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I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day https://old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1ijmkc0/make_the_switch_away_from_meta/

Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc. If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.

I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.

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[–] Canyon201@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Why would you suggest piefed when it has so much biased hard-code in it's database?

It is clear that Rimu has forced his personal viewpoint and ideology into his code. Despite the claims there has been no evidence that this is the case for Lemmy.

He has coded in deliberatly misleading error messages when you try to upload images he doesn't like

  • You cannot cast a vote on PieFed if you’ve made 0 replies, 0 posts, AND your username is 8 characters long
  • When a reply is created, from anywhere, that only contains the word “this”, the comment is dropped
  • Every user (remote or local) has an “attitude” which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your “attitude” is < 0.0 you can’t downvote. Again there is no mention of this anywhere but deep within his biased-code
  • Every account has a Social Credit Score. If your account has less than 100 Social Credit Score and is newly created, you are not considered “trustworthy” and there are limitations placed on what your account can do. Your Social Credit Score is calculated as upvotes earned - downvotes earned aka Reddit Karma. If your reputation is at -10 you also cannot downvote, and you can’t create new DMs. It also flags your account automatically if your reputation is to low. Echo-chamber achieved!
  • If you use em dashes your account is flagged to the admin, more like 1984-fed
  • if you try to comment a .gif ... you fail because the code lord Rimu doesn't like it
  • Rimu has turned the block into an instance wide shadowban again without telling anyone
  • He has hardcoded which instances are allowed and which arent
  • He has hardcoded links to his ideology into the sidebar
  • He vindictively targeted a single user with code

The code review can be found here

Maybe someone should do a code review for lemmy to see how those tankies have influenced it.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You know, when people say piefed is like reddit, I don't know if they realize it's exactly like reddit.

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[–] yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like hell for someone with problems to put thoughts in words and/or uncommon opinions. You either go blend with the mass or die.

Also, could I use my current lemmy account to upvote my each pie comment, to get better score in few minutes? Kinda fragile for cheats.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

To be fair, people can already use alts to upvote on the fediverse right now. It's just obvious when they do so because of public voting, so doing so normally gets an account banned.

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[–] mauvehed@feddit.online 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I saw this image on Reddit.

And now I am here.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Question in the PeerTube, there’s like nothing there so why? Or are you saying we need to influx what’s on there and draw more people to it? Cuz the only way to do that is promise of monetization

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Has anyone tried Pleroma or Misskey who can share their experience/opinion?

Just trying to get an idea of what's out there.

[–] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Well, pleroma is kind of like a blend between 2010 imageboards and mastodon, it's kinda small and nice depending on which instance you are. Its used by a lot of personal website thanks to its low weight, and is popular among small independant web creators. You'll rarely see instance with more than 100 users. Biggest one i've found is https://udongein.xyz/ .

Misskey is more or less the same thing, but mainly focused on a japanese audience from what i've seen, with a flashy DUI and a large focus on user customisation with profile picture stickers, statuses, colored fonts, badges, and custom emojis. Biggest misskey instance i've found is misskey.io .

Both are fun, but they are more focused on communities/sharing than politics/news/real world (except misskey on some cases for... japanese reasons). Their smallness also tend to favor circlejerking behavior, but i guess that's an inner principle of the world wide web. They are worth the try.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

That's interesting, thanks!

Both are fun, but they are more focused on communities/sharing than politics/news/real world

That's okay, because those niches seem already filled on the fediverse anyway. I was mostly curious because it seems most of the social media formats have alternatives on the fediverse, except for the classic facebook/myspace where it was originally mostly about keeping up with friends and people you know in real life, joining interest groups, buying/selling used items on marketplace, etc.

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