Oh that's fantastic! PieFed is looking better by the minute for some reason... :-P
Thank you so much for this excellent answer!:-)
Oh yes absolutely. But what if the post is already federated, and you just wanted to find it? Like being able to search for a user account, this too would be a great function to add.
I found out today that Tesseract will do this on-the-fly now, for cross-postings https://dubvee.org/post/2083858.
Thank you for the answer:-).
I am not so sure that Mbin does allow that - e.g. https://sopuli.xyz/post/13676782 and https://lemmy.cafe/comment/6178568.
Which brings up an interesting additional issue: both Mbin and PieFed do not make it easy to see which instance someone is from. This seems predicated on the notion that all users that someone is interacting with are engaging in good faith. To the extent that this is true, this is a wonderful approach, HOWEVER... trolls do (occasionally!) exist on the internet, and often they get incubated from the same echo chamber, thus it helps to know where people are coming from in order to block them. e.g. Truth Social, Fox News, Infowars, The Joe Rogan Experience, and many others. Evaluating the quality of a source saves an enormous amount of time as compared to having to evaluate the quality of the information itself - e.g. Google's AI that appears in search results spouts bullshit, hence I tend to distrust everything that it says, rather than have to do my own research every single time. :-).
So I hope that this is something that will be added eventually.
Thank you so much for this detailed and highly informative answer. Yes it should be made easier to be found, but honestly just knowing that it's possible is the main thing - e.g. to help convince users to try out PieFed as opposed to e.g. Tesseract or Sublinks or Mbin.
I can't go any further without an account myself, so can I ask: do you know if this only blocks all the communities from that instance - in an analogous manner as Lemmy's user-blocking of communities works (e.g. I cannot even type out firefox@lemmy.ml and have that expand to a link anymore, after user-blocking lemmy.ml) - or if it also blocks especially the comments from those users in other posts?
The latter is the key part of all of this, especially on PieFed where community discovery is already so much easier that people don't really need to browse All (or whatever equivalent) anymore. Nothing will ever be perfect ofc, but if such comments could be blocked then it would help act as a toxicity blocker to reduce someone's friction on the Fediverse.
Oh my that seems... too easy to hit by mistake, but definitely a promising avenue for functionality at least. Do you know if it is just "posts" from the instance, or do those include comments as well?
Oh my gosh that's... WAAAY down there isn't it? (and requires a login for some reason? - why, just to see the post, couldn't an anonymous user do this action? unless "retrieve" means more than simply view?) But thank you, I am glad to know that!
The polish will come in time I am sure - with feedback and tweaks and much effort, but already it looks so wonderful, it's a great start! :-)
Fortunately, Boeing is a responsible entity and will plan on cleaning it up... right?
And I'd rather not be sane, thank you! ๐คช
I mean, compared to Win 3.1, and before that, DOS...
๐ Okay, thats it - now I need to make an account to test out all this fantastic goodness first-hand. ๐