@FediTips

Seems fine (prefer a star for 'like' tho 🤷‍♀️ ).

It's good compared to some of the web interface layout updates, which have diminished visual breaks between elements, making the updated UX slower and harder to navigate, ime. It looks a bit chaotic.

The Seeing Center (2005.5)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (183,746 reviews)

"This Best Picture-winning Tour de Force follows Moses Jackson, a good-hearted African-American PhD from Brooklyn, as he moves to a rural southern school to introduce some rowdy, expressive, redneck kids to the joys of learning, overcoming racial and economic divides in the process."

over the last ~20yrs or so, software has basically worked, so corporate idiots have concluded it's a solved problem and they can get rid of a bunch of the people who were making it work behind the scenes, and now we're all going to pay for it. it's the same thing that happened with vaccines: you heroically solve the problem with **very** complex social and technological tools, and then the dumbest people in the world take over and conclude that the problem actually never existed.

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https://wordwrap.lol/neatnik/2026-11-14_204653

So Fetterman went on Fox to say that he'll leave the party if Van Hollen becomes majority leader, and I can scarcely think of a bigger endorsement than that

That Rs are also backing Schumer is just icing on the putrid corporatist democrat cake

No changes to the whip count for today, so just going to link yesterday's post (below). However, that does not mean nothing happened. The Hill had a really specious article sourcing aides to Schumer saying they have 40 Senators in the bag and listing a bunch including Ron Wyden, who have not publicly declared. Perhaps in response, Wyden announced this evening he was still undeclared and that his vote would go to whoever is best to deliver Medicare For All. So touche.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117612164670980651

@jalefkowit Ooh. I have recently enjoyed variations on the 3 Envelope Slow-Cooker Pot Roast, but then I have to go out specifically to shop for the envelopes. This is a bit more effort but much more my speed. #InstantPot

AI agents are signing up to Mastodon instances with @agent.qq.com emails. That domain is Agently Mail, a Tencent service that gives AI agents their own mailbox.

One applied to socialontario.ca today with a polite generic join reason I almost fell for ("a calm corner of the fediverse to share notes about everyday life, books and small projects") and a Hong Kong datacenter IP

I blocked the email domain. Fellow admins may want to check their pending signups for it.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Spam

@arstechnica a future run by a fascist trillionaire, but a future nonetheless

@andypiper I once improved a library that wasn't working very well. The ring signal tended to dominate. The only issue was its sensitivity compared to a ringer that used a dedicated, off-the-shelf chip..

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What could be a better way to qualify who is allowed to vote for a community’s mods?

Mods are volunteers. Not paid civil servants. Community mods are also not there to win a popularity contest. They are there to enforce the rules of the community. Not everyone is going to agree with any mod on every decision.

Mods are human and can make mistakes. Contacting a mod if there is an issue usually works more often than not. Attacking a mod, threatening a mod, being abusive to a mod because you see a situation differently is not the best way to go about discussing anything, and normally does not help the situation.

You are free to leave the community, start your own, and mod it the way you feel it should be done. Communities do not need to vote for qualified mods. Too many interpretations of what constitues qualified for a community run by volunteers.

cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/piefed-v1-9-is-released-shared-bl…

New features

• Shared blocklists - these are like feeds except instead of listing communities to join it lists people to block. To to Account -> Blocklists to find this feature. Changes by the blocklist author effect all the people who subscribe to the list, causing them to block the list members. They federate, so you can subscribe to blocklists on other instances.
• Edit comments inline, without loading a separate page - wjs018
• Fediverse statistics at piefed.social/statistics
• 2-factor authentication (TOTP) - can be added to your account in the ‘Security’ page in your settings.

For admins

• Auto-ban based on the bans that instances you choose, with keyword matching on the ban reason. Go to /admin/users/auto_ban. Try putting ‘piefed.social’ in as the instance and ‘spam’ as the keyword filter. It’ll cut down on the work involved in running your instance SO much.
• Voting pattern graph on user profiles to help spot automated voting.
• Reset the password of any user.
• Lots of inauthentic behaviour reports for finding bots and serial downvoters, see /admin/votes and PM me for an instructional video. It’s a lot to take in but the video will explain it all.

API

• edit matrix user id when saving user profile data.
• scheduled post endpoints - wjs018

Plus a lot more bits and pieces, browse the list of recent releases in the 1.8.x line at codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases for details.

To upgrade from 1.8.x or earlier

git pull
git checkout v1.9.x

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker2.sh

Donations

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feedback on my solution

He gave you a good one but I’ll explain: there is no karma here. But spammers have a lot of accounts, which would mean one spammer would be able to elect himself which is not what we want.

So your probelm with the platforms is not the platforms themselves, but people? Because the mods running communities here aren’t too different from the refit communities.

As for your second point, you want karma farmers to run the communities?

@Daojoan

I started reading the book, and right in the introduction, I think there is a mistake -- " the strike itself was important. Lincoln wanted his generals to think boldly. He recognized the value of a mission like Andrews' suicide raid and posthumously awarded the first Medals of Honor in American history to Andrews and his men."

My recollection (although I was not there) is that two of the Andrews raiders who had recently escaped captivity and made it to Washington and dropped in to visit the Secretary of War. During their visit, the Secretary of War remembered that the first Medals of Honor had just arrived at his office, thought it would be a good idea to give a couple of them to his visitors, and so it was done. The recipients carried them out of the casual appointment without ceremony or ado. I think it has been 10 or 20 years since I listened to quite a detailed audiobook about that raid. Please correct me if I have been misinformed.