New features

  • Shared blocklists - these are like feeds except instead of listing communities to join it lists people to block. To to Account -> Blocklists to find this feature. Changes by the blocklist author effect all the people who subscribe to the list, causing them to block the list members. They federate, so you can subscribe to blocklists on other instances.
  • Edit comments inline, without loading a separate page - wjs018
  • Fediverse statistics at https://piefed.social/statistics
  • 2-factor authentication (TOTP) - can be added to your account in the 'Security' page in your settings.

For admins

  • Auto-ban based on the bans that instances you choose, with keyword matching on the ban reason. Go to /admin/users/auto_ban. Try putting 'piefed.social' in as the instance and 'spam' as the keyword filter. It'll cut down on the work involved in running your instance SO much.
  • Voting pattern graph on user profiles to help spot automated voting.
  • Reset the password of any user.
  • Lots of inauthentic behaviour reports for finding bots and serial downvoters, see /admin/votes and PM me for an instructional video. It's a lot to take in but the video will explain it all.

API

  • edit matrix user id when saving user profile data.
  • scheduled post endpoints - wjs018

Plus a lot more bits and pieces, browse the list of recent releases in the 1.8.x line at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases for details.


To upgrade from 1.8.x or earlier

git pull  
git checkout v1.9.x  

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker2.sh


Donations

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[–] 18 points 15 hours ago* (14 children)

Sharing of ideas and code is a core tenant of FOSS. PyLova literally started as a copy of Piefed. Why shouldn't the ideas and features flow both ways?

Multiple images in posts and in-line comment editing are basic features coppied from Reddit (and, like, every social media site), which probably coppied them from somewhere else. Let's not pretend like PyLova is breaking new ground here, lmao.

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  • [–] 8 points 15 hours ago* (3 children)

    These are only being added straight after PyLova does it. And considering Rimu’s hostile history it’s clearly an attempt to try to ensure PyLova cannot gain traction with its own unique feature sets.

    And the way they are being added is not compatible with PyLova’s methods. Which breaks Fediverse compatibility. If any software such as Lemmy were to implement it in the future they would most likely ensure compatibility with the larger userbase PieFed model.

    This is the similar to Microsoft’s “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” philosophy to kill off the competition.

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  • [–] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Do you have any context/source for "Rimu's hostile history"? Because I've tried looking into that a few times but I've only ever found this Piefed devlog post which makes Piefed sound reasonable but obviously has every incentive to be biased.

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago*

    Why shouldn’t the ideas and features flow both ways?

    why doesn't @rimu@piefed.social admit that he got the ideas from Mia then? why copy changes from PyLova, and strip attribution, then admit to MrKaplan that he did it so that she wouldn't be attributed? moth supposes that perhaps he does not want to admit Piefed is inferior to PyLova.

    Let’s not pretend like PyLova is breaking new ground here, lmao.

    no, but PyLova IS doing most of the dev work for Piefed.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

    How come pylova isn't publishing these updates here too?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (6 children)

    Interesting. Either I scrolled past it or didn't know what it was and ignored it.

    Is there any history on why it was forked? Could be useful to add to the repo.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

    according to the PyLova devs, it was forked to remove the hard-coded (at that time) censorship in Piefed, especially the anti-memes censor and upvote punishment. memes are a valued and culturally important form of self-expression, and even if the Piefed author is from an older generation, it doesn't mean those memes should have to swim upriver just to get the same engagement on Piefed as they do on Lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

    Anti-memes censor and upvote punishment? Is this real? 😂

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    yes, although after quite a bit of backlash, he apparently added a switch to turn off most of it. it seems that Rimu does not like memes, judging by the fact he added several functions to suppress them. things like marking meme comms "low quality", making upvotes count less than on other posts, etc. those functions have been removed in PyLova for obvious reasons. memes are fun, and they are culturally relevant to millennials and Gen Z. and while it's true that older generations like Rimu might not appreciate them as much, they shouldn't be quietly punished without telling anyone.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Good to know. I guess if I ever sign up to another instance, it'll be a pylova instance, not a piedfed one.

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  • [–] 1 point 36 minutes ago

    well having had the pleasure to speak with Mia in Matrix, moth can only highly recommend quokk.au, what one might consider the flagship PyLova instance. she does a terrific job and has surrounded herself with a cadre of very progressive people who genuinely care about the users and their wellbeing.

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