me to follow bot actors who post from federated sources like bluesky (for instance via brid.gy) or twitter (for instance via sportsbots.xyz), but the existing rss communities proposal would probably also make sense, especially if it allows us finer granularity on separating posts based on topic (for instance, the local newspaper sometimes combines different teams into the same rss feed, but I would want to have separate communities). It’s also possible a bot is the best solution, but taking api traffic seems like an inefficient way to handle this.

I used to be able to react to a post with the robot emoji: 🤖

This post got me thinking: on Discord we’ve been using “HammerTime tags” so the time in a message was being translated to everyone’s local time. Here it would, of course, necessitate everyone to set up their timezone in the settings but apart from that, I guess it could be doable too, right?

Not sure how complex this might be to implement, but it might be good to look into fixing the issue of:

as title.

As suggested by the title, I’ve noticed in the most recent version of PieFed that the “bring it on” option for Trump and Musk news doesn’t quite work…if you select that option, then you are asked on every login whether or not you would like to filter out Trump/Musk news, it only actually stops asking you if you select an option that applies a filter. If you apply no filter at all, you’re asked if you’d like to apply one on every login. This is different behaviour from previous versions so I just assumed that it was an unintentional change!

This is a new issue which only started within the past few days. I’m completely unable to login to piefed.social via qutebrowser with the only error in the console showing something related to cloudflare with “access denied”

I created a community for beards !beards@piefed.social and couldn’t find a good category to put it in.

The onboarding will offer you a lot of topics to sign up to. These contain communities in them. The idea is to populate subscription feeds, however it can leave some users with a lot of undesired subscriptions if they click too many.

I’m really loving PieFed but there’s one nagging thing that’s making it tough to fully switch over from Lemmy. I post a lot of news articles. The autofill works great but there are many news sites that fail every time – CBC, Tyee, The Atlantic, NYT, WaPo are a few examples (probably cloudflare issues). You can copy-paste the headline and subheading but no-go for the image. Lemmy solved this by having a separate field to either upload or link to a image. As it stands, probably ~40% of the articles I’d post just look bad in the feed without a possible fix. It’d be great to have a similar feature to resolve it.

If you go here: https://piefed.social/home/active/all

When I want to save the changes, I get that warning. I couldn’t change the joining access, either. I’d be grateful for advice here.

I have a community on the piefed.zip server, and I schedule posts to go out at a future time. When I look at the list of scheduled posts, they’re in a seemingly random order. Am I missing a way to organize the list, preferably in chronological order?

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As far as I’m aware, a person can crosspost on Lemmy very easily. There’s a copy button that lets them copy the entirety of the post content. Puts the body in quotes, preserves the alt text and title and links and the like, and all they have to do is change community and now it’s in another community.

In my recent encounter, the mod deleted a reply to a comment. The reply title showed just “[deleted]” but that three-dots-menu still showes the author’s name.

I have an account on piefed.zip. I deleted a post and tried to purge it, but I only get the following message: “An unexpected error has occurred” and it’s not purged. Any idea what could be happening?

Welcome! What brings you to PieFed and how did you find out about it?

My Piefed instance claims I’ve been using it for 29 hours this month. I doubt that.

I like the Trump filter. Please include one that filters posts about so-called “AI”.

With the help of other users here I have finally been able to get a PieFed instance up and running! I am running 1.5.3 (Docker install) and I’ve run into one small problem…trying to manually purge deleted posts always redirects to a page indicating that an error has occurred, the post is not purged. I am not sure how I would go about debugging this, but I will certainly provide any additional information that one might need. I appreciate all the help, the best part about the fediverse for me has to be the community! 👍

Hey,

I’ve successfully gotten PieFed up and running in its docker iteration and with help from folks here, I’m now backing things up as they should be! I noticed that cron is reporting an error in one of the scripts that is being called though, here is an example of the e-mail that I am receiving:

As the topic would suggest I’ve run into another problem with PieFed…I have Mailgun set up as my SMTP host for password resets and the like, the password to my knowledge is correct as I’ve tested the configuration out in a separate Python script and it logged into smtp.mailgun.org successfully on port 587.

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Like combining Flair-or-tag-Text with some formatting? (I thought I saw that once, maybe it was in an app?)

Tried to log into my account and it’s gone just want verification as my alt is aswell. If I was banned I’d appreciate a reason if not oh well.

can we add an reaction emoji to be able to tag posts as AI slop?

Hello!

Does Piefed provide an RSS feed of your saved posts?

New user here, I tried all themes, but couldn’t find it in my settings. Is there a dark mode available?

Hi y’all. I signed up recently and still getting acquainted with the interface. Is there any way to change/collapse the posts? I’m not sure I want this “feed” style of browsing. Something like old Reddit would be great. Thanks!

I’m thrilled about reactions and an glad to see them supported. Several clients specifically mention supporting piefed (Blorp, Summit) - and technically they do, insofar as Piefed’s API overlaps with Lemmy’s API - but I’ve encountered none which have yet added support for reactions.

I’m not running to be the next red or blue Fuhrer, I’m trying to discuss topics online.

In particular I’m not sure if my "woke cat" comics should have the box checked for future posts.

Keep hitting nginx error 413 Request Entity Too Large when attempting to upload an image with alt text to !NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz as a piefed.zip user. Wondering if this is a piefed.zip or piefed in general limit, since if I run to my original account at @emotional_series7814@kbin.melroy.org the post goes through.

I’m the moderator of a community I created on Lemmy (/c/Delorean) and I’d like to add my piefed account as a moderator. Is this possible at all? I tried posting from this account to that community but I don’t see an option to add myself as moderator even though I’m logged in as my Lemmy account. Is this possible at all??

It would good to know which sites are blocked to post links from and the reason they are blocked.

HI! First, I’m very sorry if this is the wrong community, if there’s a better comm, please point me in their direction.

I’d like to switch MULTIVERSE to require registration approval, at least temporarily during periods of lower staff availability, but I don’t think anyone on our instance is receiving emails at the moment, and notifying users that their application has been approved is something I want to get working before requiring applications. I haven’t received My verification email.

I’ve tried two files, the larger is under 130 kB and 900x750 pixels.

What does low bandwidth mode do?

The “Do not display posts with which I have already interacted (opened/upvoted/downvoted)” setting can be incredibly useful in general platform use but it can often create a lot of confusion at the same time.

The spaces between hashtags and urls are dropped, as well as parts of the url.

I have received word that there are people combing through the PieFed code looking for anything that might be harmful. This is excellent and can only make PieFed better and less harmful.

A test if edits to this post and the comments will federate to my instance.

I appreciate that there are multiple ways to achieve the same thing, but is there a recommended way to go about it?