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Edit about the 4chan image blocking, I asked Rimu directly:

I wrote a long message about how that checkbox only notifies about federated posts.

So the difference is for local posts it blocks the creation of the post entirely, but for federated posts it just notifies the admin.

https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/3-general/topic//near/10529

-- Original message:

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/b168820a089ff6e835059f0d806f81b612987a79/app/models.py#L3513

A few people in the other thread assumed that it was required to fork the code to disable those filters. That's not the case, the filters can be configured, and are off by default.

To hide the reputation system, here's a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_css/p/1722358/hide-red-triangle-warnings-on-accounts-with-bad-reputation

That CSS line can also be used by any user wanting to hide the score at the user level.

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[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Well, just copy and pasted rather than written. I would have hoped that infra read-level permission, infra write-level permission and admin interface permissions were all separate to begin with, even if the person who spun up the instance obviously has all three.

You do need a level of trust in an admin, of course, but wide open text boxes for putting in code are a questionable system design choice, in my opinion. It adds an extra point of possible entry that then relies on the security of the overall admin interface instead of limiting it to what should require highest level infra admin permissions to access. And if it is something that would be limited to someone who has those, then what is the actual utility of having a textarea for it in the first place?

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Oh, I love it. So much freedom to customise our instance without having to rebuild the Docker image or fork the codebase.

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, what sort of customizations are you doing with it? I'm just a bit surprised that docker rebuild or a non-trivial fork would be needed, so I'm assuming they're pretty big changes.

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Some instances have used it to do something like a dynamic message of the day. That is the most I have seen it used for so far.

Edit: See the top of the main content pane of anarchist.nexus as an example.

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