That’s the heartbreaking part - so many would genuinely rather hear about your death than have to suffer your “whining” (most would not admit that though). I suppose it takes all kinds of people in this world…

said in a statement, referring to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “If you leave now, you may have the opportunity to return and enjoy our freedom and live the American dream.”

So I guess this is the advantage, if someone wanted to return later.

Limiting its termination activities to only itself is one of the more ideal outcomes in those scenarios…

Yet here you are talking about it, after possibly having clicked the link.

So… it worked for the purpose that they hoped? Hence having received that positive feedback, they will now do it again.

One REALLY super nice feature of PieFed is that the sidebar text is shown underneath EVERY single post. Lemmy does not do that, and especially some apps almost look like they are doing their best to outright hide that information for some reason, putting it many clicks away!?

Imagine seeing a post on All, and knowing what the exact and entire set of rules are, prior to posting (including a reply to a post, as you said a drive-by).

To be fair, someone does have to scroll down to see it. But at least it’s right there on the same page, not some whole other page entirely and buried many clicks away besides (going back and forth to writing a message that way, checking specific acronyms in the sidebar area, can get really annoying that way! in those apps that do it that way I mean, while in a browser you basically would need to open up a new tab, one for the post and a separate one for the community).

At least this seems like it would help reduce such effects? Maybe? Alternately, these feeds are basically like meta-communities themselves, created (and maintained?) by a “moderator”, so perhaps if someone did not want their community included (which seems to run counter to how many communities would want to increase rather than decrease their discoverability), they could write to the “mod” to ask that it be removed?

Alternately, perhaps communities themselves should have a “private” setting. Lemmy already has a “local-only” setting along those lines. I remember that Reddit has a bunch of opt-in features regarding discoverability, but all of this in both Lemmy and PieFed is extremely primitive in comparison. At least PieFed is moving quickly with adding new features, so for it even if not for Lemmy, there is a strong hope to see all of this that we are talking about!:-)

I missed this at first as well, but the “Create a Feed” button (colored almost the same as the background for some odd reason, using the PieFed theme) is accessible to you as a user, not simply an admin. So if you wanted let’s say technology@lemmy.world and technology@beehaw.org but not technology@lemmy.ml, then you could do that. You probably should name it something appropriate like technology2, but mainly I mean that you are not limited to Feeds created by other people: the whole point of this is that now you can create your own (if you want to that is, or perhaps someone will have already done so).

So do I understand correctly that these are identical to Topics, except customizable without requiring backend changes?

Sweet!

PieFed (and the Lemmy apps Sync and Connect iirc) can already do this, by blocking all users from the instance. It works much better than the Lemmy equivalent that would be better named as a community muting, since it still allows users to troll you in communities located on other instances.

You know what that means, don’t you…? Time to press ALL the buttons!?;?;!!!

Oh ahem, cough, I mean press them in the dignified, reserved, totally calm Star Trek style… of course that’s what I meant, yeah…

It’s not the “spot” - well it’s that as well - but mainly it’s the PEOPLE here who make it worthwhile to continue visiting and actively look forward to continuing to do so in the future. It’s a literal community in the best sense of the word.:-)

I don’t know anything at all about the drama of how this place started, I just am happy that it did. I love how welcoming and friendly it is! Seriously, this type of community is what keeps people from leaving the at-times SUPER aggressive Lemmy. It’s a breath of fresh air.

This place to us is what coffee is to Janeway. ☕

Um, well, actually… Yeah! 👍