Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed
I was going to recommend this to someone I know but when I realised your readme.md is entirely AI-generated, I guess the whole project is probably vibe-coded. I can’t in good conscience recommend someone trust their health data to a vide-coded app because they tend to have security problems.
Also all ai-generated code is public domain so your AGPL license is kinda empty. Might as well use MIT.
The sycopathy is because to make the chat bot (trained on Reddit posts, etc) to respond helpfully (instead of “well ackshually…”) and in a prosocial manner they’ve skewed it. What we’re interacting with is a very small subset of the personalities it can exhibit because a lot of them are extremely nasty or just unhelpful. To reduce the chance of them popping up to an acceptable level they’ve had to skew the weights so much that they become like this.
There’s no easy way around that, afaik.
PieFed has this in the admin area:
So admins don’t need to stay on top of the latest defederation drama, just choose who to outsource that work to. From that baseline you can add more defederations manually.
Sorry, there’s a bug in PieFed’s activity tracking which threw me off.
None of this community’s mods have been active in the last month. This community is effectively unmoderated so there’s no one to set the rules.
If you’d like to moderate it, you could contact the lemmy.world admins and ask to be appointed. I bet a community like this would be almost no work to maintain as it’s not news or politics.
That’s a choice you made which can be changed at any time.
Good question!
PieFed sends delete requests to every known server, including defederated ones. I’ve seen a ton of delete requests from Mastodon too, for accounts that don’t exist on PieFed so it looks like Mastodon does that too. No idea about other fedi platforms.
PieFed and Mbin both let you block domains. So if you never want to see any post that links to scienceslop.ai you can block that.
It is a basic feature and it does work. Except in rare cases.
You are technically correct but the fact is that 99.9% of federated activities, including delete requests, are processed normally and in the expected way. That is not “impossible to delete” that is “will be deleted except in exceptional circumstances”.
These are my thoughts https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
PieFed communities have a setting that can turn them into stackoverflow. https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523157/what-if-stack-overflow-except-federated
Oh :)
Once per day a request is made all instances to retrieve the list of their admins. If that request fails then they’re flagged as ‘dormant’. If dormant for 5 days, flagged as ‘gone forever’ and then PieFed doesn’t try to federate with them again and all their communities have that warning on them.
If any Activity arrives from a dormant / gone instance then it’s restored to full operation.
PieFed does this.
2026, the year of the PWA.
It’s weird because USA has 11 aircraft carriers, easily enough to rotate their usage.
They need to have some kind of AI safety team, as a fig leaf. But they don’t don’t want it to slow them down so they make sure it’s incompetent and ineffective.
Just a theory.
Yeah there are other signs too. Look at those commit messages, all vague, all perfectly capitalized. All with a nice long description with bullet points.
No one does that in a project they’re building for themselves.