By being Canadian. Y’all can come live in my basement, my little American basement babies.

Yes, obviously. I said I thought he was smarter.

I hoped and thought Rimu was smarter than this.

It increases division for all the reasons I already outlined. If you don’t see it that way I don’t know how to explain my point of view any better than I already have.

I don’t see any philosophy, I see a list of reasons the developer of piefed believes their platform is better than Lemmy. Yes, each instance can adjust those settings, but they go into it with these heavy-handed suggestions straight from the developer. From the wording, anyone joining the fediverse for the first time through Piefed comes in associating those instances with nazis. I think that’s intentional.

You can’t say if people with alts or who brigade are often caught. And, “often” is not “always,” which means voting can still be manipulated. Hell, even if you caught everyone with an alt, votes can change by community or the time of day. An opinion that gets lauded in one community might be downvoted to hell in another. Better to not have a flagging system, let people have their own opinions without labelling “bad” users.

Didn’t say it was a hugbox, said it fosters division.

I don’t know whether piefed has less spam or not, and whether that’s by volume or percentage, and why. I haven’t seen any evidence favoring either platform.

There is no way Lemmy would triple in size in a day. Why would they build for something that would never happen? That’s like ordering three pizzas for a party when you only need one.

I still oppose the low-karma feature on moral and ideological grounds. Voting is easily manipulated, so any system based on it is also easily manipulated.

It was clear to me that site was for piefed.

No one’s allowed to have a gender identity, got it.

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

So not “literally.” That’s the point I argued with.

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

I browse by subscribed. I support the right for everyone to choose what they see with minimal persuasion. I don’t see this problem, if it exists.

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.

I can make my own decisions about people without a flag next to their name. I vehemently oppose this feature.

This can be turned off by other instances.

My lunchroom analogy applies here. Users should be able to make their own minds.

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.

As I just said: this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:

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.

But no, not literally. From https://join.piefed.social/features/ - this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:

Authoritarian Inoculation – Feature to reduce the impact of authoritarian propaganda.

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

Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.

A call back to my lunchroom analogy.

Low Reputation Indicator – Identifies consistently downvoted users.

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

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

I wonder how it does that? I hope that’s not just a hokey word filter.

Finally. I tried piefed for all of a few days. It was some kinda highschool level passive aggressive hand-holding circlejerk. The software equivalent of some hot jackass in the lunchroom pointing at a group of kids, saying “We don’t talk to them, and you won’t either if you wanna hang with us.”

Wanna share your ambien? I want to speak walrus with you.

Thanks for the correction. It looks like buying through a platform/app store supports the developers. At that time (years ago) I got into it through a trial. I didn’t know it was free, but glad I supported them.

I found Krita easy to use with a mouse, they might still have a free trial going on - that’s what hooked me.

I know you said raster, but what about working in vector and converting to raster? I found Affinity programs pretty streamlined and affordable for moving back and forth between styles.

I do the same when people want me to download whatsapp. This is why we need unions.

Good on you. I turned down an interview at the first level because they asked me to download one program, I said I’d be happy to download anything they want if they bought the hardware and paid for my internet.

And this is how I found out the famed street artist has died.

How did I forget that… Good one.

My second favorite washroom was a grand all-genders one at a bar. There was never a wait and it had a hang-out area so you could keep an eye on your friends if they got too tipsy, or just do nose drugs with strangers. Mostly nose drugs.

Am I supposed to lay eggs??!?!!?

We have a fun kangaroo court in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

That’s more a people problem than a lemmy problem. Anyone can make as many instances as they can afford and as many communities as they like.

I don’t see the comparison between spez and the admins, Lemmy is a much different model from reddit.

For as much as I post, I only had two mod actions against me I felt were disproportionate, which is pretty good considering there is no way for anyone to make 100% good decisions all the time. Otherwise good people can flame out and bad people can still be fair mods.

I didn’t like a couple of the big news coms, so I made my own. Build the things you want to see, because you are the fediverse as long as you’re on it.