Skavau
@Skavau@piefed.social
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Not specifically age-verification, but they are considering checks of some sort at some point to deal with the bot problem on there. That’s at least one angle. They’ve also just rolled it out in small scale to suspicious accounts. So whether or not it is done for the purposes of verifying age, or just dealing with bots - I suspect it’ll arrive in the end once they feel they have the capital to do it.
As for the UK specific issues, it’s hard to get a concrete numbers because most people in the UK just switched to a VPN. In the event of Reddit implementing global ID-check measures, it wouldn’t matter what VPN you switched to.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Europe.pub is a lemmy instance. Piefed.europe.pub is a piefed instance.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To be clear, Ek is talking about posting image posts on Reddit who allow video uploads. I don’t think this is a problem there. Moreover, the infographics are more successful at getting attention than just plain-text comment-posts. It is what it is.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 2 weeks ago:
I think you can reasonably blame the lack of features here, honestly. I’m not saying if they had them they would have challenged Reddit, but they’d have been much more active. Community moderators almost certainly lost interest when they realised they had no real control over their community, and the longer the time elapsed with no tools to do so - the more drifted away leaving abandoned communities where AI and bots and trolls move-in compounding it even further.
They also, on day 1 of their community launch, allowed day 1 old accounts to make communities. Even if each account could only moderate 2 communities, that wasn’t smart at all.
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 2 weeks ago:
A Reddit-styled site where AI handles community moderator decisions isn’t reddit. Communities aren’t communities, they’re just hashtags.
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, but zero mod tools other than “delete post” 2 months in was genuinely laughable. To be frank, it should’ve launched with proper moderation: delete posts, ban users, sticky posts, filters for post-types etc. This is standard stuff that users shouldn’t even have to haggle for.
If they gave community moderators proper tools to help them here and put up walls - they could’ve mitigated a lot of this.
- Comment on Meditation 3 weeks ago:
It’s added now. Just kept saying “not found” when I tried to pull it in.
- Comment on Meditation 3 weeks ago:
@rimu@piefed.social this community doesn’t seem to want to add to piefed.social.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy/Piefed is far more resistant to bad actor community capture by a capricious moderator. Instance admins are usually far closer to the day-to-day operations and thus have their pulse on their communities in a way that reddit admins do not. Secondly, the federative nature of it means that any community can be replicated elsewhere.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The problem was that they launched with barely any mod or curation tools, and haven’t really added anything since. Rimu, just one guy, should not be having a better development cycle than something like Digg after launch - especially when most of the things they need to add are pretty basic.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s relaunched.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 41 comments
- Comment on A final promo to stop all other promos from fedinsfw.app (nsfwcommunitypromo) 4 weeks ago:
Tbh it was beginning to die down anyway
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 5 weeks ago:
Piefed doesn’t incorporate any of this into an algorithm.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 5 weeks ago:
This is just in fundamental contradiction to how the Forumverse works. No content regarded as highly relevant and interesting can be filtered via your system and sorting by /new/ on a wider scale just means that a new post you make can be completely missed if no-one notices it.
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
They seem to have pulled the room.
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
Right, but Matrix has been around for a while and yet its only use is to be a hub for tech-related projects and support rooms. How would you propose we somehow get people using it?
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
Because no-one is using it
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 5 weeks ago:
These communities are all coming from a new nsfw instance
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 5 weeks ago:
I think what compounds it is that its a populated instance being set up with piefeds tools to do this. I assume it’ll burn itself out soon.
- Comment on Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy 5 weeks ago:
Honestly some good posts on any relevant community on Reddit have been very successful. Piefed saw a huge boon because of this at the beginning of February. The trouble is you can’t keep spamming it. Reasonably so.
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
I was referring to Stoat there.
- Comment on Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement 5 weeks ago:
No, by the same logic you should consider leaving lemmy.world.
- Comment on Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement 5 weeks ago:
Well tbf idk what you expect people on other instances to do about it lol
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that means that he’ll be degrading his own income down the line lol but it does give new self-hosters the same tools to collect income which, like it or not, is necessary.
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
Idk how the pricing model works down the line when federation is active, but yeah.
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
Yes they have. It is third in their priority list.
But a centralised system based on a service hosted in the UK?
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 5 weeks ago:
Stoat have ruled out federation.
- Comment on Meta 1 month ago:
Also feel free to join the Zulip Chat or matrix