Hello from PieFed

Those improvements sound great, thanks to everyone that helped out!

In addition to the apps mentioned in the post:

• the Boost developer says that PieFed support is almost ready, with a beta coming soon: https://piefed.ca/post/1629#comment_743438
• Photon is working on PieFed support, targeting v2.2.0: https://lemmy.ca/post/47934173

There may be others, those are the ones that I have been following along with

Some of this is expected. An instance only knows about the content that it pulled in, and so piefed.ca is missing a lot of stuff from before we spun it up. Similarly, it doesn't start pulling in content from a community until someone from here searches for it. We did a bit of that before we launched, but there are lots of communities that are still not fetched. You may have been the first one to try to access !technology@piefed.social :)

For example, we accessed the main !canada@lemmy.ca community a while back, and so both views are similar (and hopefully identical) by now:

• https://piefed.ca/c/canada@lemmy.ca?sort=new
• https://lemmy.ca/c/canada?dataType=Post&sort=New

Piefed.ca's feeds should continue to get better over time as more people use it. Lemmy also has a few tricks to improve this process, such as a third party tool that automatically broadcasts new communities so they can be pulled in. Something like that might become available or compatible with Piefed in the future.

It might also be possible to bulk import old posts into piefed, but I'm not sure if that's possible right now. We were able to do something similar with Pixelfed when we spun that up, but we relied on some built in functionality for it.

Molly White! She's on Mastodon here: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff

People are playing along with the joke that the 2010 movie doesn't exist, because of how much people didn't like it

Darn :(

Ottawa has cancelled PrescribeIT, a federal program built with Telus Health to replace the use of fax machines in sending prescriptions between doctors and pharmacists, after spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars on the initiative.

Canada Health Infoway, a government-funded non-profit, launched PrescribeIT in 2017 as part of “axe the fax” initiatives to replace the older technology with digital tools in health care settings. In this case, it provided a secure digital way to transmit prescriptions from doctors’ offices to pharmacies.

As of 2026, PrescribeIT is live in eight provinces and territories and being trialled in a ninth, Quebec. It has also seen thousands of pharmacies sign up, including major chains such as Loblaw Cos. Ltd.-owned Shoppers Drug Mart, Metro Ontario Inc. and Walmart Inc., and many hospitals, including Humber River Hospital and the Ottawa Hospital.

Despite the number of providers on board, use of the service has remained low. Less than 5 per cent of prescriptions are sent electronically in Canada each year, according to reports from Canada Health Infoway and Telus Health.

Canada Health Infoway began informing stakeholders in recent days that it was cancelling PrescribeIT. Two sources with knowledge of the program said it is expected to go offline mid-2026.

The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to share the information.

This was about old votes from before the user was banned, specifically for vote manipulation bots

From what I can tell, the default web interface doesn't let you quickly add a bunch of items to the block list. However, you can still block them by selecting the three dot menu on a particular comment or post. I just tested it out, and I was able to block users, communities, domains (the site that a link is from), and instances.

You can then go to settings > blocks and look under this section to unblock items:

Manage what users, communities, domains or instances you want to block. Blocking them means you will no longer see any posts associated with them.

A different app or future custom frontends might make it easier. In the meantime, you could request the functionality you're looking for by posting in !piefed_meta@piefed.social

Thanks for sharing that!

Here is a direct link for those in our instance: https://piefed.ca/community/add_remote

See also !lemmyapps@lemmy.world and https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I've been using Boost, Blorp and Voyager, but I also haven't tried the other apps in a long time. I'm used to these and they do almost everything I need so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is a good idea to exempt messages to a local admin or staff member though

That would be a helpful feature request :)

I don't think there is a big risk to admins since we can just nuke the account and not approve new registrations if it becomes a problem to us.

Thanks for tagging both accounts :)

I like the ideas here! One of the things that I tried to do when I did the sidebars on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca, was to keep it as short and simple as possible. I was hoping to increase the chance that someone reads enough of it to be encouraged to subscribe and post. Looking at that one again now, there are some things that I would change to make it even shorter and cleaner.

Long term, it would be nice to have a general help community for people to post questions in. That way, if someone is very lost, they can just post there and get some answers.

The part I'm not sure about is if we should close the other platform specific communities. A generic community is good for those who don't know where they should post, but it might discourage other people who want to stay subscribed to it. New people might get confused by posts that discuss features that don't apply to the platform they are using, and experienced users might not like seeing a bunch of posts about a platform they don't have experience with. PieFed's feeds might help in the later case, where experienced people can create or subscribe to a feed of a bunch of help communities. That way it's still easy to answer questions, regardless of where new users decide to post them.

Yes this seems to be a bug, either with PieFed or our configuration. I'll poke around some more and see

Both are here now :)

When I exported my Lemmy settings (from your edit profile screen), it included a list of my saved posts and comments. I don't think there is a way to import them currently, since the import menu says "Import community subscriptions and user blocks from Lemmy"

The platform is under active development, so it's possible that this might get added at some point. You could open an issue in their codeberg, or maybe in !piefed_meta@piefed.social

I'd love to see more Canadian / North American memes 😄

Thank you for letting us know about the issues :)

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Yes!

!lemmy411@lemmy.ca recently had a new mod take over, and it's intended for this kind of question. There is also !communitypromo@lemmy.ca (which I'm moderating) and you're welcome to post there but I modified the sidebar to try and send more traffic over to !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

(while it's called lemmy411, it's open to any threadiverse platform)

There are some other related communities here: https://fedecan.ca/...