Is just the same as lemmy? What makes it different? Is it similar to kbin? Why is it meant to be better according so some people?

  • zoey@lemmy.librebun.comEnglish
    74·
    2 days ago

    https://join.piefed.social/features/

    Differences between Lemmy and PieFed

    • Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
    • Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
    • Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
    • People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
    • Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
    • Keyboard shortcuts.
    • Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
    • Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
    • Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
    • Voting is private.
    • See also features for healthy communities.
    • Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo
    • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I don’t like the fact that users receive a banner next to their name if they get downvoted a lot. This makes other people judge negatively the comment even before reading it. I think it also encourages people to keep downvoting and discourages to upvote (as what happens with mass down votes of a comment on Reddit just for the sake of doing so).

      Edit: sorry for my English, it’s not my native language + I just woke up

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
      111·
      23 hours ago

      People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.

      Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

      I think any kind of reputation score should be community specific. There are users whose commenting style fits one community but not another, and their overall reputation should be understood in the context of which communities actually like them rather than some kind of global average.

    • Aqarius@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 day ago

      How exactly does the private vote thing work? I thought votes being federated was inherent to the way the fediverse is designed.

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        33 minutes ago

        Private votes are just normal votes except without the federation. So their effect is only felt on the local instance.

      • howrar@lemmy.ca
        2·
        12 hours ago

        I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn’t federate the actual account that cast the vote.

        • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          32 minutes ago

          That’s how it used to work but I got rid of it because there were too many unintended side-effects. Now a private vote is just one that is not federated.

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip
      15·
      2 days ago

      Hide all posts based on keyword filters.

      I’m very interested in this. I’m kinda stunned that lemmy doesn’t do this natively.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
      191·
      2 days ago

      Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default. Voting is private.

      I don’t particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it’s better for it, all things considered.

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        31 minutes ago

        The -10 can be changed in your settings. Set it to -1000 to show everything :)

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        No, admins designate it.

        Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.

        • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 hours ago

          In the code there is a function that recognizes if the name of the community contains “meme” and if so does not add the upvote to the vote counter of the user

          • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            35 minutes ago

            I wrote that code. It can be turned off or on by the instance admin. When an instance is created It’s off by default.

            Originally, when I wrote the feature comparison page, it could not be turned off.

      • zoey@lemmy.librebun.comEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        I have no idea! I’m already hosting Lemmy so I don’t really see the point personally.
        Just thought I’d look it up for OP.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        41·
        2 days ago

        I seriously doubt it because I’m pretty sure the point is to remove the ability for bot accounts and spammers/etc from farming up some karma to appear more legit for their nefarious/spamming purposes.

        • ccunning@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 days ago

          I think either way could possibly be exploited.

          And putting all that aside, I think all image-centric subs should probably be included. It’s just as easy to farm karma with cute cats and flowers as it is with memes.

          • tpyo@lemmy.world
            3·
            22 hours ago

            Excluding OC communities, right? Like you’re not discounting people who put a lot of time and effort into their photography? Or even if they’re not great photographers sharing pictures of their plants and gardens and hobbies, and pets, should have the same allowances as text only posts

            • ccunning@lemmy.world
              4·
              20 hours ago

              This is a great comment; my initial reaction was “No because it would be easy to claim others OC was your own” but then the same could be said about text or link contributions.

              Then I thought “well maybe reputation should only be based on comments” but that could be unfair to those who primarily post vs comment.

              So now I don’t know what my position is. The best method is probably a blend of multiple strategies that can only be determined by engaging with the enemy.

              tl;dr: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

              • tpyo@lemmy.world
                3·
                13 hours ago

                I appreciate this!

                Generally oc forward subs are very stringent about it truly being OC and if caught posting something that isn’t theirs will face consequences

                Blurry pics of a cat’s right up on the lens is low effort. Any pictures you see posted in a place like https://lemmy.world/c/astrophotography will not be low effort because those are removed. They also require the submissions to be OC

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      I’m not able to see any content behind those links or even the root site of https://piefed.social/ without what looks like creating an account and logging in. Is account creation and login required to interact with piefed at all? No anonymous reading?