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Another test, from piefed

From what I can tell, the default web interface doesn’t let you quickly add a bunch of items to the block list. However, you can still block them by selecting the three dot menu on a particular comment or post. I just tested it out, and I was able to block users, communities, domains (the site that a link is from), and instances.

You can then go to settings > blocks and look under this section to unblock items:

Manage what users, communities, domains or instances you want to block. Blocking them means you will no longer see any posts associated with them.

A different app or future custom frontends might make it easier. In the meantime, you could request the functionality you’re looking for by posting in !piefed_meta@piefed.social

When I exported my Lemmy settings (from your edit profile screen), it included a list of my saved posts and comments. I don’t think there is a way to import them currently, since the import menu says “Import community subscriptions and user blocks from Lemmy”

The platform is under active development, so it’s possible that this might get added at some point. You could open an issue in their codeberg, or maybe in !piefed_meta@piefed.social

It allows the same type of posts, but no harm if we want to build a few communities for people to use :)

Some of this is expected. An instance only knows about the content that it pulled in, and so piefed.ca is missing a lot of stuff from before we spun it up. Similarly, it doesn’t start pulling in content from a community until someone from here searches for it. We did a bit of that before we launched, but there are lots of communities that are still not fetched. You may have been the first one to try to access !technology@piefed.social :)

For example, we accessed the main !canada@lemmy.ca community a while back, and so both views are similar (and hopefully identical) by now:

• https://piefed.ca/c/canada@lemmy.ca?sort=new
• https://lemmy.ca/c/canada?dataType=Post&sort=New

Piefed.ca’s feeds should continue to get better over time as more people use it. Lemmy also has a few tricks to improve this process, such as a third party tool that automatically broadcasts new communities so they can be pulled in. Something like that might become available or compatible with Piefed in the future.

It might also be possible to bulk import old posts into piefed, but I’m not sure if that’s possible right now. We were able to do something similar with Pixelfed when we spun that up, but we relied on some built in functionality for it.

Yes this seems to be a bug, either with PieFed or our configuration. I’ll poke around some more and see

Thanks for sharing that!

Here is a direct link for those in our instance: https://piefed.ca/community/add_remote