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.

  • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Just sharing another perspective;

    I specifically have been moving from Lemmy to Piefed because I have issues with the tankie Lemmy devs.

    Some people appreciate that the main Piefed instance blocks authoritarian far-left instances.

    • TheTrashGoblinObserver@piefed.zipOPEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I don’t think a fun, optional instance on the fediverse, built on software that’s open-source and customizable, with a transparent modlog, fits the definition of “authoritarian.”

      • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        fits the definition of “authoritarian.”

        Then why do they ban any criticism of russia and china and support their genocidal imperialist policies?

        • TheTrashGoblinObserver@piefed.zipOPEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          I don’t know? Certainly not all of it because I’ve been critical of both in .ml. The craziest argument I had was about Art Spiegelman in hexbear, but even then that was just two users, and I didn’t get modded.

          Of the few mod actions against my accounts, none have been from the “triad.” I was banned forever from a community in awful.systems for “fascism” though. I linked to a fascist guy’s blog to prove the guy we were talking about was a fascist.

          That still isn’t the definition of an authoritarian, that’s just being a asshole.

    • cloudless@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Absolutely. PieFed is what brought me back to the Fediverse. I left Lemmy after witnessing the truly appalling behavior of its developers and the toxic influence of tankie culture.