yeah, I need a TPU - my CPU is 5 generations too old

but not really sure what you are doing?

I want to install one of these in a machine that doesn’t have an M.2 slot.

Done - thanks

Yes - I should have noted that I’m using “Compact UI” = “Yes - thumbnails only”.

I should also add that the current layout has advantages. When scrolling other platforms in “mindless meme mode” it’s frustrating to click on a thumbnail expecting to expand the image and instead following a link to an article.

Ideally Image posts and other posts should appear subtly different in the feed - different enough that you know what you’re clicking on, but not so different that they interfere with the visual flow of the feed page. I have no design skills and can’t suggest how that might be implemented, but I’ll know it when I see it :-)

I got mine to import. I’m not averse to a bit of NSWF content, so have Lemmy set to show NSFW, but most of it did not appeal to me so I just blocked the communities as they came up in my feed. I had 567 blocked communities! Once I edited the JSON to remove those and the import worked.

migrate your user JSON

Is there howto for that?

Edit - answering my own question. On Lemmy go to user->Settings->Import/Export Settings, on Piefed to Settings -> Import&Export.

The export was almost instantaneous, the import ran for a few minutes and crashed Piefed. I’ll try one more time and maybe manually edit the JSON to make it smaller if it crashes again.