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What are your ideas to improve PieFed? Vote for your favorites! (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by CyberSage@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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I'm super impressed by the features I'm discovering using Piefed! I'm going to be experimenting a lot with the keyword filter particularly. Here are some ideas we might add to make Piefed even better. Share you own in the replies.

Some of these options where too long to make it a poll.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Bring back pseudonymous voting agents. Literally the killer feature of piefed, killed by stupid forum politics.

I do not give a single goddamn fuck about brigading or vote manipulation whatever nonsense the fediverse admin cabal has convinced themselves matters on their discord stovepipe. Vites are not real. They cannot hurt you. I do not want my plaintext voting activity to be hoovered up by anyone listening to the activitypub feeds, which is already used to foster censorship and will inevitably be used to enable targeted astroturfing. Rimu, please be more brave about this.

Mark my words, this will be the "hindsight" issue a few years from now. "How the fuck did anyone think public voting was a good idea" will be the postmortem of the fediverse.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Any instance implementing this is going to be defederated quickly by other instances due to the ease of vote manipulation.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago

One voting agent per user. Banning the voting agent is as easy as banning the user. There is literally no difference here in terms of combatting vote manipulation besides the "feels" of not knowing a particular text string. This is literally just politics and has no basis in any real problem. I could just as easily make my own second "voting user." The only difference is the ergonomics of that workflow.

"Vote manipulation" doesn't even matter since there is no karma. Just remove down votes from rank and engagement metrics. Problem solved. I really cannot believe how much y'all are twisting yourselves in circles to make this seem like a bad idea. Again, fuck the politics, I thought we were focused on the tech?