Thank you for that, I’ll think about it.

I’ve been trying it with a value of 6 which makes the list fit on my screen with no scrolling (most of the time). It’s surprisingly awesome.

Thanks for the idea!

Yep.

It’s pretty awkward because of the issues OP raised but it was a quick and easy way to get something working with minimal breakage that would be fine 90% of the time. Sometimes that’s good enough for a first attempt.

As a small project with minimal influence, building something that only works with other PieFed instances kinda dooms that something to irrelevance. If Lemmy ever adds proper vote-independent emoji reactions PieFed would switch to that method immediately.

I left it a few weeks ago but I’ve just taken another look and it’s really really improved. Only one AI-slop post in the last month - https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world/p/2017200/nutritrace-self-hosted-nutrition-and-wellness-tracker-agpl-single-docker-container

That’s acceptable to me, so I’ve re-joined.

selfhosted@lemmy.world has fallen victim to this. It’s a shame, it was one of my favourites.

edit: seems it got better lately, so I’m back

This is a strong and succinct argument, cheers.

We need peoplesdispatch.org I think it’s valuable thing to have a take on events from their angle. Yet it needs to be read with an understanding that they have an angle. Using the warning icon to provide that understanding is clunky and wasn’t really intended for that purpose. There has been some drift in the usage away from the original idea behind the feature.

One day it might be good to have a different icon for providing context, separate from providing warnings.

I don’t believe software can be neutral. By making banning them equally easy as not, we’re saying that those choices are of equal worth - doing that is taking a side and it’s the side of giving fascists an easier way in. Nope! That’s how Mastodon gets forked into Truth Social.

Interesting how this thread started out about me being too right wing and now for other people it’s about me being too left wing. Heh.

Can’t please everyone and I’m not trying to.

Fork PieFed and remove the 4 lines of code involved in doing this, then. See cli.py, line 160.

IDGAF.

It depends on your definition of easy. Here is the admin UI for unbanning domains.

Also they can go into the database and empty the domain table.

I don’t want fascists to benefit from my work. But it’s FOSS, so anyone can download and install it, so I made it extremely unattractive to fascists.

There are plenty of other places where people can have “free speech”.

Facebook, or reddit, for example. /s

I’ve done it - go to https://piefed.social/user/settings and look for the field “Posts per page”.

I’m happy to explain. You could have just asked, though.

During initial installation PieFed downloads a big list of 3000 right-wing domains from https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon and blocks them all. Admins can unblock them if they want but they would need to do them individually so I bet none do.

The list includes things like fox news, breitbart, etc. Before starting work on PieFed I spent 3? years studying right wing disinformation - qanon, antivax, all that and that blocklist is an output from that. Every site on that list was reviewed personally.

So.

Additionally, I have manually added these warnings (not blocks) onto some domains, for piefed.social only. You can download a list of those warnings from https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/warnings.ods

Most of them are tabloids, AI slop farms and a handful are authoritarian government mouthpieces.

So there’s 3000 right wing sites that simply can’t be linked to and 47 sites with warnings, about 10% of which are left wing. There’s no need to warn for fascism because posts that link to them are not displayed in the first place.

There’s an ideological slant to PieFed for sure, and it’s very much in favor of the left. That could be why maga.place and lemmychan.org use Lemmy and not PieFed.

I’ll take another look at peoplesdispatch and see if there’s a less triggering warnings I can put on it.

Yep. This is a setting I put in for my instance only, not hard-coded.

Various domains have warnings for different things.

That is doable, yep.

For now though, at https://piefed.social/search there is a ‘add remote community’ button at the bottom of the page. Easy to miss on mobile, no doubt.

Zulip hasn’t really taken off among the user base so we’re keeping it around for now for internal comms but I don’t see myself putting extra energy into it at the moment.

That’s interesting.

How much ram did it use while running?

If you used a GPU, how much does it cost in today’s prices?

It will also dramatically decrease the page load time and reduce CPU usage on the server. Currently the default value is as high as I can make it without being embarrassingly slow so anything less than that will be noticeably snappier.

Currently, the number of posts per page can be set by the instance admin but it would be trivial to make it a per-user setting.

Log in with the email address that your piefed.social account has and your piefed.social password. Their login systems are synced.

Log into your account and change your display name in the settings.