Comment on What is piefed?
sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com 1 month ago
Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default. Voting is private.
I don’t particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it’s better for it, all things considered.
The -10 can be changed in your settings. Set it to -1000 to show everything :)
Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
I’m very interested in this. I’m kinda stunned that lemmy doesn’t do this natively.
The Voyager client can do that. I use it a lot!
I use connect which also does that. IMO, it should be native.
I can tell you it’s life changing
People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
I think any kind of reputation score should be community specific. There are users whose commenting style fits one community but not another, and their overall reputation should be understood in the context of which communities actually like them rather than some kind of global average.
Time for another fork… sigh…
We now have thirteen competing standards!
Id say I say some controversial things yet I still somehow on average go positive karma wise, you have to be straight up hateful and ignorant on purpose to go negative imo
How exactly does the private vote thing work? I thought votes being federated was inherent to the way the fediverse is designed.
I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn’t federate the actual account that cast the vote.
That's how it used to work but I got rid of it because there were too many unintended side-effects. Now a private vote is just one that is not federated.
What were the side-effects? I was thinking of implementing something that doesn’t directly federate votes, so it would be good to know what problems I’d need to solve before that can be done.
Private votes are just normal votes except without the federation. So their effect is only felt on the local instance.
I’m not able to see any content behind those links or even the root site of piefed.social without what looks like creating an account and logging in. Is account creation and login required to interact with piefed at all? No anonymous reading?
This is a temporary measure to reduce load on the server from AI scrapers.
Same here, so I’d assume so.
Gotcha. That’s a non-starter for me then. I hope I’m not the intended audience for piefed. I never visit Facebook pages for the same reason.
I could be entirely wrong, but that’s what it looks like, yeah.
Absolutely hate registration walls as well.
You could check out another instance, for example https://feddit.online/, which is visible without signing in.
Posted.social used to be open for all, but I suspect it needed to be restricted due to AI scrapers. Not sure exactly what the reasoning is though.
!lego@piefed.social is an example of Piefed commmunity
Also @rimu@piefed.social , is the login wall new?
Yeah just until the latest scraper wave goes away.
Have you considered anubis.techaro.lol ?
This might need updating, I think the private voting feature was removed?
Indeed, I raised to Rimu to review that page
I don’t like the fact that users receive a banner next to their name if they get downvoted a lot. This makes other people judge negatively the comment even before reading it. I think it also encourage people to keep downvoting and discourages to upvote (as what happens with mass down votes of a comment on Reddit just for the sake of doing so)
This only effects about 3.5% of accounts.
Sounds neat
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this self-designated?
sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com 1 month ago
I have no idea! I’m already hosting Lemmy so I don’t really see the point personally.
Just thought I’d look it up for OP.
rimu@piefed.social 1 month ago
No, admins designate it.
Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In the code there is a function that recognizes if the name of the community contains “meme” and does not add the upvote to the overall vote counter of the user
rimu@piefed.social 1 month ago
I wrote that code. It can be turned off or on by the instance admin. When an instance is created It's off by default.
Originally, when I wrote the feature comparison page, it could not be turned off.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I seriously doubt it because I’m pretty sure the point is to remove the ability for bot accounts and spammers/etc from farming up some karma to appear more legit for their nefarious/spamming purposes.
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think either way could possibly be exploited.
And putting all that aside, I think all image-centric subs should probably be included. It’s just as easy to frame karma with cute cars and flowers as it is with memes.
tpyo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Excluding OC communities, right? Like you’re not discounting people who put a lot of time and effort into their photography? Or even if they’re not great photographers sharing pictures of their plants and gardens and hobbies, and pets, should have the same allowances as text only posts