https://piefed.zip/u/MindfulMaverick posted on Mar 25, 2026 18:46
Recently we’ve seen a spike in PieFed users, a lot of this came form raising awareness of PieFed’s existence on Reddit.
Here’s some info you’d need if you want to help raise awareness of PieFed on reddit.
Reddit uses my butt to make a summary of a users behavior that it shows to mods, and will flag people who seem spammy eg.
image:https://media.piefed.social/posts/FV/4n/FV4n6dJz67DskwE.png
Steps to make a successful reddit post:
Sucesfull posts examples:
These 3 posts got ~500,000 views between them
I’ve tried to promote Lemmy in the past, but Immediately I get comments of people complaining about the UI, UX and tankies which kills all momentum. I’ve had much better success with PieFed so sticking to that going forward.
Well, than this automation tool was a piece of crap software poorly designed to mimic Reddit’s karma system.
Agreed. And like I mentioned earlier, I was a little troubled by how many were ok with it. Luckily I didn’t see it used anywhere else, and haven’t seen it since the guy left.
@tom@tomkahe.com @coreysnipes@hachyderm.io @_elena@mastodon.social @stefan@stefanbohacek.online @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
Sorry was a day today.
The web is more tumblr inspired, but the mobile app has a different design and you may enjoy that one instead.
The app is made by a different person with different design ideas!
onUnverifiedActivity() only runs when signature verification fails: missing signature, bad signature, or a key lookup failure. It gives you a chance to handle those cases yourself instead of Fedify immediately returning 401 Unauthorized. If the signature verifies, this hook is not involved.
If you want extra validation for verified activities, do that in your normal .on() handlers. Those run after signature verification, so that’s where app-specific checks belong, like rejecting certain actors or applying your own rate limits.
Ah, that makes sense. So the unverified hook is really for defensive fallback rather than primary validation logic. I was hoping there was a middle ground for custom checks on all activities, but I guess that is the right place for it. Really appreciate the clarification.
New post: Can we have a more “social” media?
https://profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-social-media
On advertising, the Fediverse, and what a more human social web could look like.
Special mentions: @smallcircles, @phnt, @happy-programming
@Profpatsch You need to create a new signature because the request target is changing. It is a part of a signature base, so the initial signature becomes invalid when the client follows a redirect.
@Profpatsch @liaizon The guide recommends limiting the response size, to prevent DoS.
I also found this in your SECURITY.md:
@fediverse is there any platform in fediverse where individuals can join groups just like Facebook groups, and share media ??🤔🤔🤔
Dumb question, but I’ve been using Lemmy for over as year and have been to piefed web interface. I still don’t know what mbin is or how piefed is different that Lemmy. What is the difference? Piefed just looked the same as Lemmy but with more material in a browser.
Friendica is very clunky, but it’s nice.
Yes on Piefed those are called communities.
cross-posted from: https://multiverse.soulism.net/c/soulism/p/51754/multiverse-has-defederated-fedinsfw-app-for-hosting-child-pornography
Hello MULTIVERSE users and off-site visitors alike. We have recently defederated fedinsfw.app due to ongoing child pornography concerns which the fedinsfw admin team are aware of, and do not intend to address. Before I explain the key issue, I’d like to define a few terms:
- In Australia, Child Pornography Material is legally defined by the Criminal Code Act 1995, section 473.1 as:
(a) material that depicts a person, or a representation of a person, who is, or appears to be, under 18 years of age and who […] is engaged in, or appears to be engaged in, a sexual pose […]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive;
[…]
© material that describes a person who is, or is implied to be, under 18 years of age and who […] is engaged in, or is implied to be engaged in, a sexual pose […]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive; or […]
Jailbait is a slang term for pornography depicting subjects who appear to be of age (adults), but are in fact underage (children; adolescents)
Fauxbait is faux jailbait - pornography depicting adults who appear to be children who appear to be adults.
According to the legal definition of child pornography material here in Australia, fauxbait is child pornography material, because of the implication that the actors depicted represent underage persons. And frankly, we here at MULTIVERSE agree with the law here. Fauxbait is disgusting. Legally and in our opinion, pornography depicting adult women who appear as adults is completely fine. But if someone posts a picture of an adult woman and calls it “fauxbait”, we are disgusted and the law is interested. Reality is not objective - the same legal picture of an adult person becomes illegal child pornography when it’s posted with a particular framing.
fedinsfw.app hosts a community, !fauxbait@fedinsfw.app, which is for Fauxbait. I have contacted the admin of the site, @lemmyposter212@fedinsfw.app, both privately and in public, pointing out that the community breaks the site’s rules 1 and 8. The admin disagrees. Although they dislike the community, they don’t believe it breaks the rules, and do not wish to violate their impartiality by banning the community.
We here at MULTIVERSE have no such impartiality. The admin inaction on child pornography violates our Rule 3 on Restricted Violence, in that it’s fucking nasty. It’s degrading to the women being posted to call them fauxbait, it’s dangerous towards the users to expose them to risks of committing sex crimes, and it has the potential to desensitise people to child porn, making them more likely to re-offend in worse ways. We are joining the growing movement of instances defederating fedinsfw.app, and we ask if your instance has not, that you speak to your admins and ask them to do the same.
For the record, I believe feddit.org goes far beyond the legal requirements with respect to zionist hate speech.
The thing is, that such laws are not global
In some places only material that has hurt children is illegal (even ai gen legal if no CP was used in training) In others it is about the age of the person in the picture including fantasy characters (looking adult but being child - illegal, looking like a child but “250 years old - legal) In others like apparently Australia, it is illegal as soon a someone watching the picture may think the person on the picture is underage
And of course there are many more versions making it difficult to comply for all (some countries eveb have banned porn entirely)
I doubt it, honestly. It’d likely catch a lot of misinfo, yes, but it would likely also classify any new findings that run counter to previous assumptions as misinfo. LLMs can’t keep up to date. And they still have the same issue that whoever trains them gets to decide what is and isn’t misinfo, which starts being a problem when it’s an ubiquitous social media site.
“Correcting” incorrect information with more incorrect information doesn’t improve the situation.
AI tools are inherently unreliable because of the randomness of their text generation.
And worse, Europe doesn’t build its own AIs. LLM fact checking would have to be done by Grok or Claude or some other product from big American tech. And there’s an obvious problem with a social media network trying to avoid American censorship and political bias but “fact checking” with a tool that has American censorship and political bias built into it.
After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I post it here?
It’s a list of lists of Fediverse instances. Also, it contains some other lists of lists like this one. And a couple of miscellaneous resources. Tor tips can be ignored, they are region-specific.
Originally, I was trying to find a dataset, where for each instance there’s a list of other instances it blocked/federated/defederated. In the process of trying to find this data I’ve compiled this list. Do you happen to know where I can find such data?
There’s also FediDB if you’d like to help keep that up to date.
