Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed
No, but every PieFed post you make will be sent to your Mastodon followers. And you can follow people on Mastodon and have their posts appear in your home feed.
Mastodon integration like this still very new and experimental for PieFed but is a high priority for future development.
Attempts to have your cake and eat it too are always going to be pretty fraught when it’s a moral / ethical issue. If you try to compromise then no one is happy except the opportunists who see it as a chance to push for further changes in their direction.
Several weeks ago, a KDE developer started a mailing list thread asking about how we should handle the flood of AI slop merge requests. Everyone agreed it was a problem, and that we don’t want that crap.
That bit of context was certainly left out of the story when I first heard it and had I known that I would have read the proposed policy more charitably.
As an aside - this is the problem with having mailing lists and chatrooms - they are not on the web so it’s impossible to link to the original source / context and this provides an opening for people who want to stir up some shit. I use Matrix a lot less these days, for that reason.
The NoGoogleAi firefox extension solves this.
Yeah, see, one minute they’re “just loosening a policy a bit to be more reasonable” and the next they’re giving out free tokens and getting everyone hooked.
The policy change is just the start of the process - https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/
What happened to Bevy when they loosened their AI policy to be more ‘realistic’
The last post from you was 8 months ago, lol
They do what they want
Like a mini leopard!
SQL is certainly a different way of thinking, unlike any other language. I can see why it’s not for everyone.
So to answer the original question - use Redis AND MongoDB. For different things.
MongoDB is your database and Redis is the thing that stops you from needing to hit up the database all the time.
Technically, it shares a lot of characteristics with databases. You can put data in there and get data out again later, sure. But it’s optimized for short term caching of data, to reduce load on a real database, reduce network requests, that kind of thing.
In programming you can often use tools in ways they were not intended for and it’ll still work but the costs of that decision might not become apparent until much later. This is one of those. Over time you’ll start to have issues with durability guarantees, complex querying and indexing, transactions and consistency, recovery after failure, backups and restoration, data growth, operational tooling, migrations and schema evolution, concurrency, debugging and observability. None of that shows up during initial development work so you won’t notice until you’re in way too deep.
Redis is not a database. If you use it like one, it won’t be long before you regret it.
Yeah that’s pretty crazy but this bit is crazier - https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026#cyber-operations-sep-26
AI is a useful tool, for all its flaws and negative externalities.
“If you ignore the negatives for everyone else and just focus on the positives for me, it’s pretty great”
Mhmm. Right, ok.
People who want to believe Anthropics AI is powerful.
The omarchy website lists them.
https://piefed.social/c/fediverse@piefed.social/p/2190040/who-decides-what-you-see-on-the-fediverse-a-look-at-voting-patterns
PieFed instance admins can set a limit to how many votes each account can cast each day. I set the default value for this at a level that 99% of us will never reach.
This pissed off some of the 1% (or people who thought they were the 1% but weren’t) so they spent weeks spreading FUD about it.
I’ve tried a couple of times but it seems pretty cursed.