[image: BsPhglEGjGx0BoB.png] A lot of people made new years resolutions about using social media less. So now we have an optional daily time limit! It's in https://piefed.social/user/settings. Bear in mind that it only counts time spent with a PieFed tab in the foreground - when you switch to another tab on another website to read a news article the timer stops. So you might need to set this lower than you think for it to be effective. One nice thing about the fediverse is we don't need to optimize for addiction and try to keep you here longer than you want to. The warning pops up with every page load so just clicking through it once won't work. It's for your own good!

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. We appreciate their interest in PieFed and look forward to answering any questions and showing people around the code. Please join us at https://chat.piefed.social or https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-developers:matrix.org. 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!

Got it :smile: [image: 1768321405165-01e5619b-2f1f-4c27-96d6-45ced83b4d42-image.png]

If you go to https://piefed.social/search you'll see two new fields. The "Minimum score" field is where you can put in a number and only posts with at least that many net upvotes will be shown. This will help you weed out posts from RSS feeds, by bots or generally low-quality posts. There is also a NSFW one: [image: NwAEunHboro46u3.png] The first option is the default one and will remove NSFW content from your search results based on what your profile setting is. The others are for overriding that so you can search for sexy linux posts without seeing regular posts about linux. etc. piefed.social doesn't have NSFW communities so this won't be very interesting here but feddit.online has plenty.

I've made it so that when someone deletes their own post it is still viewable, including the comments. The post author and body will NOT be visible. Deleted posts will not show up in communities, search results, etc just as before - you need the URL of the post to get to it. Bookmark a deleted post within 7 days or it will be deleted for real. [image: 1olGBQ7vwolXKNa.png] Ask your instance admin to upgrade to v1.4.4. Chances are they'll be on 1.4.x already so this will be easy for them.

This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights: What's new Posts & communities can be labelled as AI-generated and people can choose to hide all posts tagged that way. Very similar to how NSFW works. Comments can be marked as an Answer, like on StackOverflow. React to posts and comments with an emoji. Hide an individual post from yourself, without blocking the author. PieFed is now in the Yunohost app store, making initial setup easier. When banned from a remote instance you cannot make local-only posts in their communities. Honeypot to automatically IP ban badly-behaved crawlers. https://lemmy-federate.com integration, making PieFed communities get more exposure. "Share on Mastodon" menu item on posts. Vastly improve docs for new developers, see https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs. Language selection is more visible during post creation. Tag clouds can also be viewed as a list of tags. View post/comment markdown. Bot accounts are not included in community statistics. Footnote support in markdown. Polish translation. Better HTTP caching, which reduces dependence on Cloudflare. Bugs Passkey fixes. Polls can now have up to 15 options. User profile performance improved. Don't allow bypassing minimum username length and post title with whitespace. Polls and Events can no longer be posted into Lemmy communities. API Additional user settings can be set through the api, including Extra Fields. Fetch url metadata. Sort comments by controversial. Comment search now works. Hashtags. Events. Polls. Emoji reactions on posts and comments. See https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api for more details. To upgrade To upgrade from 1.3.x: git pull git checkout v1.4.x ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh There is a big database migration that will take a few minutes to run. How long will vary depending on how old your instance is - older instances will have more content to process. It took ~25 minutes on piefed.social so expect it to be less than that. 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.

After 5 months of chipping away at it, PieFed is now an installable 'app' in the Yunohost store! It's been there for a couple of weeks actually but until this weekend it had a scary red exclamation mark because some automated tests hadn't ran yet. But that's gone now so I feel confident about recommending it to others. Yunohost is a linux distro for servers that has a web gui for installing and managing services, that takes all the hassle out of self-hosting. How to get started with Yunohost. @squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi and @michael@piefed.chrisco.me have had good success setting up their instances already: https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1561141/thanks-to-rimu-ericgaspar-and-tituspijean-yunohost-has-a-working-piefed-setup

One of the long-standing issues we have in/on the fediverse is that when I have a link in my post that goes to another post on my instance, people on other instances will click that link and be taken to MY instance, where they can't comment, don't have an account, aren't logged in, etc and they will try to log in using their login credentials for their home instance then wonder why it doesn't work. When someone links to https://lemmy.world/post/39832275 and I'm on piefed.social I want to see https://piefed.social/c/news/p/1544770/national-parks-ordered-to-check-gift-shops-for-dei-type-items not the copy on lemmy.world! As of PieFed v1.4, links like that will automatically be converted to link to the local copy of the post, where 'local' is whatever is local for the reader. See the linked video where I demonstrate this in action.

I’ve just added a score parameter to the community RSS feeds so you can get a RSS feed of posts at or above that score. e.g. https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/feed?score=20 If there is interest then we can add more filters, for flair/tag, etc. But from the server logs it doesn't seem like many people use RSS.

What's the secret to Rimu's speed? Piefed is young, so any accumulated technical debt doesn't interfere with new functionality... Yet... Sorry rimu@piefed.social, that time will come for you 😂

In PieFed v1.4 it will be possible to label posts as having AI generated content. Labelled posts will get a little badge near their title, similar to how nsfw and nsfl content is labelled. Mods and authors can change this value on a post in the same way they do flair and nsfw, using the little tags button in the bottom right or in 'More options' when editing their post. Account settings for blocking: [image: rIJ6kQKrU9ygU9p.png] Similar to how NSFW works, each user can control how those posts are listed on the home page, etc. The default is 'Label as AI', which just adds the badge. People averse to AI-generated content might want to change this to 'Hide completely'. Also similar to NSFW, entire communities can be assigned as 'AI content' and that will auto-tag every post inside as being AI generated. If the community mods have this value unset (e.g. Lemmy communities, which don't have this functionality) then the instance admin can manually override the community's AI Generated setting.

rimu@piefed.social when the question is federated outward, is it of type of question? 😛 kariboka@mastodon.social

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@rimu @JohnnyEnzyme loved the idea

No, it exists... in fact you can see comments from cross-posted communities in the same post too. As for how... I don't know :smile:

I would recommend removing the piped.video integration completely for two reasons. Someone (I think maybe blaze@piefed.zip? who knows) said that naked YouTube URLs are better because phones can be set up to open directly in NewPipe. In fact that is how my phone is set up right now. Desktops can do the same with intents probably. Ease of maintenance burden.

What's new Media library that lets you upload images to comments/post body and paste from the clipboard Animated gif support for user profile pictures Specify alt-text for link posts that link to an image Emoji picker and spoiler button added to markdown toolbar More links to the modlog (footer, community sidebar, user profile) and improved searching/filtering Leave a conversation to remove it from the list of their direct message conversations Post urls are now "friendly" since they include the community name and a snippet of the title instead of just a number Add link to show parent comment when directly viewing a comment reply Image markdown style formatting to allow more advanced control of how images are rendered. e.g.  Code syntax highlighting in code blocks and allow for style selection in user settings Tag cloud added to sidebar for feeds and topics Better searching and filtering of the Instances list Add a block (of a user, community, instance or domain) from the blocks and filters management area, without doing it via a post Popup suggestions when mentioning a community or user as you type Onboarding plugin which auto-subscribes, auto-blocks and sends a welcome message for new accounts Improved federation efficiency Old posts can be automatically archived (saved to S3) to free up database space Old posts by bots with no comments are automatically deleted LLDAP support, which does LDAP a bit differently To upgrade To upgrade from 1.2.x: git pull git checkout v1.3.x ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh In the past we had a separate project for realtime notifications, which is now unsupported as it's code has been merged with the main PieFed project. To set it up, refer to the Push Notifications section of install.md. As well as enhancing the user experience doing this will decrease load on your server if it hosts local communities with many subscribers as some of the federation work has been offloaded to the push notifications service. 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.

When the GUI editor is enabled there won't be a 'Insert image' button below the post, you can use the image icon. This one: [image: 49uAa4Gz6U3TZe4.png] Also, you can paste an image from your clipboard into the body field and it'll be automatically uploaded and the markdown for the image inserted into the field.

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rimu@piefed.social for what it's worth, we had this discussion a decade ago too. We ended up being very simplistic and not tying anything to anything else. So posts are not tied to topics (theoretically you could have a post in multiple topics... we don't do that, but you can) And topics aren't tied to categories (same deal, and we also don't have topics in multiple categories... yet!!, cross-posting will change that. So when you have a direct url to a post it's just /post/. A friendly URL uses a post index, but we can do that because we order posts linearly. Piefed doesn't have that advantage unfortunately.