this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Why would you suggest piefed when it has so much biased hard-code in it's database?
It is clear that Rimu has forced his personal viewpoint and ideology into his code. Despite the claims there has been no evidence that this is the case for Lemmy.
He has coded in deliberatly misleading error messages when you try to upload images he doesn't like
The code review can be found here
Maybe someone should do a code review for lemmy to see how those tankies have influenced it.
You know, when people say piefed is like reddit, I don't know if they realize it's exactly like reddit.
I don't see how those things in total make it like Reddit. For one, Reddit is overrun by AI slop in many areas. Piefed actively tries to mitigate it.
Sure, but going down this list, most seems arbitrary and not based on data to mitigate slop bots.
Social credit scores are why I bailed on reddit. Not karma, but their "Contributor quality score" that demands people grind comments to keep the account alive.
I already addressed this regarding Piefed here.
Trolls/spammers etc are serious problems on sites like Lemmy and Piefed (and on Reddit). If you’re a new account and you’ve managed to get -100 reputation that quickly, it’s not a good sign. If and as the Fediverse grows, instance owners are going to need more observation tools to catch this type of stuff.
Whilst having +++ karma is obviously not worth note, a new account on -100 is.
Sounds like hell for someone with problems to put thoughts in words and/or uncommon opinions. You either go blend with the mass or die.
Also, could I use my current lemmy account to upvote my each pie comment, to get better score in few minutes? Kinda fragile for cheats.
To be fair, people can already use alts to upvote on the fediverse right now. It's just obvious when they do so because of public voting, so doing so normally gets an account banned.
No, it doesn't
Keep in mind ostentatious posturing about alleged belief in free speech e.g. hyperbolic use of terms like "Social Credit Score" or repetition of common copytext/keywords "echo chamber" is not universally perceived as a good thing.
If you've ever lived in a country where people understand the value of free speech (without constant tedious self-aggrandization on this topic) this stuff comes off as childish.
When I say "understanding the value of free speech", I mean the understanding that free speech includes the ability to choose your moderation policies depending on context.
Again, framing this issue as "promotion of ideology" is not going to fly.
Believe it or not, but having a sidebar with "Misinformation & disinformation" is not as big of a thing as you think it is. I would even argue that "COVID skeptics" wouldn't give a shit about it because they actually understand the meaning of the term "promotion of ideology".
You're welcome to assume I am misinformed, I hate free speech or I am being malicious. Whatever works, I am just sharing a different perspective (from someone who lived in the US and does not find American-style freedom polemics to be in the least convincing).
All that is optional and can be turned off in Admin settings.
Not to mention you’re exaggerating a loot.
Again.. this is literally just piefed.social you are takling about here.
Rimu is very anti-4chan, sure.
So everyone is clear your an alt-account of someone from lemmygrad or Hexbear.
You only seem to be active every few months in very specific posts where your beloved instance pro-Russia propaganda mill is at threat or you can bad mouth people who you don’t agree with.
Okay. So? This is in part anti-spam measures. It's very specific, but how many users do you imagine this applies to in practice?
Piefed.social only. Toggleable off.
Yes, this is to mitigate mass-downvoting. Why is this inherently a problem to you?
Trolls/spammers etc are serious problems on sites like Lemmy and Piefed. If you’re a new account and you’ve managed to get -100 reputation that quickly, it’s not a good sign. If and as the Fediverse grows, instance owners are going to need more observation tools to catch this type of stuff.
AI detection tools. But I’ve seen a lot of AI posters right now caught through this. use of the em-dash is very much a sign, unfortunately. It doesn’t ban them by the way. It just flags new accounts doing it to admins. So? Admins can turn this off.
Can be turned off at the instance level.
No. If every instance was Piefed, you simply wouldn’t be able to reply to anyone who has blocked you. “Reply” is essentially faded out. The difference is that Lemmy doesn’t implement the block function in the same way, so Piefed just throws out replies by blocked users to the person who has blocked them coming from Lemmy. That’s the mismatch at play here.
If you can somehow still reply via a Piefed instance, it is bugged and not working as intended.
This has been removed now, and it wasn't "vindictive" in purpose at all.
What code are you referring to here? I addressed a number of grievances. Bias to what? Dealing with AI? Not liking it when a user substitutes "th" with another letter, making it annoying to read?
Why would an update revert out a change that has already been removed at core?
That reminds me... whatever happened to the guy here on lemmy that did that? Did he finally stop doing it? I can't remember his username, but man it was annoying to read.