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A Rant About “Technology”.Ursula K. Le Guin in c/literature@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

I've nearly finished her book "Always coming home" and it's been blowing my mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Coming_Home

KAOSnow, a totally new take on Democracy in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago (10 children)

from https://kaosnow.com/index.php/about-kaos

believe in free speech, no moderation of content

yeah good luck with that.

Image uploads to PF-- what size should I be aiming for..? in c/piefed_help@piefed.social
[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, all local communities are set to Forever.

I've been meaning to show the retention policy in the UI for ages, might do it today.

Image uploads to PF-- what size should I be aiming for..? in c/piefed_help@piefed.social
[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I appreciate the care you're showing here.

If you upload something with a width or height greater than 2000 pixels it will get resized to be within that limit. That stops the most egregious wastage.

It depends on the content, a bit:

Quality stuff like https://piefed.social/c/artporn will be kept online 'forever' but I've set things up so that quite a lot of communities automatically delete posts after 6 - 12 months. Spam as many memes as you want I don't care they're going away after a while anyway.

How to crosspost a "non-link" post? in c/piefed_help@piefed.social
[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Yes that would be a better way to do it :)

How to federate a new community? in c/piefed_help@piefed.social
[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

If you look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and sort by 'active users' you'll see that there are really only a few instances that you need to worry about (not the second-biggest, lemm.ee as it's closing soon). The vast bulk of users are concentrated in a handful of places.

If you go to the top 3 or 4 instances, to their search page and search for https://piefed.social/c/action_movies then look for a bit of text below any search results, saying something like "Action Movies@piefed.social - 0 subscribers". That's a link to the community. Click on it and then you'll see the view of the community from the perspective of that instance. Join it using your alt on that instance.

If it says something other than "0 subscribers", then someone else has already subscribed and you don't need to. Seems like lemmy.world is already done, for example.

But just doing a post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world is way easier, people will do your work for you then.

Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Any scanner recommendations?

Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't that because of age verification though?

Florida plan for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant jail sparks chorus of outrage in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] rimu@piefed.social 12 points 6 days ago

They'll use any phrase they can except "concentration camp".

Linux research shows open source contributing trillions to economy in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] rimu@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow that took a unexpected turn. Removed my upvote after reading.

How do I add languages to a community in c/piefed_help@piefed.social
[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've fixed it now, thanks for letting me know.

Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager in c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yesterday I merged in a PR that lets the instance admin set the sizes for thumbnails.

But the real issue is that the thumbnails have a variety of uses - in the PieFed web UI thumbnails are shown quite small so 170px is fine. But some mobile apps might show the thumbnail in a manner that spans the whole screen which is going to need to be at least 350px wide.

I'll make PieFed generate a 500px version of the thumbnail and include that in the API response (as well as the smaller one).

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Measuring front-end energy consumption with Firefox Profiler (www.slideshare.net)
 

Skip to slide 20.

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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies (www.rollingstone.com)
 

Self-styled prophets are claiming they have 'awakened' chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT.

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Post flair in PieFed (piefed.social)
 

flair

Each community in PieFed can have it's own set of "flair" options that posters can attach to their posts. Clicking on a flair will filter the community to only show posts with that flair so they function as a filtering mechanism as well as a visual identifier.

Community moderators can manage the flair that are available in their communities:

flair mod area

When creating posts, expand the 'more options' area to assign one or more flair to your post:

assigning flair

See it in action at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta

Flair doesn't federate yet but it will in coming days.

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Debunking 100 Trump lies from his first 100 days (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/politics@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink
 

President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns.

Some of Trump’s 2025 false claims were about consequential policy matters, others about trivial personal fixations. Some were sophisticated distortions about obscure subjects, others obvious fictions about issues average Americans experience in their daily lives. Many were ad-libbed or posted on social media, but many were scripted into prepared remarks.

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The community https://sh.itjust.works/c/goodnewseveryone has moved (piefed.social)
 

The community https://sh.itjust.works/c/goodnewseveryone has moved to https://piefed.social/c/goodnewseveryone. Please join the new community and post any good news you find in there.

!goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

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A community about California (piefed.social)
 

!california@piefed.social

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Moving communities between instances (www.youtube.com)
 

When a community needs to move to another instance, it can be a rocky process.

It doesn't need to be, though - as long as someone on your instance has been a part of the community for a while your instance will already have quite a lot of the content from the old community. All we need to do is change our record of which instance the community belongs to and that's what PieFed's new 'Move community' feature does. Check out the video for a quick demo.

The full process is:

  1. Ensure the copy of the community on this instance has been active long enough to receive a decent amount of posts. The move process will not copy posts so having an account on this instance subscribed to it for a while is the only way to get old posts here.

  2. Lock the old community to by setting it to 'moderators only' so no one else can post in it.

  3. Create a post in the old community announcing the impending move to piefed.social. Paste the url of that post into the field below.

  4. Submit the 'move community' form (there is a link in the sidebar of every remote community) to send the request to piefed.social admins.

  5. piefed.social admins will review your request, turn this community into a local one and contact you.

  6. Update your announcement post in the old community to encourage people to join the new community at
    !whatever@piefed.social.

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10 lessons for stronger movements (piefed.social)
 

remember...

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Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture (www.nytimes.com)
 

Complete shitshow.

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Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)
 

Comments

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AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
 

“This is a completely different approach to what people have done before. The writing’s on the wall that this is going to transform things, it’s going to be the new way of doing forecasting,” Turner said. He said the model would eventually be able to produce accurate eight-day forecasts, compared with five-day forecast at present, as well as hyper-localised predictions.

Dr Scott Hosking, the director of science and innovation for environment and sustainability at the Alan Turing Institute, said the breakthrough could “democratise forecasting” by making powerful technologies available to developing nations around the world, as well as assisting policymakers, emergency planners and industries that rely on accurate weather forecasts.

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Comments from multiple posts on the same page (piefed.social)
 

What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.

The fragmentation problem is solved.

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