Cheers for hearing me out! :)

Piefed also uses PostgreSQL. He was mentioning that the limiting factor on either platform is the DB, meaning that the parts written in Python will likely not be a limiting factor.

Piefed also has quite impressive optimizations in other areas as well compared to Lemmy or even Mbin.

I think there would still be a desire for the relative in-between setting of just opting out of the bundling. My reasoning is that a community may want to be open to be viewed and commented by anyone so that they continue to grow and have more participation, either by search or random encounter from the /all view, as that allows slow organic growth with relatively few people wanting to go in there and derail conversations.

With bundling, that community will be seen by far more non-members than ever before if a popular link is posted around to multiple communities, inviting a significant amount of outside participation, and the potential for a much increased need to keep things on topic, or to step in and moderate drama from other communities with wildly different perspectives.

Without the ability to opt out of bundling, this leaves only the two extremes of potentially unwanted isolation, or potentially unwanted increased outside participation.

The only other option would be for a community to request their admin defederate from the troublesome community, or from the outside instance entirely, which is using a mallet to solve something that could be done with scalpel.

I do think the bundling is quite nice overall, and I don’t foresee a problem with it being the default, but I do strongly see the need for that middle ground option to opt-out, personally. The way Lemmy currently operates by default is effectively that middle-ground option that is missing from Piefed.

Our sysadmin explained some technical advantages here: https://feddit.org/post/13613230/7063696

This guy started out with fairly innocent parodies (I think), but he ended up falling down the alt-right pipeline, and is now a hard right christian. Any of his newer stuff is done to harm who he’s mocking, it is no longer good faith parody.

Yes, they’re 100% cross compatible. As an example, you can access !piefed_meta@piefed.social from your Lemmy instance seamlessly.

A piefed migration allowed the possibility of backing up every post, but it only shows up on the piefed instance itself, the old backed up posts don’t federate out.

Had Perish migrated to a Lemmy instance, there would be no backup at all, and we’d have to start from scratch. The only backup of the community would exist as the old posts from lemm.ee that exist on other instances.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social to visit it from your own instance to subscribe ^^

Thank you for keeping it alive other there, and all of your efforts!

The worst thing about it is, even if you switch to Linux for privacy yourself, you’ll also need your friends to switch as well, otherwise if you message them on their desktop, they’re a liability, as the damn recall will be there too, leaking your data.

It’ll be hell for activists.

We will, promise! :D

Out of curiosity, can a community opt out of its comments being bundled with others?

After seeing it in action, I think that’s actually a nifty feature that most communities and the threadiverse as a whole would benefit from, but I could also potentially foresee a minority of communities not wanting to increase their comments exposure to that degree.

Y’all got a cool ass logo, too :)

Ah, when you mentioned it was long-winded and should already be blatantly obvious, I thought you meant it was not useful information.

Any activitypub enabled software that mimics the Reddit style of longform thread/forum style social media with distinct topics.

Which at the moment is Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin.

Usually I’d post this to !breadtube@slrpnk.net, but unfortunately slrpnk will be down for a while, and figured I’d share it here in the meantime.

Is this community only for higher level discussions? I think for people newer to anarchism it’s a good encapsulation of the concept it tackles.

Kind’ve an odd suggestion, but if you like more arcade-y type games, and think you’d an enjoy a more advanced sorta spiritual successor to dig-dug, I’d recommend checking out Mr.Do! On the SNES. Weirdly good.

Sunset Riders is a fun and short western arcade shooter, as is Wild Guns.

There’s also a pretty neat Shadowrun RPG on the SNES.

Trillium Notes Next is a good open-source obsidian alternative without the bullet points of logseq.

That’d actually be pretty rad if it’s doable, especially now that the API for piefed was released and mobile apps are already beginning to support it.

I wouldn’t be too surprised if reddit was doing some action to keep Lemmy down (like down ranking posts that mention or link to Lemmy in their algorithm), but I don’t think lemm.ee shut down from any outside force attacking them, I think it was far more mundane.

A few things probably contributed:

1. Lemm.ee was the second biggest instance, that’s going to attract a fair amount of drama and trolls no matter how you slice it. If you don’t have enough mods or admins to deal with that load, it can be overwhelming.

MrKaplan of Lemmy.world mentioned that .world is able to handle their size effectively due to ensuring they have enough active mods to handle their communities so there’s less load for the admins, perhaps lemm.ee did not.

2. Their policy of non-defederation likely increased their drama and report burden, as some instances are known to have more toxic users than others, making defederation a powerful tool to make things manageable and quiet that report notification.

Combined with a lack of fresh admins to rotate out the ones getting burned out, and you’ve got a potent recipe to make the whole thing super un-fun and feel like an unappreciated slog of a job.