Piefed communities in mastodon

andrew_s , 22 hours ago

There's not much in the way of communities on PieFed yet. The list is here: https://piefed.social/communities/local?sort_by=last_active%20desc

Following communities from Mastodon works about as well as following Lemmy ones - this is something I'd like to improve, but it's only very recently that we got a community that wasn't a meta / testing one. Following users is less spammy, 'cos you'll get their posts, but not all their comments to other people's posts, so maybe you could try following someone like Rimu.

Either way, Mastodon doesn't process outboxes and backfill old stuff, so you'll have to wait for something new to be posted.

Coelacanth , 21 hours ago

Does following a community spam your feed with every reply to every thread in that community, or just with new posts?

andrew_s , 21 hours ago

It'd be every reply I think.

It's partially fixable, by interacting with Mastodon the same way PeerTube does and have the community Announce only the posts. For everything else after that, it depends on whether the user is local or not. Anything a local user does could be sent directly, and if a remote user replied to a local user's post, the local user could send a 'post update', for Mastodon to then retrieve the replies collection, circumventing the problem of us not having the remote user's private keys. But if a remote user replied to a remote user's post on a local community, they'd be nothing we could do about it (don't have the keys for the 'post update', can't Announce it without it being spammy either)

Coelacanth , 20 hours ago

Hm, messy. Thanks for the reply. It’s like we’re so close to good interoperability, but yet so far.

rimu , 21 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

Just new posts :D

I tested it in https://piefed.social/c/playground

EDIT: unless the poster is from a remote instance, then the reply shows up as 'Boosted' in Mastodon. Argh.