I am also ‘Andrew’, the admin of this server. I’ll try to remember to only use this account for posting stuff.

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Cake day: February 17th, 2025

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  • Typically, if you see that one person is being banned from a bunch of communities at the same time, it just means that they are being banned from the instance.

    If an admin wants to ban one of their own users, it’s a single activity that’s federated out, but if they want to ban a remote user, the only way it can be done under the current system is for every community that the banned person has interacted with to ban them. It’s an automatic process, triggered by the admin pressing one button once. (it’s not a perfect solution, because nothing prevents the banned user interacting with other communities, at least as far as their local instance is concerned).






  • No. The app was forked from a Lemmy app (Thunder), so there’s not much PieFed-specific in it (e.g. there’s also no support for Polls). The exception is that it supports post / comment subscribing (I was notified of your comment, even though I’m not the OP of this post).

    I created a new instance for testing the app, and I didn’t create any Topics (partly laziness, partly because the whole area is being re-evaluated for user-created Topics, aka Feeds).

    The app will lag behind the site in features, 'cos adding stuff for direct HTML rendering will always be easier than adding stuff that’s got to come through an API.



  • I assumed the same, when I read their announcement. But requests from my site, for their users or their communities, do not work. A ‘text/html’ request gets the UK-specific rejection in HTML, but so does a ‘activity+json’ request. Based on this, sites in the UK that are already aware of existing lemmy.zip actors will be okay, but they won’t be able to initiate profile updates, or fetch the details for any new lemmy.zip actors. Because my site was created after the geo-block came in place, I’m essentially deferated from them (for now, hopefully).