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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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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[–] trash_goblin@piefed.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Again, I've been on Lemmy for two years. I know the deep magic. (Still thank you, Those are good recommendations.)

This account is new to try out piefed, but I list all my alts in my profile. My main is Wren@Lemmy.today - where I'm into the YPTB com. I'm not big on posting about that kind of alt/vote manipulation drama because it's just so... stupid? Inconsequential? On the other hand maga and pro-genocide folks need to be shut down, hard.

I kinda love cowbee. I've interacted but haven't felt inclined to argue with him. As a compulsive fact-checker who literally reads the news as part of my job, I can't get behind some of his sources, but he does post quite a lot of fair and grounded citations to back up his views. I even like how he's a little shit sometimes, because he's absolutely polite enough to back off if someone just walks away. I mean, is it really sea-lioning if someone else really wants to have the last word?

Weirdly, I tracked all my unproductive interractions and found a fairly even spread. Granted, I post to a women's only community and assholes exist across the political spectrum. So no, I haven't had problems with the comrades, except geneva_convenience, I hope their socks get wet at fhe beginning of the day.

It's interesting to see what opinions people take for granted. So many comments here just assumed I didn't know what those instances were like, because I would for sure never wonder why they were on my block list if I knew, right?

Then again maybe I don't know as much as I think. I've changed my mind on a lot of things over the years, I just try to be open.