I didn’t even know the link was from .ml. I haven’t blocked the instance completely, just some communities.
Post: https://vger.to/piefed.co.za/c/fediverse/p/21296/piefed-users-surge
Link to comment: https://vger.to/sh.itjust.works/comment/23563769
I’m not sure if blocking them deletes their comments like the piefed code suggested, but I’m done. I don’t have time to deal with drama on the fediverse, and I don’t care what comes from this. I just thought others would get a chuckle about how petty this is.
Yeah I saw Goat’s comment there, that was really shitty. I really hope that a majority of Lemmy doesn’t insist on moving to piefed because even though Rimu and his cronies argue the feature can be turned off, it doesn’t really matter because having a karma system at all means it can be used to restrict people wherever it is enabled.
And it is enabled by default and therefore will be enabled on the majority of piefed instances out there.
On the other hand — the more we talk about piefed’s features, the more we’ll know about the kind of people who join piefed.
Except a lot of people are being kept in the dark about the shortcomings of piefed, it’s trendy and cool because it’s ““new”” and different than lemmy. Which is why a lot of people join it, including people who would be very against karma requirements being used as a weapon like on Reddit.
That’s what’s scary, a lot of people joining piefed being misled under false pretenses or just not being told upfront what they’re getting gives the platform more power. It makes piefed seem more legitimate. And more piefed instances popping up means those Karma requirements can ultimately effect Lemmy users too. I’ve seen a couple people point it out the score of Lemmy users on piefed already.
Lots of people just don’t look at the features anyway.
I joined piefed to check it out, left because I didn’t like it. I was neutral-cold about it until I read about how the code functions.
We can make more posts about how it actually works to make sure more people see it.
PieFed is made by liberal reddiors, for liberal reddiors. With a worse layout than new reddit, somehow.
When Microsoft makes its shit opt-out, it’s horrid. When Piefed does it, it’s justified that you have to recompile to remove them!