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Weekly thread - New people, feel free to ask your questions here (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Skavau@piefed.social to c/newcomers@piefed.zip

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Piefed is open source software that anyone can spin-up. It's not a single website as such. You're currently on piefed.social which is I believe hosted in Europe, but you can interact with other Piefed servers from here. You can see communities and users from piefed.ca for instance.

The whole point is that its a federated structure.

[–] lora@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Gotcha. What's the difference between a normal upvote and a federated one here?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Normal upvotes don't federate out to other servers, they only apply locally. This is because ActivityPub doesn't have private voting, so they can be seen by community moderators and instance admins.

So you would untick that if you want privacy here, but your vote score won't apply on other servers.

[–] lora@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Thanks a lot!