Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)

hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The software kind of scores you on a few metrics. Like the ratio of the things you vote up vs down. I’m sure there are others.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, that’s it. Reputation (how much you are downvoted) and Attitude (how much you downvote)

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Aaaah, cool yeah. I never looked too deep at it. Just knew that much.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But just for the mods to know if you are a troll to help moderate better, if they remove posts, do they tell you it is removed or like Reddit does it appear like it is still posted but only you can see it?

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh no. Actually AFAIK its basically public for everyone to see unless disabled. At least attitude is. Yours is currently scored at 86. Meaning you’ve been 5x as likely to upvote as downvote. I think the rep one is different. Nothing more happening with it ATM than that I think.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, it should show as removed on here.

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To be clear, defederation has nothing whatsoever to do with PieFed.

  Defederation happens on Lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, nodeBB, and every other type of software across the entire Fediverse. It is even an absolutely crucial tool to prevent CSAM which depending on the locality of the affected instance could get it shut down and potentially the instance owner exposed to actual criminal charges. (There are other ways, but typically defederation is the easiest.)

  Likewise, lemmy.ml famously censors what they consider cusswords on their instance - with a hard-coded list even, iirc, at least it was at one time, years ago - but then after much outcry this censorship was made optional in the code.

  So defederation is a reason to not join an instance in favor of some other one, but has nothing to do with wanting to either avoid or preferentially pick an instance running PieFed. In fact the opposite is true, as the PieFed software allows additional options beyond simply federate vs. defederate, allowing instance admins choices between those two extremes. This finer granularity is so helpful! e.g. the PieFed.zip instance blocks Hexbear.net by default for new users, but explains how to remove that, thereby offering hexbear as opt-in content, rather than having to choose between treating it identically the same as all other instances or else cutting it out entirely.

  PieFed also allows notes to be placed onto content, which is particularly helpful for places such as Beehaw where their stated ToS differs from the usual across the rest of the Threadiverse.

  In fact I am not aware of any particular reason to avoid running PieFed, but anyway even presuming that such exists, defederation is definitely not among them.

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  • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In fact I am not aware of any particular reason to avoid running PieFed, but anyway even presuming that such exists, defederation is definitely not among them.

    The injection of the developers biases into the software, the misleading error messages, and the block behavior behaving like a shadow ban are more than enough reasons to not touch the software.

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• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So what is the lowering reputation part. Are the mods grading your posts and then reducing their visibility?

  No, it’s just being downvoted negatively contributes to your reputation. Basically heavily downvoted accounts.

  But I noticed some remove the word cunt too, which is a dealbreaker for me.

  I don’t know what you mean here. Who is “some” here?

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some of piefed instances put removed in italics where the word cunt was. Obviously that would only be a deal breaker for the ones that do it.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I only remember Lemmy forcing its hard coded “slur filter” on all the instances.

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      • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That was a temporary measure very early in development, when moderation tooling was still very incomplete. This was to avoid ending up like Voat. Once mod tools were implemented, the slur filter became optional. Simple as that.

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you get reported or post a hot take, admins can look at your karma to see if your takes are usually hot, and at how often you tend to upvote vs downvote. They don’t have to do anything with that information, it’s just to help them tell if a user is controversial

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