Skavau
@Skavau@piefed.social
- Comment on How many instances have you been orphaned from? 6 hours ago:
Just lemm.ee
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 1 day 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? 1 day ago:
That’s partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 4 days 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? 5 days 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" 1 week 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" 1 week ago:
VPNs, throwaway emails
- Comment on The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies" 1 week ago:
It would also help if they actually had a name even if they were rather than just some user account from who-knows-where.
- Comment on The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies" 1 week ago:
Why? Genuine question. I’m not a lawyer or have any legal training, but what would stop the Lemmy devs sue someone for distorting their statements with the purpose of damaging their reputation and making them lose income, if they wanted to? I don’t believe they’re the type that would do that, but I’m not aware of anything that would stop it. I’m not saying something that would stop them from doing that doesn’t exist, just that I’m not aware of it.
Because the entire fediverse has a net active user pool of 40k users. Moreover, the lemmy devs have no idea who anyone who might be diaparaging their instance is. They could literally be anywhere in the world. Do you genuinely think its worth their time at all?
- Comment on What is the point of posting on the fediverse if it is going to be moderated similarly to Reddit? 1 week ago:
I don’t think a single Reddit ‘power user’ moved to the Fediverse.
- Comment on What is the point of posting on the fediverse if it is going to be moderated similarly to Reddit? 1 week ago:
That’s why a swath of us left Reddit in the first place, isn’t it?
No. I don’t think many people left Reddit for a desire to post in a ‘free speech absolutist’ instance.
I can think of many other reasons why many people left Reddit. One of which is that it isn’t moderated efficiently enough.
I think the Fediverse has largely lost the script and the plot entirely. If you want a more better experience on the Fediverse, stop installing crybaby over-sensitive mods.
You know the Fediverse is comprised of different instances that exercise different levels of control over local community moderators, right?
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what “substitute thorns (th) to spite a member of the community who uses them” means here
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
I am confused as to what you are getting at here. Piefed crossposts display post content from different communities separately within a link post that is crossposted.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
Crossposting visibility is a pretty normal tool that should be on by default. It helps communities grow.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 2 weeks ago:
Each instance will have its own policies and systems. I can’t speak for blahaj.zone.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
That might be possible. Rimu could add filters into community settings to hide crossposts.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get how you think its centralised here. What code are you referring to?
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
This would mean a fundamental change to how both Lemmy and Piefed would work.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
I think you may be overestating the amount of crossposts that happen for the idea that it would somehow cause ‘monoculturalism’
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
Alternative suggestion - allow communities to block crossposting functionality with specified communities in the community settings.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
Piefed splits up the comment boxes based on community when a thread is crossposted, so you can still distinguish between the comment boxes on different communities despite them being visible.
That said, a potential future option here would be a community opt-out of crosspost functionality in this way
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that cluttered. Have you looked at how it looks on piefed?
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
The different communities on Piefed are still separated within the post. You can still see which community you would be replying to
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 weeks ago:
Piefed groups comment boxes from crossposts into one post. So no matter which crosspost you’re looking at, you’ll see all responses.
- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
‘Hey the word Trump isn’t allowed, but I can see you were using the word ‘trump card’ and not talking about Donald Trump so I’ll use my brain and allow it”
I can easily imagine automated systems that carved out the usage of “Trump card” as an expression as an exception to a block on a “Trump” rule.
“We don’t allow accounts with a low karma amount to post, because it could be indicative of a spam/bot account but I can see your comment isn’t either of those so I’ll use my brain and allow it.
This one is an onerous demands to large traffic communities in the event they feel they need to filter out new accounts.
- Comment on Does piefed not have a modlog view? 3 weeks ago:
You will see it on community sidebars.
- Comment on THE FEDIVERSE IS TOO INFECTED WITH REDDITISM!! 3 weeks ago:
I can’t fathom why its so important for some to be able to freely hurl abuse on online platforms.
That really seems to be all its about here.
Moreover, I’d also suggest that the reason a lemmy instance of this nature does not exist is because there’s no need for it for them. There are already sites that allow them to do this. Why would people of this nature be drawn to the style of Lemmy or Piefed? The entire structure of the Reddit-clone is built around curation and filtering.
- Comment on THE FEDIVERSE IS TOO INFECTED WITH REDDITISM!! 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see a TOC on their frontpage
- Comment on THE FEDIVERSE IS TOO INFECTED WITH REDDITISM!! 3 weeks ago:
hilariouschaos
- Comment on THE FEDIVERSE IS TOO INFECTED WITH REDDITISM!! 3 weeks ago:
I just see it being a repetitive, boring troll infested collection of communities