Free Talk Friday - August 15th, 2025 (sub.wetshaving.social)

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[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~Everyone check your language settings and make sure "English" is selected. I think "Undetermined" should also be selected, and the only way to select both is by holding "ctrl" and selecting them. ~~

Edit: I've been helped by some pros and enabled English for all users via a database command (and somehow didn't nuke everything while doing it!)

[-] PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't see the two posts that I know that are here from Jerboa. Any idea why, and is this the same for other people?

Edit: I see it with my lemmy.ml account

Edit2: Don't see anything on the web interface either

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Replying with a different account with a different language setting to see if it helps:

This is most likely because of language settings, and I have to look into it I guess. Lemmy language is such a strange thing – this Lemmy instance has had “undefined” as the only option for a long time. I changed it last night to include English as well…

Try checking your account settings and make sure English is selected. This is the default for new registrations (I think), but older registrations like us old timers have to manually enable it.

https://sub.wetshaving.social/post/2954980/4803339 for more info.

[-] PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 1 day ago

This I see - I'll check later

[-] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 1 day ago

You should be able to see everything now. I ran a database command to enable English for everyone.

[-] PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 6 hours ago

👍

Everything !ooking good!

[-] DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 days ago

Raccoon shows 3 comments in the whole thread in the card preview but I can only see your comment here and it has a ton of "error loading comments. Try again?"-messages in the last few days. I don't know WTF is going on with Lemmy atm...

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I replied to Porkbutts and maybe this will help for you too -- check the language settings under your account. English should be selected. If it's not, that might make some things not show up. I've never had a good grasp on why the language thing is the way it is with Lemmy, but hopefully that helps.

New accounts have English enabled by default, but I don't think it was retroactive to older accounts.

https://sub.wetshaving.social/post/2954980/4803339 for more info

[-] DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you very much for the explanation and the link to our webview version - turns out I had to access my full profile settings from my Firefox browser there. I was able to select "English" and also "Deutsch" (= german, my native tongue) together with the standard "Undetermined". Unfortunately it couldn't be done from my current app, but it worked pretty conveniently on my phone browser. Android phone with A 15 and the latest Firefox version for anyone wondering...

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 1 day ago

Nice, yeah I've tested with my acount and it's definitely a language thing. I actually found out how to enable it on everyone's accounts using a database command, so problem solved for everybody.

[-] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is most likely because of language settings, and I have to look into it I guess. Lemmy language is such a strange thing -- this Lemmy instance has had "undefined" as the only option for a long time. I changed it last night to include English as well...

Try checking your account settings and make sure English is selected. This is the default for new registrations (I think), but older registrations like us old timers have to manually enable it.

[-] PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 1 day ago

Visible as well

[-] walden@wetshav.ing 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hope everyone is doing well and having a good summer!

Running Lemmy is a fun (most of the time) hobby for me, so naturally when I heard about PieFed I wanted to give that a shot, too. I've started a server at https://wetshav.ing/

PieFed is a Lemmy alternative, with additional features that aim to make it easier to moderate, and perhaps aim to make it a nicer place overall.

Decide for yourself if you'd like to try it: https://join.piefed.social/features/

You can apply for an account at https://wetshav.ing/ and I'll approve it ASAP. For now I'm limiting it to usernames that I recognize.

[-] snooting@wetshav.ing 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hello from piefed.

One cool thing to note is that Voyager, the iOS app that I use for Lemmy, also lets me log into this piefed server. Neat!

[-] DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Hello from PieFed too!

Unfortunately Voyager for Android isn't the same as for iOS. The Android version doesn't support sign-in via PieFed yet. ~~I currently try an app called Blorp.~~ I am actually on the more feature-rich Summit now! Still getting used to it, just leaving this here for other mobile users with an Android OS!

[-] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, more and more apps are adding support. Summit and Boost also have support. For iOS I just saw Mlem added support today.

[-] DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 2 days ago

From the features listed alone, it seems like PieFed is ambitious to improve the Fediverse forum idea to a level of the old Reddit experience most of us knew. I kinda wish there was a Fediverse app that would include all of the communities and all content (except that which you block/blacklist/disable yourself) is visible. I like the concept of Matrix, where you sign up to the general service by picking a suitable server, then you can freely choose your app of choice - e.g. people on Element/Element X can still interact with those using FluffyChat. This is vastly different to the usual monopoly a messenger has over its userbase and - IMHO - a great step in the right direction for user friendly applications and processes. Since I want the Fediverse idea to succeed, I will try out PieFed. Since snooting mentioned that it's supported by Voyager, I'll try that. Thanks for your efforts!

[-] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 day ago

I see it the same way. The Lemmy developers have made decisions based on their ideals, and PieFed looked at it and said "well, what if we had better ways of filtering out the bad stuff"? Some people don't think anything should be filtered out, but I disagree with them. Heck, even the Lemmy devs disagree, as they are absolutely the most heavy handed with bans on their instance. The modlog is wild and crazy.

Anyway, I've checked over the settings and this PieFed doesn't block much of anything, but there are still some nice little things that I like compared to Lemmy.

[-] DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 1 day ago

The community organisation and post & comment features seem rather rich too. I like that the developer strives for enabling tags, hashtags and flairs the users can group and customize.

It being part of the Fediverse means that it also can interact with Lemmy, hopefully better than Kbin/Mbin (communities hosted there where often not visible for Lemmy users or had image fetching errors). I hope it'll be less authoritarian than .ml instances too, I can't say much about the lead developer of Lemmy dessa, seems like they develop a few other apps that don't really have any political leaning - but the others are very hard AuthLeft and very vocal about it. In an ideal online world, we'd see opinions from both sides of the spectrum as long as they follow common guidelines and rules, sort of an etiquette. Sort of like me being able to buy a fairly "normal" centrist newspaper or one by a more left-leaning or a more conservative/right-leaning news outlet. Let's hope PieFed is more centrist - I like to keep things perfectly balanced.

Thanks for approving my application btw! 👍🏻

[-] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 1 day ago

PieFed can't control the content or political leanings of the users, but it has tools to sort of keep it professional, if you will. If someone shares a crazy conspiracy theory, a slur filled racist rant, etc. it'll get downvotes, and beyond a certain limit (in user settings I think?) the comment will be collapsed. I'm happy to not see or read anything like that.

I've also seen a few users with the "low quality" tag next to their name and I like that. They aren't hidden, but it cues me up to read what they're saying with caution.

Now we just need photo uploads in comments for SOTDs! That's supposed to be coming in a future version.

[-] DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 1 day ago

Sure, but the system in place seems like a good idea to combat hateful and batshit insane posts or comments. Unfortunately the Android app I have to use for now doesn't support the user tags it seems, except a symbol for new accounts. I have to admit that a key feature I liked in Raccoon was customizable user tags. Apart from the normal ones (OP, mod, admin, etc.) I also had one each for bigots, spammers and for general idiots. The picture support will be necessary for our hobby too. I'm curious to see how it'll develop...

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