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I've followed all the frequent posters on piefed.social using my mastodon.social account so we should be seeing a lot more PieFed content showing up there now. But unless you use hashtags, I'll be the only one seeing it!
When making your post, put a few words into the Tags field below the Body field, separated by a comma. No need to include the # character.
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I've followed all the frequent posters on piefed.social using my mastodon.social account so we should be seeing a lot more PieFed content showing up there now. But unless you use hashtags, I'll be the only one seeing it!
When making your post, put a few words into the Tags field below the Body field, separated by a comma. No need to include the # character.
Oof... I hadn't been thinking of that at all.
Any idea if this works retroactively? For example, if I go back and label posts from the last week or two in the hopes that they might get caught up in Mastodon feeds?
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Oof... I hadn't been thinking of that at all.
Any idea if this works retroactively? For example, if I go back and label posts from the last week or two in the hopes that they might get caught up in Mastodon feeds?
Yes it probably would although anything older than 1 day on Mastodon gets zero views so I wouldn't bother.
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Yes it probably would although anything older than 1 day on Mastodon gets zero views so I wouldn't bother.
Oh!
I was able to get today's earlier post to show up there, but it seems totally unable to recognise any of the Lemmy-style image samples, for example ye oldeformat.I also added the raw URL's under the images, but it just went ahead and listed them as URL's. (expected, TBF)
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Oh!
I was able to get today's earlier post to show up there, but it seems totally unable to recognise any of the Lemmy-style image samples, for example ye oldeformat.I also added the raw URL's under the images, but it just went ahead and listed them as URL's. (expected, TBF)
Ah. PieFed is just throwing the same html at Mastodon that we use in the PF web app and then Mastodon is stripping out things it can't handle. Perhaps we should do some pre-chewing of the html so that it degrades more gracefully, e.g. convert inline images to links.
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Ah. PieFed is just throwing the same html at Mastodon that we use in the PF web app and then Mastodon is stripping out things it can't handle. Perhaps we should do some pre-chewing of the html so that it degrades more gracefully, e.g. convert inline images to links.
In general that's a good idea because you should never trust content coming from somewhere else (even in an S2S context)
For reference, NodeBB literally sanitizes the bejeezus out of what it gets from anywhere. All classes are removed, all attributes are removed. I want it as close to semantic HTML as possible, and classes/attributes mean absolutely nothing because:
- I don't use the same CSS classes
- Attributes may not follow my own rules for when and where they are added.
For example, Mastodon messes with any URL it federates out. It chops the anchor text in half, hides the rest behind
invisibleor something, and adds an ellipsis.invisibledoes something different in NodeBB, so there is a CSS conflict here. I strip everything and just show the URL as it was intended.
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As if multiple servers wasn't complicated enough, there are multiple apps and multiple web frontends you can use too! p.piefed.social is an installation of Photon.
Log in with your piefed.social credentials.
Like Blorp, it looks great on a phone and can be installed as a PWA.
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Try https://b.piefed.social instead! Log in with the same username and password as piefed.social.
It works best on a phone / tablet but on a desktop it's fine too once you switch to compact mode.
It can be installed as a PWA.
There are also lots of themes you can try at https://piefed.social/user/settings. Here are some screenshots of them - https://join.piefed.social/screenshots/
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Oh so it is, I wasn't seeing it yesterday when I checked. Perhaps unpinning and re-pinning, or removing and re-allowing the ability to show on popular fixed it and I didn't notice it.
Nonetheless, thank you for all the help!
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Ok, it seems to be working now then. Let us know if you continue to see weirdness with the pinned posts.
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Oh we actually unpinned the main@piefed.ca post after I confirmed it was working and made that comment. It's the other one from main@lemmy.ca that is still pinned, but doesn't show up for users that aren't logged in
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Welcome!
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I mean I get you but the only reason it would be done wrong is if it was intentionally done that way. I mean the system already does notifications and as I said I have gotten them for deleted posts. They don't go away. The devs would practically have to intentionally have it not work that way. I really don't think its a risk at all. Also once something is done its not impossible to undue. The federation and in particular piefed devs are pretty earnest individuals and its not like a coporate system where managment would bury their heads and dig their heels on something bad. There is also no incetive to keep something that does not work out well for some sort of financial gain.
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Even logged in and with filters so that the post is visible, I don't see the post in the piefed community as pinned. Could it have been unpinned when you did your db reload?
If it is pinned on your side, then it must be a bug of some kind.
