Case in point.

The angry chef?

A community only starts federating to your instance after someone on your instance subscribes to it

That sounds like a really bad way to do this.

Everette True is such a crazy ahead of his time genius.

Is everything relatable because nothing ever changes with humans? Or is it because all of lifes problrms have ALWAYS been solvable with violence?

Fuck 'em. They want to do this, let Facebook, and Reddit, and Instagram, and TikTok and the fediverse, and any others that I’m forgetting refuse to serve connections to Texas.

Make Texas the ONE PLACE where the internet is just yahoo and thehampsterdance.com

And then when Texans go elsewhere, they realize all they did was punish themselves. The rest of the world moves on without them.

No, no. Blame them. It’s ok to realize that it’s not your fault. As children, we’re placed in the safe and lovkng hands of those that raise us.

And when those hands are not only unsafe, but also incompetent, it’s perfectly natural to feel cheated at life.knowing that YOU are not the problem. Society picking those people to raise you is the problem.

It’s the reason I don’t have kids. I don’t feel like I’d raise kids the right way. I don’t want to ruin my kids life.

Why would you save a wasp???

I always saw it as rubbing their hands together like they’re thinking up an evil plan.

I like the topics tag, but I think it should be implemented slightly differently as I use it for a different purpose. It’s GOOD at finding and discovering content and communities you didn’t know existed. THAT’S GREAT, because the fediverse as a whole is an absolute dumpster fire for discovering new things.

But as far as aggrigating your subscribed content, no. That is not a good purpose for those. I’d also like to see “View Account” right up top. Not hidden under the Account tab. It could replace Home, and Home could be accessed by clicking the PieFed logo in the upper left.

I love that this platform has someone who is listening to the userbase. I just fear that I’m going to overwhelm you…but if I DO manage to overwhelm you, I can honestly imagine this place becoming the default people think of when they think of PieFed.

So Social is the domain, and Mastodon/Piefed are the instances in my example?

If that’s the case, why not make everything (instance).com?

I’d also like to see the voting be more like Lemmy in the sense that if a comment has 4 likes, and 1 dislike, you can see that it has 4 likes, 1 dislike, and an overall score of 3. Whereas now, you’re using reddit style of showing the likes. Which is just the 3.

Although, speaking of reddit, the one thing I do like is that they have overall karma. Post and comment scores in the profile. THAT I like.

I’d also like to do away with this grey box that minimizes the comment until you click to expand. Or maybe an option to just always expand everything.

I’m going to either be your favorite user with requests in the short term, or your hair pulling out frustrating user. It just depends on how much is on your plate, and how easy these fixes are. As I have no idea if I’m asking you to push a button, or write 17,000 pages of code by hand. It’s probably somewhere in between. But I have no context for how difficult it would be for you to get rid of the grey box, or make an option to do so.

Previously I went from newborn baby to elderly man on earth…or we’ll call that reddit. Who in 2022 was in the 1% of karma for the entire site of reddit. Then I became a newborn baby crawling 4 months ago on Lemmy. We’ll call that the moon. I got somewhat of a grasp on the fediverse as a whole. I may not be an expert, but I know enough to figure out some basic things.

Then I heard that you guys are able to integrate with peer-tube, and I could use one account here on piefed for Lemmy, Peer-tube, Pixelfed, Mastodon, probably a few others I forget. And so now I’m like a new born baby crawling again here…on mars. Ok, my planetary analogy doesn’t quite work, but you get the jist.

So yeah, I’ll be pointing out things that are like the rough edges, without any context for how difficult that is to fix. I’ll also be posting with questions for things that I may just be niave on how to do the thing, and piefed is very very undocumented on search engines. So I can’t just search it. And I’m sure as I look into peer-tube, and mastodon integration, I’m sure I’ll have questions.

OH! And I have ideas. Like you know how you can sort by “Local” and “All” and “Subscribed”? Well what if each user can create lists of things to sort by. Like a pulldown menu. And things could be named whatever we want. And you could put things in multiple lists.

For example, Maybe Nintendo just had a Direct at 11am eastern for whatever reason. And I’m at work. I don’t want to come into contact with anything Nintendo related. Well, seeing as I know that’s an issue on a recurring basis, I’ve created lists to sort by. I have one list called “Subscribed”, and it’s just as it sounds. Then I have another list “Subscribed - Nintendo” (as in Subscribed minus Nintendo). And I’ve already added every single community in my subscribed list EXCEPT for anything Technology, or Video Games, or Nintendo related. So when I scroll by Subscribed - Nintendo, I can see pictures of cats. I can see news stories. I can see comic strips…but I’ve excluded any communities I think will lead to spoilers. And since it’s user based, each individual user can set it up for themselves in their settings to cater to their interests and needs.

Maybe I just want to focus on the war in Ukraine. Maybe I have 8 or 9 communities I follow from across the fediverse. Well if I click the list I’ve created with JUST the Ukraine communites, that’s all I’ll see until I switch to a different sorting list.

Do you think this is possible?

I’m reading this user guide after you posted, and I was LITERALLY in the process of asking one of the questions that was covered.

So, I guess the next question is, if you go to any community on Lemmy, it shows the number of subscribers, number of posts, number of subscribers per day/week/month/6months, and a modlog. It’s in the sidebar.

Even when viewing Lemmy communities from on piefed, I don’t see that on the sidebar anymore. Do I need to do something to enable it? Or is it just not available. I’d like to see that. Not only does it link to the modlog, it also shows how many subscribers and posts a community has.

Also, is there a way I can see if any communities/instances have defederated from piefed? On Lemmy I can see !batman@lemmy.world has many posts, and many users. On piefed it claims to have no posts yet. Even though I DO see the community itself. Is that defederation, or have I done something wrong?

Wait, is this movie out now?

Changed the home page so there are now separate sorting and filtering options, making the ‘Popular’ and ‘All’ home pages obsolete. They have been removed from the main menu.

Can you explain what these new options are? I have ideas for how I’d like sorting to work, but I’m not a programmer.

I’m unclear what the new way is, as I still see popular and all. So I’m guessing these changes haven’t been published yet. I like popular and all…but I also don’t know what the new thing is. So I’m unsure if I should be happy or upset that they’re gone.