in different social networks I often see a table of fediverse alternatives to centralized social networks like twitter = mastodon and so on, but I noticed that the alternative to reddit is piefed and not lemmy, can someone explain what kind of fediverse project this is, and is it different from lemmy?🤔
I’ve tried them both along with a few different lemmy instances and found .today on lemmy is my best fit.
Since others have covered the technical angle, I’ll say I prefer lemmy from a social perspective. My instance doesn’t block other instances, banning users only for extreme cases. I prefer to choose my experience for myself without being ideologically guided by someone else’s values.
For all the criticisms of the lemmy developers, their biases don’t make it into the code. Instances are run according to the admins and user’s wishes, which allows .today to operate as openly as possible. Piefed, on the other hand, suffers from the biases of its developer, who not only blocks users but also instances of admins who don’t align with them. They have passed along their ban list to other admins as well, getting users banned for disagreeing with them. That’s not the behavior of someone I want running my platform of choice.
Along with that. I, personally, don’t like the idea of reputation, low score flags, karma or any system based on the votes of users, since they can be easily manipulated. It feels like Piefed is trying to implement a more intense karma system, which was one of my main problems with reddit. I believe each post and comment should stand on its own merit.
The amount of extreme views I’ve come across made me just leave most of groups and there’s very little point opening it up… lemmy simply hasn’t got enough people to be blacklisting things. How do you handle it?
You dont miss much by blocking. If you feel the comments are impacting then 100% block because your experience will be so much better.
I don’t know what you consider extreme views. I don’t feel the need to try to handle anything.
If you’re wondering how I curate my feed, I only browse by subscribed communities. If I want to find new ones I look at cross-posts, the community promotion coms, or search by interest.
Are you blocking instances? You gotta block instances. Also block users aggressively. There aren’t that many bad egg users on the respectable instances. It doesn’t take too long to really clean up your feed.
I have a hard time donating to the Lemmy developers knowing that money from it goes to run .ml.
If it went to fund a neutral test instance I’d feel much better about it.
I never suggested donating to anyone.
I donated to FOSS software that I use and I suggest that every one does too.
Cool.
Good point. If there is a karma system, the main activity for a sizeable (and by definition overrepresented) chunk of the user base will just use the platform to maximize karma, whether for nefarious purposes or just because people treat gamified systems like games. Having real user registrations (so you can block individual users) as opposed to a 4chan like thing, but having no karma system or engagement optimization algorithm in the feed, are the requirements for a healthy forum.
I’d disagree on that:
Slashdot’s moderation & metamoderation system was better than any system without metamoderation,
& reddit’s idiotic you-can-post-or-comment-to-collect-karma-and-delete-your-post-or-comment-keeping-your-karma … distortion … isn’t something that’s intrinsic to karma-systems: they made it intrinsic to their system by choice, which is different.
I’d have it so that if someone tries karma-farming, the instant they delete the posts/comments, all the karma from those disappears, right then.
( actually, I’d have it so that nothing can be deleted, & revisions are limited to 8 or 16 per post/comment: accountability requires that disappearing-of-history not be permitted )
Also, Slashdot had multiple, not only up/down, kinds of votes…
That’s required, too…
Being unable to simultaneously vote that something is wrong & that it needs more eyes on it… is obstruction.
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It’s not like you can detect “if someone tries karma farming”. If the platform displays a measure of engagement with content that a user posts, users will be driven to post things that get them points. Then if the platform uses said metric to rank content, that unavoidably leads to a setup where users look at content posted for the purpose of getting points. Btw lemmy.world is also not free from this, people repost engagement bait stupid shit from Reddit to asklemmy all the time, and those get many upvotes and comments. But at least the users that post these don’t get any meta-post outcomes.
Absolutely agree that people will always try to game a system that can be gamed.
I would agree with real user registration if it didn’t open the ID Verification can of worms. Right now there is no way to make a KYC system airtight, and the risk outweighs the benefit, in my opinion. One user per account (if one could easily switch instances) would make for a healthier social ecosystem, though.
I don’t know about you but I didn’t have to present any form of identification for registering here.
You mentioned real user registrations, which I thought was a hypothetical control you were suggesting. Appologies if I misunderstood, I was explaining my thoughts on it in theory.