PieFed 1.3 is released
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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.shIn 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.
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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 newPosts & 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.
BugsPasskey 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.
APIAdditional 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 upgradeTo upgrade from 1.3.x:
git pull git checkout v1.4.x ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.shThere 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.
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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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
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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.
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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.
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rimu@piefed.social when the question is federated outward, is it of type of question? 😛
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@julian @rimu @dessalines @nutomic we could have it in Lemmy as well ❤️
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@julian hahahahaha
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Imagine Stack Overflow, but you have some probability of not seeing the top answer. That's pretty much what happens with federated instances blocking each other. I wouldn't use that.
