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  • "content curation"

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  • Not the first time that bug's reared its head either.

    Example from here:

     
        
'nsfw': post.nsfw if post.nsfw is not None else False

    A meme about PieFed half-arsing database migrations might not be funny, but would at least be valid, and less wearisome than OP's post.

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  • I've contributed code to PieFed in the past, but nothing recently. If someone comes across something I've written and finds it amateurish, then that's a reasonable assessment. There's no need for you to delete your comment, as I'm not a fan of features over fixes approach either.

    The "People's Front of Judea" remark relates to a Monty Python sketch from the The Life Of Brian (youtube link) - it's a swipe at leftist infighting (swap out "The only people we hate more than the Romans is the Judean's People's Front" with "The only site we hate more than Reddit is PieFed" I suppose).

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  • The OP linked to the function with the 'enoughmuskspam' filter in it: it's here (line 352 if it doesn't auto-scroll down).

    As mentioned, it's a bulk-community import function, that new admins can optionally use to kick-start a new instance.

    The code you've linked to is another convenience function, for users this time, that will optionally add the relevant values to their content filters for the 'All' feed. It's also not a federation block, and it's common enough for fediverse users to want to hide posts about those people that it's value arguably overrides any perceived messiness about 'hard-coding' their names.

    Anyone who takes the time to understand PieFed's codebase could find plenty of things to legitimately criticise. To my mind, though, it seems against the social contract around open-sourcing one's hobbyist project, only for people to then be snarky about it online. If there's bits of code that look like they were written on someone's lunch break, that's because they were.

    The frustrating thing about this post, and the (now deleted) post before it, is that someone has taken more time to create some shit meme than they have reading the code they're haphazardly attacking. I've no idea why PieFed has suddenly come under some Lemmy users sights, especially since the whole point of federated social media is that it shouldn't matter what client someone uses, and how much it reeks of "People Front of Judea" bullshit.

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  • This has come up before. Hopefully you're just not understanding the code, rather than deliberately misrepresenting it to others. Even a casual scan should clue people in to the fact that the linked function isn't concerned with federation blocks (the same list that 'enoughmuskspam' is in also contains 'memes' and 'piracy', which every PieFed instance has without any overrides required).

    I'll copy-paste my comment from last time (I can't link to it 'cos is was in reply to a deleted post). The first 2 paras are the most relevant bits:

    The code that OP has linked to is part of a convenience function for admins to add content to their new instances. It can query individual remote instances (e.g. lemmy.world), or it can query lemmyverse.net, and fetch communities that look to be popular and active.

    It’s completely unrelated to routine federation, and doesn’t prevent anyone subscribing to communities that may have those words in their names.

    The admin function could potentially be used to fetch hundreds of communities. It runs as a background process, so you don’t know what they were until after they’d been followed. The “bad words” list acts as a safeguard against bringing in things you might not want or expect. One reason is that you may want to curate the first impression you give new visitors, as there as some that will be put off by the “fuck this” and “shitpost that” reddit-isms. Another is that you don’t typically want communities that are disproportionately popular than others (e.g. if you bring in the default 25 communities, and one of is 196, then it completely dominate your front page).

    If there’s a particular community that you are interested in (e.g. because you moderate it), using this function isn’t an efficient way to add it. In addition to the “bad words” filters, it will also exclude communities that are NSFW, or below thresholds for popularity and activity. Rather than fetching a bunch of communities at the same time, and hoping that the one you want is included, it’s better to just add it manually (via a ! link or by using the “Add remote community” link) in much the same way as you would on any other platform.

  • [Non comic] Increase of bot accounts

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  • It's mostly annoying me because it's affecting federation - not just the ability for new instances to backfill content, but for established instances to even be able to fully resolve a new post's details before the author nukes themselves. For example, the previous post (titled "Paranoia") isn't available on lemmy.ml or lemmy.dbzer0 because they would have been a few seconds "too late" to fetch the details for the author.

    @lawrence@lemmy.world - if you'd like another mod to help out in the short term, I'm happy to volunteer. I realise people in the comments are being a bit defeatist about the ability to reckon with this problem, but whoever this person is should at least have to do a bit more work than they're currently doing.

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  • The code that OP has linked to is part of a convenience function for admins to add content to their new instances. It can query individual remote instances (e.g. lemmy.world), or it can query lemmyverse.net, and fetch communities that look to be popular and active.

    It's completely unrelated to routine federation, and doesn't prevent anyone subscribing to communities that may have those words in their names.

    The admin function could potentially be used to fetch hundreds of communities. It runs as a background process, so you don't know what they were until after they'd been followed. The "bad words" list acts as a safeguard against bringing in things you might not want or expect. One reason is that you may want to curate the first impression you give new visitors, as there as some that will be put off by the "fuck this" and "shitpost that" reddit-isms. Another is that you don't typically want communities that are disproportionately popular than others (e.g. if you bring in the default 25 communities, and one of is 196, then it completely dominate your front page).

    If there's a particular community that you are interested in (e.g. because you moderate it), using this function isn't an efficient way to add it. In addition to the "bad words" filters, it will also exclude communities that are NSFW, or below thresholds for popularity and activity. Rather than fetching a bunch of communities at the same time, and hoping that the one you want is included, it's better to just add it manually (via a ! link or by using the "Add remote community" link) in much the same way as you would on any other platform.

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  • On RT, the TV show Pluribus has a critic score of 98%, and an audience score of 69%, so maybe the The Onion's joke about how Breaking Bad fans are not going to like it had something to it.

  • Trending Communities for Sunday 15th September 2024

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  • More abuse of this post for testing PieFed user mentions (sorry if you seeing this). Other direction this time.

    @andrew_s@piefed.social

  • Trending Communities for Sunday 15th September 2024

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  • Back again, as reply to post: @andrew@pythag.net, @sfc@pythag.net

    EDIT: autocomplete was originally messed up, but this shows Mentions as raw and filled in by Lemmy's UI (both are clickable on PieFed, and this edit shouldn't notify anyone again)

  • Trending Communities for Sunday 15th September 2024

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  • okay

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  • Remote comment that doesn't get a Mention until the edit (although it'll have to be to andrew, 'cos I replied with the wrong account).

    Edit: @andrew@pythag.net

  • Trending Communities for Sunday 15th September 2024

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  • Anakin has a doctorate in Darth Plageius the Wise Studies

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  • Minds.com

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  • I screenshotted this from their 'trending' page, which suggests that their content is garbage and their tech is fucked.

  • Shouldn't all ActivityPub servers implement all objects and leave it to the client?

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  • Hmmm. Speaking of Fediverse interoperability, platforms other than yours (Pandacap) typically arrange things so that https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net was the domain, and something like https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/users/lizard-socks was the user, but Pandacap wants to use https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net for both. Combined with the fact that it doesn't seem to support /.well-known/nodeinfo means that no other platform knows what software it's running.

    When your actor sends something out, it uses the id https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/, but when something tries to look that up, it returns a "Person" with a subtly different id of https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net (no trailing slash). So there's the potential to create the following:

    1. https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ sends something out.
    2. Instance hasn't heard of that, so looks it up, and creates a new user in its database, with the returned ID (https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net)
    3. https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ sends else something out. Instance looks in it's DB, finds nothing, so looks it up and tries to create it again. The best case is that it meets a DB uniqueness constraint, because the ID it gets back from that lookup does actually exist (so it can use that, but it was a long way around to find it). The worst case - when there's no DB uniqueness constraint -is that a 'new' user is created every time.
    4. Repeat step 3 for every new thing you send.

    If every new platform treats the Fediverse as a wheel that needs to be re-invented, then the whole project is doomed.

  • Trending Communities for Friday 2nd August 2024

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  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Resolved

    lemmyverse.net looks to be unmaintained and is becoming increasingly less useful

  • It's literally a trap

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  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Quick video demonstrating that lemmy.world sends every activity out twice

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    ILPM

    Introducing It's Like Poetry March! (A Monthly Theme)

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    4FF

    Guess I'll create a new meme for the 4 Frame February theme

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Pray we don't update it further ...

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Just one more thing that was missed

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Anakin's a Master Debater, at least [4FF] (2/2)

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Coming up a little short (for a stormtrooper) [4FF] (1/2)

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    I mean, of course it was on Tatooine

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    warandpeas@mastodon.social

    Ancient Aliens

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Some inspiration for the weekend

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    4FF

    Introducing 4 Frame February! (A monthly theme)

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Wednesday's Theme: The Star Wars Expanded Universe

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Sadly, Senator Palpatine and his new wife often found it difficult to get close to one another

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Welp, Saturday's here. Time to get drunk and watch Zach Snyder's Rebel Moon, I suppose

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    I'm like Jack Reacher, if Jack Reacher only got new clothes once a year

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Weekend Caption Contest: No Moons

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Wednesday's Theme: Star Wars Sucks?