Anyone else getting these donation ads? Was it just shoved onto an update by the Lemmy devs, or is this coming from the instance admins? It doesn’t seem to show on clean browser sessions to lemmy.ca

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 days ago

    What app do you use with it?

    What got me hooked on lemmy was wefwef/voyager which is basically a reddit Apollo clone.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I’m curious, as someone who’s mostly only looked from the outside, what “slants too much on the moderator side” means.

        • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          I’m referring to transparency features being like seeing who’s downvoting and upvoting comments or easy and relevant access to the modlog and comments getting removed. Piefed little effort to making the modlog transparent and hides upvoting and downvoting completely (they basically had to make up a new concern for it, “voting privacy”, but its an excuse that allows for the manipulation of the voting system and lack of accountability for already pseudonymous accounts) while also implementing a reputation system that is asking to be gamed. It puts more responsibility and power onto mods, admins, and devs, and it’s the second one that’s going to be more frequently exercised over conversations.

          Basically, does it allow users to police themselves and the content they want to see, or does it give it to the people behind the curtains?

          • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            2 hours ago

            they basically had to make up a new concern for it, “voting privacy”, but its an excuse that allows for the manipulation of the voting system and lack of accountability for already pseudonymous accounts

            The “private voting” system has been removed months ago. Nowadays Piefed user can either decide to federate their votes (which can then been seen by lemvotes or other tools) or keep them local

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            1 day ago

            seeing who’s downvoting and upvoting comments

            Lemmy doesn’t give you this either, though? (Unless you use a service like lemvotes, which I think does it by having admin access.) So how is it different?

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Me? I don’t. I’m still on Lemmy because I haven’t quite managed to work up the energy for the switch, and I’m rather tied to this account.

      I believe some Lemmy apps have added additional support for Piefed, but I don’t know which. Tbh I do most of my browsing on a computer in a web browser anyway.

      With a quick Google search, I found Mlem, Interstellar, and possibly Voyager already has support. But I can’t vouch for any of that personally.