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I'm super impressed by the features I'm discovering using Piefed! I'm going to be experimenting a lot with the keyword filter particularly. Here are some ideas we might add to make Piefed even better. Share you own in the replies.

Some of these options where too long to make it a poll.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

A real 'block' option would be nice on the threadiverse. Right now all we have is a glorified 'mute' button. A block, to me at least, implies that the blocked person can't see or interact with my posts or comments (and not simply that I can't see their posts/comments).

It might complicate things if people who block each other post the same link to a community though. And I assume that federation likely makes implementing this more difficult as well ... but still, it would be nice!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

On the same Piefed instance, the block is two ways

Last time I tried, it didn't properly federate yet, but it's a start

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Ah - thanks, it's great to hear this is being worked on!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What do you think about a "Share" button on posts? Might also go in the three-dot menu if there's not enough space. Right now you'd have to "manually" share/copy the link to a post, which isn't a huge deal, but I think a button would be a nice QOL improvement. :) On mobile, it might even integrate with native OS-specific share menus.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

One vote action for all cross-post posts

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Hmm, that is an interesting idea...

I might look into this one. Would something like voting buttons in the crosspost dropdown be an acceptable alternative? I think I would prefer to keep 1 action (click) means 1 vote, but making it easier to vote on crossposts makes sense with the way that piefed consolidates comments.

So, voting buttons here maybe? (no promises, just an idea) -

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

ability to mark a reply as a answer

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Allow restricting posting and commenting to subscribers: https://lemmy.world/comment/18549782

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Oof, I knew what this link was gonna be before I clicked it. Maybe even the option to restrict up/downvotes to subscribers as well - the pile-on the OP was getting there was ridiculous (although tbf their post was not within the community in question)

If PieFed is going to hide things that get heavily downvoted, then avoiding brigading seems necessary.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

My ideal default would be, users have to subscribe to vote, because drive-by downvotes are very common, and keep niche communities from getting anywhere in the All feed.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don't pay attention to what community it's posted in. I don't think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it's good future-proofing.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Currently the most popular suggestion is to have a "upvote this post and all it's cross posts” function, which would make that problem worse...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah I dunno, that suggestion seems like it would defeat the entire purpose of having separate communities in the first place.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I think maybe only subscribers should be allowed to downvote, but anyone should be able to upvote

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Easily upload and include images in comments. Right now you have to use a third party image hosting site, and add the URL in order to put images in comments.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Not sure about other apps, but Summit has an image upload button. They go to media.piefed.social

I would imagine hosting images would cost a fair bit. Perhaps they can have a premium option to fund it.

The website / PWA can't currently upload images.

Summit doesn't have deduplication yet.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Browse a list of communities sorted by their Monthly Active Users (MAU). It could make discovering popular or active communities a bit easier. Just a thought! It's not something I'm really missing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Bring back pseudonymous voting agents. Literally the killer feature of piefed, killed by stupid forum politics.

I do not give a single goddamn fuck about brigading or vote manipulation whatever nonsense the fediverse admin cabal has convinced themselves matters on their discord stovepipe. Vites are not real. They cannot hurt you. I do not want my plaintext voting activity to be hoovered up by anyone listening to the activitypub feeds, which is already used to foster censorship and will inevitably be used to enable targeted astroturfing. Rimu, please be more brave about this.

Mark my words, this will be the "hindsight" issue a few years from now. "How the fuck did anyone think public voting was a good idea" will be the postmortem of the fediverse.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Hmm. In a sense, votes aren't real, but if that's true, then why do they exist at all?

And if you don't like that your votes are public, then perhaps simply don't vote, since the votes aren't real anyway?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

People have deluded themselves into thinking that the Fediverse is so small no government entity cares enough to set up a simple instance that just sits there and sucks up data. It might not even be being used at the moment but the moment they want to it would be easier than most people realize to connect their account to an individual.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Please put the bookmark/save button on the thingy down there. There's plenty of room.

Other than that and some kickass themes, I think PieFed is ahead of the curve in the lemmyverse ATM.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Create a clear description of Piefed on the about page or another relevant page to direct users there instead of the code repository or specific instances.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Many posts don't have a language selected so 'content language' preference should either allow selecting those, or a setting to reverse it turning it into a block list with all languages automatically selected, then allow the user to deselect his language to block the rest.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Cross-posting text-only posts

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

👆 Yes please

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

This is planned for the 1.2 release (at least it is on the kanban board).

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Allow user to view only votes from the instance they are using

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Somewhat related, it would be super interesting to get a breakdown of what the votes are like on a per instance basis. Maybe some sort of pie chart.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Oooh, vote stats. How many from community subscribers vs. not, from each instance, perhaps a timeline of when they came in, etc. Reddit had something similar.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thanks devs for making piefed first of all I love the alternative.

I really disliked these two options being enabled by default without informing me at the very least. I ended up subscribed to a bunch of stuff I didn't want to be subscribed to before I figured out what caused it initially when I first signed up.

Honesty I don't know why anyone would want that as default behaviour?

I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.

Native image upload support so I don't need an app / uploading to imgbb manually sucks on a phone.

Edit: if it's cost prohibitive to store media uploads even with file size limits I'd like more external options for image hosts than for example Summit app who only offers imgur as an alternative. Or let users enter a custom image hoster url or something.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.

This is already live. If you are viewing a community, click Top in the bar and it should be a dropdown menu where you select the timerange:

If you are on a small mobile screen (like using the PWA), the different time options are listed out with the other sort options:

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I thought of another one. In this age of decreasing digital freedom, PieFed (and every other website) should allow people to register multiple email addresses, in case a user suddenly loses access to one.

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