Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I'm out, I think.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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I know Lemmy has its issues, but I swear the more I hear about Piefed the crazier it sounds.
I will never understand why people want to trade the corporate nannies for some self-elected nanny.
We don't need any of this weird social engineering junk
Lemmy's issues are pretty gigantic as well - to the point where many people outright refuse to fund its further development, thus impacting the future of the Threadiverse (one example is the inordinate amount of time spent performing moderation activities rather than actually working on adding features to the codebase).
Anyway, it's good to have multiple alternative options - having more software implementations of the ActivityPub Protocol is unquestionably a good thing imho.
The social engineering though is NOT a good thing imho - fortunately it's an option that can be disabled, though unfortunately it is opt-out rather than opt-in, and not transparently handled at all.
Absolutely. My stance is not that Lemmy is not without serious flaw, just that Piefed does not seem to be the solution, to me at least.
I mean... I disagree with the vote quotas specifically, but anyone running an instance is gonna have to have some kind of controls, and Rimu's being open about what's going on and why and it's not a big deal for me. The point of the fediverse is that you can pick the particular instance whose policies you're OK with. With corporate sites you only get one "choice" and they hide their algorithms from you.
I don't think it's fine the quota is enabled by default for everybody. You want to have the option, fine - but don't force it on people. Should be opt in.
I was looking on a couple of posts about it recently and there was an instance when (I think) admin of one instance updated it without realizing this feature is in there. That's problematic.