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I'm super impressed by the features I'm discovering using Piefed! I'm going to be experimenting a lot with the keyword filter particularly. Here are some ideas we might add to make Piefed even better. Share you own in the replies.

Some of these options where too long to make it a poll.

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[–] CyberSage@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Browse a list of communities sorted by their Monthly Active Users (MAU). It could make discovering popular or active communities a bit easier. Just a thought! It's not something I'm really missing.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One vote action for all cross-post posts

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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) -

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

That would be pretty cool.

Probably just upvote, though? Don't want to encourage drive-by downvotes, really.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

Yes, I think that would be an acceptable implementation

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.

[–] chromodynamic@piefed.social 1 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago
[–] socsa@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Any instance implementing this is going to be defederated quickly by other instances due to the ease of vote manipulation.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

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?

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Summit also has the setting to use imgur instead in cases where the instance upload rules are too strict.

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[–] Bonus@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Allow restricting posting and commenting to subscribers: https://lemmy.world/comment/18549782

[–] CyberSage@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (24 children)

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.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

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?

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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:

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[–] CyberSage@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Create a clear description of Piefed on the about page or another relevant page to direct users there instead of the code repository or specific instances.

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