Skavau
@Skavau@piefed.social
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 2 hours ago:
Oh, you just made it. Make sure you federate it on lemmy.federate.com.
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 2 hours ago:
What community are you thinking of making?
- Comment on Disengage, Disconnect, Block, Filter 5 days ago:
Piefed has a built in anti-delete function. A new account that spams posts, then deletes will get their posts automatically removed.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 1 week ago:
The thing that is funny about Piefed vs. Lemmy is the level of authoritarian control the admin has over what you see and whether votes count or not. Specifically, they can open each instance connected with them and add a vote weight to the instance. So if they didn’t like ML, instead of blocking the instance, you can set the weight to 0, and then those users would have no idea that their votes do not contribute to a rank at all.
Are any Piefed instances doing any of this right now?
You can take an individual user and set their account to ban comments, ban posts, or both, which effectively shadow bans a user. If they’re remote, the comments, or posts never arrive at the piefed instance. None of this is visible to the end user, by the way, no alerts that this is happening to your account.
I’m not aware of this.
You can be kicked from a community by moderators, an action that you will not even know is happening to you.
When you say “moderators” do you mean admins here or community moderators?
The Admin of a piefed instance can shape the feed silently, and without users even knowing it is happening, through the use of vote weights. Which is a pretty nasty feature if I’m being honest. One of the things people assumed was happening on Reddit was that the feed wasn’t an honest representation of user activity, that the feed itself was ideologically bias (one way or the other), and yet piefed explicitly gives you those tools.
I can see a valid use-case for smaller instances that might want to elevate their own communities within their own local feeds. I think it would be pretty poor if any larger instance used this tool, but I am sure that all of these toggles can display publicly - so users on an instance would know if their experience is being gamed or curated by the admins of a local instance.
- Comment on The Grind & Bind Art Alchemist's Guild 1 week ago:
No, I just missed it. My bad.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Comments on reddit are suggesting that the fediverse is simply too small to come under this law btw
Also, how is the verification process working there rn?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
What that means technically is that the Fediverse could just allow non-account posting whilst verifying everyone who makes accounts. What a laughable law. At least in the UK, they didn’t allow such a loophole even if we can’t do anything to 4chan.
- Comment on The Grind & Bind Art Alchemist's Guild 1 week ago:
!art_alchemist_guild@lemmy.today
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
They could probably just geoblock 4chan I guess? Maybe? Or try to? I don’t know what the government think they’re going to do. But Mississippi residents did get geoblocked from Bsky.
Well yeah, literally all they could do is geoblock 4chan.
Edit: Ok, so they ‘have no plan to ban VPNs’, but ‘are looking very closely into their usage’. I have no idea what that means.
I am a Brit.
Absolutely nothing lol.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
That’s fine, but it’s an obvious technicality isn’t it?
“Oh your side has outrageous content that could harm children? Oh, it’s okay. You don’t have user accounts. Carry on.”
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know. That’s why I think other instances should also do it lol
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
How does that work in their head. 4chan is exempt. Yes, lets get under 16 years old off of Reddit and direct them to 4chan?
???????
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
However that doesn’t mean things won’t change. Afaik Dreamwidth and 4chan are litigating to not have to comply. And more sites could be brought in during the second wave.
What could Australia possibly do, other than geoblocking 4chan, if they don’t comply exactly?
I see the UK government has noticed Bsky (part of the fediverse) and demanded verification there so it’s possible ours might learn what it is as well.
Bluesky is much larger than the Fediverse here to be fair. It’s not the same.
Creepily the UK also seem to be making tentative noises about VPNs now.
Eh, nothing concrete. What are you referring to?
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
Hi, Brit here.
I’m confused. I thought the rules from Australia here only applied to specific platforms rather than anywhere. I read somewhere about specific platforms being considered exempt. The likelihood to me that the Australian government (or your Ofcom equivalent) even know about the Fediverse to me seems slim.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 week ago:
I thought the Australian system only applied to specific social media websites that they drew up?
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 week ago:
Tbh, and I llan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.
If a community was active and then isn’t, that’s fine, but a lot of communities are made and then never used.
- Comment on Consolidating communities into super communities 2 weeks ago:
I think you can unsubscribe from whatever topics you subscribed to here, and it should auto-unsubscribe you from those communities.
- Comment on Consolidating communities into super communities 2 weeks ago:
@wjs018@piefed.social See!? SEE?!
Lol, I’ve specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don’t worry.
- Comment on Consolidating communities into super communities 2 weeks ago:
You can make feeds of containing specific communities on piefed that would combine all like-for-like communities.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 weeks ago:
I’d note that the same phenomenon exists on Reddit. You’d be surprised how many subreddits on a site much larger are maintained purely by the power of a few posters who feed the community with posts.
I’d also argue that television and movies on piefed.social, per activity, are much more active than what you suggest there.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely fine. I can interact much better with the fediverse on here except search. I find Lemmy does search functions better currently.
- Comment on Workout Music - sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago:
!workoutmusic@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on How many instances have you been orphaned from? 2 weeks ago:
Just lemm.ee
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 weeks ago:
People probably don’t want to defederate the flagship instance owned by the devs of the software they’re using.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 weeks ago:
That’s partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 3 weeks ago:
The mods who left were quickly replaced.
Most mod teams didn’t leave. They made an example of a handful of especially rebellious mod teams, albeit I believe in most cases they had a quisling near the bottom of the mod list contacting reddit to tell them they would happily take over.
But there’s a difference between doing that dozen times, and having to do that a thousand times.
The subreddit mods had all the power. If the top mods of all the communities that blacked out just removed all mods and shut down the subreddit, it would’ve been chaos on Reddits end.
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 3 weeks ago:
2023 was such a wasted opportunity because the moderators chickened out. For about a week, almost every single sizeable community was blacked out. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.
A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.
- Comment on The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies" 4 weeks ago:
I’d also add that the attempt to sue users by the owners of lemmy.ml would likely cause almost every other instance to defederate them (except hexbear and lemmygrad) and rebuild on piefed. It would very likely decapitate lemmy.
Also, many instances aren’t even hosted in the USA. Not sure where the lemmy.ml admins are even from.
- Comment on The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies" 4 weeks ago:
VPNs, throwaway emails