I’m not sure what you heard but this should clear it up any misunderstandings.

https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/06/what-piefeds-social-credit-system-actually-does/

No, PieFed posts have a ‘canonical’ meta tag which sends search engines to the original post. The local copy of a remote post is never indexed by Google anyway.

https://ahrefs.com/blog/canonical-tags/

Deletion of unnecessary data is a cost-saving measure which makes it much less likely that piefed.social will need to shut down forever. Lots of fedi software doesn’t do this and it has bad outcomes. Check this out:

mastodon.cloud has 1,300 active users:

Their running costs are $800 per month and now they’re shutting down.

I don’t know all the reasons why they’re closing down but clearly that is an insane amount of money for a service supporting that many users.

PieFed.social has 1600 users and costs whatever the electricity for a 10 year old computer is. $5 per month? On a Hetzner VPS it was about $50 per month.

This isn’t big tech where more data means more share price or more AI training data or deeper ad-targeting user profiles. This is smol tech where more data means more problems. If we want to preserve any content we need to delete some content.

There’s just you and me here, 1 person isn’t a pile on.

Sorry you’re having a bad time, I hope you feel better soon.

Fair enough.

How websites are labelled is up to the instance admin. It used to be that all labels were warnings but in the latest version of PieFed it became possible to use neutral or positive icons as well:

It still says ‘warning type’ and ‘warning on posts’ in the UI which is an oversight I’ve just noticed!

This change was a result of criticism I read. Often when people write that stuff they think they have discovered some nefarious thing that exists that way because I want it to. The fact is it was all thrown together very quickly so it’s not always well thought-out but when people don’t like things I listen and make changes. Nothing is set in stone.

PieFed has some sensible defaults but all blocks can be changed by the server admin. They’re not hard-coded.

PieFed has no hardcoded instance or user blocks. You were lied to by bad people.

Of the 12,730 accounts that were active in the last week, there are 60 with the so-called “low quality” indicator, or 0.4%.

And this is in an environment where people cast 32 times more upvotes than downvotes so to earn that badge you need to be super super completely absolutely unpopular. Consistently.

You’re part of a pretty special group.

Maybe try being less of an asshole? See how that goes for you.

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Lemmy’s lack of features is why Lemmys community is how it is and that suits the Lemmy devs and their political goals perfectly.

ideologically posed to keep the thing open, for the people, by the people

What. Check out the modlog, they ban more people than anyone.

It’s up to the mods and admins what they do with PieFed’s functions. Anything can be misused, even simple stuff. Like for example lemmy.ml has a description “a community for Foss and privacy enthusiasts” set by the admins and then ridicules and bans anyone who pushes back against the .ml political line on China. Lemmy.ml is not about foss and privacy.

The software feature of having a instance description is innocuous but it’s being used for deception.

Cool.

Btw if the default UI of piefed isn’t doing it for you, try https://b.piefed.social/ or https://p.piefed.social/. Use the same login.

Interesting, thanks

Abelism or not it took seconds to change so I don’t mind.

Attitude has turned out to be a lot less useful than I hoped…

I removed the word ‘stupid’ from the code 3 months ago, the function is now called ‘reply_is_low_effort’.

The haters don’t bother keeping their propaganda up to date.

whether it affects them immediately, or is just something they may be concerned about in the future.

There is a 99% chance it won’t effect them because 99% of people don’t vote more than the quota. I was very careful about that.

The vote quota can be set to whatever the instance admin desires. Just like any other terms of service, it’s up to the admin what they give away for free and under what conditions.

afaik only piefed.zip and multiverse.soulism.net have chosen to increase it, though.

Months of work to redo one super basic dialog box.

It blows my mind how slow large companies are.

How would people feel about a feature that lets them filter their feed by post type? You could choose not to see any videos or any images, etc.

Technically, 4 GB is supposed to be enough. https://support.image-line.com/action/knowledgebase?ans=82

But: https://www.reddit.com/r/FL_Studio/comments/14kdv0d/is_8gb_ram_enough_to_run_fl_studios/

Your CPU has only 2 cores. It’s probably the CPU holding you back more than the RAM. If you open up system monitor while working on a large project you’ll be able to see which maxes out first.