Knights of New was a reddit meme/movement where people would take the hit of exposing themselves to the river of trash that is /r/all, sorted by 'New', and upvote good stuff while reporting or downvoting bad stuff, as a public service. Now you can do that on PieFed, too.

When sorting the home page by 'New' or 'Top', the list of posts automatically displays new content once per minute. Disabled when scrolling down. This makes voting on new content much easier and makes the threadiverse feel more dynamic and alive.

It seems like a small thing but I've been using it for a few hours and I'm surprised and how engaging it is and how it turns the threadiverse into a river of posts flowing by, like on Mastodon. Compared to the static and slow-moving feeling that the threadiverse often has, it is quite refreshing. Give it a try by going to https://piefed.social/home/new/all and NOT scrolling down. It's ok to scroll down to look at things but return to the top to await fresh content. The title bar of your browser will show the time of the latest automatic update.

This works in Subscribed, Popular or All feeds - it's not just for 'All'. You can also switch to 'top 1 hour' instead of 'new' and leave it running on a secondary monitor, etc so you can dip into whatever's popping off at the moment without being a true Knight.

This release also includes multiple small bugfixes:

• rss feeds import - strip tracking codes on urls so cross-post detection works properly
• exempt Googlebot from Anoobis
• default to dark mode on Linux
• tweak opacity of blocked posts to be a bit more visible
• profiles of people who have posted a lot loads much faster now and doesn't time out