I’m super impressed by the features I’m discovering using Piefed! I’m going to be experimenting a lot with the keyword filter particularly. Here are some ideas we might add to make Piefed even better. Share you own in the replies.
Some of these options where too long to make it a poll.
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Add the ability to manually add a user, community, domain or instance block in the user settings like lemmy has.
I would like to suggest modifying the collapse button to feature a right arrow symbol (🞂) on the left side of the name to indicate a collapsed thread, and a longer down arrow symbol (🞃) for an uncollapsed thread. The thread delimiter line would go up just to the symbol. This change would replace the current two diagonal arrows that are located to the right of the votes, which I hadn’t even noticed before today, and I thought that functionality was missing.
I’d also suggest enhancing the visibility of the thread delimiter line. I suggest making it grey and of the same thickness for most of its length, and then thickening it, and increasing its opacity, and adding color only at the level of the comment.
Ok so here’s my pitch:
So far I really like PieFed, and I’m hoping to set up some kind of online forum as an adjunct to an in-person discussion group in my city.
For now, I expect it will probably be non-federated, and invite-only.
Those things are already features in PieFed as far as I can tell (well, maybe not invite codes exactly, but using approved signups would work roughly the same way in this case).
Looking to the future though, here’s what I’d be super excited to see: the option to make some of the communites visible to non-logged-in visitors, and/or federatable with other instances, while still keeping most communities semi-private; that is, only visible to registered & logged-in local server accounts.
Bonus points if some of those semi-private communities could instead be even more private, i.e., posts only visible to approved members of that specific community. To be fair, maybe the chat functionality is good enough in those cases, I dunno :)
I’m guessing this is a big ask. However, this particular group may not need those functions near-term, so I’d be especially eager to spin up a PieFed server if I knew those kinds of things might be in the pipeline.
My other viable choice right now is Discourse, but like, it’s kinda corporate, and it’s really JavaScript-heavy, which to me is kind of an equity issue when it comes to data plans and user device speed etc.
Thanks!
Bring back pseudonymous voting agents. Literally the killer feature of piefed, killed by stupid forum politics.
I do not give a single goddamn fuck about brigading or vote manipulation whatever nonsense the fediverse admin cabal has convinced themselves matters on their discord stovepipe. Vites are not real. They cannot hurt you. I do not want my plaintext voting activity to be hoovered up by anyone listening to the activitypub feeds, which is already used to foster censorship and will inevitably be used to enable targeted astroturfing. Rimu, please be more brave about this.
Mark my words, this will be the “hindsight” issue a few years from now. “How the fuck did anyone think public voting was a good idea” will be the postmortem of the fediverse.
Any instance implementing this is going to be defederated quickly by other instances due to the ease of vote manipulation.
One voting agent per user. Banning the voting agent is as easy as banning the user. There is literally no difference here in terms of combatting vote manipulation besides the “feels” of not knowing a particular text string. This is literally just politics and has no basis in any real problem. I could just as easily make my own second “voting user.” The only difference is the ergonomics of that workflow.
“Vote manipulation” doesn’t even matter since there is no karma. Just remove down votes from rank and engagement metrics. Problem solved. I really cannot believe how much y’all are twisting yourselves in circles to make this seem like a bad idea. Again, fuck the politics, I thought we were focused on the tech?
Allow restricting posting and commenting to subscribers: https://lemmy.world/comment/18549782
My ideal default would be, users have to subscribe to vote, because drive-by downvotes are very common, and keep niche communities from getting anywhere in the
Allfeed.Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don’t pay attention to what community it’s posted in. I don’t think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it’s good future-proofing.
Watch tags from mastodon, even if no community was pinged. “Tag as community” so to speak
that would require PieFed users to follow many many Mastodon users, that’s the only way for Mastodon to alert PieFed about the posts
After thinking a little bit more about it, would it be possible to add a follow to a mastodon user, as if they were a community?
Kind of similar to how federation to peertube works
- Mastodon user -> community
- A post without a reference up -> PieFed post
- A post referencing another post -> PieFed comment
- boost -> ???
