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

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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.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I have mixed feelings about the social/community implications of shared block lists.

It's essentially social blacklisting, and while it gives people more options for controlling what they see, I'm not entirely convinced it's healthy compared to manual blocking of users and servers on an individual level.

Auto ban sounds terrifying and definitely won’t be abused

japanese role-playing real-time

@tuxedocomputers deswegen schreibe ich dir ja, weil es eben nicht kommt. Es kommt das tuxedo symbol, und sonst passiert nichts mehr, wenn ich esc drücke kommt der Screenshot… also, grundsätzlich geht beim booten etwas schief. Und wie gesagt, es war jeweils eine komplett neue installation, ohne Dualboot oder sonst etwas.

@misha@bonfire.opentech-auc.org in last RC there's now a popup when you follow a group asking which subtopics you also want to follow

Sharing of ideas and code is a core tenant of FOSS. PyLova literally started as a copy of Piefed. Why shouldn’t the ideas and features flow both ways?

Multiple images in posts and in-line comment editing are basic features coppied from Reddit (and, like, every social media site), which probably coppied them from somewhere else. Let’s not pretend like PyLova is breaking new ground here, lmao.

@misha@bonfire.opentech-auc.org should be fixed in last RC

I don't feel that strongly about it. I think I just blocked Lemmy.ml and dbzero or whatever the hell it's called.

Yes I expect it will be a mixed bag. But we all know how much blocking new people need to do to make this place livable so hopefully this will help people get to that state quicker.

Are you looking for any of the following:

* Live coded busking organ*
* Free improvised tuba
* A whimsical anti-AI piece with a lot of projected text
* A musical meditation on futility and failure

I'm now booking for December onwards. DM me for more. (Your holiday party needs more futility.)

* Imagine a monkey grinding an organ. Its one of those, but I don't have a monkey, so I just turn the crank myself.

@danielpree Normalerweiuse kommt beim Start zuerst das Fenster mit der Passwortabfrage. Alles andere macht auch keinen Sinn, denn das System ist ja verschlossen, da kann kein Tuxedo Symbol kommen.

@ErogameTitles ?

#OtD 3 Oct 1993 Katerina Gogou, Greek anarchist poet, author and actor died by suicide aged just 53. After the fall of the dictatorship, she was a key figure in the early Athens anarchist scene, and a vigourous proponent of trans and gay rights

Let us be clear: Europe and its Settler colonies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and USA) all stand with Nazism.