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Thanks for pointing this out. I am not that active on masto, but I am from the Boston area, so this might be the kick I need to check out that side of the fediverse. I lived in Somerville for 10 years before more recently moving to the burbs. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in this country these days.

Growing up in the US, other responders are correct that school systems vary a lot depending on what state/district you live in. Over the course of my K-12 education, I attended 10 different schools across three states because my family moved a lot. There were times where I would switch schools and suddenly be way ahead in some subject and have completely skipped over some other topics. As an example, I never took a course in world history, but ended up having three separate US history courses because the different districts taught those subjects in different grades.

I do take issue with some of the commenters painting all US schools with a broad brush as terrible. There are excellent schools in the US and excellent school systems. As an example, I currently live in Massachusetts, and if you took it as its own country, it would be one of the best school systems in the world. In general, the states that prioritize education and pay teachers well end up with better educational outcomes. It’s not that surprising really, but a huge portion of the country seems to ignore that fact or spend money in less efficient ways.

discuss.online is doing it right. There is a significant overlap between discuss.online and lemmy.world’s admin teams, and I generally think they handle it about as well as could be expected of a general-purpose instance of their scale.

As for piefed, I think the primary things that help users filter their experience are the additional blocks that are at their disposal; blocking communities with a word in their name, blocking posts that match keywords, blocking posts that point to certain domains, etc. However, it can only help if a user actually goes through the effort of setting them up.

So, I see you joined ani.social and you have made mention of enjoying Japanese media elsewhere in this thread. In that case, I have some community recommendations for you:

• !anime@ani.social - The most active community for anime discussion (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !manga@ani.social - The most active community for manga discussion (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !lightnovels@ani.social - Community for Japanese light novels
• !animemes@ani.social - Memes, but anime
• !anime_irl@ani.social - Other anime memes

There are plenty of other communities out there for specific pieces of media, if you are looking for those as well. Some of the more active ones I am aware of:

• !frieren@ani.social - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End - Season 2 is airing right now!
• !dungeonmeshi@ani.social - Delicious in Dungeon
• !gundam@ani.social - General Gundam community (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !bocchitherock@sopuli.xyz - Bocchi the Rock
• !onepiece@lemmy.world - One Piece
• !overlord@sopuli.xyz - Overlord
• any of the communities on bookwyr.me - Ascendance of a Bookworm

lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social ages ago, so OP is at least spared on that front.

Yeah this is a bug in the PieFed api. Here is the relevant issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1608

The reputation score (sum of upvotes - downvotes) is something that only admins can see. I absolutely agree with a lot of the criticisms people have with reputations systems like this or reddit’s karma, but at the same time, it is one of the most reliable and highest signal to noise indicators of spam/scam/etc. accounts out there. If we were to remove it entirely, it would take away a powerful tool for flagging accounts like that to admins earlier rather than later. Oftentimes, we can spot accounts like that even before they get reported by other users because users are much more likely to downvote/block than go through the trouble of creating a report.

To address your other reply in the same place, ngrok is not affiliated with X’s (twitter’s) Grok. ngrok is a service that provides https tunneling much easier than manually managing domains. Developers often use this for proof-of-concept stuff or testing features that need SSL because ngrok addresses can be created and destroyed easier and quicker than manually managing your own dns.

In actuality, I didn’t even realize that ngrok was a sponsor. Or, was a sponsor at some point. Is this still accurate @rimu@piefed.social?

Pinging @rimu@piefed.social for help as well.

I don’t think the referer is checked at all for api endpoints, so I doubt that is the issue.

Here you go:

curl --request POST \
  --url https://feddit.online/api/alpha/user/login \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "username": "your_username",
  "password": "your_password"
}'

You can’t register from within Voyager, but you can log in to an existing account (the button on the lower right of the adding an account screen). The reason you can’t register a new piefed account in Voyager is because that functionality doesn’t exist in the API yet.

I was able to log in to feddit just fine using curl, so it seems to be voyager-specific. Not sure if there might be an errant cloudflare challenge or other kind of proxy-level filtering that it might be getting caught up in.

Not sure if @aeharding@vger.social might have suggestions for how to help ID the issue or get a more descriptive error message.

I can confirm that my feddit.online account isn’t working with Voyager for whatever reason. I was able to log in with a couple of other piefed instances without issue.

Tagging @jerry@feddit.online for visibility.

Edit: I just tried Boost and it worked with my feddit account. Could be something really weird going on.

This isn’t that far away from mine for two people: ~$600-$700 per month in a HCOL area and doing most of the cooking myself as well. I have found that sizing up a recipe for more people is only a marginal increase in cost. So, cooking for two is not just double that of cooking for one, but less.

The thumbtack trick was a game changer for me back when someone shared it with me. I have a dedicated thumbtack in a kitchen drawer now.

Ah, I see now. I had missed that this was for comments and not posts. I think I can see the bug in the PieFed API. The /comment/list endpoint is fairly complicated due to the way replies can be nested with different hierarchies, and I think it looks like it might not be filtering blocked users at a specific point. I opened an issue in the PieFed repo to keep track of this.

If you go to your blocks on your settings page in the web UI (not in Voyager), are the blocked people listed in the table down near the bottom? I took a quick look through the /post/list endpoint in the PieFed api and it looks like we are filtering blocked users correctly, so I wonder if the issue is that user blocks are not getting created correctly.

Another pleased Bosch owner here. The thing has been solid for about 3 years now since we had to replace an Asko that died.

For piefed.social specifically, there are some words/phrases in the filter currently. Most of them are malicious links that have been spammed in the past or phrases that have been present among private message spam waves. Only one racial slur that I see in the list.

The language really doesn’t have much to do with things like performance; at least not at the scale that most fedi instances operate at. For PieFed we are using the Flask framework and the overhead of an interpreted language and rendering jinja templates is absolutely negligible compared to the speed of the postgres database. Most of the performance optimizations we have had to make have been related to crafting better db queries or moving things like federation tasks to background workers.

Might Flask have trouble scaling to the size of reddit? Sure, but I don’t think that we necessarily need to optimize for a use case that may never happen and can also be alleviated by scaling out (more instances) rather than up. I know that rimu is already feeling like piefed.social is too big compared to other PieFed instances and has thought about closing registrations because of it. It is one of the reasons he made the built-in instance chooser, to try to move new users to other instances.

I wrote more about my thoughts on the pros/cons of python/flask in another comment.

as long as we don’t devolve into tribalism and attacks between the two that deter new users

Some people seem to find this hard. I might be one of the PieFed devs, but there are certainly reasons that people might want to use lemmy instead and I think they do some things better. No one platform is going to be the best.

In most cases, when bandwidth/latency is not a bottleneck, the thing that limits page load times is the database (in both lemmy and piefed’s case). So, if an instance has a beefy server they are running their db on, then it is going to snappier most of the time.