PieFed Meta

Several months ago I have PieFed users the option to vote privately, where an alt/sockpuppet account automatically votes on their behalf. Since then I've been watching to see how it turned out.

This is for admins only.

In web development, the technical term for those popup menus with multiple columns and headings inside is a "mega menu" and I just added one to PieFed. It unifies the topics and feeds menus into one.

Go to https://piefed.social/notifications and then click the button, it'll be great I promise.

Spammers, trolls, and ban evaders often use temporary email addresses. PieFed now checks a list of known temporary email providers and displays a warning icon next to registrations that use such services.

Sometimes there are people keen to help run an instance but you don't know them well enough to give them ALL the keys. PieFed lets you control which parts of the admin area you want a 'Staff' role to have access to and then assign accounts to that role.

Instances that are not trying to attract a new audience might want to turn on the new Private Instance setting, which makes everything private. The home page, posts, communities, etc will all require a login to view. Bots and scrapers won't be able to get anything useful from your instance and will stop trying.