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Piefed contributor and part of the piefed.social admin team.

  • Piefed.social login says I was banned, but all signs point to my profile still being active.

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  • I just checked in the admin panel and your user isn't banned. It's possible that you might be quite unlucky with a VPN exit node or something and are now on an IP that was previously subject to a ban. We tend to not use IP bans except in egregious cases, but those users also tend not to connect via their home connection.

    Things you can try:

    • Try clearing your browser cache for piefed.social. You want to remove any cookies that might be left in your browser from the site.
    • If you are using a VPN try turning it off and clearing your browser cache. Basically trying to start fresh with a new IP address.
    • If you aren't using a VPN, try from a mobile device, third-party app, or one of our alternative frontends (photon, blorp)

  • How closely are the feds watching lemmy?

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  • Piefed does allow users the option to not federate their votes. So harvesting that data would mean needing local access to the infrastructure or snooping on traffic to/from your local instance.

  • anime@ani.social Submission for Lemmyvision 3 - "Hunting Soul" by HAYASii from "Dan Da Dan" Season 2

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    anime@ani.social Submission for Lemmyvision 3 - "Hunting Soul" by HAYASii from "Dan Da Dan" Season 2

  • Submission from ani.social/c/vocaloid: Birdbrain (w/ OK Glass) by Jamie Paige feat. Kasane Teto

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  • It's a great pick and one of my favorite vocaloid songs. Teto has been blowing up in the past year and Jamie Paige has put out some of Teto's best stuff.

  • Suggestion: Create a tag curation role similar to admin

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  • Just to be clear, I think Skavau is proposing an idea, not talking about a feature that currently exists within PIeFed.

    Overall, more fine-grained roles and permissions are a recurring topic that has come up in discussions. That is both among the developers and with other instance admins. I think being able to make some users be able to take some actions like clean up/assign flair or edit wiki pages without being given all the moderator powers would be a big improvement.

    The really hard part of this comes when you introduce federation. You both need to give a user the ability to do the thing and also allow other instances to recognize that they have the permission to do that thing, or else their actions will not federate.

  • Bug: quotation marks get garbled

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  • Edit: Seems like this is a lemmy problem in general with quotation marks in the spoiler summary block. If you are on a lemmy instance and put this into the markdown, it will render the same way: 

     md  
        
::: spoiler "Quotes" get garbled  
That summary above is messed up.  
:::

    So, this isn't a PieFed issue at all, but something to do with lemmy's markdown to html conversion improperly url-escaping quotes when it is in a <summary> tag.

    Ok, I was really confused about this since I couldn't reproduce this at all. However, this seems to only apply to quotes that are in a spoiler header. I made a codeberg issue for this.

  • [Roadmap] Help me prioritize what to work on

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  • viewing posts that aren’t in communities

    Integrating microblogging more has been a common request in PieFed, but I keep running into this issue whenever I think about it. Posts belonging to a community are so integral to how the whole system works that undoing that is a huge lift.

    I don't know how much of a lift it might be from the UI side when consuming mbin's API, but at least on the server side, this feature is likely to just be mbin for the foreseeable future.

  • Featured

    Lemmyvision 3 is now live!

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  • Follow-up question: I am trying to get a feel for the "international hit" rule and how to apply it in this case. Anime is already a bit of a niche, but it can certainly break out into the mainstream, and I don't want to contravene the spirit of this event by just choosing something that already hit it big so to speak.

    My initial thought for an easy way to gauge this for our community is that videos over a view threshold should be excluded. An arbitrary value might be something like 10M or so. Looking over the award nominees from 2025 in the community for musical piece, that would exclude 3 of the 6 nominees.

    Does that seem reasonable?

  • Featured

    Season 2 - Stats & Info

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  • It's really interesting that both season 1 and season 2 lasted almost exactly as long as one another. That is even after everybody got a second press within the first 24 hours to try to help carry it over until the button refresh happened. It really shows that there aren't enough users active in that timezone to help it through to the next day.

  • Featured

    Lemmyvision 3 is now live!

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  • Question: would the !anime@ani.social community be able to submit an anisong from this past year? That would be a song made for an anime show or movie.

  • After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X

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  • Thanks for pointing this out. I am not that active on masto, but I am from the Boston area, so this might be the kick I need to check out that side of the fediverse. I lived in Somerville for 10 years before more recently moving to the burbs. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in this country these days.

  • Is it true that the education system is crap in America?

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  • Growing up in the US, other responders are correct that school systems vary a lot depending on what state/district you live in. Over the course of my K-12 education, I attended 10 different schools across three states because my family moved a lot. There were times where I would switch schools and suddenly be way ahead in some subject and have completely skipped over some other topics. As an example, I never took a course in world history, but ended up having three separate US history courses because the different districts taught those subjects in different grades.

    I do take issue with some of the commenters painting all US schools with a broad brush as terrible. There are excellent schools in the US and excellent school systems. As an example, I currently live in Massachusetts, and if you took it as its own country, it would be one of the best school systems in the world. In general, the states that prioritize education and pay teachers well end up with better educational outcomes. It's not that surprising really, but a huge portion of the country seems to ignore that fact or spend money in less efficient ways.

  • Ketchup is shear-thinning substance, which explains why jams in the bottle yet flows freely with mild agitation.

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  • My Ph.D. is in rheology and material science. One of the craziest papers I ever remember reading was about the non-Newtonian behavior of frog tongues and saliva. I still think about this paper from time to time. There was a sequence of pictures showing a frog tongue (removed from the rest of the frog) lying on a table, and then somebody touching it with an ungloved finger and showing how sticky it was as they retracted their finger. What they won't get poor grad students to do...

    Link to the paper (pdf warning).

  • How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?

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  • discuss.online is doing it right. There is a significant overlap between discuss.online and lemmy.world's admin teams, and I generally think they handle it about as well as could be expected of a general-purpose instance of their scale.

    As for piefed, I think the primary things that help users filter their experience are the additional blocks that are at their disposal; blocking communities with a word in their name, blocking posts that match keywords, blocking posts that point to certain domains, etc. However, it can only help if a user actually goes through the effort of setting them up.

  • Swept up in an IP ban?

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  • Alright, I need to step away to do actual work that pays the bill at this point, but wanted to drop what I found here before doing so.

    • Summit seems to be 403-ing for piefed.social. However, I was able to log in to other piefed sites (feddit.online, piefed.ca, my dev instance) with Summit, so it's probably just piefed.social I guess?
    • I tried both Boost and Voyager and they were both able to log into piefed.social.
    • I was able to confirm that Summit wouldn't trip any of the user-agent related filtering in the codebase (to try to keep scrapers out of certain things).

    My guess at this point is that there might be something wonky going on at the infrastructure/WAF-level. If so, then this status quo is going to stick around until @rimu@piefed.social can dive into it. My sysadmin skills are not the best when it comes to this kind of thing.

  • Swept up in an IP ban?

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  • I see, so Summit is where the 403's are coming from. I'll do some testing on my end and see if I can figure it out.

    Edit: confirm that Summit is giving a 403, but other apps are still working...investigating....

  • Swept up in an IP ban?

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  • Mobile browser, or one of the apps (voyager, summit, interstellar, etc.)?

  • Swept up in an IP ban?

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  • It's unlikely to be an IP ban. Within the piefed software, an IP ban basically coincides with a site ban. At the infrastructure level, your IP may be banned because it was doing some pretty heavy DDOS'ing and got swept up that way. Since your user isn't banned, try switching between a mobile network and a wifi connection to see if that resolves things since your IP would have changed.

    Are you trying the mobile browser or one of the mobile apps? If it is the mobile browser, try clearing the site data for piefed (cookies, etc.). There have been some cases in the past where a browser's local cache is not being refreshed properly and weird stuff starts to happen, like the CSRF tokens mismatching and whatnot.

  • PieFed Users By Day Growth

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  • My goodness, I hadn't realized how big fedinsfw.app had become. It's now easily the biggest piefed instance with almost 2x the MAU of piefed.social.

  • Python @programming.dev
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    OpenAI to Acquire Astral (maker of uv, ruff)

    openai.com /index/openai-to-acquire-astral/
  • Animation @piefed.social
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    PSA: Vote for the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards

  • PieFed Plugins @piefed.social
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    PieFed Application Actions

    codeberg.org /wjs018/piefed_application_actions
  • Anime @ani.social
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    News

    "The Ghost in the Shell" (2026) New Key Visual, PV

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Bug: Tap and Hold On an Image With Alt Text Doesn’t Bring Up the Share Menu

  • Anime @ani.social
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    Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol Anime Officially in Production

    www.crunchyroll.com /news/latest/2026/1/25/dragon-ball-super-anime-galactic-patrol-adaptation-announcement
  • Dragon Ball @ani.social
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    Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol Anime Officially in Production

    www.crunchyroll.com /news/latest/2026/1/25/dragon-ball-super-anime-galactic-patrol-adaptation-announcement
  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    "Ubunchu!" - The Official Manga from The Ubuntu Magazine Japan has now been fully translated into English (under an open license of course)

  • PieFed API & mobile app dev @piefed.social
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    Stable API Docs

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "Ascendance of a Bookworm" Season 4 New Key Visual

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten" Season 2 New Visual

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "Eleceed" Anime Adaptation Announced with Key Visual, PV

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "My Hero Academia: Vigilantes" Season 2 Announced with Teaser Visual, PV

  • Anime @ani.social
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    Special Illustration for 7th Kyoto Animation Exhibition

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "My Dress-Up Darling" Season 2 New Key Visual, PV

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen" Season 2 Announced with Illustration

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "I Left My A-Rank Party" Season 2 Announced with Visual

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (Part 1)" New Key Visual, PV

  • Anime @ani.social
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    "Secrets of the Silent Witch" New Visual, PV