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.

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.

I don’t believe this is currently supported by the PieFed API. It’s a good suggestion though, and I am surprised I haven’t seen anybody else bring it up until now. When I get a chance, I will make a codeberg issue for this.

From what I know from poking around the post API code, I don’t think it will be too tough to add. I think the harder part will actually be creating a way for these clients to get a list of scheduled posts and edit/cancel them.

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.

Ironically enough, the federation issues weren’t just present for mastodon, but more general, and rimu’s response didn’t federate over to zip. Here is a direct link to his response. I think the technical details are that there was an issue where webfinger responses were not always working reliably.

Yeah, I suspect this is why rimu made the initial version of private communities just local and not federated at all. Once things that are meant to remain private start traveling across the network to other servers, it’s questionable how private that information can remain, especially if other software is involved.

Just an update that I have a fix for the username display issue all set to go. It should be included in PieFed 1.7.

As for the url, would it be better if the “normal” link option just doesn’t pre-populate part of the url. So, it would just insert []() instead of the current [](https://). I think most people are probably pasting urls in, so the pre-populated https:// is probably unnecessary most of the time.

Alright, yeah. Looks like this user is doing some weird unicode things with their display name. The user is m_f@discuss.online, but they have somehow transposed and reversed part of that. Looks like we are going to have to sanitize user display names to try to prevent this as it is misleading.

For the other point, I am not clear on the issue. Is it a problem when a url has http somewhere else in the url? If you put an example inside a code block or inline code, it shouldn’t choke on your input.

So, I see you joined ani.social and you have made mention of enjoying Japanese media elsewhere in this thread. In that case, I have some community recommendations for you:

• !anime@ani.social - The most active community for anime discussion (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !manga@ani.social - The most active community for manga discussion (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !lightnovels@ani.social - Community for Japanese light novels
• !animemes@ani.social - Memes, but anime
• !anime_irl@ani.social - Other anime memes

There are plenty of other communities out there for specific pieces of media, if you are looking for those as well. Some of the more active ones I am aware of:

• !frieren@ani.social - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End - Season 2 is airing right now!
• !dungeonmeshi@ani.social - Delicious in Dungeon
• !gundam@ani.social - General Gundam community (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !bocchitherock@sopuli.xyz - Bocchi the Rock
• !onepiece@lemmy.world - One Piece
• !overlord@sopuli.xyz - Overlord
• any of the communities on bookwyr.me - Ascendance of a Bookworm