v1.8.0 - rimu/pyfedi
codeberg.org
Gallery posts, which is an image post with multiple images in it, compatible with Mastodon and Pixelfed. "Reposters" as a separate thing from "Bots" with the same Show and Hide options for filtering that bots have. Reposters are more targeted and real-seeming than true bots and often have a hu...

  • Gallery posts, which is an image post with multiple images in it, compatible with Mastodon and Pixelfed. Check out this example from Mastodon.

  • “Reposters” as a separate thing from “Bots” with the same Show and Hide options for filtering that bots have. Reposters are more targeted, with higher quality content than true bots and often have a human operator writing comments. However many people find this inauthentic so now they can be filtered out. More details

  • /c/microblogs can show posts from people you’re following OR all posts.

  • Recent hashtags shown on the home page sidebar.

  • Support for receiving posts with jpegxl images.

  • Communities can have a default hashtag for new posts - posters can edit or remove it if they want.

For admins:

  • Option to manually approve posts by new accounts, to cut down on spam while having open registrations (no approval on the new account). This will let people dip their toes in without waiting.

  • Easily contact other instance admins, see /admin/instances

  • Vote manipulation detection tools for simple sockpuppets and complex coordinated voting networks. See /admin/voting

  • Serial downvoter report showing who made lots of downvotes against a single person in a short time.

  • Other bot detection tools - e.g. easily spot unnatural runs of very quick post creation.

  • Display list of alts on user profiles to more easily investigate activity by alts.

  • Filter emoji with keywords rather than importing absolutely everything - this will speed up the emoji reaction dialog.

  • Identify instances likely to be used by spammers in future. See /admin/instances?filter=liability

  • Microblog posts with no replies can be automatically deleted - set the MICROBLOG_CONTENT_RETENTION environment variable to how many months you want to keep them for.

To upgrade from 1.7.x

git pull  
git checkout v1.8.x

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

Donations

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  • BuckFutter@timeyak.comEnglish
    6·
    22 hours ago

    Slightly off topic, but is hosting a PieFed instance becoming the better option over a lemmy one these days? Any thoughts there?

    • Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      102·
      21 hours ago

      PyLova is piefed but with more features and without all the bad decisions. I’d say that’s the better option to host.

    • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
      82·
      20 hours ago

      My comment is probably biaised because i’m part of PieFed team (translation, wiki, idea, issue…). I hope more devs will join us :)

      On the moderation side, features, PieFed reached a good maturity. We have good tools against bot, and other tools that improve our community. I dunno how other fediverse software handle that.

      On UI, we are fine, there is a bottom nav bar, a search bar it works well on mobile. It is visually clean except lengthy community and menu. There is room for improvement compared to Lemmy and Mbin. It will be adressed soon :)

      The main thing that most Lemmy users will miss are mobile app because PieFed API are not complete or app are in developpement. Also that’s because PieFed improve and grow at a very fast space.

      However, you can use PWA (progressive web app), it works well. Also Lemmy v1.0 will catch up some piefed feature.

      If you are interested, you can try it on yunohost or create an alt to try it. :)

      • BuckFutter@timeyak.comEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        Thank you for your thoughtful reply and taking the time to do so. Yah I am currently running a lemmy instance that is working quite well with some minor issues (pict-rs not generating thumbnails from local files that are uploaded, and federating to certain instances like dbzero). So my curiosity is really from the perspective of is the grass really greener or are there significant benefits to starting up a new instance running PieFed as I assume there are no sane pathways to migrate from a lemmy instance to a PieFed one. Either way I appreciate your response, things to think about for $3000 Alex! 🤣

        • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
          11·
          17 hours ago

          I would say yes but with some trade of.

          Imho, the best way is to create an account because there is so many features that i end up writting a book.

          • merging community under the same umbrella : opensource@lemmy.world, opensource@lemmy.ml… = topic (managed by sysadmin), feed (managed by users)
          • merging comment from post with the same link (access to comment from the threadiverse AND mastodon, peertube…)
          • hashtag (improve discovenability mastodon users can find our content and we can find content related to some to those hashtag)
          • flair (community filter)
          • blocklist (keyword, domain, flair, user, community…)
          • blocklist of domain related to far-right, spam
          • tool to detect AI, bot, spam…
          • following mastodon users

          Mbin is also great and deserve some love.

          • BuckFutter@timeyak.comEnglish
            2·
            17 hours ago

            Oh wow, that is an impressive feature set that is sorely missing. The mastadon integration is also pretty great which is missing from Lemmy. Would you recommend the piefed.social instance to try it out? Thanks again!

            • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
              21·
              15 hours ago

              Why not ? I understand that Piefed.social is the flagship but, no, there are plenty good instances and we also included Pylova (a PieFed fork). So yes and no. 😋

              When you will register on any PieFed instance, you will arrive on the instance chooser page :

              https://piefed.zip/auth/instance_chooser

              And that’s where you can decide. There are important info :

              • the stability (i forgot, probably a mix of number of admin + uptime)
              • the speed with emoji : 🐌⚡🚀 (related to server location). So don’t pick the slow one (snail)

              And their description should help you. :)