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I wasn’t paying attention and accidentally posted an article to !nsl@lemmy.ca instead of !nwsl@lemmy.world last night. I used the “move post” feature to move it between the two communities, but now my “Vancouver Rise” flair from the NSL community is being added to every post I make, regardless of which community I post in. I don’t think this is a client error, because I see the flair when I go to look at comments like this one in my browser while logged out. Is this a bug? Is there something I did wrong?

Based on recent feedback, PieFed v1.8 includes functionality that lets instance admins flag accounts as being a “Reposter”. Other than putting a little icon next to their name this has no effect on anyone until viewers opt in to filtering based on this flag.

I don’t want to manually approve every follower but is there a way to remove specific followers and if there isn’t can this feature be added? And maybe a setting to hide the list of followers?

How do Tags works in a post? Does it make it visible to Mastodon in a way?

I encounter this sentiment fairly often. The use case seems to be approximately “I want to browse all for discoverability, but I don’t want to maintain an extensive blocklist myself,” which seems somewhat analogous to me to the use case we see for shared blocklists between fedi instances we see between admins of fedi instances. Piefed has a mechanism for building and sharing such a custom feed, so if we had a feature to block communities based on custom feeds, users could maintain custom feeds, like my Seattle feed, and then people who are interested in avoiding Seattle content can block my feed. I think it could be implemented similarly to following a custom feed such that if new Seattle communities appear and I can add them to my custom feed, then it would be blocked for users who block that custom feed without needing to update their own blocklists. They might could even be composable – perhaps if I had a blocklist for each neighborhood in my city, maybe I could be able to compose them as part of the city custom feed. The existing set of topics would meet the needs of the user in the linked comment – they could block the topic “Non-American Football (Soccer)” and avoid all soccer content, or “Sports” to avoid all sports content.

Apparently Lemmy turns my backslashes (used to escape round brackets inside a link) into forward slashes, leading to Lemmy users complaining:

Meaning that a link post automatically extracts some meta info - every time it’s clicked, not only when it’s created. Because it appears that Lemmy doesn’t automatically do it once at posting time.

If there is a post where a comment has been marked as the solution you can’t tell until you open the post. I think you should be able to see from the front page that it has been solved.

Tabletop Sentinel are cool and have both Mastodon and !tabletopsentinel@ttrpg.network (this is included at the bottom, so IMO this is official). But this leads to separation of comments. Same article linked on Mastodon and Lemmy. Another example: https://dice.camp/@tabletopsentinel/117349283601223970 https://ttrpg.network/post/43513083

I used to tap the number in mobile while in the profile to see it broken down but it’s not working for me lately.

EDIT: Thanks for your thoughts everyone. Lots of support for simply banning or flagging as a bot, and I’m going to add functionality for flagging as a reposter, then letting people filter on it. Instance admins can apply whatever response they prefer.

I tried to unblock the user https://piefed.social/u/%25d8%25a7%25d9%2584%25d9%2584%25d9%2587@lemmy.world (shown as الله in the user interface) but I got the following error message in the console:

idk whether this is the right place to ask this stuff. when i see people getting banned, i often go through their mod log to check out what they got banned for. oftentimes, the bans are reasonable, i.e. if it’s a 2-day old account with 0 posts and 15 comments and all of these commends are offensive.

I thought of sharing some issues that preoccupy me here, because of how active piefed development is. Btw thank you all for your hard work!

I took a look into post.post_ranking which is an implementation of what has been described by Amir Salihefendic in 2015.

When I post a YouTube link, no thumbnail is generated with the post.

Currently, it is possible to crosspost links, but not images. I recently tried to share an image across two communities and had to create two separate posts. It would be a great if image crossposting could be supported in the future.

I made a brand new account, and on first login this is my feed.

Hi all! I’m totally new to this online format and I’m just wondering… What’s flair, precious? What is it, what does it do, why would I want to set it if I’m not in a workspace that requires at least five pieces of it? Can someone please explain flair in the context of this platform to me? Thanks!

Hi, I’m new to piefed and like it but when subscribing to a community from a post on the feed it loses place and jumps back to the top. This also happens when blocking and is very annoying as I use that feature a lot. If you click through to a community and subscribe/block from the banner it doesn’t do that but that’s a hassle when you’re looking for an efficient way to stop seeing loli anime.

I moderate a community from a dead instance and want to leave the community I moderate. But when I go to Settings > Moderator, I don’t see an option to leave.

Here is something I find myself wishing for in Piefed: A “suggest a community” option - because not everyone has the time or energy to start and manage their own, maybe if it gets a certain vote and someone volunteers as moderator it gets created.

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Is there actually a purpose for showing “popular” communities in the feed? It seems to always be just the same posts as “all”, in the exact same order

It seems @zootweetmirrorbot@masto.ai has gone somewhat off the rails, and is repeatedly posting the same wine night tweet from the Maryland Zoo. I like following the account, so I don’t want to block it permanently; instead, I’d like to mute it for a couple of days to give the maintainer some time to figure out and fix what’s gone wrong, similar to what I can do on mastodon.

I have no formal education on voting systems, so if someone can enlighten me with more info I’d appreciate it. But it occurs to me that being a member in good standing – in any social context, not just social media – gives more weight to your opinions and thus, your votes.

I created a community and selected searching for moderators option, and I see the little message on the community saying “This community needs more moderators. Contact the piefed.social admin team to apply.”, and some other communities have messages displaying similar. Would it not make more sense for this to tell the user to contact the community’s moderators? If not, would it make more sense for there to instead be a button that links to a way to contact the admins themselves if that is necessary?

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