Actshually they are totally okay with raw fucking - it’s the call me later part that they forbid.

They must be the original inventors of the whole “friends with benefits” scene.

They make it extremely difficult, while still remaining on Lemmy.

PieFed makes it trivially easy. As do the older apps Sync and Connect. Otherwise you are looking at something like a custom Ublock Origin filter rule, or starting your own instance (or joining one that has already defederated from them, which almost none do).

The “instance block” is sadly misnamed as it does not block the instance, nor its users, and would be better thought of as a community mute.

PieFed is awesome for other reasons - it has a ton of features that Lemmy lacks, and is even working on features that Reddit itself did not bother with (notice how all of its features for the last many years were designed solely to increase profits, rather than enhance user experiences?). Its being built using Python rather than the extremely difficult to use Rust is really catapulting its development into overdrive.

Whelp, guess I’m not getting any work done today then:-|

The linked post explains:

A Lemmy.World user informed us about an instance we are federated with that was hosting very illegal content a while back. This was a result of an attack more than a year ago, and said content federated to many other instances, which made local copies of the material. Unfortunately, when this material was taken down at the source, that action did not federate to all linked instances, meaning that there are still some instances showing this material.

Once we were made aware of this, we realized that this was likely not the only occurrence, so we started looking for other instances where this content may also still exist. We have identified more than 50 affected instances and already reached out to many of them to inform them about this content to have it taken down.

It seems that it is quite difficult for instance admins to do things like permanently remove posts locally which have already been removed by a mod somewhere else. Ironically, by intentionally making it difficult to access, its inaccessibility afterwards makes it difficult to… uh… access, e.g. to delete it, very much a design flaw.

There is support for the alpha version of the API in the Interstellar app, and also a fork of Thunder, if you want a preview of what is to come. I haven’t played with the latter but the former, while a bit buggy to get started (if you click the wrong things, you’ll need to clear app data and start again), once you get hooked up successfully it seems to work quite smoothly (I did not do extensive testing though, just click several posts and read comments, etc.).

Hint: go into Settings -> Display -> at the bottom “Full image size for threads” will make it look a lot more like Voyager.

Thank you, that looks to like my fault in making a bad link. The exclamation point is supposed to indicate that a URL is an image to be rendered and then the text inside is the alternate text. PieFed, my Discuss.Online alt, and lemm.ee as a guest render that comment as just the alternative text for me in Firefox on Android, bc no image loads for it when it tries, but Chrome puts in that broken image indicator alerting people that no image was found when it attempted to look, which is helpful:-).

A proper linking: News and Politics.

This sounds fantastic, PieFed is growing so much so quickly!:-)

What… link (or image)?

I did not include either a link or an image, that I can see - did your app try to render/interpret some text as an image? I find such differences in how we all experience something in common to be fascinating!:-)

To be fair, the entire workflow of using PieFed is different than using Lemmy. It took me a whole week to switch, and much longer than that to refine my processes.

Like one thing you can do on PieFed, but not on Lemmy, is to ask for Notifications to be sent to you. For posts, for comments, for entire communities, for users, almost anything you want (okay so not an entire instance, that would be insane!:-) - and you can even stop receiving notifications for your own content as well, which is a HUGE advantage over Lemmy. I almost left Lemmy entirely when people from Hexbear and Lemmygrad kept pinging me for WEEKS and WEEKS on end, long after I ceased responding. To be fair that’s kinda what those communities do, but I did not know that at the time, and when browsing posts via All there is no way to see the community side-bar. Lemmy offers a TERRIBLE experience to someone who doesn’t already know how things work on the Threadiverse.:-( Btw, PieFed shows the community side-bar below every single post.:-) Anyway, for a community that is rarely posted to, or that you moderate, this is a great way to stay abreast of every single post.

Another difference is that on Lemmy, in order to find enough content I mostly browsed All, which meant that I had to constantly block communities that I had no interest in - like sports, individual geographic locations, etc. And that process never ends. I suppose the Threadiverse has gotten bigger over the last year so I’m not sure if that’s as big a deal as it used to be. Anyway, PieFed walks a new user through signing up to many communities, but more importantly the categories of communities allow for a continual viewing of so much more besides.

I want to be clear there: PieFed made my “Subscribed” feed actually usable, bc I can now do things like block content from e.g. c/news, yet still see anytime I want. I’m saying that I can both have my cake and also eat it too!

I too used to prefer the Lemmy UI. But now that I see what PieFed is offering that Lemmy never will, I don’t anymore.:-)

(Mostly, although I do miss certain things like seeing both up and downvotes listed separately - but PieFed is changing all the time and also app support is being added, plus the devs are extremely responsive, so if that or any feature is really something that people wanted, it would be prioritized and created very very quickly!:-)

Ah, sorry to hear that. Fwiw, I use the PieFed website UI on Firefox and am perfectly happy with that. There are several themes to choose from, and it has maximal features that way, not needing the app to catch up with them:-).

They both offer advantages that the other does not. The funny thing is that for PieFed, the advantages tend to be “features not available on Lemmy”, while for Lemmy it’s “having to change away from what I was already used to”, which is going to forcibly be changed out from under you regardless, the next time a major UI update occurs and your instance upgrades to it.

I almost want to dare you to just make a PieFed account and play with it for an hour… except you might be better to wait, given the high likelihood that you’ll be strongly tempted to switch:-).

In truth, I fall back to my Discuss.Online account often, in order to use the search function, which on PieFed is pretty lackluster. Then again, the rest of the 99.9% of the time I use my PieFed main, so there’s that:-).

Interstellar is the only app I am aware of that currently offers official support - isn’t that available on iOS?

There is also a fork of Thunder being tested, though afaik not officially released yet, as in available to download from the App Store.

After that, I would think that any open source app should quickly gain support for it.

Absolutely.

Google used to be better as well. And Reddit. And… well, enshittification affects everything, not just tech, but printers and food containing micro plastics and everything else we can buy.:-(

Are you sure that you don’t already know it by heart?

PieFed is amazing. I’m a bit biased ofc, being a PieHead (or whatever we are, I’m it!:-)

I thought for sure you must have misread it, but yeah it’s two points UP.

The metrics here are presumably so narrow and incomplete for 2025 as to be absolute misinformation. Relevant quote:

According to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, there were 49 journalist arrests in 2024 compared to only 15 in 2023.

And zero recorded for 2025 so far, according to that page.

To a tankie, facts are worse than insults.

They are not - he X/cancelled it.:-P

Baaaaphomet!?

Well… that’s not all that cm0002 has said about Lemmy.ml - that might just have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak:-).

e.g. search the Fediverse for the word “tankie” and their post is literally the top one:-). (And many others below that too)