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

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] wjs018@piefed.social 14 points 6 days ago (7 children)

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

An account needs to be at least 24 hours old to make a community in PieFed (or be an admin). This is for spam prevention. There isn't a reputation requirement for community creation, that page is just what we redirect to for multiple different things, so it is a bit of a broad message.

Is there a way to separate upvotes and downvotes?

I don't think this is possible in the default web UI. It probably is possible in some apps or alternative frontends. If you hover over the number, it will pop up with the number of up and down votes. There might be some custom css you can apply in your profile to make them show up separately, but I am not good enough at css to tell you what that is.

Why are instances blocked by default

This is purely controlled by your instance admin. PieFed does ship with a default list of defederated instances, but it isn't baked into the code or anything. It is entirely customizable by admins after the software is set up.

why can’t I see the modlog?

Links to the modlog are in several places:

on the footer of literally every page
in the sidebar for every community page
in the "More" dropdown on a user's profile page

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

If you hover over the number, it will pop up with the number of up and down votes.

On a mobile device, this can sometimes be difficult to impossible to trigger (Firefox on Android). I find it helps to zoom in tremendously, but even then sometimes I can click the digit 50+ times without ever getting it to show me the count breakdown.

I was going to ask why this is, but now I see that examining the same situation from a desktop it works, so now I think it is just a bug / UX flaw.

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