wjs018

@ wjs018 @piefed.social

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1 yr. ago

Piefed contributor and part of the piefed.social admin team.

Moderating

Anime ani.social

Manga ani.social

2d ago

Some communities seem to have stopped federating with Mastodon
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wjs018 @piefed.social 2d ago
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.

5d ago

Private communities

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.

6d ago

Hello, I'm new to Lemmy

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wjs018 @piefed.social 6d ago

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

6d ago

Hello, I'm new to Lemmy

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wjs018 @piefed.social 6d ago

lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social ages ago, so OP is at least spared on that front.

6d ago

Is it possible to move bookmark button next to up/down vote buttons?

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wjs018 @piefed.social 6d ago

The navbar that is across the top of the page when on a desktop browser collapses into the hamburger menu at the upper right corner when on a narrower, mobile screen. Expand that and then Account to see the bookmarks.

The hamburger menu system is kind of clunky, so that is why the bar along the bottom was introduced, but it doesn't have all the options.

2w ago

Delta Green

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wjs018 @piefed.social 2w ago

My D&D group just started a Delta Green campaign last month. It's been a bit of a change, but I have been enjoying the focus on role playing over lots of mechanic-driven combat. The combat is often my least favorite part of D&D.

2w ago

Blocked user comments still showing

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wjs018 @piefed.social 2w ago

Yeah this is a bug in the PieFed api. Here is the relevant issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1608

2w ago

Ask PieFed: How do you choose your user flairs for different communities?

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wjs018 @piefed.social 2w ago

Pretty easy for me as I tend to not comment too much other than about development issues and bug reports. So, I usually have my user flair set to PieFed Contributor or something along those lines.

3w ago

PieFed.World has been updated to v1.6.5 & performance updates

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wjs018 @piefed.social 3w ago

Huge thanks to @mrkaplan@piefed.world for the work they have been doing to help track down slow db queries in PieFed. I am not that knowledgeable about databases, so somebody putting this work in has been very helpful.

3w ago

PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you?

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wjs018 @piefed.social 3w ago

The reputation score (sum of upvotes - downvotes) is something that only admins can see. I absolutely agree with a lot of the criticisms people have with reputations systems like this or reddit's karma, but at the same time, it is one of the most reliable and highest signal to noise indicators of spam/scam/etc. accounts out there. If we were to remove it entirely, it would take away a powerful tool for flagging accounts like that to admins earlier rather than later. Oftentimes, we can spot accounts like that even before they get reported by other users because users are much more likely to downvote/block than go through the trouble of creating a report.

To address your other reply in the same place, ngrok is not affiliated with X's (twitter's) Grok. ngrok is a service that provides https tunneling much easier than manually managing domains. Developers often use this for proof-of-concept stuff or testing features that need SSL because ngrok addresses can be created and destroyed easier and quicker than manually managing your own dns.

In actuality, I didn't even realize that ngrok was a sponsor. Or, was a sponsor at some point. Is this still accurate @rimu@piefed.social?

4w ago

[Question] How to apply LUTs

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wjs018 @piefed.social 4w ago

My experience is in Lightroom, not Darktable, but LUTs just take an RGB value at each pixel and map it to a different RGB value. The LUT (look up table) is just a big table containing these mappings. They are most commonly used near the end of the development pipeline to do color grading. It's a common way to do something like emulate the color response of a specific type of film, even if you shot digitally.

So, typically I would do my developing (lens profile, crop, exposure, etc.) first, then apply a LUT. After the LUT, then I would tweak the color sliders if there are any I still want to adjust. The color is usually the last step of the process for me.

All that being said, these days I don't really use LUTs any longer. I am mostly doing product photography using a flash in a controlled studio environment. So, I pretty much have some develop presets all dialed in.

4w ago

Mlem and Voyager can't connect anymore? API changes or something specific to PieFed.zip?

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wjs018 @piefed.social 4w ago

I had a scroll through the recent exceptions thrown by piefed.social and I might have a guess as to what is happening, but I can't really prove it, and it is rare. I just pushed a fix and backported it to the 1.6.x branch. If @demigodrick@piefed.zip updates and this is still happening, then it is some other issue (a stack trace would be helpuful if you are able to grab one). This issue would be separate from the auth issues described by @jerry@feddit.online. More technical details below.

From my sleuthing, there are certain posts that, if they are present in the returned list of posts, will cause the API to throw an exception. This is due to the python library we use to validate our API schema (marshmallow), having too strict of a set of requirements on how urls should be formatted in Url fields of the returned json. I have changed the API schema to just be a string instead so that it isn't validating against its url requirements.

1mo ago

Who or what exactly might be conducting the current DDOS attack against PieFed.Social?

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

It's a good question...for rimu. I have ssh access to do things like restart the server or roll out a critical bugfix or something like that, but my sysadmin skills are not the best.

1mo ago

Who or what exactly might be conducting the current DDOS attack against PieFed.Social?

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

I realized that I replied from the wrong browser tab. I can confirm that this is not some impersonator wjs018 🕵️

1mo ago

Don't like the PieFed UI design? Try this!

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

The Amethyst theme in your user settings is mostly a recolored version of the default theme that is pretty popular. You could give that a shot. The HPT themes are a bit more of a departure, but they have lots of fans out there as well.

The colors are all overwrite-able via custom css in your settings if one of those options doesn't work. Which elements are you looking to recolor? We use Bootstrap css for the web ui, so you would just need to overwrite the default colors that Bootstrap uses.

1mo ago

To all of those new to Piefed.social - welcome, and this post might be helpful

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

If you are using the web UI, then you can disable the user popups by popping this bit of css in the Additional CSS field of your user settings:

css

    
.user_preview {
    display: none;
}

As for infinite scroll, that isn't a feature of the native web UI. There are some alternative UIs that support PieFed, and I don't know all the features they have, so you might find that in those. Two that I know of:

Photon: https://phtn.app/
Blorp: https://blorpblorp.xyz/

1mo ago

Manually add thumbnail image links to link posts

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

There is an open issue for this: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/887

I actually tried to implement this at one point, but ran into some issues that held things up, and I pivoted to specifying alt text instead. I would have to take another look to refresh my memory on what the particular issue was.

1mo ago

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

Pinging @rimu@piefed.social for help as well.

I don't think the referer is checked at all for api endpoints, so I doubt that is the issue.

1mo ago

Permanently Deleted

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

Here you go:

 bash

    
curl --request POST \
  --url https://feddit.online/api/alpha/user/login \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "username": "your_username",
  "password": "your_password"
}'

1mo ago

PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more

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wjs018 @piefed.social 1mo ago

Ok, it seems to be working now then. Let us know if you continue to see weirdness with the pinned posts.