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


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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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