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Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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Yeah.

Often people will not be aware of the rules a community has (they don't read the sidebar or are on mobile where there sidebar is hard to find) OR, as in the case of worldnews@lemmy.ml, the rules are written deceptively and there are many unwritten rules. Having an additional message that is front and center above the 'compose a comment' input field is an attempt to deal with that.

We need alternatives to defederation which is too extreme and total. Mastodon has muting and silencing, for example. I'd like to figure out whatever the threadiverse equivalent of that is - some way to allow access to those who want it while steering naive users away from places where they're going to have a bad time.

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I agree this feature could do with a lot more finesse. Currently it is hardcoded to show on every lemmy.ml community, which is clumsy and over-powered. I'd like features that let the instance admin specify custom messages for any instance and any community.

How this feature is used is then up to the instance admin. They might choose not to have any messages.

With my instance admin hat on - I'd definitely keep this message on worldnews@lemmy.ml as that is the one which regularly caused bewildered posts by people wondering why they were banned. All other communities on that instance seem relatively benign and don't really need a warning.

I'll wait a few more hours to gather more feedback and then make a ticket for this.

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Great idea.

I've been trying to get into fediseer but piefed does not provide the necessary API to let me claim my instance. I think that's what it is - I get an error message "There was an api error: Only admins of that piefed are allowed to claim it. ". Do you have any docs I can look at which might help me know what endpoints I need to make?

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Yes, I have tried to copy Lemmy's /api/v3/site endpoint because I saw a lot of requests to it in the server logs.

https://piefed.social/api/v3/site

Actually I can see a few differences that need tidying up... 'name' is not correct and 'displayName' is missing, for example.

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I've fixed up the name and display_name parts of the JSON, incase that endpoint is the one you're after.

Handling large bursts of POST requests to your ActivityPub inbox, using a buffer in Nginx (join.piefed.social)

Fediverse traffic is pretty bursty and sometimes there will be a large backlog of Activities to send to your server, each of which involves a POST. This can hammer your instance and overwhelm the backend’s ability to keep up. Nginx provides a rate-limiting function which can accept POSTs at full speed and proxy them slowly...

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A HTTP 200 response is sent immediately. There is a small risk of data loss but only during the time when rate limiting is happening. Most instances behave well and only send activities at a sensible rate but when things go wrong we need to avoid the bad effects caused by those that are mis-configured or under attack.

It's not a perfect solution. But the alternative - fail to accept some activities, causing them to retry later and us to slowly fall more and more behind - is worse.

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The Long Dark.

Survival sim, in an arctic wilderness. It took me two weeks (occasional play only) to trudge through the snow and gather resources to smith some arrowheads for hunting. With that done, food is no longer an issue until my bow wears out. Better scour the forest for the right kind of wood, soon.

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Haha yeah it's brutal at first. There is a wiki for the game with maps containing spoilers - that really helps.

The trick with rabbits is you watch where they're going and position yourself infront of them, so they come closer and closer, with no sideways movement. Then they're easy to hit with a stone.

They don't yield much meat so you need other sources too. Once you find a revolver (check wiki map) it gets a lot easier because then you hunt wolves instead of them hunting you.

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It is very atmospheric and lonely. So well done.

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Initially I was a bit surprised that they were not proposing to seize the entire means of production, only the transport system and land held by the aristocrats.

But I dug into it a bit more - apparently there was very little industrialization in Germany at that time other than the construction of railroads and associated iron + coal mining, which is included in the nationalisation policy. So they were intent on taking over effectively all industrial activity, such as it was.

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We're gonna need a longer list - this one is barely scratching the surface.

How the other half live in the Global South (www.youtube.com)

Am I worried for my families’ safety living in the Global South during this expected record-breaking hot season in 2024? You bet I am. But what worries me even more, is the millions of people living in tin shacks across this amazing region – whether in worker camps, slums, refugee camps, etc… How are they supposed to...

James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe (www.livescience.com)

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look....

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Gossip protocol for instance discovery is a nice idea, I'm stealing that.

Check out what Mobilizon (a federated events platform) does to represent location in ActivityPub.

Best of luck with your project.

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Some random guest on Russian state TV wants that, according to a translation done by a Ukrainian. Newsweek then goes with "Russian State TV wants", implying endorsement of the idea by the Russian government.

Can you imagine if random Fox News guests were quoted as if they spoke for us? Obviously bullshit, right. That's what this is. Nothing on Russian TV can be taken at face value.

And it wasn't the host of the program that called it wishful thinking, it was the random guest himself only seconds later. Watch the video clip in the tweet embedded in the article to see it.

Trash journalism, Newsweek. But they knew it'd get clicks because apparently I'm the only person here who spent 25 seconds to watch the video and another 25 seconds to think. We need do better than this, people.

The real interesting bit is the "We'll clean them", salivating about ethnic cleansing of all non-Russians. It was a different voice than the guest - I think THAT might have been the host but I can't tell as I don't recognize the people involved.

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To sum up:

  1. Russian TV airs some bullshit.
  2. Ukrainian propagandist carefully selects a tiny segment, puts it into whatever context suits him. Provides translation which no one checks.
  3. US rag misquotes segment and misattributes statements.
  4. We sound off on social media.

Bullshit from start to finish.

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Great to see prices coming down!

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The biggest Mbin instance is fedia.io. Here are the biggest communities on that instance: https://fedia.io/magazines/threads?query=&fields=names&federation=local&adult=show.

Looks like it's only these two that are actually active

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Email open rates on the weekend are way way lower than during the week.

EU's new tech laws are working as small browsers gain market share (www.reuters.com)

Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rivals, according to data provided to Reuters by six companies....

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Vivaldi is employee owned and has no VC involvement. No AI hype, no crypto bs, no ads.

They seem pretty good, as far as non-FOSS options go.

See https://vivaldi.com/company/ for more.

I tried their browser the other week and was pleasantly surprised by some innovative features.

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Yeah, it's nicely integrated. Also because it's on my phone there is the option to use the voice input mode of the keyboard which is a vibe. Talking with an ai feels different.

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wow i wonder why so many people are getting sick and chronically ill now and why so many kids are missing so much school. couldn't possibly be the disabling plague that we've collectively decided is no biggie despite all scientific evidence to the contrary

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