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1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay (media.piefed.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

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[–] 14 points 9 months ago (8 children)

"Complain about tankies" it's the same fediverse... With the same content...

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

    Sure but PieFed doesn't seem to have a tankie problem. They're blocked from what I've seen.

    Even if that wasn't the case, PieFed doesn't have a reputation for having a tankie problem.

    The bottom line is when I promote PieFed I don't get people on reddit telling me the UI sucked and that it's flooded with pro-russia propaganda.

    So I find it more efficient to promote PieFed

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    It's a shame to see that people think of Lemmy creators as some sort of villains.

    I created my account on .ml before the Reddit blackout, but there wasn't much content there, so I didn't use it much. I properly started using it after the "Reddit blackout," and that's when I learned about the so-called "tankie problem." I've met people with weird opinions, but the developers and Marxists in general aren't bad people. People just usually make a strawmen to argue against.

    Anyway, none of their opinions are reflected in the software. Lemmy is done in a truly democratic and user-oriented way, and I respect them for it.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Anyone can instance can defederate from any other instance in Lemmy, not that hard to understand.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I agree, and I think it's a shame it has gotten to this point, but I understand his viewpoint completely and have seen the interactions myself. At this point it's simply more efficient to promote Piefed on Reddit instead of Lemmy, because you want the absolute least amount of friction for potential new users. Literally any single minor inconvenience/negative thing will cause people to not even consider trying it out. Lemmy has unfortunately already accumulated a reputation, and if you promote it you are very likely to run into comments about tankies which is typically enough to scare potential new users away.

    At the end of the day it shouldn't matter to us which software people use, as long as we get more new users into the ecosystem.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    PieFed literally uses a social credit score system and it gets lowered if you post content the Dev doesn't like. It's shit. And it's ugly, people who want a low density enshittified web app interface should be actively filtered out.

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