Hello!
I’ve recently started self-hosting piefed and federation seems to be working well! I can find communities, post to communities and the data is synced between instances.
However, when I select the local filter on my personal instance, nothing shows up. I can’t seem to find a way to mirror the post locally without setting up a community and reposting it there. But wouldn’t that duplicate data as the original image is already stored locally?

Am I missing something? I suppose what I’m wanting the local filter to do is show all content from local users not just local communities. Is there a way to do that?

Also this tech is crazy!! Very grateful that it exists. Excited for the future!

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Congrats :)

    Yeah in Mastodon local means ‘posted by people on this instance’ but that’s a different definition of ‘local’ than what PieFed and Lemmy uses. Here local means ‘posted in a community hosted on this instance’.

    That’s an interesting idea though and I’m open to making a second Local or an admin setting that changes what local does, if there is widely felt interest in it.

    • cherry@fedi.mildseason.xyzOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Thanks so much for the quick response! Big respect for the work that you’re doing. A second local would be amazing. I’ll keep my fingers crossed :)