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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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[–] 17 points 9 months ago (12 children)

I've been using lemmy.world with the boost app. Should I look into piefed? Am I missing anything? I mean I'm happy with what I got, but is the grass any greener?

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    There's been some controversy recently about censorship hardcoded into Piefed's backend. Basically it gives people a "social credit score" based on how they post.

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

    Yuck. Do you have any evidence?

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Here's the writeup about it, going around

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

    So it basically is a worse version of Reddit's karma.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Essentially, yes. And maybe that's part of why people jumping from reddit like it so much, but personally, I don't think the things like this that Piefied is doing are good for the fediverse ecosystem

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I can understand where the reputation comes from - spammers and trolls will do everything they can to shit all over everything. Maybe this isn't the best way to address that problem, but I definitely understand the desire.

    I run a forum for a very specific model of RV, and fucking spammers came in so often that I shut off registration and register everyone manually after they send me an email. It raises the bar just enough. Every now and then someone will whine about it, and I'm like, I hear you but this is much easier than cleaning the mess the spammers always leave.

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