https://piefed.social/topic/tech/linux#topic_communities

Please test PieFed.

https://join.piefed.social/

Yeah, don’t do that.

You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.

Ask your admins about that - PieFed has that feature but only admins can do it and it’s instance-wide.

That could happen in the future but at the moment and in the past surely we lost more mods as a result of their community being dead than from their community being too active. But we don’t hear from them because they feel rejected and like they failed so they slink away quietly.

99% of communities need more content, not less.

Cloudflare caching can solve this. Cache based on the user agent.

https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser sorts the list of instances by performance.

https://fediverse.observer/ has an api

I’ve been thinking about adding Q&A features to PieFed for a while… Initially just the ability to set a comment as the solution to a post and then give that comment more emphasis in the UI. What else do we need? Maybe display the number of solution comments on peoples profile.

Guess where all that COVID stimulus money ended up.

Yes, you’re right. I didn’t fully think through all the implications.

Federation, it’s magic.

But yeah, this means Lemmy comments would never be boosted or highlighted because it wouldn’t be federating the new data. Bit of a problem!

So every comment would have a quote? lol

If clients want the get into an adversarial relationship with the project they’re piggybacking off, they will lose.

JavaScript. Attach a click handler event to the article link, save a cookie with the post id in it.

The proposed solution assumes a linear relationship between number of votes and number of comments. But depending on the post there might not be much to say. Especially with bad content.

I have ways

Upvotes without reading do suck but comments without reading are worse. I’ve been considering adding a highlight/boost on comments where the author has clicked the link.

Also we could weight the votes so votes after reading have 2x the effect.

Avoid dependence on app stores so if an app is removed from Play Store it doesn’t matter as much.

Increase privacy - closed groups.

It needs to be possible to move an instance to another domain if an old one is blocked/revoked.