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Speaking of being needlessly destructive with stupid bots, these duplicates of other user’s posts don’t even register as cross-posts anymore (due to image proxying).

There are some api rate limits (look for RateLimitExceeded in routes), but the settings are generous enough that a normal user (and not a bot) isn’t going to get caught by them.

For this particular case, it’s more an instance of the software not interacting (in the sense of not changing things they don’t understand).

If Lemmy doesn’t implement flairs, then community updates from them won’t over-write flairs set on PieFed’s copy of those comms. Also, when a PieFed user sends a comment to a Lemmy community, it will just attach an ‘Announce’ header to it and send it out to all followers. It would be against their own spec to change the content of anything they’re Announcing, so followers who receive the comment and happen to be on PieFed instances will interpret it fully, whereas Lemmy will just ignore any fields in the JSON that it doesn’t have a use for.

Maybe it was from a Mastodon server that requires ‘authorized fetch’ or whatever they call it? Last time I was tinkering with something related, Lemmy wasn’t doing the required signed GET request for the user, so couldn’t show the post.

Ah, thanks. I’ve edited my comment to correct it.

It’s indeed just the Mastodon-style Mentions that MBIN uses that cause a slight problem for PieFed. Nothing is being regex’d, so it’s just the specific use of the Mention type in the tag[] field which it’s picking up, which - as you say - wasn’t included in your comment.

I’ve no doubt that Lemmy’s particular auto-completion feature is very useful, but I still don’t think it’s what OP was referring to. The top-right frame says “I can find the exact unfederated remote comm” … the key word being ‘unfederated’.

On a lemmy instance that’s already connected with something like ‘yepowertrippinbastards’, starting to type it in a comment will indeed fill out the rest. Image from lemmy.world:

But if a lemmy instance hasn’t already connected with the community, it doesn’t have the info to autocomplete anything. Image from a dev Lemmy instance:

This is in contrast to PieFed, which for one particular screen, can autocomplete community names based on info from lemmyverse rather than its own database, so it doesn’t need to have federated with anything yet.

There’s pros and cons for each approach obvs, and I’m not super-invested in Lemmy vs. PieFed discussions right now, but I felt a strange urge to try to explain some week-old meme (and dick about with some new screen recording software). If you’re right and I’m wrong, then that’s okay too.

OP is referring to a feature of PieFed, which will autocomplete a community’s name if you go to ‘Add Remote Community’. It uses data from lemmyverse.net in the background, so the instance you’re searching on doesn’t have to actually know about the community beforehand.

Video demo:

I think it’s mostly come up as an issue because it’s meant that piefed.social doesn’t federate with lemy.lol (because it uses a Pepe image as its icon), but https://lemmy-federate.com/ uses lemy.lol for back-end operations, so people haven’t been able to add communities on piefed.social to it.

It’s a tricky problem.

If a Lemmy or PieFed [edit: or NodeBB] user Mentions you, it’s because they’re paging you and want to bring a comment to your attention.

If an MBIN or NodeBB Mastodon user Mentions you, it either because they’re paging you, or because they’re replying to a post or comment chain that you’re involved in (it’s been really noticeable when a NodeBB user has put my name in the post body as an explicit Mention, and then all the replies to the post from NodeBB / Mastodon / MBIN users have then also included it as an implicit Mention).

The code for Mentions was written before the Notifications table was improved, so it’s feasible that it can now try to accommodate implicit Mentions, but it’ll never be perfect (because how does an MBIN user explicitly page another user that’s going to get implicitly Mentioned anyway?).

It’s a bit like dealing with a emails from someone who always hits ‘Reply All’ - you’re always being CC’d in, and sometimes it’s relevant, and sometimes it’s not.

Edited to fix misinfo about NodeBB.

Yeah - you can see the tags for this post if you visit https://browser.pub/https://piefed.zip/post/384686 and click on the JSON button.

Lemmy uses the same field, but just automatically puts the community name in there (to aid discovery on platforms like Mastodon).

https://blog.snork.dev/feed.xml

I watched Jurassic World: Rebirth the other day (it’s alright). It’s such an odd franchise - one that seems to have lost faith in its own premise. There’s this meta assumption that audiences are bored with dinosaurs (I’m not), and that the solution to this imagined problem is to mutate them (it really isn’t, it’s invariably just silly).

I also don’t care that dinos couldn’t really survive in the modern climate - that’s what the whole ‘suspension of disbelief’ thing is for.

Nope. I don’t agree with cm0002’s campaign of reposting everything posted to a lemmy.ml community to a community hosted elsewhere, so I don’t want to run a bot that suggests there’s genuine growth somewhere when I consider any growth there to be driven by bullshit. The bot was never sophisticated enough to distinguish between the two.

I’m not on vacation - I just tend to use this account instead.

It ended up being more of a proof-of-concept than anything. I forked Thunder by banging my fists on the keyboard until it worked, rather than actually learn anything about Flutter/Dart or proper app development. As soon as another Flutter app came along (Interstellar), I leapt at the chance to abandon it.

It doesn’t, no. The bot gets its data from another bot, at https://lemmyverse.net/, which only crawls Lemmy and MBIN instances at the mo.

We’d either need to send a PR to get that bot to crawl PieFed instances too, or just replicate the functionality from the same machine that runs ‘tcbot’. Communities would also need to provide their ‘active users / month’ too. It’s just the subscriber count currently, but it shouldn’t be too much of a problem hopefully.

That opening sequence does it no favours - it looks cheap, and they’ve already redone the hallway sequence from Rogue One plenty of times before.

Ah, shit. Cheers. The amount of things learned from the comments under memes is probably a bit high, but I’ll send a commit to fix this in a minute.

Does Lemmy look at the mods URL again when it decides to refresh a community (or when it receives an Update / Group) ? If not, then PieFed instances might need to send out some “Add” activities.

PieFed isn’t hiding mods - when Lemmy fails to get them, it’s for its own mysterious reasons.

In ActivityPub, to get the moderators of this community you can do this from the command-line:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://feddit.uk/c/fedimemes/moderators | jq .orderedItems

To get the moderators of a PieFed community, it’s exactly the same:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://piefed.social/c/50501/moderators | jq .orderedItems

In both cases, the mods URL comes from the attributedTo field for the community.

PieFed’s repo is hosted by Codeberg - it’s the right thing to do in many ways, but occasionally it’s borderline unusable, and I get the sense that it misses out on potential contributors by not being on GitHub (projects there benefit from the network effect).