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Yeah, that does help - e.g. if people started defederating lemmy.ml, then all the Hexbear users that went there after being defederated from many popular instances would make alts on other platforms and it would be much harder to avoid their continual trolling:-).

And yes I've previously had several quite pleasant conversations with people from lemmy.ml, though I have now managed to leave them behind by moving to PieFed.social where I can block the entire instance. I will block many innocent users that way but... I am okay with that, compared to the alternative of having to put up with each new one that comes along and harasses people. Many people of conscience are fleeing that instance anyway, and the rest have most definitely been warned so it's their choice, but I am not letting their recalcitrance dictate my own choices in turn:-).

Truth hurts.

Janeway hurts moar though:-D

Omg that is beautiful! Yes as you say that particular style of image was really hard to get working as Lemmy likewise struggled with it - perhaps you arrived at the same or similar solution, but even if yours is a totally different solution that's awesome that you've already cracked it!:-)

I've been trying to keep a list of things I am experiencing, though some of it were things that I encountered on a smaller Lemmy instance as well, like delays in federation - e.g. I pulled in this post https://piefed.social/post/295422 but it shows (to me) as having zero comments, when in reality it should have 18. Though I am guessing that there is a quite good chance that it may catch up in the next day or two. I also tried to "leave" and then re-"join" some communities, in case that may help trigger the federation action to pull from the original host.

Hey I have a question that you may enjoy, and if not then that's okay to tell me too:-). On a Mac desktop using Chrome, I cannot simply do the left-swipe to use the "back button" to return to a previous page. That works on Lemmy, but not PieFed. Although moving the mouse way up to the actual Back button works, as does keyboard shortcuts (command-leftarrow). And the same for right-swipe / Forward button. I am not sure if I am even using the correct terminology there but I hope that helps:-). It seems so silly, but since it is something that I may do tens of times each hour, possibly multiple times per minute at peak, I find that it really slows down the navigation. Is that something that others have mentioned and/or that could perhaps be fixed, or is this something too deeply ingrained in how the UI works? Making for a "smoother experience" seems like it would be a good thing if possible though.

And either way, I hope this conversation is interesting to you:-).

There was a great mini-series we had going on in Lemmy about this... I can't find any of it now though. So this is the best I can do on short notice:

Edit: ooh, here's one of them:

Unfortunately I cannot see my own image here:-(. There is no Preview functionality yet on PieFed, though I confirm that you can see it properly on Lemmy.World. So there are some kinks to be worked through... but yeah, maybe this doomed instance that looks at first like it's behind Lemmy will pull through and ahead! :-)

Wait, let me get this straight.

First, you kill the person with the power, then you get the reward?

So let's see, who - after killing Tuvix - has all the power now..., hrm... which one could it be...?

-conservatives

I believe so, though I cannot find great examples to prove it. e.g. [email protected] exists but is empty. Then again, I saw similar occurrences with my old instance, Discuss.Online, when nobody had yet joined [email protected]. So I joined it, waited a day or two, and then all the posts showed up - this is the way that communities used to have be federated, before Blaze went around to virtually every instance and joined almost literally every community to make it already happen for people:-). Anyway, Blaze seems to not have done that for PieFed yet, so I will do it myself.:-)

Yeah it's probably client-side. Boost... that's good to know, thanks!:-)

Do you do it individually, or use like an app or something? Bc the Lemmy instance block does very little - only blocking communities but not users from that instance.

PieFed btw allows user blocking of any custom instance you want though:-) - I just switched to it today and think I am going to be happier here. It's not quite as polished as Lemmy, but on the other hand I don't see true user-level blocking ever being added to Lemmy no matter how long the wait. So I decided that I was tired of wading through the garbage rooting for treasure, and just decided to block it all.