discuss.online is doing it right. There is a significant overlap between discuss.online and lemmy.world’s admin teams, and I generally think they handle it about as well as could be expected of a general-purpose instance of their scale.

As for piefed, I think the primary things that help users filter their experience are the additional blocks that are at their disposal; blocking communities with a word in their name, blocking posts that match keywords, blocking posts that point to certain domains, etc. However, it can only help if a user actually goes through the effort of setting them up.

My goodness, I hadn’t realized how big fedinsfw.app had become. It’s now easily the biggest piefed instance with almost 2x the MAU of piefed.social.

I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening and I am really looking forward to it.

Been a bit since I last popped into one of these threads. The main thing that happened recently was that we wrapped up the Anime awards for last year (post here). I definitely need to do some rethinking of how that was run, because participation was way down compared to a year prior. To the community’s credit, there was lots of good feedback in that thread.

Otherwise, the [email protected] community is getting ready for a new season to come in April.

My other communities:

• [email protected] - Has managed to stay somewhat active despite my not being able to read/post much in recent weeks.
• [email protected] - Not too active since there aren’t any active gundam series going right now. We do get occasional history/lore and gunpla posts though, so that is fun.
• [email protected] - Pretty dead…but that is to be expected really. The show has ended after not really living up to its own hype and the manga doesn’t really have a consistent release cycle (at least in English), so it has been some time since there is any new content.

For those out there poking the code, please disclose responsibly! Don’t just make a public post about a security vulnerability, reach out to the devs first to give them a chance to create a fix.

It’s a little known fact that we actually previously had an NSFW piefed instance for a week or two to do testing. Some of the features that were included to help instances like that were the disclaimer screen that comes up before any content page loads (this site has NSFW content…etc.). Also, I know some code was added to make some common NSFW hosting sites work better (as an example, there is some special code to deal with redgifs embeds).

The last thing that comes to mind is to allow admins to specify countries for which NSFW content is blocked (based on IP address). This was added in response to admins wanting to deal with content restrictions like the UK have and are sadly becoming more common across the globe.

Yeah this is a bug in the PieFed api. Here is the relevant issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1608

Pretty easy for me as I tend to not comment too much other than about development issues and bug reports. So, I usually have my user flair set to PieFed Contributor or something along those lines.