PieFed is a link sharing platform so every post has a 'url' field. By embedding the post url into the RSS feed entry, we get images in our feed if the posts have images. The example I gave in the earlier toot uses images but it could be anything, including video or audio.
Podcasts are just RSS feeds with audio files. This means #PieFed is also a federated #PodCast platform - every community is also a podcast, if the things you post in the community are just links to mp3 files.
If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.
In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.
This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.
Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.
Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.
That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?
@wagtail its a great idea as it would make potentially any django / wagtail installation a first class citizen of the fediverse, expanding functionality in various novel ways
There are already several django based activitypub servers (I am aware of #funkwhale, #takahẽ , #socialhome) and related #python projects (#bovine, #piefed) but it seems there is zero code re-use among them.
Awesome. You could follow/join the PieFed meta community although as you say posts there are likely to be lost in the flood of other posts. You could follow me on on Mastodon where I pretty much exclusively post about this project - @rimu. Or pop your email address into the form at https://rimu.geek.nz/piefed-comms/?p=subscribe or join the matrix room at https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-community:matrix.org
"Care has been taken to construct it in the simplest way possible, enabling contributions from programmers of all skill levels and keeping server costs down. This will greatly speed PieFed's development process and widen its adoption."
Clever move by @rimu Lemmy's development is struggling.
The most popular instance, lemmy.world (>25% monthly active users), is still on a previous release. The current release, 0.19.1, has broken federation for the past couple weeks. Up-to-date instances are hobbling along by being restarted every few hours.
Tried hacking on Lemmy myself... I've got many thoughts but not sure if/how to write them down.
A super helpful feature that PieFed (a new fediverse thread aggregator like Lemmy & Kbin) has is an "Add Remote" button on its communities page. This button allows you to get a community on another instance to appear on your PieFed instance (and thus get the PieFed instance to start getting posts from that community)....
There will be bugs, probably many bugs. When you see one, please reply to the welcome email you received, with info about it, or report it in the issue queue. Let’s catch ’em all!
#Python developers are invited to check out the code repository at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi. In coming days I’ll write better setup instructions and put together a code walk-through screencast.
Quite happy with the speed of the background task that ingests #ActivityPub data sent to #PieFed from other servers. Most Activitys are processed in around 0.1 seconds, average of 0.22 seconds, or ~5 per second. This is with just one worker process.
If a 4 core VPS can handle 6(?) worker processes/threads it'll do 6 * 5 = 30 per sec.
There needs to be consequences for getting lots of downvotes.
One of those could be something like this, where everyone can see that you get downvoted a lot and decide whether and how to engage with you in future.
Made a little #ActivityPub log for #PieFed so I can spot anomalies and review data coming in and out of my dev instance.
After a few weeks of testing federation in canned scenarios, PieFed is now interacting with actual instances on the 'real' #fediverse, so all sorts of unexpected things are happening! Performance, timing issues, invalid requests, unresponsive servers, all that fun stuff.
@javi I've been using ngrok.com, which makes it very easy to temporarily give something running locally a domain name that anyone from outside (including other servers, obvs) can use to access your site/app and send Activitys.
e.g. https://piefed.ngrok.app is running off the laptop in my office. Any code edits immediately take effect and I can watch errors scroll by in my IDE in real time, set breakpoints, etc. Very effective.
Maybe don't call people [by a label which designates membership in a more powerful, dominant group whose lives are treated as the baseline "norm" and who happen to have far greater power to impose and enforce oppressive social norms in a heavily socially stratified society]?
Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/5772572...
Does PieFed work with client apps like Memmy?
I'm trying to add my PieFed account to Memmy (an iOS Lemmy client). I was able to add my midwest.social account as expected....
Could we get something like PieFed's "Add Remote" button?
A super helpful feature that PieFed (a new fediverse thread aggregator like Lemmy & Kbin) has is an "Add Remote" button on its communities page. This button allows you to get a community on another instance to appear on your PieFed instance (and thus get the PieFed instance to start getting posts from that community)....
Fediverse link-aggregator PieFed launches in beta test (fediversereport.com)
We now have another thread aggregator to join Lemmy and Kbin on the fediverse!...