Would you like some pie? Check it out here: https://piefed.ca/
What is PieFed
PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!
We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created !newtopiefed@piefed.ca for us to learn from each other. There is also the official !piefed_help@piefed.social community which has a similar purpose.
We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going ๐
Other Links & FAQ
- lemmy.ca is not migrating to PieFed. We will run both instances at the same time. You can use whichever one you prefer.
- Learn about the differences between PieFed & Lemmy: https://join.piefed.social/features/
- A tour of the community moderation features in PieFed: https://piefed.social/post/844065
- One of the first mobile apps to implement support for PieFed, with more to come: https://interstellar.jwr.one/
It suck that they implements karma and collapsing downvoted comments. Two censorship methods
This is ActivityPub, not Reddit. It is optional, democratic and auditable.
People are not sending posts/comment to be approved first, you can post whatever you want. It is a plus if the community found a bad faith actor and tagged them. So I am not forced to see their disinformation campaign.
We all know that most people use downvotes as a disagree button not just to suppress hate speech and any other really harmful opinions. There is a report button for that. Even an opinion based comment could be heavily downvoted
The collapsing of downvoted comments is configurable in the user settings, so it's possible to disable it or fine tune it to the way you want it. The discussion is still valid for what the default settings should be
I'm still learning about the karma side, so I don't want to comment on that yet
Should be the opposite, people who want to collapse comment with lot of downvotes should activate it
The downvotes and karma do not stop you from saying whatever you want. It just means you have to say it somewhere else. Hence, you are not censored.
Are you being glib?
When a comment is collapsed , people tend to skip the comment. Hiding stuffs is censorship
It's just improving the signal-to-noise ratio.
Yes; through censoring unpopular comments. Whether or not it's a good thing is debatable, but not so much whether it exists.