Even though you might post into a Lemmy community, piefed.social still has to store the original copy of the meme.

It would be good if the instance chooser showed content retention policies in some way so people could take that into account when they choose an instance.

This addresses some really difficult and long-standing problems and I really look forward to seeing the result.

I’ve had my eye on FIRES for some time and this funding will take it from fringe niche thing to the big time.

I’ve noticed a lot of those big-in-microblogging folks have figured out what gives viral among their audience and just keep repeating it over and over in different forms.

Why? Hooked on the validation? It doesn’t seem healthy.

All piefed.social communities have infinite retention. Our stuff is high quality and worth keeping forever, it’s just the trashy Lemmy content that gets deleted ;-)

Fixed, thank you :)

It is off by default. Admins can set the content retention policy on any community.

On piefed.social I’ve set pretty much every meme, shitpost and anime community to expire after one year or less. Check the sidebar of the community to see, it’s beneath the moderator list.

the poll panel used a new, AI-driven process to flag what it called “logical discrepancies” in their records [and then purge voters from the roll]

heh heh yeah, about that…

Yes, it is on a PieFed instance. So: flairs, hashtags, emoji reactions, mods equipped with the tools they need and so on.

PM me the community names, I can do it unilaterally.

PieFed only stores 90 days of read post history.

Now that we have had that feature running for a long time I can see how much space is used by this (430 MB) and I think it’s fine to increase this to 180 days.

I’ve also added an admin option at /admin/misc which will let you increase it to any value. If you want to keep read history ‘forever’ than just put a really big value in there. On a single user instance the amount of data used by this table will probably be much smaller than it is on piefed.social.

We can adapt and the process of doing that in capitalism involves prices rising and rising until people can’t afford things and stop buying them, thus reducing demand.

That’s super tough on people who don’t have much money and they don’t consume much anyway so when they tap out it doesn’t reduce demand much. So prices need to rise enough to hurt the middle class in developed countries, meaning the lower classes everywhere else have a really shit time.

Meanwhile there are some oil uses that are completely unable to be reduced, such as emergency services, food distribution, etc so the govt will intervene in the market to ensure that happens. This means all non-essential sectors of the economy must reduce usage by significantly more than 20%.

Meanwhile every country’s govt is doing everything it can to try to lock in 100% of their usual supply and some will succeed, leaving other countries to make much bigger cuts than 20%.

There will be lots of people making 100% cuts while a few make none. Humanity isn’t great at sharing especially at a global level.

If you have a stake in this, please vote in the poll at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1965370/which-platform-s-should-we-use-for-discussing-piefed-development

PieFed contributors only, please. Not just developers, anyone who wants to see what developers are up to can vote too.

I love Loomio but I’d love PieFed even more if it had some of Loomio’s features…

At the moment the chat features of PieFed are quite neglected and minimal, because we have Zulip and Matrix. If we were PieFed-exclusive then there is a strong incentive to improve that part of PieFed.

What is the MVP chat experience that PieFed needs to provide before we could start to dogfood it? Group chats?

Your ‘Default post sort’ setting is ‘Top’ which shows you the top posts in the last 24 hours. Some communities have only had a handful of posts in the last 24h so those are the only ones you see. (sticky posts are always shown, even if older than 24h).

I recommend ‘Hot’.

I expect that was a transient network issue that won’t happen next time you comment.

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Tracks like that become an absolute nightmare on a motorbike in the rainy season. I spent 3 days slithering around that part of Vietnam on back roads. Unforgettable views but I don’t miss the mud.

The way it’s done at the moment, all the tracking happens in the client browser and no information about how long someone does anything is sent to the server. So it’s completely private. I’d like to keep it that way.

Wow, that’s a new one.

I’ll get back to you on this.