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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Currently, no. I’m not sure a block system could work properly with different rules per instance. (Yes, I realise the irony of Lemmy having a different system here too).
This is currently universal, but it will likely be added into a specific option at some point.
While increasing the impact of blocks could diminish the risk of harassment, it could also have the opposite effect of preventing users from responding to comments made about them by users who’ve blocked them.
While I personally think manual moderation is a better solution, if a system that blocks users in this manner is implemented, then there should also be an optional toggle for users to hide posts by users who’ve blocked them to avoid having posts that can’t be interacted with in one’s feed.
And while I can see the benefits of preventing potential spam from new accounts, it could also discourage new users from staying on if they are immediately limited in what they can share on the platform; Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin don’t have enough users as it is to be risking losing anyone.
In terms of the other features, I think the addition of pronouns will help Piefed distinguish itself from Reddit by fostering inclusivity.
This is true.
I mean wouldn’t this just mean blocking them in return? As viewed from Piefed, under this system, you can’t reply to a user who has blocked you - so you’ll know that’s happened.
In my experience, it’s very rare for a Day 1 account that isn’t a troll/spammer of some sort to make more than 3 threads in the first 24 hours. That said, yes, it should be an optional instance toggle here.