A big thank you to those who contributed to making this release, translating, writing documentation, providing emotional support and promoting PieFed! None of this would happen without you all.
New hotness
- Pronouns - when you put pronouns into Extra Fields on your profile that is used as a flair in all communities where you haven't set a flair yet
- Private communities - no federation, only certain roles (depends on the community) can invite new people. Posts inside are only visible to members.
- Mastodon can now quote-boost PieFed posts
- Plain http web UI (no SSL required) with SSL used during federation - see http://retro.piefed.com/
- Downvotes can be turned off completely in a community, not just instance-wide
- Admins can sticky a post on the home page, not just mods in their communities
- Auto-delete of replies on remote instances when reply author has been blocked by parent content author (only works in PieFed communities due to a ActivityPub limitation)
- On home page when showing number of replies a post has, calculate the sum of the replies on all cross-posts and display that
- New users can only do 3 posts in their first 24h, to reduce floods of posts by that guy who keeps deleting his accounts and making new ones
More good stuff
- Improve emoji federation compatibility
- Change order of emoji in picker to present most-used ones first
- Daily time limit on usage to help people use PieFed less (released in 1.5.2)
- A way to report posts that need to be tagged as AI generated
- Better accessibility
- Improved handling of bold and italics in markdown parsing
- Don't accept votes from people the author has blocked
- Admins can resend email address verification email
- Admins can add notes to instances to keep track of defederation reasons, etc
- Search form has been simplified
- Option for admins to disable the em-dash detector
- Multiple minor bugfixes and security enhancements
To upgrade from 1.5.x
git pull
git checkout v1.6.x
At this point you might see an error message about a merge conflict with compose.yaml. To preserve your custom compose.yaml you will need to copy it somewhere else, then git checkout compose.yaml then git pull again. This time the pull will succeed so after that copy your custom compose.yaml it back, overwriting the one from git.
Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh
If you had to do the compose.yaml fix up earlier then you might want to compare what you have with https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/compose.yaml and manually copy and paste some improvements in particular the command: part of the db container which tunes postgresql for performance. Adjust the numbers for your system.
This time the database migrations will not take long.
Donations
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I woul really prefer people I block to not see my stuff as if they blocked me so that they could not vote. I don't block people needlessly but if I do I sorta want them out of my federated life.
That has serious down-the-line consequences though.
yeah its my pie in the sky want. I know its not easy but since two people can block each other I know its not impossible either.
I meant people will block to echochamber themselves
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/testing_reddits_new_block_feature_and_its_effects/
This system exists on Reddit, and this is an example of how it can be gamed.
Oh thats not the same. Its stops replies. I want it to be completely bilateral. I don't see their posts or replies and they don't see mine. It only stops replies because they would not see something to reply to. It would effectively make it so if someone blocks someone it effectively shadow blocks them from that person like they blocked them. Mutually assure blockstruction.
Yes, Reddit also blocks visibility too. You would see [unavailable] if someone has blocked you on Reddit. This can cause problems highlighted in that post.
ok because it sounded like it blocked replies which sounded like they still saw the content. I don't even see how they would make a reply to something they can't see. maybe im not getting the article. EDITED - you know I should say probably moderaters should not have content of their communities blocked to them but yeah now it sounds real complicated as you would need the shadow block flag but also some sort of mod override flag for posts to their community. actually now that I say it, it does not feel as bad as I thought at first. Still. more complication.
They wouldn't see posts by users that have blocked them, but the problem is that a malicious account could block people who would call them out and then post misinformation, safe in the knowledge that anyone who might challenge them are blocked.
Yeah sorry I edited quickly but you are responding quickly. The issue I see is the mods. Those are formal positions. I don't really see a problem with the blocking of people who are good at calling out. I guess when I envisioned it I just assumed mods could always see an admin level of a community that would be everything. Even stuff other mods removed.
Back when I was involved in sapphic partner abuse drama on Twitter, you could block someone but still reply to their posts, so you could put DARVO under all of their posts and they wouldn't be able to see it or respond to it or report it.
So NO THANK YOU to being able to block someone and hide your posts from them. Abusers would abuse it so bad.
I don't have enough background to understand what putting darvo would mean under posts but since its reportable I would assume its bad. I don't see how they could do this though because by blocking you someone they would not be able to see their post or replies to put a reply under.
DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse/Redirect Victim and Offender.
For example let's say your newest kitten isn't turning out to be as pliable as you'd hoped, and they're getting close to realising that your treatment of them has been less than consensual. If they tell the community, you're in trouble. But if you simply lie to everyone and say they pressured you into sex, and tell everyone not to listen to their side of the story, your reputation is safe and you'll get lots of sympathy. First to speak is usually believed. And if kitten tries to tell the truth, you can simply accuse them of DARVO. The sapphic community doesn't tend to verify claims of abuse in any way, so this stuff is rampant.
And on Twitter, there's a button you can press to view posts by someone you blocked. It won't show up in your feed, but you can go to their profile. If they haven't blocked you, you can spray your DARVO all over the place and they won't even notice.
I don't know if they patched that out since then, but it doesn't matter. You can unblock someone for five minutes, say your harassment, and then block them again. The only technical solution is to put time limits on reblocking someone after your unblock them. But a lot of people don't wanna do that, and I understand why.
if they did the unblock block thing you would get a notification (in the federation) and could still report it. Honestly it would be sorta a double report as you can point out they are abusing the blocking feature. I certainly don't think blocking should effect notification which is point in time. It should theoretically be impossible to respond to something and notification not going out. Even when someone deletes their comment I have the notification. Which I have come across.
Hopefully on Piefed, but not on Twitter. I wouldn't chance it.
Ah ok. I thought this was around piefed or better yet the federation doing it and you where just using twitter as an example why it could never work. Yeah it is definately something which if done has to be done right.
I don't think we should risk the chance of doing it wrong on Piefed. We should stay away from that feature.
I mean I get you but the only reason it would be done wrong is if it was intentionally done that way. I mean the system already does notifications and as I said I have gotten them for deleted posts. They don't go away. The devs would practically have to intentionally have it not work that way. I really don't think its a risk at all. Also once something is done its not impossible to undue. The federation and in particular piefed devs are pretty earnest individuals and its not like a coporate system where managment would bury their heads and dig their heels on something bad. There is also no incetive to keep something that does not work out well for some sort of financial gain.