Link: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.8.0

• Gallery posts, which is an image post with multiple images in it, compatible with Mastodon and Pixelfed. Check out this example from Mastodon.

• "Reposters" as a separate thing from "Bots" with the same Show and Hide options for filtering that bots have. Reposters are more targeted, with higher quality content than true bots and often have a human operator writing comments. However many people find this inauthentic so now they can be filtered out. More details

• /c/microblogs can show posts from people you're following OR all posts.

• Recent hashtags shown on the home page sidebar.

• Support for receiving posts with jpegxl images.

• Communities can have a default hashtag for new posts - posters can edit or remove it if they want.

For admins:

• Option to manually approve posts by new accounts, to cut down on spam while having open registrations (no approval on the new account). This will let people dip their toes in without waiting.

• Easily contact other instance admins, see /admin/instances

• Vote manipulation detection tools for simple sockpuppets and complex coordinated voting networks. See /admin/voting

• Serial downvoter report showing who made lots of downvotes against a single person in a short time.

• Other bot detection tools - e.g. easily spot unnatural runs of very quick post creation.

• Display list of alts on user profiles to more easily investigate activity by alts.

• Filter emoji with keywords rather than importing absolutely everything - this will speed up the emoji reaction dialog.

• Identify instances likely to be used by spammers in future. See /admin/instances?filter=liability

• Microblog posts with no replies can be automatically deleted - set the MICROBLOG_CONTENT_RETENTION environment variable to how many months you want to keep them for.

To upgrade from 1.7.x

git pull  
git checkout v1.8.x  

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

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The only thing holding me back from migrating is the clients I use- Voyager and Alexandrite. I need to be able to see my upvoted, down voted,and hidden content

I'm using Voyager and can see the "Hidden" content overview

You're right, hidden is there but not upvoted or down voted.

For me it was the missing support for "auto fill" when using Link posts on Voyager. Small issue, but annoying enough. Also PieFed.social blocking some stuff without it being obvious why at the beginning. I could have changed instances though.

PF is finally starting to follow PyLova’s lead seeing as it’s had the image posts, sidebar hashtags, and default hash tags for so long. This whole update feels like PF has no original ideas for its future.

PyLova still has far more features and none of that vote limit junk.

You can see your up and downed content on PyLova.

What do the multi-image posts look like when federated to Lemmy? Even if I don't see the extra images, I hope there's at least some sign I'm missing something so I can go looking elsewhere.

It works with Voyager? What's a good instance? Is there only one?

Slightly off topic, but is hosting a PieFed instance becoming the better option over a lemmy one these days? Any thoughts there?

There’s 4 or 5 at the moment. I know of anarchist.nexus, quokk.au, and piefed.zeromedia.vip

On PyLova they show up in a Lemmy posts body on software that cannot support them.

PyLova is piefed but with more features and without all the bad decisions. I’d say that’s the better option to host.

Ahh never heard of that! Thank you.

My comment is probably biaised because i'm part of PieFed team (translation, wiki, idea, issue...). I hope more devs will join us :)

On the moderation side, features, PieFed reached a good maturity. We have good tools against bot, and other tools that improve our community. I dunno how other fediverse software handle that.

On UI, we are fine, there is a bottom nav bar, a search bar it works well on mobile. It is visually clean except lengthy community and menu. There is room for improvement compared to Lemmy and Mbin. It will be adressed soon :)

The main thing that most Lemmy users will miss are mobile app because PieFed API are not complete or app are in developpement. Also that's because PieFed improve and grow at a very fast space.

However, you can use PWA (progressive web app), it works well. Also Lemmy v1.0 will catch up some piefed feature.

If you are interested, you can try it on yunohost or create an alt to try it. :)

Piefed support autofill, maybe it miss an API or the app don't have it yet.

Dunno but you can request it :)

Good question, i will test it. For now the only gallery post i see are from Mastodon. :)

Whoaaa multi-image?! Amazing!! Will it work retroactively? I've been posting to threadiverse comms from Pixelfed for years lol

Thank you for your thoughtful reply and taking the time to do so. Yah I am currently running a lemmy instance that is working quite well with some minor issues (pict-rs not generating thumbnails from local files that are uploaded, and federating to certain instances like dbzero). So my curiosity is really from the perspective of is the grass really greener or are there significant benefits to starting up a new instance running PieFed as I assume there are no sane pathways to migrate from a lemmy instance to a PieFed one. Either way I appreciate your response, things to think about for $3000 Alex! 🤣

I would say yes but with some trade of.

Imho, the best way is to create an account because there is so many features that i end up writting a book.

• merging community under the same umbrella : opensource@lemmy.world, opensource@lemmy.ml... = topic (managed by sysadmin), feed (managed by users)
• merging comment from post with the same link (access to comment from the threadiverse AND mastodon, peertube...)
• hashtag (improve discovenability mastodon users can find our content and we can find content related to some to those hashtag)
• flair (community filter)
• blocklist (keyword, domain, flair, user, community...)
• blocklist of domain related to far-right, spam
• tool to detect AI, bot, spam..
• following mastodon users

Mbin is also great and deserve some love.

Oh wow, that is an impressive feature set that is sorely missing. The mastadon integration is also pretty great which is missing from Lemmy. Would you recommend the piefed.social instance to try it out? Thanks again!

Why not ? I understand that Piefed.social is the flagship but, no, there are plenty good instances and we also included Pylova (a PieFed fork). So yes and no. 😋

When you will register on any PieFed instance, you will arrive on the instance chooser page :

https://piefed.zip/auth/instance_chooser

And that's where you can decide. There are important info :

• the stability (i forgot, probably a mix of number of admin + uptime)
• the speed with emoji : 🐌⚡🚀 (related to server location). So don't pick the slow one (snail)

And their description should help you. :)

No, sorry!

Lemmy just displays the first image and ignores the rest.

In a future version maybe we can insert the images into the post body, or make Lemmy link to the PF version of the post.

That's ok! I was just curious 😊

Hmm. Obviously compatibility is tough, but I'd say the worst kind of fallback is the "I'm not seeing what other people are seeing, but I don't know what I'm missing and there's nothing to even indicate to be that I am missing anything" version...

Until the compatibility (or more obvious incompatibility) is written into the Lemmy server and my client, and then that's deployed to my server, I worry that anytime I see something say something that doesn't obviously line up with the photo, I'm going up wonder "are they misinterpreting this picture, or are they seeing a different picture?"

I feel like a better fallback, honestly, would just be a link that says "ALBUM" because if someone is assembling an image gallery, then only showing the first image and discarding the rest is probably never their intention. They picked multiple images for a reason.

Copies PyLova features, does it worse.

If it matters, as a user, I like piefed a lot more than I liked lemmy

May I ask why? No worries if you don’t want to share but I have been running a private instance of lemmy for a while now, what is better about piefed?

Quick backstory: I started on lemmynsfw.com which is still viewable as an archive, but the admin disappeared and the server was redirected to join a piefed instance, fedinsfw.app, which is what you can see I'm on now. The difference was immediate to me.

I like the default UI a lot better, that's probably the biggest thing. It's intuitive and doesn't feel like I'm looking at a worse version of Craigslist. I know that sounds minor, but I think a lot of people around here drastically underestimate the learning curve involved with adopting the fediverse at all, and coming onto a more intuitive and better-looking page helps a lot.

On lemmy, it took me a long time to learn about alternative UIs, and then I had to log into the alternative UI I liked separately and then always remember to go to photon.whateverlemmy.com, and links might not open in the correct UI or in the UI I was logged into, it was kind of a headache. So when I was trying to encourage other people to join, I had to, like, explain all of this to them, and it was just a no-go for 99.99% of people. It also just made linksharing to my friends off-site much harder.

I've interacted with a few people from mastodon on here which is new to me, I love having the wider pool of people available.

Some things that I would never give up now as a porno artist: tagging, that's HUGE, and that the default UI is a lot more image-focused while the default lemmy UI is a little more old-reddit looking. omg people can follow me on piefed!

The dev is also really responsive and improving things a lot faster than the lemmy devs were (no shade there, we're all in different places in life, but it does matter) and now very recently he's added multi-image support which was a huge deal for me. The gallery support is a liiiiiittle cumbersome at this stage, but it's 1. new and 2. again super worth it for the things that piefed comes with otherwise.

Hahaha oh this line right here has me rolling, so true

doesn’t feel like I’m looking at a worse version of Craigslist.

Thanks for sharing! Yah that all seems to be major improvements over what is just the basic Lemmy UI. The piefed instances I have seen also just feel and look different visually in a positive way, same for the fedinsfw instance as well. Thank you for sharing your experience, and the detailed response. I appreciate it!

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share all my opinions ehe!