Hey, welcome back.

piefed.world hasn’t really invested much into populating their Explore menu, to make finding communities easier.

I’ve just added a few feeds though, check out https://piefed.world/feeds

Also https://feddit.online/topics is an amazing directory of all the communities. It’s a separate instance to piefed.world though so when you find good communities you’ll need to manually copy their address into your piefed.world account. Or just move yourself to feddit.online…

Cool diagram.

If you removed hexbear and lemmygrad (nearly everyone defederates them so they just clutter the place up) then the other information would be clearer. For example I didn’t notice that beehaw has defederated both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works until my third viewing.

There are 500 Lemmy instances and 80 PieFed instances which are too small to show on the graph :)

Yes the distrust and hate is weird. And the entitlement.

Oh, this is about the login wall?

lol that was just a temporary measure to fend off the scrapers. They’ve been really bad the last couple of weeks, especially.

I’m testing out a custom-built Anubis now, that should mean we can do without a login wall.

In what way?

No problem!

BTW in PieFed you can report a user account, not just individual posts. So if you go to https://piefed.world/u/stermy4u@lemmy.world then click on More -> Report that’ll ping the piefed.world admins about it. It looks like in this case they’ve been responding to individual posts by removing them and not seeing the bigger picture but they will see it once they look at the user profile.

It varies by instance. PieFed has “spam detection” (not really) which is just a list of the posts and comments that have been downvoted a lot in the last 3 days so it’s easy for admins to spot unreported badness and take action. I don’t know how often other admins do but I check that report multiple times per day.

For example I nuked unlogopoco from piefed.social a month ago

Looking at the modlog for stermy, I’m seeing a fair bit of moderation action being taken on them and very few posts since then:

On piefed.social I banned townflex.com entirely weeks ago, which must be why I’m not seeing their latest spams.

Basically Lemmy has really poor tools for this which makes mods and admins do a lot more work then necessary, causing them to burn out. If they used PieFed they’d have a much better time.

Hmm yeah that sounds like a poor UX. Thanks.

https://github.com/anomalyco/polaris does not exist. Is the url wrong?

This is the way, not age verification!

To clarify - we’ve had that setting for a long time and it won’t be automatically changed on existing instances unless an admin chooses to. I’ve just changed the default of it for new instances (of which there are much less, lately).

It’s the easiest way to stop scrapers, way easier than getting Anubis or fail2ban working properly. Unfortunately it comes at the cost of walling off an instance but most instances are for individual / small group use so it’s an ok default to have.

Scrapers are not federating.

Activitypub could be used to harvest content on a ongoing basis but to get all the historical data, which is the stuff they want, they can’t use activitypub. Lemmy only has the last 50 posts in each community’s outbox.

In the latest version, PieFed defaults to a mode which requires a login to browse. An admin needs to tick a box to expose themselves to scrapers.

If Lemmy automatically generated a list of related communities then mods wouldn’t need to manually maintain a list.

Very nice!

Yuu might want to move Pixelfed down into the Photos clump.

Have a Quake 3 Arena tournament.

If Bluesky’s throttling you can stop your entire app from running, it’s not decentralized.

I’ve been thinking about auto-unfollow, too. For example if an account hasn’t logged in for 6 months they unfollow everyone and leave all communities (but preserve the records of their subscriptions so they can be automatically re-follow/joined if they log in again).

Then that one guy who subscribed to all those anime communities a year ago won’t cause your instance to receive anime forever.

That’s a secret. But the selfhost community has lots of advice, e.g. https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world/p/2146191/safely-exposing-services-to-the-internet