All the better!! 😁😉

Isn’t that true of any fiction?

Hrm, that is odd, particularly bc it says that there is 1 local subscriber. I am used to communities (or magazines) not federating due to having no subscriptions - that much I understand, but something else seems to be preventing the second community from federating properly with Discuss.Online. And likewise with PieFed.social as well.

I wonder if some aspect of the magazine are problematic for Lemmy and PieFed to handle, perhaps the post flairs?

Although mostly what I meant about federation was between Beehaw that had chosen to defederate from Lemmy.world, where this community we are in now is located. But… that defederation is not implemented in reverse, so I guess it’s fine.

And now we’ve brought in Mbin and PieFed to the mix as well. Most communication among softwares is working just fine, it’s just the human element where it tends to break down:-).

Beautiful 🌻🌺🌹🌸💐🥀

Presumably the OC was made in 2023… whenever “now” is tends to be thought of as the worst part (the worst so far=still the best of what will come?).

Request accepted. Appeal denied. You remain worthy of love.

You are on the council, but grant you the rank of Wizard, we do not.

In addition to keyword filters that Blaze mentioned, PieFed is basically the only way I know of, other than an app (Sync or Connect) that offers a true instance filter that blocks all users from the specified instance, without requiring admin support. I’ve blocked all those batshit insane comments from lemmy.ml and now if I go to the same identical posts, those comments from those users from those instances that you specify are flat gone. Regardless of the community. More in this post but that’s basically it that I’ve said already.

Likewise, Categories of Communities allows you to have your cake and (when you want it) eat it too. e.g. check out https://piefed.social/topic/arts-craft and note absence of it, in that category. Likewise https://piefed.social/topic/fediverse, and https://piefed.social/topic/food, and https://piefed.social/topic/gaming, and so on. But, in the very rare event that you ARE wanting it (hey, it happens!) it’s still accessible at https://piefed.social/topic/news (& politics).

I would be remiss if I did not tell you that PieFed isn’t fully completed yet - it both has features that Lemmy (and even Reddit!) lacks, while also missing some, like its search feature is pretty abysmally bad (on purpose, it just hasn’t been the top priority yet, to receive some love and attention:-). Though I still love it even so. You can keep your old account (to do things that PieFed cannot yet), and eventually you should find yourself using the new perhaps 90% of the time, as you adjust and come to love what it can do for you - though note that I find that the approach to finding content is quite different from when I used Lemmy, which only offers Subscribed vs. All, whereas PieFed has so many more options to choose from (it may be overwhelming at first - but it’s so fantastic to have choices!:-).

Sadly there are some aspects that don’t work well - like searching and notifications sometimes sends you to things that don’t exist. This is MORE than made up for (imho at least, though I respect that it won’t be everyone’s) in having so many features that Lemmy still lacks.

The onboarding process is one fantastic one, and you’ve barely begun to learn all that you can now do that you could not before. Categories of Communities, hashtags, notifications for every. single. thing. (whole entire communities? best used only for your favorites or low frequency ones - though a new custom Topics feature will make that process obsolete, whenever it comes out, I don’t know the prioritization. Comment in [email protected] or [email protected] if you want to add new feature requests:-)

I would keep your old account around though, for the handful of things that PieFed isn’t fully ready to deliver yet.

Absolutely. Case in point: I got a notification now when you tagged me, while a month or possibly even a week ago I would not have. There’s new features weekly here!:-D

Isn’t the “tiling” view on PieFed like that? Link

Not really though - that only mutes communities, while the users are still free to troll you by replying and generating notifications in posts sent to other communities.

Worse, that protection has even weakened rather than strengthened over time - the notifications used to be blocked. I almost decided to leave Lemmy myself when I continued to receive notifications for WEEKS and WEEKS after accidentally responding to a post that I encountered in All - I hadn’t read the sidebar, I didn’t know about that instance, and so how was I supposed to know!?

I did that in Lemmygrad, and then again in [email protected] - and after that, I very much understand why people say that we are miserable tankie trolls over here.

It’s the Nazi bar effect: “We” might be fine, but there are places here that anyone can just wander into without any advanced notice of what will happen…and then they leave. And complain over in r/RedditAlternatives, warning others against attempting the same.

And since it’s TRUE, we DESERVE this reputation. 100% of the people I’ve ever mentioned Lemmy to have outright chided me for having mentioned it. I can see why, with such bOtH sIdEs SaMe content as this:

Just go to https://discuss.online/, easy. :-)

True but they’ve improved dramatically - especially what Blaze is telling people now in r/RedditAlternatives. (it’s sth like 5 sentences now, only what they need to know - see it live here)

There reportedly are some slowness issues for people in the USA, where most Redditors would be coming from? Perhaps the updates currently in progress and still planned will help.

PvP v. PvE seems like it would make s difference, probably? :-P

But yeah I get you: the list of varied options is too large, and worse yet opaque.

Fwiw Blaze most often just recommends 2-3 options to current Redditors, to KISS (Keep It SimpleS:-).

If it helps, the issue is much less prominent for PieFed. Pick https://piefed.social/ bc it is the flagship and new features will just magically appear every week or so (not joking! the pace of development really is that fast!) Also it’s easier to not have to start the community joining process for every community - that one being (by far) the largest for PieFed means that more often than any other instance, that work will have been done for you.

Also, when you join, you will become energized about the Fediverse again - the startup wizard helping you pick communities to subscribe to based off of your interests will make you happy:-). Whether it’s worth the pain of learning a whole new system after that or not… is up to you, but seriously if you need that jolt of positivity, sign up TODAY! (you can always abandon it tomorrow, though I hope you won’t, and am betting that actively seeing it in front of you may help… although tbf there is a bit of a learning curve as you adjust, and yet only bc there’s so much MORE you can do with PieFed, like Lemmy has just Subscribed vs. All, whereas PieFed has a whole slew of new options to add to that, in the Topics, in choosing to receive Notifications for content rather than have to navigate to it, and new stuff is coming like personalized multi-communitied as well - it kinda really is awesome and exciting!? 😊)

Those went on and on and on and on for years though - it was only 3 months ago that Discuss.Online finally defederated from Lemmy.ml, making it the first top ranked instance that would be suitable to recommend to Redditors. And even then lemmy.ml still remains to bully and abuse the potential users with tankie BS (bOtH sIdEs SaMe don’t ya’know).

Also before those two started there was Lemmygrad and Exploding Heads, and others I cannot recall off the top of my head but they really do go back a ways - defederation fights is kinda Lemmy’s whole main entire deal. Sadly, I am not kidding: it’s a Nazi bar effect where you can’t convince people to join a bar that welcomes Alt-Right Nazis (although in this case it’s Alt-Left tankies), bc they are turned off by such.

It’s fine if we ignore what those users want btw, it’s just less so if we don’t acknowledge who we really are, and then wonder why nobody likes us - that kind of incel culture is not okay, at least not with me, and I will stand by that.

Personally I find the UX better on PieFed (unless it’s for a part where most of the development hasn’t happened yet, so yeah it’s hit or miss). See e.g. the tiling view.

So much possibility…