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Rather than a format like piefed.social/post/long_number, posts how have a url that includes the community name and title in it.
This improves readability, helps people differentiate between multiple links in a list and is better for SEO.
The old style of url still works too and there may be occasions when you get taken to a url like https://piefed.social/post/1382987 but we'll be working to remove those over time.
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Rather than a format like piefed.social/post/long_number, posts how have a url that includes the community name and title in it.
This improves readability, helps people differentiate between multiple links in a list and is better for SEO.
The old style of url still works too and there may be occasions when you get taken to a url like https://piefed.social/post/1382987 but we'll be working to remove those over time.
@rimu this is awesome! -
Rather than a format like piefed.social/post/long_number, posts how have a url that includes the community name and title in it.
This improves readability, helps people differentiate between multiple links in a list and is better for SEO.
The old style of url still works too and there may be occasions when you get taken to a url like https://piefed.social/post/1382987 but we'll be working to remove those over time.
@rimu It can be any community name and title though
E.g., https://piefed.social/c/anything/p/1382987/anything resolves to the same content as your original link.
That feels like a risk - you could give someone a URL that looks like it's for one community/title, but goes to a completely different one.
Trivial example - https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/1220635/friendly-post-urls - looks trustworthy, but is completely different. That could be NSFW content, and you won't know until you click.
It isn't NSFW, you can trust me.
Or can you...?
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Rather than a format like piefed.social/post/long_number, posts how have a url that includes the community name and title in it.
This improves readability, helps people differentiate between multiple links in a list and is better for SEO.
The old style of url still works too and there may be occasions when you get taken to a url like https://piefed.social/post/1382987 but we'll be working to remove those over time.
Cool tweak!
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@rimu It can be any community name and title though
E.g., https://piefed.social/c/anything/p/1382987/anything resolves to the same content as your original link.
That feels like a risk - you could give someone a URL that looks like it's for one community/title, but goes to a completely different one.
Trivial example - https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/1220635/friendly-post-urls - looks trustworthy, but is completely different. That could be NSFW content, and you won't know until you click.
It isn't NSFW, you can trust me.
Or can you...?
Yes, the /p/number bit is the only functional part of the url. I'll make it check for tampering!
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Yes, the /p/number bit is the only functional part of the url. I'll make it check for tampering!
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.
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Ah true! NodeBB doesn't support emoji reactions yet.
Thanks for reminding me of yet another way we're behind Piefed :muscle:
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Emoji reactions are a big one - rather than voting you can apply an emoji, which is a much richer expression.
Every community can have different settings for who can downvote. Here are the options:
If you downvote more than you upvote, pretty soon you can't downvote anymore.
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ngl sometimes someone gotta take one for the team 🫡
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Thats what I kind of mean. some folks vote on everything. some don't vote on anything. some are very specific and thoughtful in their voting and some have default voting things. I have been both. I don't view voting information as at all useful in a community type of way. Now make it scarce and maybe. Like every day your get one up or down vote that will expire in a week or something. Thing about that kind of thing though is it encourages folks who like to manipulate to make a bunch of accounts. I could totally see cm0002 going through all his accounts to downvote things on lemmy.ml. I just don't think its very useful unless as a feature for accounts locally.
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> @hubertmanne@piefed.social said:
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> I upvote everything now but that is because of a quirk with a setting where I tell it not to show me things I have viewed or interacted with so upvoting removes stuff im not interested in.Okay, I get the rationale behind it, but it seems like an improper extension of the voting mechanism, doesn't it?
(Not specifically singling you out, I'm just speaking broadly.)
One of those side effects that doesn't just affect you. Makes me wonder if this was added because it increases engagement metrics.
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To warn you, downvoting is public on the forumverse, so if you are perceived as reflexively downvoting at scale in a community- you risk getting community banned.
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Its basically what was done with trust cafe which the wikipedia guy started. the thing is he did not make it federated and as much as I like the setup I like the decentralized nature of the fediverse betters. I like using the portal but if someone made an app with this type of function I would be tempted. well as long as I did not have to run it on a phone.
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I would love rating to be used in a basic algorithmic view that only takes into account the ratings you give. trustcafe does this where verything can be rated (posts, users, comments, communities, domains, etc) and defaults to a value of 50 that the user can change to between 0 and 100. So like rather than blocking someone I can be like. This person is annoying but they are a real person (I think) and I don’t want to totally discount them so I will drop them to 25 so their things go twice as far down my feed but then this other person I really jive with so I will rank them 75 so their stuff will be bumped up higher.
That's an interesting take on feed curation
