Hi,

I seem to remember there being an option to "retrieve remote post", but I can't seem to find it (nor did a search give me anything useful). Am I imagining that such a an option existed?

Several posts from this community are not showing up on Piefed.social:

https://lemmy.world/c/hardware

How it looks via Piefed.social:

Solution:

It's in the siderbar, under the list of moderators (3rd link).

It's in the sidebar of the community when viewing the community feed. There is a link that says "Retrieve a post from the original server".

Got it thank you.

Interestingly enough, I am now getting a "page not found" error if I try to retrieve:

https://lemmy.world/post/41211469

https://lemmy.world/post/41211409

noumenon, the author of those posts, is banned from piefed.social. They post too much random stuff all the time, probably a bot pretending not to be a bot.

I see, yes I was actually starting to wonder about that (I mod/curate c/hardware).

Side note, I wish I had started the hardware community on piefed.social! Originally took over a dormant LW community when I figured out the only hardware community was on ML (which I am not going to interact with).

Oh, you are welcome to move it to piefed.social. Just go to https://piefed.social/c/hardware@lemmy.world then click on 'move community to piefed.social'.

The followers on piefed.social will automatically be subscribed to hardware@piefed.social but people on Lemmy instances will need to manually join. So it's not ideal.

I've done that with a smaller tech community (monitors), the inability to move subscribers is unfortuntely a dealbreaker (although I can understand the drawbacks to such an approach).

Been meaning to move laptops and gaming laptops communities. Need to get on that. :)

Yeah it's really only good for emergencies like when lemm.ee went away.

I've just finished coding a function to move posts to different communities (and update all piefed instances about the move), so now doing the same thing for communities (and all PieFed followers on all instances would follow the community on it's new instance) will be next.

Cheers! Looking forward to that!

My 2 cents : if you put a pinned post on the old community, and then post reminders weekly for a few weeks, most of the people will move.

Seems human from that comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/21339525

Could you please unban them from Piefed.social ? It seems like they are posting to !movies@lemmy.world as they can't on !movies@piefed.social and it would help to avoid content fragmentation to allow them to post on the Piefed.social one

Might do that, let me think about it. )

In the long run movies@lemmy.world (and all other communities on Lemmy) will be the community that loses out if they continue to let that guy run rampant. The threadiverse is for real people posting things that matter to them and when we see people/bots behaving like that it looks like we're just as bad as reddit.

Here is the list of that person post on !movies@lemmy.world:

• graph of US box office revenue: https://piefed.zip/c/movies/p/908063/us-box-office-revenue#post_replies
• top grossing director worldwide: https://piefed.zip/c/movies/p/905182/top-grossing-directors-at-the-worldwide-box-office#post_replies
• article from the NYT box office: https://piefed.zip/c/movies/p/896818/2025-north-american-box-office-totaled-8-9-billion-in-2025-up-by-2-from-2024-but-still-wel#post_replies
• article from Hollywood Reporter: https://piefed.zip/c/movies/p/894178/some-of-the-most-highly-anticipated-movies-of-2026#post_replies

They may be posting non-sense on other communities, but for that one that seems quite on-topic. I'm a mod on !movies@piefed.social, I can ban them if needed.

They have improved their targeting a lot since their early attempts but their pace remains a complete deluge and obviously inauthentic. How can you possibly trust this guy?

We saw something similar with the LLM bots a few weeks ago where the human operator would use the account sometimes to write comments while their bot did 99% of their posts.

Remember this?

lol I just clicked.

The guy has a centaur as his profile pic: (looks AI-generated, doesn't it? Hard to tell at that small size tho)

https://recruitonomics.com/the-rise-of-the-centaur-worker/

https://www.productiveflourishing.com/p/centaur

https://tutecktechnologies.com/blog/the-centaur-workforce-how-ai-human-collaboration-is-redefining-every-job-role/

https://clearthinking.co/centaur-approach-technology/

Ah, I missed the posts in your other screenshot. I might raise this on Threadiverse Defense, seems ban worthy