Crosspost comment consolidation helps with that issue.
Already available on Piefed, planned on Lemmy 1.0.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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How does this interact with moderation? I never considered that viable because how wildly... Shall we say diverse .ml, .world, and the rest of the fediverses' moderation schemes are.
Each community's comments are separated although still on the same page. Here is a good example - https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1765981/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice
Oh, that's neat.
Thanks for the example :)
That's cool! I just wish the header was more subtle, but that's only a css thing
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If anyone's curious:
By late 2016, construction work on the castles was behind schedule. This was initially attributed to the cold winter weather, then to a failed military coup that July.
This part is funny to me because that coup lasted hours. My parents made fun of me for going to bed right before it began and waking up after the coup was done.
It sounds more like they happened to find an excuse for delays by some divine luck. (Altough there were delay-causing events AFTER the coup)
I prefer the analogy of a fleet of ships - free-traders and pirates alike. Some captains refuse to pass along messages to other captains, and that's alright, because consent should matter, after all, and someone's "right to free speech" does (or rather should) not trump my right to not have to listen to their crap, nor my right if I were a captain to not have to platform it.
So you pick a captain that shares your values, or perhaps you become one of your own.
PieFed has made huge strides in cross-community visibility (multi-communities and combining comments across cross-posts), and in explaining what each instance is all about (see https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser), and in migration of whole entire communities between instances.
The Fediverse is not like email. It's like self-hosting your own email server. 🤔😝 But it's getting better. And people will put up with complexity if they see the value behind doing so - it's just that with so little content, and what content there is being so toxic, especially to newcomers, that it's not worth much of a hassle for them to keep trying whenever they hit a hurdle. Lowering the barriers will help enormously with that, as will increasing the level of enrichment to power through.
Reminds me of this. There's a couple of roma towns/neighborhoods in Romania that look even more ridiculous. They're competing with each other to have the tallest house with the most number of little tower thingies or something because I've passed through there a couple of years ago and it seems to be getting more and more out of hand.
The funniest and most shallow thing about that is those houses are often empty on the inside
Reminds me of winter town in Arcachon https://www.arcachon.com/en/je-fais-des-travaux-en/tourism/discovery/exceptional-locations/the-ville-dhiver-winter-town/
Well that's just fun.
I could exist in polite society, but why would I want to?
This is funny but it's a very unfair comparison. That neighbourhood is fully abandoned with exactly 0 residents, and you know it would probably be shit even if it was finished as planned. The fediverse has at least some real people and is actually a fun place.
I've always hated the email analogy, it only added to the confusion for me when I was first dipping my toe into Lemmy.
We should just stop explaining federation. If someone wants to give it a try, point them to one instance you like, and let them go there.
If they come from Reddit, it looks similar enough for them to use it.
It's something that we should semi-explain or be like if you have questions just message / talk to me about it and I'll give more information.
But yeah we often give to much info and overload people in one go.
To be honest? For me it's the fun type of broken-and-hilarious. Once I got used to the Fediverse, most of the things I could complain about it are found in the equivalent closed platforms.
That place looks pretty cool for sure!
If u squint ur eyes it looks like a klan gathering
Then don't squint your eyes: problem solved 😂🤪
Where might one find one of these “polite societies”?
I wouldn't say "driven" or "polite", but partially true, at least. Also, wasn't the fediverse always supposed to be a conglomerated mess? That's one of it's defining features.
I'd say it's more like a big truck than a series of tubes.
What's broken besides piefed?
I didn't know piefed was broken, can you explain?
"Broken" is hyperbole. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. It's just newer and still in the process of building a lot of features. But it's also got things going on under the hood that make me lean to hyperbole just because I personally wouldn't use social media that did that.
I don't know how to code or anything, I just eavesdrop stuff I'm interested in and often repeat things without verifying. But this was the convo I was looking at when I said, ehh maybe I won't make a piefed alt for anything. https://lemmy.world/post/42299745
Some of this is misinformation in that most of it can be turned off, and some of the functions will change as it develops.
Fair enough, it's social media with a tiny half-life, and thanks for replying anyways!
