If there’s another place to find answers, do let me know. I went over the piefed feature page and did a couple searches already.
I came here from Lemmy to try out Piefed and make another community, but I get an error that my account is too new and/or I don’t have a reputation.
Questions:
What does reputation or attitude mean? What do I need to have to make a community?
How old does my account have to be to make a community?
Why do I need to have an X account age to make a community?
Is there a way to separate upvotes and downvotes? If not, I don’t like it. Just seeing a number doesn’t tell me very much, especially about engagement. A -1 score could have 200 upvotes.
Why are the communist/socialist instances blocked by default and not like, maga? I see it’s blocked by my instance anyway, but thought it was weird to block those three considering there are much worse instances. I already unblocked them, so I don’t need help, I’m just wondering why.
Oh, and why can’t I see the modlog?
Thank you all for your time.
An account needs to be at least 24 hours old to make a community in PieFed (or be an admin). This is for spam prevention. There isn’t a reputation requirement for community creation, that page is just what we redirect to for multiple different things, so it is a bit of a broad message.
I don’t think this is possible in the default web UI. It probably is possible in some apps or alternative frontends. If you hover over the number, it will pop up with the number of up and down votes. There might be some custom css you can apply in your profile to make them show up separately, but I am not good enough at css to tell you what that is.
This is purely controlled by your instance admin. PieFed does ship with a default list of defederated instances, but it isn’t baked into the code or anything. It is entirely customizable by admins after the software is set up.
Links to the modlog are in several places:
On a mobile device, this can sometimes be difficult to impossible to trigger (Firefox on Android). I find it helps to zoom in tremendously, but even then sometimes I can click the digit 50+ times without ever getting it to show me the count breakdown.
I was going to ask why this is, but now I see that examining the same situation from a desktop it works, so now I think it is just a bug / UX flaw.
Heya. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, that helps a bunch.
With the pre-blocked instances, it was from this welcome message:
Which is reiterated on the broader piefed features page. I understand that’s customizable, and I can unblock them on my user side, more wondering why those instances in particular are suggested for what looks like all users. As a socialist I find it off-putting. The question I guess I’m getting at is, is this place more maga friendly than socialist friendly?
I should have worded that better. I know where the modlog is but I don’t see anything in it, even after searching. I was wondering if that was another time-delay thing.
Again, thank you. 24hrs is totally reasonable and I’ll have to figure out how to hover since I use my phone.
Edit: Figured it out, Press and Hold.
Maga.place was added to the default defederation list that new instances have out of the box in mid October.
Anyway, piefed.zip admins removed all the default defederations, because that’s how they like it. Looks like they federate with just about everywhere - https://piefed.zip/instances?filters=blocked
Again, this is up to your local admin. Each instance is going to be run differently. The .zip instances (lemmy and piefed are run by the same team) tend to be a bit more open with their defed/block policies compared to some others. I can only really speak about piefed.social for which I am an admin.
Something to note here is that there are two different things going on. The first is user-level instance blocks like you mentioned here. They are removable by the user, and are a kind of softer way of blocking things compared to the second method - defederation. When an instance is defederated, then it is server-wide and the user can’t see content from that instance no matter what their settings are. You can review the defederated instances set by the .zip team on their instances page.
This means that the .zip admin team has decided not to make the modlog public. One of the settings available to a PieFed admin is to toggle whether the modlog should be accessible to non-admins or not. Other PieFed instances might have a public modlog. On piefed.social for example, you should be able to view the modlog even without an account.
Hidden modlogs. Can’t say I like that, it was one of the suckier things about Reddit
It’s just an option available to an admin. Different instances can have different use cases and goals.
An example is that earlier in PieFed’s development, there was a schoolteacher that was experimenting with using PieFed as a forum for the class. This would have primarily been just a local forum with no/minimal federation. In a setting like that, having a public modlog would essentially mean having a log of every classmate’s transgressions and punishments (at least with regards to content). This isn’t necessarily something that would be desirable in a more school-like setting.
As for .zip’s decision not to have a public modlog, it doesn’t really make that much of a difference since they are so heavily federated to other instances that do have public modlogs. The modlog actions are federated similar to content.
I haven’t blocked any instance and I have never seen any MAGA type instance pop up on my feed. If they’re that dead they might not be blocked because who cares about an instance nobody even knows about.