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.
Thanks for your input and perspective. Good to know other people feel the same way about the votes. And weird about my “Attitude,” my profile shows 100% for me, I don’t think I’ve downvotwd anyone yet. My ratio on my main account is like 100/1. I even upvote people who argue with me because I like the attention.
I’ve been on lemmy for about two years and my main account is on Lemmy.Today, which doesn’t block any instance.
The maga trolls are rare but they are 100% right wing and incendiary. There’s really only one user from .ml I find consistently… sucks. I see more people attacking folks for having .ml in their username than .ml’s giving people shit. Most of them seem pretty socialist/democratic to me. The hexbears have their own vibe and I don’t see many .grads outside of their instance, or maybe I just don’t notice them.
It’s kinda delightful being able to see all the hexbears in the comments like little mischievous ghosts bitching about the liberals.
Meanwhile on Grad is some highschool level call-out culture. The person who runs it is abusive, insulting, has made some pretty crazy comments about Isreal, and uses alts to manipulate votes.
But I agree there needs to be more transparent rules about the expectations for individual instances, that said, mods trying to curate a certain kind of vibe on an instance or in a community isn’t out of the ordinary. On the one hand I think we need to protect minority opinions so Lemmy doesn’t become a sad, monotonous gruel of opinions. On the other hand, spicy peppers are gross in a fruit cake.
Perhaps it’s because I am on PieFed.social and you are on PieFed.zip… somehow?
If you ever have the misfortune of having to communicate with the Sealion Cowbee, you will understand. Arguing with people who ignore 99.9% of what you said, just to hyper focus on just asking a question (which you already answered) just isn’t my idea of a good time. Also, why hold knowledge hostage by saying “DM me and I’ll hook you up with an answer bro, I swear!” I don’t need to walk into any dark alleyways to find my knowledge, thank you very much - I’d much rather stay in the daylight where everyone can criticize an obviously (even/especially not to me) incorrect statement.
Yeah, I think Meanwhile on Grad is a bit much, but other communities don’t want to repeat information so keep pointing people to post new instances of admin abuse there rather than repeat the same tired old stories over and over again everywhere else across the Threadiverse. Examples include [email protected], which helpfully keeps communities accountable from mods who run amok, and [email protected] that closed down after Trump won the USA election. But on the other hand, even though everyone on the Threadiverse already knows about the abuses and deceptive practices of the infamous Lemmy.ml devs, hence we don’t want to keep hearing about them, nonetheless new people still occasionally come along who need a reference, so Meanwhile on Grad is helpful for that reason.
If you have evidence of people using alts to manipulate votes, please post it in [email protected]. Using alts is common though - and prior to PieFed software there were extremely good reasons to do so, given the limitations of Lemmy - so long as you are careful to not ever vote on the same content multiple times.
This is 100% it exactly: you can do whatever you please, be maga okay sure, be pro-genocide even, whatever so long as you don’t push me to do it too - but don’t shit in my drink and call it chocolate. Transparency is key. I don’t mind lemmy.ml tankies doing their thing on the internet, so long as they clearly label what it is then that’s fine. It’s the lack of transparency that makes it disinformation.
Again, I’ve been on Lemmy for two years. I know the deep magic. (Still thank you, Those are good recommendations.)
This account is new to try out piefed, but I list all my alts in my profile. My main is [email protected] - where I’m into the YPTB com. I’m not big on posting about that kind of alt/vote manipulation drama because it’s just so… stupid? Inconsequential? On the other hand maga and pro-genocide folks need to be shut down, hard.
I kinda love cowbee. I’ve interacted but haven’t felt inclined to argue with him. As a compulsive fact-checker who literally reads the news as part of my job, I can’t get behind some of his sources, but he does post quite a lot of fair and grounded citations to back up his views. I even like how he’s a little shit sometimes, because he’s absolutely polite enough to back off if someone just walks away. I mean, is it really sea-lioning if someone else really wants to have the last word?
Weirdly, I tracked all my unproductive interractions and found a fairly even spread. Granted, I post to a women’s only community and assholes exist across the political spectrum. So no, I haven’t had problems with the comrades, except geneva_convenience, I hope their socks get wet at fhe beginning of the day.
It’s interesting to see what opinions people take for granted. So many comments here just assumed I didn’t know what those instances were like, because I would for sure never wonder why they were on my block list if I knew, right?
Then again maybe I don’t know as much as I think. I’ve changed my mind on a lot of things over the years, I just try to be open.