Discuss PieFed project direction, provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics.
A real 'block' option would be nice on the threadiverse. Right now all we have is a glorified 'mute' button. A block, to me at least, implies that the blocked person can't see or interact with my posts or comments (and not simply that I can't see their posts/comments).
It might complicate things if people who block each other post the same link to a community though. And I assume that federation likely makes implementing this more difficult as well ... but still, it would be nice!
On the same Piefed instance, the block is two ways
Last time I tried, it didn't properly federate yet, but it's a start
Ah - thanks, it's great to hear this is being worked on!
What do you think about a "Share" button on posts? Might also go in the three-dot menu if there's not enough space. Right now you'd have to "manually" share/copy the link to a post, which isn't a huge deal, but I think a button would be a nice QOL improvement. :) On mobile, it might even integrate with native OS-specific share menus.
One vote action for all cross-post posts
Hmm, that is an interesting idea...
I might look into this one. Would something like voting buttons in the crosspost dropdown be an acceptable alternative? I think I would prefer to keep 1 action (click) means 1 vote, but making it easier to vote on crossposts makes sense with the way that piefed consolidates comments.
So, voting buttons here maybe? (no promises, just an idea) -
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Easily upload and include images in comments. Right now you have to use a third party image hosting site, and add the URL in order to put images in comments.
Not sure about other apps, but Summit has an image upload button. They go to media.piefed.social
I would imagine hosting images would cost a fair bit. Perhaps they can have a premium option to fund it.
The website / PWA can't currently upload images.
Summit doesn't have deduplication yet.
Voyager can do it too, via PWA even. Don’t even need to press the upload button, simply copy and paste the image, it gets uploaded and included in the comment automatically.
Allow restricting posting and commenting to subscribers: https://lemmy.world/comment/18549782
Oof, I knew what this link was gonna be before I clicked it. Maybe even the option to restrict up/downvotes to subscribers as well - the pile-on the OP was getting there was ridiculous (although tbf their post was not within the community in question)
If PieFed is going to hide things that get heavily downvoted, then avoiding brigading seems necessary.
My ideal default would be, users have to subscribe to vote, because drive-by downvotes are very common, and keep niche communities from getting anywhere in the All feed.
I think maybe only subscribers should be allowed to downvote, but anyone should be able to upvote
Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don't pay attention to what community it's posted in. I don't think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it's good future-proofing.
Currently the most popular suggestion is to have a "upvote this post and all it's cross posts” function, which would make that problem worse...
Yeah I dunno, that suggestion seems like it would defeat the entire purpose of having separate communities in the first place.
Please put the bookmark/save button on the thingy down there. There's plenty of room.
Other than that and some kickass themes, I think PieFed is ahead of the curve in the lemmyverse ATM.
Bring back pseudonymous voting agents. Literally the killer feature of piefed, killed by stupid forum politics.
I do not give a single goddamn fuck about brigading or vote manipulation whatever nonsense the fediverse admin cabal has convinced themselves matters on their discord stovepipe. Vites are not real. They cannot hurt you. I do not want my plaintext voting activity to be hoovered up by anyone listening to the activitypub feeds, which is already used to foster censorship and will inevitably be used to enable targeted astroturfing. Rimu, please be more brave about this.
Mark my words, this will be the "hindsight" issue a few years from now. "How the fuck did anyone think public voting was a good idea" will be the postmortem of the fediverse.
Hmm. In a sense, votes aren't real, but if that's true, then why do they exist at all?
And if you don't like that your votes are public, then perhaps simply don't vote, since the votes aren't real anyway?
Create a clear description of Piefed on the about page or another relevant page to direct users there instead of the code repository or specific instances.
Many posts don't have a language selected so 'content language' preference should either allow selecting those, or a setting to reverse it turning it into a block list with all languages automatically selected, then allow the user to deselect his language to block the rest.
Allow user to view only votes from the instance they are using
Somewhat related, it would be super interesting to get a breakdown of what the votes are like on a per instance basis. Maybe some sort of pie chart.
Oooh, vote stats. How many from community subscribers vs. not, from each instance, perhaps a timeline of when they came in, etc. Reddit had something similar.
Thanks devs for making piefed first of all I love the alternative.
I really disliked these two options being enabled by default without informing me at the very least. I ended up subscribed to a bunch of stuff I didn't want to be subscribed to before I figured out what caused it initially when I first signed up.
Honesty I don't know why anyone would want that as default behaviour?
I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.
Native image upload support so I don't need an app / uploading to imgbb manually sucks on a phone.
Edit: if it's cost prohibitive to store media uploads even with file size limits I'd like more external options for image hosts than for example Summit app who only offers imgur as an alternative. Or let users enter a custom image hoster url or something.
I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.
This is already live. If you are viewing a community, click Top in the bar and it should be a dropdown menu where you select the timerange:
If you are on a small mobile screen (like using the PWA), the different time options are listed out with the other sort options:
User-created sorting methods: If the API exposes post metadata (e.g., timestamps, tags, upvotes, etc.), and the plugin system allows client-side scripting (e.g., JavaScript plugins), users could fetch post metadata and experiment implementing their own custom sorts in the browser.
Browse a list of communities sorted by their Monthly Active Users (MAU). It could make discovering popular or active communities a bit easier. Just a thought! It's not something I'm really missing.
Add the ability to manually add a user, community, domain or instance block in the user settings like lemmy has.
A user setting to customize vote display: users could choose to see only upvotes for their own content, while viewing others' content by upvote percentage, or only upvotes, or see both upvotes and downvotes, instead of only total votes.
Watch tags from mastodon, even if no community was pinged. "Tag as community" so to speak
that would require PieFed users to follow many many Mastodon users, that's the only way for Mastodon to alert PieFed about the posts
When I view a tag on my mastodon account, I see posts from people I don't follow because someone from my instance is following that person?
yes, or following someone that boosted it
Firm up the foundationals: proper parsing of complex formatting (e.g. a bolded section within an italic section), which reminds me: enabling a Preview ability for comment replies to posts not just to existing comments. Also, the former might have already been done though I definitely recall instances in the past where it did not work.
Clean up notifications: e.g. if a post is deleted after you receive a notification about it, then either delete the notification also or at least let us see the post - it's super annoying to have a notification that goes nowhere.
Also, notification links should always actually go to the things they point at. On some posts the comments are now loading separately for some reason (perhaps if there's a lot of them? but even then why not load them at page start rather than delay?), which breaks the Notification links. Many things break those notification links actually. Another one is people from instances that you have blocked - you can't see the comment that the link tries to take you to anyway, so what use is the notification at that point? Either remove the latter or... something, maybe show the comment after all in that special case (except wait no, if you blocked everyone from an instance then likely you did so for a reason, and do not want notifications from them?).
Edit: here is an example link, where it looks like the Continue thread breaks the link to go where it needs to on the page.
These kinds of "polish" features that are still lacking are annoying and I for one would love to see them worked on, before adding all kinds of other features that I'll likely never use - whereas typing out comments and viewing notifications are the top 1/2 of all things that I do on PieFed (besides look at posts and vote on them:-P) so these would highly benefit from being polished! 😄
Though I still love PieFed even while having to wait for them too. 😊
I've done a lot of work on the markdown to html edge cases. So, I think things like bold and italics intermingling and garbling each other shouldn't happen any more. If it does, feel free to let me know!
Oh that's wonderful! I tried to test out bold within italics and italics within bold and both worked... this time. Thank you for your efforts, they are super appreciated!
More generally, I love being proven wrong about PieFed. On Lemmy if you say "this feature does not exist", then five years later it's still an accurate statement, whereas on PieFed... it's so hard to keep up with because it's so readily changed, by such dedicated fans like... well, YOU! 😊🎉💪🤩