I thought of another one. In this age of decreasing digital freedom, PieFed (and every other website) should allow people to register multiple email addresses, in case a user suddenly loses access to one.
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piefed is kinda clunky right now, no way to collapse the posts into something similar to lemmy and reddit. like not showing the whole entire PICture rather than a collapsed version, gif, or video while scrolling, unless theres a settings for it.
Bring back pseudonymous voting agents. Literally the killer feature of piefed, killed by stupid forum politics.
I do not give a single goddamn fuck about brigading or vote manipulation whatever nonsense the fediverse admin cabal has convinced themselves matters on their discord stovepipe. Vites are not real. They cannot hurt you. I do not want my plaintext voting activity to be hoovered up by anyone listening to the activitypub feeds, which is already used to foster censorship and will inevitably be used to enable targeted astroturfing. Rimu, please be more brave about this.
Mark my words, this will be the "hindsight" issue a few years from now. "How the fuck did anyone think public voting was a good idea" will be the postmortem of the fediverse.
Any instance implementing this is going to be defederated quickly by other instances due to the ease of vote manipulation.
One voting agent per user. Banning the voting agent is as easy as banning the user. There is literally no difference here in terms of combatting vote manipulation besides the "feels" of not knowing a particular text string. This is literally just politics and has no basis in any real problem. I could just as easily make my own second "voting user." The only difference is the ergonomics of that workflow.
"Vote manipulation" doesn't even matter since there is no karma. Just remove down votes from rank and engagement metrics. Problem solved. I really cannot believe how much y'all are twisting yourselves in circles to make this seem like a bad idea. Again, fuck the politics, I thought we were focused on the tech?
One vote action for all cross-post posts
Hmm, that is an interesting idea...
I might look into this one. Would something like voting buttons in the crosspost dropdown be an acceptable alternative? I think I would prefer to keep 1 action (click) means 1 vote, but making it easier to vote on crossposts makes sense with the way that piefed consolidates comments.
So, voting buttons here maybe? (no promises, just an idea) -
That's a fair point. I think in most cases I would want to be upvoting a post and all of its cross posts, but there are cases where I wouldn't want to upvote it in other communities.
For instance, a post that you like might get cross posted to something like c/facepalm. If you disagreed with that assessment, you wouldn't want your vote to be applied in that way.
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Please put the bookmark/save button on the thingy down there. There's plenty of room.
Other than that and some kickass themes, I think PieFed is ahead of the curve in the lemmyverse ATM.
Do you mean on the bar with the voting buttons instead of being behind the three dots menu?
Yes.
Yup. We could make more room there by moving the collapse icon up to be near the author name?
I'm just seeing a blank spot where an icon will fit. You don't have to move anything.
Some apps let you choose what all goes down there. I think Summit was the last one I looked at.
I don't know if these already exist, but thinking long-term of how to prevent Reddit-like problems:
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An option to move a post to a different community (with the agreement of the other community's moderators) if the post is in the wrong community, but otherwise seems valid/good-faith/high-effort/etc.
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And for the opposite situation where the post is just garbage, but highly upvoted by bots/brigading, there could be a "nuke it from orbit" option that not only deletes it and bans the poster, but also bans everyone that upvoted it.
Easily upload and include images in comments. Right now you have to use a third party image hosting site, and add the URL in order to put images in comments.
Not sure about other apps, but Summit has an image upload button. They go to media.piefed.social
I would imagine hosting images would cost a fair bit. Perhaps they can have a premium option to fund it.
The website / PWA can't currently upload images.
Summit doesn't have deduplication yet.
Summit also has the setting to use imgur instead in cases where the instance upload rules are too strict.
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Add ability to use keyword filter on community names and instance names. For example I want to filter out all meme communities.
Add ability to use keyword filter on community names
This should already be live. In your user settings on the Blocks & Filters page, you will want to look for these options:
Since you are on piefed.social, rimu has tried to designate basically all the meme communities as "low quality" so that they are easily filterable by checking that box (new ones pop up all the time though). Additionally, the text box below lets you filter based on community name.
I tired adding tumblr as the keyword but still see c/curatedtumblr in my feed. 
Allow restricting posting and commenting to subscribers: https://lemmy.world/comment/18549782
My ideal default would be, users have to subscribe to vote, because drive-by downvotes are very common, and keep niche communities from getting anywhere in the All feed.
Why not just remove down votes from the post ranking algorithms entirely, since they seem to be the cause of a bunch of consternation anyway?
Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don't pay attention to what community it's posted in. I don't think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it's good future-proofing.
Currently the most popular suggestion is to have a "upvote this post and all it's cross posts” function, which would make that problem worse...
Yeah, I'm not sure why people want that. In all honestly I wouldn't implement it if it were me, but if you do I suggest restricting it to communities with the same topic, or maybe even restricting it to communities with the exact same name.
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Thanks devs for making piefed first of all I love the alternative.
I really disliked these two options being enabled by default without informing me at the very least. I ended up subscribed to a bunch of stuff I didn't want to be subscribed to before I figured out what caused it initially when I first signed up.
Honesty I don't know why anyone would want that as default behaviour?
I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.
Native image upload support so I don't need an app / uploading to imgbb manually sucks on a phone.
Edit: if it's cost prohibitive to store media uploads even with file size limits I'd like more external options for image hosts than for example Summit app who only offers imgur as an alternative. Or let users enter a custom image hoster url or something.
I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.
This is already live. If you are viewing a community, click Top in the bar and it should be a dropdown menu where you select the timerange:
If you are on a small mobile screen (like using the PWA), the different time options are listed out with the other sort options:
Sweet! Thanks for that.
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