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Piefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days. (piefed.fediverse.observer)

submitted 5 days ago by Skavau@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Just thought I'd note this. Main beneficiary so far seems to be piefed.ca.

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[-] BB84@mander.xyz 34 points 5 days ago

I wonder, would these users still use PieFed if they have seen its codebase? Maybe it can be one day but right now it's 100% not production-grade software. Nonsensical hardcoded bans and blocks everywhere. >1000 lines of Python in a single file. Uses regex to parse HTML. The list goes on...

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago

uses regex to parse HTML

I see we are having fun these places!

[-] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 days ago

Maybe it can be one day but right now it’s 100% not production-grade software.

Why should we only use "production-grade software" software on the Fediverse? Isnt the beauty that we can use all kind of software as long as it interacts decently via the relevant protocols?

Also I am already using Lemmy, which is pretty known for its opinionated devs. This does not seem to be anything that would stop, especially when I can actually read the code as its in a language I can atleast understand somewhat

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 13 points 4 days ago

Lemmy, which is pretty known for its opinionated devs

The opinions of the devs have so far (at least as far as I know) not spread into the actual code though.

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[-] Skavau@piefed.social 13 points 5 days ago

If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?

And most people are not coders. What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that?

That's what makes it particularly sad. The people who didn't read the code have no idea what they're in for.

What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?

How about this one? 'enoughmuskspam', 'political_weirdos', 'piracy', 'memes' are hardcoded banned. 196 used to be banned to but they removed it from the "bad list".

Also "can be disabled" does not excuse hardcoded filtering. If they're serious they could implement a config system in an hour.

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[-] realitista@lemmus.org 5 points 3 days ago

I'm just waiting for my clients to be able to show a list of my upvoted items like they do for Lemmy.

[-] biltong@piefed.co.za 28 points 5 days ago

Welcome new users!!

[-] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 15 points 5 days ago

Greetings to South Africa

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 5 days ago

https://lemmy.world/post/42299745

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 12 points 5 days ago

Everyone knows this. This is also just piefed.social.

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[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago

Been looking to migrate off .ml, can y'all sell me on switching to piefed?

[-] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Piefed has so many issues. It’s great at adding new features, but it’s so bad at free speech.

See this: https://lemmy.ml/comment/23662293

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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:

a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.