I support the right of every instance on Lemmy to build how they want, transparently. As you can see my main account is on .today and not .world or sh.itjust.works.

My point here is that piefed.social has pretty simular culture to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.

I have some real concerns about what’s considered authoritarian, considering…

Oof. That’s some social credit sounding shit right there.

Its much simpler than that. Lemmy has a spam problem. People coming in to just make shill communities selling a service or product or spamming advert posts across communities.

They usually get downvoted, but I can use Piefeds admin tools to filter for downvoted posts by new accounts. This usually catches most spammers like that. I can then ban them from piefed.social and pass that on to Lemmy admins.

A lot of Day 1 trolls are caught like this too.

I understand, not always, but most heavily downvoted accounts tend to be people looking for fights everywhere, people with long community and instance banlists etc.

4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.

This can be turned off by other instances.

And there seems to be some confusion in some of the excerpts there because it is mostly referring to what piefed.social does, and not incumbent on all other instances to do so. It also looks unfinished.