Jerry on PieFed

Just a techie guy running feddit.online to allow people to communicate, make friends and acquaintances. Odd coming from a happy introvert, right? (https://jerry.hear-me.blog/about)

I also own:
Mastodon: https://hear-me.social/
Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social/
Peertube instance: https://my-sunshine.video/
Friendica: https://my-place.social/ XMPP server: https://between-us.online/
Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social/ (jerry.blue-ocean.social)
and more…

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Cake day: September 29th, 2024

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  • Friendica doesn’t use the “!” notation. This is only a notation that a Lemmy, Piefed, or MBIN instance understands.

    Friendica instead uses the familiar account notation used by Mastodon, Sharkey, Misskey, etc. It sees the Lemmy community as a user that is also a group.

    If you want to follow, for example, the “asklemmy” community at lemmy.world, in the “Add New Contact” box, just enter : [email protected], and then click the “Connect” button, and it will find it, and you can follow it like any other account. Friendica will recognize it as a “Group”, as opposed to an individual account, and it should show up in your Groups section.

    Let me know if this works.


  • In smaller instances, you can easily reach the Admin and are much more likely to get a response. Also, the moderation is likely done completely by the Admin and not by a less-invested person who might be enjoying the power and control of being a moderator.

    From my experience, about 80% of opened reports are self-resolvable and don’t need Admins or moderators and is just someone seeing the world through a biased lens, so everything they don’t believe becomes misinformation, and they start opening reports for vengeance. When many of these keep coming, it wears Admins and moderators down, and they are more likely to just ban than respond. This fatigue is not something a small instance Admin experiences. They give more thought to the situation.

    I was banned on mastodon . social because someone who disagreed with me perfectly crafted a complaint (they apparently had a lot of experience doing this) that took what I wrote out of context to seem like I was saying something else, and .social banned me instantly and denied the appeal. The claim was total fiction. They didn’t care. They had a stack of reports to get through. I had no hope of reaching an Admin.

    I never used a large instance again.

    Just something, maybe, to think about.
























  • I have a Mastodon, Friendica, Peertube, and a PieFed instance. I’m an Admin.

    Let me make sure I understand. You are asking whether I would care if you were using my server, and you asked a different server Admin to remove your data from their server (and probably ban you on that server)?

    If this is what you are asking, I personally wouldn’t give it any thought. It’s your data. If you don’t want it on some other server, then you certainly have that right. I frankly don’t think any Admin would have a problem with this. Even the opposite would be fine. If someone asked me to remove their data that came in remotely.

    I might even be impressed that you are enforcing and thinking about your rights to privacy and your right to control your own data.




  • The key word here is “connected” instances. You don’t find hashtag-related posts from all the servers, just the servers that your server is connected to and also only posts that your server has seen from other servers.

    This is why, on my instance, I relay with over 300 other instances, some of them are the larger ones. All the posts they see on their server are duplicated onto my smaller server. The impact is that while my server is small, it has the same messages as one of the large servers which makes for a better experience. Note that Mastodon.social does not relay with any other instance. Not that most instances could possibly hold all their posts and accounts anyway.

    When I search for hashtags on my instance, I do get a lot of hits.

    Many smaller servers do not relay as much as I do, or at all, because it requires disk space to store all the posts, images, and accounts that are streaming in constantly from all these other servers. I don’t have these concerns because I have unlimited capacity. So, the experience will vary depending on which server your account is on.


  • You have to use hashtags on Mastodon if you want your messages to be seen because there is no AI to fill timelines. People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you’ll get likes and boosts.

    And, you control your own timeline by following hashtags, following people, and searching for hashtags. This way, unlike Twitter, your timeline only has posts that you are interested in. Once you get this set up, it’s quite nice to only see posts that you like reading, without advertising and without posts meant to enrage you.

    Also you can use https://fedi.directory to find great people to follow.