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

• anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is there any indication to users interacting with those instances that their content is being limited by metrics that may or may not be visible to them, and by rules that may or may not be documented anywhere but the piefed codebase?

  These are wildly hostile features to anyone not using piefed, and it’s feeling a bit like that’s the point.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The reputation system doesn’t shadowban content. You don’t get comments silently autoremoved for having a low reputation. You don’t get throttled either.

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    • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s admin and community dependent - an admin or community can take that reputation metric and use it to automate moderation. There is/was an entire community whose whole gimmick was auto-banning users from every instance for activity across the entire federated network. But beyond that, piefed already drops content instance-wide for as little as a single user blocking another.

      if parent_comment.author.has_blocked_user(user.id) or parent_comment.author.has_blocked_instance(user.instance_id): log_incoming_ap(id, APLOG_CREATE, APLOG_FAILURE, saved_json, ‘Parent comment author blocked replier’) return None

      The codebase is riddled with shit like this.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s no inbuilt system to automation moderating out low reputation accounts to my knowledge. Any instance that would do this would have to be using a third-party tool.

        The Piefed system of blocking is more aligned with how most other sites do blocking. Lemmy doesn’t prevent blocked users from replying, but Piefed does. So from Piefed, if it’s working properly, you shouldn’t be able to reply to users who have blocked you. Lemmy doesn’t operate like that, so it just throws out replies. It’s due to different blocking philosophies.

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