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I'm New! What's "Attitude?" Can I separate upvotes and downvotes? And other questions. (piefed.zip)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by trash_goblin@piefed.zip to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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If there's another place to find answers, do let me know. I went over the piefed feature page and did a couple searches already.

I came here from Lemmy to try out Piefed and make another community, but I get an error that my account is too new and/or I don't have a reputation.

Questions:

What does reputation or attitude mean? What do I need to have to make a community?

How old does my account have to be to make a community?

Why do I need to have an X account age to make a community?

Is there a way to separate upvotes and downvotes? If not, I don't like it. Just seeing a number doesn't tell me very much, especially about engagement. A -1 score could have 200 upvotes.

Why are the communist/socialist instances blocked by default and not like, maga? I see it's blocked by my instance anyway, but thought it was weird to block those three considering there are much worse instances. I already unblocked them, so I don't need help, I'm just wondering why.

Oh, and why can't I see the modlog?

Thank you all for your time.

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trying to touch on things I noticed that I don't think other commenters answered.

Is there a way to separate votes?

Depends on the instance you're browsing through. Some even have them disabled. In not sure what's available to you on piefed but you are allowed to join as many instances as you wish to see which has the features you want. Also, go to lemmvotes.org to see the specific voting info of a comment, post, or user.

Why are com/soc instances blocked and not maga?

So those demographics here aren't like the ones on reddit. Maga people here are in such more of a minority that when they get all magaty their opinions don't stay very visible because there's nobody on the mod teams banning people who shit on them or deleting replies. They just get downvoted and if you want to engage with them you have to go looking. So they're not the same kind of problem.

The socialist instances are defederated though because they are HIGHLY aggressive debate lords who will take you to task on slight shit or saying anything bad about the CCP. I know that doesn't sound like a problem and normally it's not but they take it to that level. So they're basically in containment to reduce moderation workload. If you want to hang, their comms are open to you and you can always join on their instance too, you just have to seek them out.