I’m a flask developer but even so I would use PHP for this. There are a million php-based contact form scripts on the web and configuring caddy to use PHP will be easier than python/flask.

As for the sending email part - don’t run a smtp server locally, too much hassle. Smtp2go has a free tier which will be fine.

Oh ok, so if Lemmy implimented MCP you’d be able to ask Loki “hey what’s the main themes people are discussing in [email protected] at the moment?” and the MCP is what gives Loki enough smarts to know which Lemmy API calls to make to get the posts?

What is MCP?

Seems like OP just copy and pasted some perplexity.ai output.

IMO Lemmy/PieFed is safer to run because the community mods will delete anything illegal, which will delete it for you, too. About 5 instances host 95% of communities worth joining so it’s easy for us to coordinate defense.

Mastodon is thousands of instances and more wild west. Bad stuff can come from anywhere.

What a nightmare. Everything gets much harder at their scale…

Very interesting, thanks.

Good idea, I’ll add something similar to PieFed.

It that a lot of money? I can’t tell anymore.

I’m surprised this is not more popular.

It’s not live on piefed.ca yet :)

Installed qbittorrent and downloaded a few seasons of Linux isos onto a vps. Discovered accessing those files over SSH to be too slow to play them without buffering so installed filebrowser to get them via http which worked well.

It’s been a long long time since I used bittorrent and wow it works so much better these days.

The only part of the url that actually does anything is p/1385905 which functions the same way piefed.social/post/1385905 does. So that /c/politics bit has no effect on which post is displayed and it could be any string of gibberish. There are communities called ‘politics’ on many instances and this url scheme doesn’t differentiate between them, but I’m ok with that.

I have removed the @ now, perhaps that’ll make it easier for you.

Ok we’re now generating links like this instead https://piefed.social/c/politics/p/1385905/will-the-supreme-court-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity

Oh, interesting. I think having a ‘@’ in the url is going to be a problem for a lot of different software. I’ll remove that part.

Can you see this? https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls

hell yeah

Thank you for this counter-weight!

Install a floppy drive. No one gonna steal a computer with one of those.