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Look, this is my filter list:
Because i don't want to deal with depressing politics every day in my off time.
And this is what i still see:
Maybe a tagging system would help?
PieFed has added a feature where when people post AI slop that moderators can forcibly apply a label to it. Just like NSFW, it's fine to exist, so long as is labelled properly - so that e.g. you who does not want it can filter it out. Oh, PieFed also distinguishes between NSFW vs. NSFL, allowing separate options for display of each (hide completely, blur thumbnail, show as semi-transparent, or no alternations).
And another feature helps moderators detect whether a picture is AI vs. OC, and whether the content or even the user account itself may be a Chatbot. Again, PieFed welcomes bots... so long as they are properly labelled, with mods having tools to help label them when they refuse to by themselves.
PieFed also offers so many different options in-between content to simply "exist" vs. "not exist". Like one option makes bot posts shown as semi-transparent (or of course you can hide/show them all). Keywords likewise have an additional option besides filter "all" vs. filter "none", with filter "some", in situations where that can be helpful (not political, I get you there!:-P). Not only posts but user accounts can also have a label placed next to their username, so that you can see content but also upon seeing that visual indicator, know that any response you make to them will never be read. You as an end-user can place your own labels, or some label types are automatically placed by the software. You have lots of control to e.g. hide all comment replies exceeding a downvote threshold, or instead of hiding it completely you can auto-collapse it, making you take an extra step to expand it before reading (both of those I have turned off but it's there for you if you want).
Oh, PieFed also has literal hashtags too. Lemmy has fallen far behind what PieFed offers, in most respects.
Piefed has built in keyword filters for posts. You can move to piefed.zip if you want more options here.
Thanks. But that's one instance. I think this needs a lemmyverse implementation.
Piefed isn't an instance, it's an alternative software that reads Lemmy.
Piefed.social is the flagship instance, comparable to lemmy.ml.
Lemmy.zip made their own Piefed.
...then how does this fix anything? Same federation, same downward trend of losing users?
You're right, on piefed, the loss of users looks prettier.
The data in the OP doesn't include Piefed instances, it only measures Lemmy.
But no, it doesn't solve it - I was just suggesting to try out Piefed for people expressing frustration with Lemmys design limitations.
comparable in status, or in opinions?
Status.
Piefed.social is the flagship in the sense that it's the instance run by the devs. They aren't tankies.
status. part of the impetus of the development of piefed was a frustration with how the lemmy devs treated people who tried to get onboarded to help with the development of lemmy. i can go into more depth about how this is a reflection of how the lemmy devs see the world, but i don't necessarily feel like hashing all that out when i have bigger fascists to fry
Piefed seems to have its own share of issues, not using ActivityPub protocols which play nice with the rest of the Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon etc) for new features and instead prioritizing on their own platform and seeing the Fediverse as a secondary thing.
well it seems they are not using Industry Standards