quokka.au changed from Lemmy to PieFed and it was ok once the remote servers refreshed their public key caches, about a day.

Mastodon to GTS could turn out different but yeah.

PieFed does that. See https://piefed.social/feeds which are basically collections of Lemmy communities that you can join or leave with 1 click.

Yep

It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with tankie memes — interspersed with photos generated by AI

I’ve really tried to provide tools to tame the meme flood and put them into effect on https://piefed.social/ - compare that with the front-page (or All feed) of any Lemmy instance (or most PieFed instances, to be fair).

Gen AI filter is coming.

We’ve hard support for those spoiler things for a long time but there was a bug with it because /c/hardware uses the ::: tag in unexpected ways.

It’s fixed now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Done :)

Not yet but it’s on the roadmap for this year.

I think you can, by doing @piefed_meta@piefed.social

It’s almost the same as on Lemmy/PF except here we use ! on the front.

Fixed :)

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Although, replacing the battery on the Fairphone is so much easier that 1000 cycles is acceptable.

#fedihire hashtag on Mastodon is as close as it gets.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats

https://mbin.fediverse.observer/stats

Overall

https://fediverse.observer/stats

The way this is kinda solved for communities is by a convention of putting a ! on the start like !news@lemmy.world. See how PieFed turns that into a link to https://piefed.social/community/lookup/news/lemmy.world rather than just https://piefed.social/c/news@lemmy.world ? When ! links are used there’s a bit of work done behind the scenes to go to the remote instance and import the community from there if PieFed doesn’t already know about it already.

We do the same thing for feeds, using ~ instead of !

We could do something like that for posts. Maybe it’d be ^post/123@lemmy.world or whatever.

So it’s solvable, theoretically.

But usage is not going downwards. Check these stats out: https://fediverse.observer/stats

MAU has been steady at 1.1 million since this time last year.

Within the fediverse there are some platforms that are losing ground and some that are growing.

That’s right.

Also owners manage the list of moderators - mods can’t add or remove each other (although they can remove themselves).

No, all local communities are set to Forever.

I’ve been meaning to show the retention policy in the UI for ages, might do it today.

I appreciate the care you’re showing here.

If you upload something with a width or height greater than 2000 pixels it will get resized to be within that limit. That stops the most egregious wastage.

It depends on the content, a bit:

Quality stuff like https://piefed.social/c/artporn will be kept online ‘forever’ but I’ve set things up so that quite a lot of communities automatically delete posts after 6 - 12 months. Spam as many memes as you want I don’t care they’re going away after a while anyway.

Yes that would be a better way to do it :)

If you look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and sort by ‘active users’ you’ll see that there are really only a few instances that you need to worry about (not the second-biggest, lemm.ee as it’s closing soon). The vast bulk of users are concentrated in a handful of places.

If you go to the top 3 or 4 instances, to their search page and search for https://piefed.social/c/action_movies then look for a bit of text below any search results, saying something like “Action Movies@piefed.social - 0 subscribers”. That’s a link to the community. Click on it and then you’ll see the view of the community from the perspective of that instance. Join it using your alt on that instance.

If it says something other than “0 subscribers”, then someone else has already subscribed and you don’t need to. Seems like lemmy.world is already done, for example.

But just doing a post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world is way easier, people will do your work for you then.

Any scanner recommendations?