I just commented here on that thread, its really not a big deal. Using regex for string matching also sounds fine. On the other hand Piefed is a smaller project than Lemmy, so it has less testing and reliability. In the end it depends on your own requirements whether Piefed or Lemmy is better.

While JSON-LD is part of the ActivityPub specification, Lemmy doesnt use it at all (and afaik neither do Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube etc). Instead Lemmy uses JSON and Piefed is probably the same. We do provide the JSON-LD definitions which that comment complains about, but they have also often been incomplete.

Honestly I dont even know which Fediverse software uses JSON-LD. It doesnt seem useful to know “there is something called an Accept activity” when you dont have the UI logic to display them.

Not that I know of, but I also haven’t tested Piefed nor followed the development closely.

Recently there was a case where federation of Piefed Feeds was incompatible with Multi-communities in the Lemmy dev version. It would have taken me a lot of boilerplate code to make these compatible, for little or no benefit. Rimu agreed to change it on the Piefed side instead, much easier.

A few days ago I read read about some blocking or hiding feature in Piefed that is incompatible with Lemmy. That might be inevitable if Lemmy simply doesn’t support that feature. In the end there will always be some degree of incompatibility on the Fediverse, because every software has very different priorities.

one sec, adding that to lemmy right now

ActivityPub compatibility has never been a problem with Piefed, and in fact we are collaborating very well in private. Of course Lemmy doesnt yet support all the features that Piefed has, but thats not their fault.

Because us developers, we are just a couple of nerds on the Internet. We didn’t study public relations or politics at university, and don’t know which spontaneous comment might generate a shitstorm. Unlike /u/spez we don’t have a PR team writing posts for us. And because there is no profit motive, Lemmy and Piefed don’t need to appeal to everyone like Reddit does. Consider it the price to pay for using a non-commercial platform.

Being a developer is difficult, because a lot of people pay attention to what you say. And any mistake can get a lot of visibility. Sometimes I wish that Lemmy was a company, with a community manager who takes care of these things. But anyway, it is how it is.

Yes its called Ibis: https://ibis.wiki/

Securing major industrial hubs, in case Germany ever decides to go against US interests.

Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.

In your imagination it can always be Friday! Don’t be one of those people who live in “real life” because it’s quite boring.

Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.

Oh yes, I need to rewatch this one!