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PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more

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  • I woul really prefer people I block to not see my stuff as if they blocked me so that they could not vote. I don't block people needlessly but if I do I sorta want them out of my federated life.

    Back when I was involved in sapphic partner abuse drama on Twitter, you could block someone but still reply to their posts, so you could put DARVO under all of their posts and they wouldn't be able to see it or respond to it or report it.

    So NO THANK YOU to being able to block someone and hide your posts from them. Abusers would abuse it so bad.

  • Odd, I can only see the pinned posts when signed in @rimu@piefed.social

    Right now we have two pinned posts, one from lemmy.ca and one from a local only piefed.ca community. Both show up nicely when signed in, neither show up when signed out

    The pinned posts still obey some of the visibility rules of any other post. So, in this case, piefed.ca has Popular as the default sort on the instance. That means that the community that is home to those posts must have the Posts can be popular box checked in the admin settings for that community:

    admin screen

    I can't confirm that this is the issue, but I was able to confirm with a dev instance that local-pinned posts do show up for anonymous users using the popular sort when that box is checked and don't when it is unchecked.

  • probably a whitelist of instances (by hostname) is the only way? each community has its own whitelist set by its mods?

    DNS is not trustworthy enough, you’ll probably need something like a public / private key pair for each server to verify each other.

  • The pinned posts still obey some of the visibility rules of any other post. So, in this case, piefed.ca has Popular as the default sort on the instance. That means that the community that is home to those posts must have the Posts can be popular box checked in the admin settings for that community:

    admin screen

    I can't confirm that this is the issue, but I was able to confirm with a dev instance that local-pinned posts do show up for anonymous users using the popular sort when that box is checked and don't when it is unchecked.

    It could be, where would I find that setting? I didn't see it in the community settings.

    I do see the "popular" column is ticked on admin/communities for those communities, but I don't see a page that has something like your screenshot

  • 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.x  
    

    At 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.

    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.

    Thank you so much for your great work!

  • 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.x  
    

    At 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.

    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.

    I don't understand what the purpose of the plain http is, can anybody explain to me please?

  • 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

    Alts Georg is an outlier and should not be included in the average alts per users figure

    Auto-delete of replies on remote instances when reply author has been blocked by parent content author

    I don't really understand this. So if I block Timmy@instance.net and then he replies to My posts on piefed.social, piefed.social will delete his comments? But instance.net won't?

    I don’t really understand this. So if I block Timmy@instance.net and then he replies to My posts on piefed.social, piefed.social will delete his comments? But instance.net won’t?

    No. It means future comments by the blocked user would be deleted. This only matters when coming from Lemmy instances as on Piefed, a user being blocked disables that user from responding.

  • 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.x  
    

    At 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.

    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.

    I don't know how you do, so much so often. Thank you for everything Rimu and other PieFed dev's who names I haven't memorised!

  • I don’t really understand this. So if I block Timmy@instance.net and then he replies to My posts on piefed.social, piefed.social will delete his comments? But instance.net won’t?

    No. It means future comments by the blocked user would be deleted. This only matters when coming from Lemmy instances as on Piefed, a user being blocked disables that user from responding.

    I still don't understand

  • I still don't understand

    It means that if you were to block a user replying to you from a Lemmy instance, any further replies they make to you in any thread would be automatically thrown out by Piefed.

  • It means that if you were to block a user replying to you from a Lemmy instance, any further replies they make to you in any thread would be automatically thrown out by Piefed.

    @skavau@piefed.social said in PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more:
    > any further replies they make to you in any thread would be automatically thrown out by Piefed.

    Padme: "for just you, right?"

    Anakin:


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