Piefed contributor and part of the piefed.social admin team.
My Ph.D. is in rheology and material science. One of the craziest papers I ever remember reading was about the non-Newtonian behavior of frog tongues and saliva. I still think about this paper from time to time. There was a sequence of pictures showing a frog tongue (removed from the rest of the frog) lying on a table, and then somebody touching it with an ungloved finger and showing how sticky it was as they retracted their finger. What they won’t get poor grad students to do…
I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening and I am really looking forward to it.
Yeah…I think I am going to have to check out Journal with Witch. Too many people in this community have said too many good things about it.
Looks like this is a feature for most markdown parsers. In piefed, the same thing happens. I wrote most of the customizations for parsing markdown, but nothing to create relative links like this except for footnotes. So, it must be the default behavior of the markdown library we are using.
Where are you even seeing this in PieFed? This is a glyph in the feather font that we do use for our symbols, but we don’t actually use that symbol anywhere in the codebase.
The user in question just switched to a different unicode character that looks pretty much identical to the thorn symbol. AFAIK, we didn’t actually get any complaints from Icelanders, but we weren’t happy with the implementation due to its potential impact on that community. At the end of the day, we decided that this is a user problem where bans and blocks should be used instead of putting something explicitly in the code.
Mbin 1.9 just came out and lets users basically set a custom image to go with the link. However, the way it federates is kind of messing up lemmy and piefed, where they just think it is a link to the image only.
Looks like it since it came from fedia. I would need to take a peek at the AP json to be sure when I get a chance. The picture and the link come as two attachments, and PieFed just pulls the first one, the picture.
This was the best explanation to date I have seen of what Bonfire actually is. I still think that the ratio of marketing speak to features/users is way too high for me to get excited about it yet. I wish them all the luck and hope for the platform’s continued improvement though.
You are on PieFed, so you can always use a bit of custom css to make them go away. Pop this snippet into the custom css field of your user settings:
.comment_time {
display: none;
}
€30,000! I was stunned when I just pulled up their crowdfunding campaign. Apparently that is enough money for software “maintenance”. I think you have severely underpaid me for my contributions to PieFed if that is the going rate. I was just a sucker doing it for free. 😜
I can confirm that this is something @Skavau@piefed.social has brought up in the past on multiple occasions. It’s an issue that I am sympathetic to, but so far it hasn’t been a high priority for us to take the time to try to address. One of the biggest complaints we see people have about the threadiverse in general is that there isn’t enough content; that their feed gets stale too quickly. So, having more subscriptions hasn’t necessarily been seen as too much of a “problem” from my perspective.
What I did work on was making it easier to unsubscribe from communities. If you filter the communities page to just communities you are subscribed to, it should be a simple matter of clicking the buttons to unsubscribe to undesired communities. It used to reload the page each time, which made that task immensely tedious.
Frankly, now that Skavau has a third party backing up their position, they will be insufferable about it until we try to fix it 😜
The ~ symbol is how you prefix a feed in piefed. Just like you use an for users and a ! for communities.
More recent versions of piefed should have a much improved compact mode. I basically made the thumbnails for image posts render just like thumbnails for link posts when in compact mode. It was a pet peeve of mine too that compact mode said it was thumbnails, but it still put images on a whole separate line which made them much larger than other thumbnails.
PBZ is on 1.3.0 now, so it should be available if you want to give it another go. Just make sure that your UI option is set to compact mode. This setting is per-device, so you might need to reset it for different browsers/phone/etc.
I remember they announced this immediately after the end of the first season. I enjoyed the first season, but it had its ups and downs. It always managed to stay unpredictable though. Is it an isekai? a fantasy? magical girls? The show decided to be all of those things at once.
I’ve never used the baremetal setup, so I can’t speak to that. However, I actually agree with your points on the docker deployment. It’s something I have spoken about to some length with people in our matrix channel as well. There are a couple things that I don’t love about the current docker setup process, but just don’t know docker or linux stuff well enough to fix:
Docs are an always evolving thing and we have been fortunate enough to have some other admins go through the setup process and provide feedback, which has helped flesh the docs out some more. However, there is always more that can be done.
Lots of the Otome Villainess genre these days has some element of court drama. Stuff like broken engagements, high-stakes tea parties, and spilled drinks on ball gowns are part and parcel with the genre, though they also tend to inject quite a bit of humor. Each of them have their own spin on things though, whether that be a unique magic system or what have you. Some recent ones I enjoyed would be I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Villainess Level 99 (more on the humorous side), Endo and Kobayashi Live!, and Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion (a bit more serious).
You can check out the Royal Affairs tag on AniList to get a browseable list of royal-inclined anime, but it isn’t going to be limited to Western-inspired courts since shows like The Apothecary Diaries or My Happy Marriage would also be listed there despite being set in China and Japan respectively.
A bit of a curveball is that a lot of the gundam or other space opera type series tend to have a large focus on political intrigue in addition to the battles. I remember that being a big theme when I watched Gundam Wing as well as Escaflowne and I have heard people say the same about Legend of the Galactic Heroes (but I haven’t seen that one).
This is probably true for anonymous (not logged in) users, but might not be if you are logged in. Things like user/community/instance blocks, votes, read/unread status, etc. need to be accounted for when generating the main feed for logged in users, and those are dynamic. It might be cached for some time, but the retention time would likely be short (a couple minutes maybe).
I haven’t worked too much with the caching that piefed does, but I know it keeps some info in a redis cache to help speed things up (blocks, votes, etc.). That way getting all that info doesn’t need to be a new db query every time except maybe the first time. Some pages also make use of etags so that if the content is unchanged, the request doesn’t need to hit the db at all. I imagine lemmy has some mechanisms to do caching as well, but I am unfamiliar with the code at that level.
This is pretty much always going to be the case because the database query is much more complicated to filter by your subscriptions rather than the completely unfiltered views that are just sorted a certain way.
I don’t have direct experience working in the lemmy codebase, but I do in piefed, and this is just an inherent limitation of how databases work. Basically, there is a big table in the db with all the posts that the instance knows about. As an example, let’s say that you want to look at your Subscribed feed and sort it by New. First, the database sorts all the posts by newest first (this step is very quick). Then it will filter out all the entries that are not in a community that you are subscribed to (this step is a lot slower). So, views where the database doesn’t need to do that filtering step are a lot faster than others. There are other things that slow down queries as well like blocks or keyword filters.
Smarter admins than I can employ strategies to tune their database for better performance. I don’t have any knowledge in this area though, so others would be able to provide more insightful answers.
Thanks for pointing this out. I am not that active on masto, but I am from the Boston area, so this might be the kick I need to check out that side of the fediverse. I lived in Somerville for 10 years before more recently moving to the burbs. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in this country these days.