PieFed 1.5 is released - move posts, upload video files, better chat and more

[ilovedigit@piefed.social]

Seems like a pretty big update to me as a video creator 🫡

[blaze@piefed.zip]

https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/929004/lemmy-s-active-userbase-has-been-stable-since-september-2025#post_replies

[wjs018@piefed.social]

I just did a quick test-move and here is the json that was federated out:

{  
  "actor": "https://crust.piefed.social/u/wjs018",  
  "cc": [  
    "https://piefed.wjs018.xyz/c/testing"  
  ],  
  "id": "https://crust.piefed.social/activities/move/l7NaOQha12PQyYv",  
  "object": "https://crust.piefed.social/c/testing/p/108274/this-post-will-be-moved",  
  "origin": "https://piefed.wjs018.xyz/c/testing",  
  "target": "https://crust.piefed.social/c/test",  
  "to": [  
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"  
  ],  
  "type": "Move"  
}  

For context, this was moved from !testing@piefed.wjs018.xyz to !test@crust.piefed.social. The author, @wjs018@crust.piefed.social, is a moderator of the community that the post was initially posted to. I did find a bug in this process, the post flair, which should be community-specific, was moved as well when it should have been stripped. So, I created an issue for tracking that fix.

[hankskyjames777@piefed.social]

Is the feature to move posts from MBin instances supported?

[wjs018@piefed.social]

My understanding is that the mbin move feature doesn't federate out at the moment, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens soon as there are more platforms that support it.

[bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de]

thanks for the quick response. I added it to our issue tracking the federation of mod actions (mbinOrg/mbin/#248)

[michael@piefed.chrisco.me]

Awesome!

[ek-hou-van-braai@piefed.social]

[openstars@piefed.social]

Fantastic - you are so incredibly dedicated!!

One suggestion: for posterity add to "No more loss of high-value comments with the OP deletes." the constraint that the post must remain bookmarked by someone or else it will get deleted (it is not automatic otherwise).

[openstars@piefed.social]

@rimu@piefed.social

There is something about this link structure that is not getting translated to allow me to see the referenced post on PieFed.social.

[walden@wetshav.ing]

Great work. Thank you to everyone involved.

[the_picard_maneuver@piefed.world]

Well, this looks pretty cool.

[rimu@piefed.social]

Yes, that's the idea.

On piefed.social I've got that set so that only I can upload videos and I'll use that for when I do demos of new features. I really don't want to pay to store other people's videos forever, and I expect most PieFed instances will be the same.

I expect this will mostly be used by people running an instance for themselves or a few friends.

[rimu@piefed.social]

Yes.

Although there are a lot of ways this could go wrong, expect some breakage until kinks are ironed out.

[rimu@piefed.social]

Great!

See also https://github.com/julianlam/feps/blob/fep-f15d/fep/f15d/fep-f15d.md

[rimu@piefed.social]

Oh yes, weird!

[rimu@piefed.social]

Yes, I'll probably be removing that constraint pretty soon though.

[erer@lemmy.zip]

Author-deleted posts are still visible to them and anyone with the url. No more loss of high-value comments with the OP deletes.

I feel that this violates the privacy of the users and their rights over their content. I know that posting on the internet makes it to be there forever, but still it should be an option to permanently delete a post. I suppose a user can still modify a post to delete its content.

[bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de]

This is awesome, thanks

[openstars@piefed.social]

That's great news!

In that case, yeah no need to add it.:-)