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It has been about a year since I was last here on beehaw or the fediverse in general. Last time I was here the fediverse was a chaotic place where you didn't know if your home instance would last another week without randomly getting shut down. I am curious what has changed in my long absence.

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lemm.ee shut down a while ago due to the admins getting burned out, and a few new instances are around now. Otherwise its been pretty stable :)

Edit: oh! And we have a new compatible software on the block, Piefed!

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I remember piefed being basically a proof of concept. I think beehaw was considering migrating to it at one point. I might give it a try.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I just switched to piefed now that it has app support that thunder has implemented, I'm pretty happy with it for my new home instance :)

Welcome back to the fediverse ☺️

[–] remington@beehaw.org 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think beehaw was considering migrating to it at one point.

We are going to be testing Piefed soon. If we believe it to be a better option than Lemmy, then we will migrate to it.

Welcome back!

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Exciting news!

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 1 day ago

Hello from the antirealist PieFed server!

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lemmynsfw disappeared earlier this year, so still a little risk and volatility

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Fedinsfw.app replaced lemmynsfw

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember hearing about that one having moderation problems or something. Some nsfw sometimes made it through to sfw instances though that could have been a filtering issue with kbin which is an instance that also existed.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They made their instance auto tag everything as nsfw, so not as big an issue anymore.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No expert but things being NSFW isn't the greatest moderation threat to, well NSFW stuff. It's the ability to respond quickly when not legal in most countries images are posted. IE particularly age or willingness of the participants.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Definitely, but they had a period where unmarked nsfw was ending up in everyone's feed when people forgot to manually add the tag, which was very annoying.

The illegal stuff is a threat to all instances, regardless of NSFW, as accounts can spam it anywhere.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

yes but it's more obvious in other instances. IE much easier to tell naked or non naked rather than 17 or 20, or someone posting image of themselves vs someone sending something their ex sent to them before their breakup.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still all boils down to us as users reporting it correctly and the admins being available to resolve it.

The latest post on firearms@lemmy.world is NSFW and has been up almost a day without moderation, despite being reported. So a lack of moderation can happen anywhere.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

That's still the thing though, yes both of those are factors, but at least in cases of NSFW content being posted to a non NSFW subreddit, the users and mods can tell at first sight of the content, that it doesn't belong. while a large portion of illegal NSFW content, is very difficult to distinguish from legal NSFW content.