PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more
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A big thank you to those who contributed to making this release, translating, writing documentation, providing emotional support and promoting PieFed! None of this would happen without you all.
New hotness
- Pronouns - when you put pronouns into Extra Fields on your profile that is used as a flair in all communities where you haven't set a flair yet
- Private communities - no federation, only certain roles (depends on the community) can invite new people. Posts inside are only visible to members.
- Mastodon can now quote-boost PieFed posts
- Plain http web UI (no SSL required) with SSL used during federation - see http://retro.piefed.com
- Downvotes can be turned off completely in a community, not just instance-wide
- Admins can sticky a post on the home page, not just mods in their communities
- Auto-delete of replies on remote instances when reply author has been blocked by parent content author (only works in PieFed communities due to a ActivityPub limitation)
- On home page when showing number of replies a post has, calculate the sum of the replies on all cross-posts and display that
- New users can only do 3 posts in their first 24h, to reduce floods of posts by that guy who keeps deleting his accounts and making new ones
More good stuff
- Improve emoji federation compatibility
- Change order of emoji in picker to present most-used ones first
- Daily time limit on usage to help people use PieFed less (released in 1.5.2)
- A way to report posts that need to be tagged as AI generated
- Better accessibility
- Improved handling of bold and italics in markdown parsing
- Don't accept votes from people the author has blocked
- Admins can resend email address verification email
- Admins can add notes to instances to keep track of defederation reasons, etc
- Search form has been simplified
- Option for admins to disable the em-dash detector
- Multiple minor bugfixes and security enhancements
To upgrade from 1.5.x
git pull git checkout v1.6.xAt this point you might see an error message about a merge conflict with compose.yaml. To preserve your custom compose.yaml you will need to copy it somewhere else, then
git checkout compose.yamlthengit pullagain. This time the pull will succeed so after that copy your custom compose.yaml it back, overwriting the one from git.Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.shIf you had to do the compose.yaml fix up earlier then you might want to compare what you have with https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/compose.yaml and manually copy and paste some improvements in particular the
command:part of the db container which tunes postgresql for performance. Adjust the numbers for your system.This time the database migrations will not take long.
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.
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A big thank you to those who contributed to making this release, translating, writing documentation, providing emotional support and promoting PieFed! None of this would happen without you all.
New hotness Pronouns - when you put pronouns into Extra Fields on your profile that is used as a flair in all communities where you haven't set a flair yet Private communities - no federation, only certain roles (depends on the community) can invite new people. Posts inside are only visible to members. Mastodon can now quote-boost PieFed posts Plain http web UI (no SSL required) with SSL used during federation - see http://retro.piefed.com Downvotes can be turned off completely in a community, not just instance-wide Admins can sticky a post on the home page, not just mods in their communities Auto-delete of replies on remote instances when reply author has been blocked by parent content author (only works in PieFed communities due to a ActivityPub limitation) On home page when showing number of replies a post has, calculate the sum of the replies on all cross-posts and display that New users can only do 3 posts in their first 24h, to reduce floods of posts by that guy who keeps deleting his accounts and making new ones More good stuff Improve emoji federation compatibility Change order of emoji in picker to present most-used ones first Daily time limit on usage to help people use PieFed less (released in 1.5.2) A way to report posts that need to be tagged as AI generated Better accessibility Improved handling of bold and italics in markdown parsing Don't accept votes from people the author has blocked Admins can resend email address verification email Admins can add notes to instances to keep track of defederation reasons, etc Search form has been simplified Option for admins to disable the em-dash detector Multiple minor bugfixes and security enhancements To upgrade from 1.5.x git pull git checkout v1.6.xAt this point you might see an error message about a merge conflict with compose.yaml. To preserve your custom compose.yaml you will need to copy it somewhere else, then git checkout compose.yaml then git pull again. This time the pull will succeed so after that copy your custom compose.yaml it back, overwriting the one from git.
Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh
If you had to do the compose.yaml fix up earlier then you might want to compare what you have with https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/compose.yaml and manually copy and paste some improvements in particular the command: part of the db container which tunes postgresql for performance. Adjust the numbers for your system.
This time the database migrations will not take long.
DonationsPieFed 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.
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Help! A mastodater is tooting my horn and I don't like it =(
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The fediverse is just full of weird reply guys tooting and mastodating at each other.
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phrasing!
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Pretty good write-up calling out European politicians in particular for calling for increased tech sovereignty in Europe, but not putting their money where their moth is by actually using the European alternative that already exists.
I'm not sure the word Mastodating will catch on. I'm not sure I want it to either.
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Oh hey, thanks! You saved me from needing to crosspost it here :laughing:
... which... is frickin' ironic, isn't it, because we aren't at the point where we can crosspost between instances yet...
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cross-posted from: https://community.nodebb.org/post/106480
NodeBB v4.8.0 — Crossposting, federated moves, API changes, and bug fixes!
Hello from Canada! :flag-ca:
We're a week behind the planned release, but we're dropping v4.8.0 today, containing some changes to our ActivityPub handling, along with a new API route, and bug fixes.
CrosspostingAs briefly introduced in my earlier topic on cross-posting, NodeBB v4.8.0 supports cross-posting of topics between categories. More importantly, it means topics from other remote categories can now be added to local categories, which is another way to bring conversations to your local users.
Unlike before, where administrators were the only ones allowed to move topics from cid -1, cross-posting is available to all local users. If you see a topic on the fediverse you'd like to cross-post to a local category, just hit the cross-post button (it's a button with a little upward-right pointing arrow), and share it with other users on your forum!
When you cross-post, it also shares the topic with all of your followers from outside of your forum.
Federated topic moving and removals
This was actually released with v4.7.0 but was improved slightly in the intervening versions. NodeBB now follows the Draft FEP f15d: Context Relocation and Removal and will publish Remove activities when a topic is moved to "Uncategorized", and Move activities when moved to another category.
Developers of other ActivityPub software looking to implement similar mechanics are advised to read the FEP and provide feedback here: https://activitypub.space/topic/86/fep-f15d-context-relocation-and-removal
Other technical debt and bug fixes Post ownership websocket call was migrated to a v3 REST API call Notifications had issues when user display names contained commas Piefed v1.5 supports emoji from remote instances; incoming custom emoji from Piefed are now handled Nodeinfo fixes for if a NodeBB instance is not actually federating (has AP turned off)
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@die4ever@thefedi.forum hi from another NodeBB! (god this will never get old)
NodeBB maintainer here. Glad to hear you're enjoying the software! I really tried to make it so that federation is rather seamless. There's a lot of work to be done with respect to discovery, so it'll only get better over time 🙂
