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Piefed equivalent of this instance? (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lemmytoday@lemmy.today
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I keep hearing a lot about piefed and I'm curious to try it. I really like this instance, though. Is there something similarly hands off out there for piefed?

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

Piefed is very much not hands-off. Starting from the moment you sign up, they're going to try to load you down with their preset subscriptions to pre-approved communities and their automatic censoring of whatever posters and sites they disapprove of. You can opt out of most of their anti-features, but still...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Who's "they"?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    one of the barriers to entry to the fediverse is finding the content you want to see, and subscribing to it. some instances like piefed preload a feed to get users started.

    this really rubs some lemmy users the wrong way as they get butt hurt about auto-anything, and really dont want the fediverse to be easy to use. to them the technical difficulty of finding content is a feature not a problem.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When I joined Lemmy I also had preset communities so I don't really see the difference. I even unsubscribed from many of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Piefed.

    "It" if you'd prefer.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Does it not work like Lemmy where instance owners set the settings?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Probably. I know there were plans at least to make some of the features - like auto-hiding downvoted posts and threads and attaching an icon to accounts that got downvoted - configurable. I don't know if that's actually been done or not, but I assume so.

    Look - I'm not here to convince you of anything. You asked a question and I gave my opinion in response. You wanted to know if there is "something similarly hands off out there for piefed," and IMO that's not likely, since "hands-off" is one thing that Piefed is not.

    But yes - it's certainly possible that at least some of the censorship and reputation anti-features are now configurable, and even that someone has started an instance with them all disabled.

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