Piefed contributor and part of the piefed.social admin team.
My Ph.D. is in rheology and material science. One of the craziest papers I ever remember reading was about the non-Newtonian behavior of frog tongues and saliva. I still think about this paper from time to time. There was a sequence of pictures showing a frog tongue (removed from the rest of the frog) lying on a table, and then somebody touching it with an ungloved finger and showing how sticky it was as they retracted their finger. What they won’t get poor grad students to do…
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.
Alright, I need to step away to do actual work that pays the bill at this point, but wanted to drop what I found here before doing so.
My guess at this point is that there might be something wonky going on at the infrastructure/WAF-level. If so, then this status quo is going to stick around until @rimu@piefed.social can dive into it. My sysadmin skills are not the best when it comes to this kind of thing.
I see, so Summit is where the 403’s are coming from. I’ll do some testing on my end and see if I can figure it out.
Edit: confirm that Summit is giving a 403, but other apps are still working…investigating…
Mobile browser, or one of the apps (voyager, summit, interstellar, etc.)?
It’s unlikely to be an IP ban. Within the piefed software, an IP ban basically coincides with a site ban. At the infrastructure level, your IP may be banned because it was doing some pretty heavy DDOS’ing and got swept up that way. Since your user isn’t banned, try switching between a mobile network and a wifi connection to see if that resolves things since your IP would have changed.
Are you trying the mobile browser or one of the mobile apps? If it is the mobile browser, try clearing the site data for piefed (cookies, etc.). There have been some cases in the past where a browser’s local cache is not being refreshed properly and weird stuff starts to happen, like the CSRF tokens mismatching and whatnot.
My goodness, I hadn’t realized how big fedinsfw.app had become. It’s now easily the biggest piefed instance with almost 2x the MAU of piefed.social.
I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening and I am really looking forward to it.
For those out there poking the code, please disclose responsibly! Don’t just make a public post about a security vulnerability, reach out to the devs first to give them a chance to create a fix.
Ironically enough, the federation issues weren’t just present for mastodon, but more general, and rimu’s response didn’t federate over to zip. Here is a direct link to his response. I think the technical details are that there was an issue where webfinger responses were not always working reliably.
Yeah, I suspect this is why rimu made the initial version of private communities just local and not federated at all. Once things that are meant to remain private start traveling across the network to other servers, it’s questionable how private that information can remain, especially if other software is involved.
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:
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:
lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social ages ago, so OP is at least spared on that front.
The navbar that is across the top of the page when on a desktop browser collapses into the hamburger menu at the upper right corner when on a narrower, mobile screen. Expand that and then Account to see the bookmarks.
The hamburger menu system is kind of clunky, so that is why the bar along the bottom was introduced, but it doesn’t have all the options.
My D&D group just started a Delta Green campaign last month. It’s been a bit of a change, but I have been enjoying the focus on role playing over lots of mechanic-driven combat. The combat is often my least favorite part of D&D.
It’s a little known fact that we actually previously had an NSFW piefed instance for a week or two to do testing. Some of the features that were included to help instances like that were the disclaimer screen that comes up before any content page loads (this site has NSFW content…etc.). Also, I know some code was added to make some common NSFW hosting sites work better (as an example, there is some special code to deal with redgifs embeds).
The last thing that comes to mind is to allow admins to specify countries for which NSFW content is blocked (based on IP address). This was added in response to admins wanting to deal with content restrictions like the UK have and are sadly becoming more common across the globe.
Yeah this is a bug in the PieFed api. Here is the relevant issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1608
Pretty easy for me as I tend to not comment too much other than about development issues and bug reports. So, I usually have my user flair set to PieFed Contributor or something along those lines.
It’s been a pretty heroic effort from @nykula@piefed.social. Really well done and much appreciated.
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.