It’s a great pick and one of my favorite vocaloid songs. Teto has been blowing up in the past year and Jamie Paige has put out some of Teto’s best stuff.

Just to be clear, I think Skavau is proposing an idea, not talking about a feature that currently exists within PIeFed.

Overall, more fine-grained roles and permissions are a recurring topic that has come up in discussions. That is both among the developers and with other instance admins. I think being able to make some users be able to take some actions like clean up/assign flair or edit wiki pages without being given all the moderator powers would be a big improvement.

The really hard part of this comes when you introduce federation. You both need to give a user the ability to do the thing and also allow other instances to recognize that they have the permission to do that thing, or else their actions will not federate.

Edit: Seems like this is a lemmy problem in general with quotation marks in the spoiler summary block. If you are on a lemmy instance and put this into the markdown, it will render the same way:

::: spoiler "Quotes" get garbled  
That summary above is messed up.  
:::  

So, this isn’t a PieFed issue at all, but something to do with lemmy’s markdown to html conversion improperly url-escaping quotes when it is in a <summary> tag.

Ok, I was really confused about this since I couldn’t reproduce this at all. However, this seems to only apply to quotes that are in a spoiler header. I made a codeberg issue for this.

viewing posts that aren’t in communities

Integrating microblogging more has been a common request in PieFed, but I keep running into this issue whenever I think about it. Posts belonging to a community are so integral to how the whole system works that undoing that is a huge lift.

I don’t know how much of a lift it might be from the UI side when consuming mbin’s API, but at least on the server side, this feature is likely to just be mbin for the foreseeable future.

Follow-up question: I am trying to get a feel for the “international hit” rule and how to apply it in this case. Anime is already a bit of a niche, but it can certainly break out into the mainstream, and I don’t want to contravene the spirit of this event by just choosing something that already hit it big so to speak.

My initial thought for an easy way to gauge this for our community is that videos over a view threshold should be excluded. An arbitrary value might be something like 10M or so. Looking over the award nominees from 2025 in the community for musical piece, that would exclude 3 of the 6 nominees.

Does that seem reasonable?

Question: would the !anime@ani.social community be able to submit an anisong from this past year? That would be a song made for an anime show or movie.

Thanks for pointing this out. I am not that active on masto, but I am from the Boston area, so this might be the kick I need to check out that side of the fediverse. I lived in Somerville for 10 years before more recently moving to the burbs. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in this country these days.

Growing up in the US, other responders are correct that school systems vary a lot depending on what state/district you live in. Over the course of my K-12 education, I attended 10 different schools across three states because my family moved a lot. There were times where I would switch schools and suddenly be way ahead in some subject and have completely skipped over some other topics. As an example, I never took a course in world history, but ended up having three separate US history courses because the different districts taught those subjects in different grades.

I do take issue with some of the commenters painting all US schools with a broad brush as terrible. There are excellent schools in the US and excellent school systems. As an example, I currently live in Massachusetts, and if you took it as its own country, it would be one of the best school systems in the world. In general, the states that prioritize education and pay teachers well end up with better educational outcomes. It’s not that surprising really, but a huge portion of the country seems to ignore that fact or spend money in less efficient ways.

My Ph.D. is in rheology and material science. One of the craziest papers I ever remember reading was about the non-Newtonian behavior of frog tongues and saliva. I still think about this paper from time to time. There was a sequence of pictures showing a frog tongue (removed from the rest of the frog) lying on a table, and then somebody touching it with an ungloved finger and showing how sticky it was as they retracted their finger. What they won’t get poor grad students to do…

Link to the paper (pdf warning).

discuss.online is doing it right. There is a significant overlap between discuss.online and lemmy.world’s admin teams, and I generally think they handle it about as well as could be expected of a general-purpose instance of their scale.

As for piefed, I think the primary things that help users filter their experience are the additional blocks that are at their disposal; blocking communities with a word in their name, blocking posts that match keywords, blocking posts that point to certain domains, etc. However, it can only help if a user actually goes through the effort of setting them up.

Alright, I need to step away to do actual work that pays the bill at this point, but wanted to drop what I found here before doing so.

• Summit seems to be 403-ing for piefed.social. However, I was able to log in to other piefed sites (feddit.online, piefed.ca, my dev instance) with Summit, so it’s probably just piefed.social I guess?
• I tried both Boost and Voyager and they were both able to log into piefed.social.
• I was able to confirm that Summit wouldn’t trip any of the user-agent related filtering in the codebase (to try to keep scrapers out of certain things).

My guess at this point is that there might be something wonky going on at the infrastructure/WAF-level. If so, then this status quo is going to stick around until @rimu@piefed.social can dive into it. My sysadmin skills are not the best when it comes to this kind of thing.

I see, so Summit is where the 403’s are coming from. I’ll do some testing on my end and see if I can figure it out.

Edit: confirm that Summit is giving a 403, but other apps are still working…investigating…

Mobile browser, or one of the apps (voyager, summit, interstellar, etc.)?

It’s unlikely to be an IP ban. Within the piefed software, an IP ban basically coincides with a site ban. At the infrastructure level, your IP may be banned because it was doing some pretty heavy DDOS’ing and got swept up that way. Since your user isn’t banned, try switching between a mobile network and a wifi connection to see if that resolves things since your IP would have changed.

Are you trying the mobile browser or one of the mobile apps? If it is the mobile browser, try clearing the site data for piefed (cookies, etc.). There have been some cases in the past where a browser’s local cache is not being refreshed properly and weird stuff starts to happen, like the CSRF tokens mismatching and whatnot.

My goodness, I hadn’t realized how big fedinsfw.app had become. It’s now easily the biggest piefed instance with almost 2x the MAU of piefed.social.

I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening and I am really looking forward to it.

Been a bit since I last popped into one of these threads. The main thing that happened recently was that we wrapped up the Anime awards for last year (post here). I definitely need to do some rethinking of how that was run, because participation was way down compared to a year prior. To the community’s credit, there was lots of good feedback in that thread.

Otherwise, the !anime@ani.social community is getting ready for a new season to come in April.

My other communities:

• !manga@ani.social - Has managed to stay somewhat active despite my not being able to read/post much in recent weeks.
• !gundam@ani.social - Not too active since there aren’t any active gundam series going right now. We do get occasional history/lore and gunpla posts though, so that is fun.
• !nokotan@ani.social - Pretty dead…but that is to be expected really. The show has ended after not really living up to its own hype and the manga doesn’t really have a consistent release cycle (at least in English), so it has been some time since there is any new content.

Ah, I can see it in that case. Links from the markdown in comments and post bodies could be unmarked. I could see that case either way.

If a user deliberately clicks a post that is marked NSFW and blurred in their feed, I think the assumption should be that they intend to see it and are doing so with the knowledge that they have made sure their boss isn’t around or whatever. It doesn’t make sense to me why you would need a second tap/click to actually see the thing that you tapped/clicked. At least, that is the behavior we have in the PieFed UI, clicking into a post or tapping the blurred image unblurs the content.

The rule that we try to stick to is that anywhere that the user is presented a list of posts, the user’s blurring settings should be applied. That even applies for a community page for a community that is marked as NSFW as a whole. That is because a community link might look SFW based on the name, but turn out to be NSFW. Community links don’t have the NSFW label on them in the web ui, so the user can’t always be considered warned that they are about to open up something NSFW.

Anyway, that is just, like, my opinion man…

For those out there poking the code, please disclose responsibly! Don’t just make a public post about a security vulnerability, reach out to the devs first to give them a chance to create a fix.