Jerry on PieFed @ Jerry @feddit.online

Just a techie guy running feddit.online to allow people to communicate, mak

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I think it depends on the Piefed instance; it's up to the Admin.

It should work on, for example, feddit.online. If not, something is broken.

My understanding is that your one PR broke logins, and it took maybe 5 days for someone else to fix the code? Maybe your changes that were kicked away just weren't so good after all, or trusted?

This is all sour grapes.

I've read your interaction with him, and, frankly, if I were moderating a community where you incessantly carried on over insignificant details, continuing to question things after you got your answer (sea lioning), insisting on focusing on nothing, and never ever stopping, I'd block you too, and I've only blocked 2 people in my entire life as a mod.

Now you're in here trying to malign him, for revenge, for shutting you down so he could get work done and he can focus on important work instead of debating you over never-ending trivial topics.

He is the opposite of the image you are trying to give him.

This sounds like a Piefed.world announcement that a Lemmy developer would have written.

Thanks, everyone, for pointing out these issues. I had a little time, so I took a look. I believe all the issues are resolved now. There is no longer an API error and I no longer see the console errors.

I was able to log in with 2 different accounts.

I'm answering from Voyager using my Android phone. I don't use a + in my email address though, but in don't think it would cause a problem.

Can you try again? If it still fails I'll check the logs

Hi. I'm the feddit.online Admin. Nice to meet you!

I downloaded Voyager 2.37.2 onto my Android phone and tried logging in, and it says it doesn't support signups from Piefed, although the above post says to make sure to use 2.37.0 or greater. I get the same error trying to log into piefed.social.

I haven't made any modifications to the PieFed software, but I am on the development branch, as is piefed.social.

Which PieFed server have you been able to log into? Are you using an iphone?

When I read the article, it seemed they were very careful not to mention who the 3rd party Cloud provider was who really caused the outage. It was Google Cloud.

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/multiple-cloud-services-down-as-google-cloudflare-resolve-issues

Just curious. Have you had trouble loading my-place.social?

They never explained well how to use Friendica, so it's all guessing. But, I believe, to get a Facebook-like experience, you mark people as "Friends" who you want in a Facebook-like environment. This maps to "Friends" on Facebook. Then you click on the "Friends" circle, and you only see posts and conversations from your friends.

You can also set up groups that federate to other instances, and you can control access to the groups. I've never used it, so I don't completely understand how to do this.

But, I think these are the 2 closest Friendica features for Facebook emulation.

https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/groups-and-privacy#groups_and_privacy

The stalls are because the database queries are suboptimal. There is one that occasionally runs that, on my instance (I have 337 active users), can sometimes run for 15 minutes and will lock tables. Everything stalls and backs up.

This query was discussed, and I believe in the next release (but unsure) it will be replaced. Instead of using a ton of "not in" clauses, it does a left join now. In testing, someone mentioned it went from multi minutes to multi seconds to run. But there are a lot more such queries.

I think what Friendica needs desperately is a MariaDB/MySql expert to clean up the queries.

Because Friendica supports groups, you can connect to Lemmy communities. This is what kills Freindica. It just cannot handle the hundreds of thousands of daily connections that come in just from lemmy.world alone. Basically, it then becomes a Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN instance plus a Mastodon instance. The database grows by leaps and bounces, queues back up, and it stalls. CPU pegs without relief.

On mine, I finally had to block the Lemmy User Agent at the Cloudflare firewall. I calculated I would have had to spend another $500/month to allow the server to handle the Lemmy traffic comfortably, excluding the continuing cost for DB space. So far, I haven't blocked Piefed and MBIN, but this could change.

Friendica groups were designed for small private groups or specialized groups. Not public forums. I don't think they ever anticipated someone connecting to Lemmy.world communities and that such groups would become so active. I've told people on my instance that if they want to connect to these groups, they should use Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin, not Friendica.

I haven't looked at the code, but it's standard PHP so probably not terribly hard for PHP developers to get involved.

The developers still work on it, are active in the support groups, and answer questions, but they just can't put in the time they used to. I'm sure they'd be happy if someone wanted to get involved. But, I don't think it would need to be taken over, just helped.

It's an acquired taste. Now that I've been using it for months, I prefer it. I like that I have my Bluesky and Tumblr posts completely integrated into my timeline. I can reply to Bluesky posts. When I post something, it automatically gets posted to Bluesky, and Tumblr, if I like. I never go onto Bluesky any longer. Likes and replies from Bluesky are right in with my Mastodon posts and RSS feed posts too. Yes, RSS integrates in as well (obviously you can't reply to them though).

On Mastodon, if someone posts something interesting and I want to see replies and discussions, I can't, unless I remember to go back to the post and look. In Friendica I can click that I want to follow the thread, and it will notify me of the updates, and take me right to the new comment when I click it, it takes me directly to the notification. I love this! If I interact with a post (like it), same thing. It will track it for me. And it does a better job of pulling in replies and responses from all over.

Yeah. Not all good.

I run one of the Friendica servers and it's a problem child. The database grows rapidly and struggles. The database queries urgently need work. Some are super slow. It stalls a lot. The UI is confusing. The developers are not all that active any longer, but still active. The UI is, well, dated.

More info about it here: https://news.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

The downvotes and karma do not stop you from saying whatever you want. It just means you have to say it somewhere else. Hence, you are not censored.

This is fantastic news!

This many be true. But, if so, it must not be considered an important issue by more than 50% of the people because it isn't factoring into their votes.

Thank you! You saved me a bunch of time.

Coincidentally, there's this post today about Yunohost: https://my-place.social/display/db471d1f-c06c03be288f78d7-ad573aef

@_elena@mastodon.social

Elena Rossini, well known for her help in growing the Fediverse, raves about Yunohost, https://news.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/. You should be fine using it.

@_elena@mastodon.social