Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I'm out, I think.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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Ah, we'll miss you. Your content is consistently some of the best out here.
The piefed admins are making a huge mistake with this change, and they're basing it on bad statistical methods. Every user already only gets one vote per post or comment, so it really doesn't matter if some users exercise that ability more than others. So framing it the same way as wealth disparity (literally using the same kind of chart) was not very insightful.
And to think I was considering switching to piefed soon... guess not anymore...
I’m OotL, does anyone have a link to whatever is being referenced here?
this seems to be the original post: https://piefed.social/c/fediverse@piefed.social/p/2190040/who-decides-what-you-see-on-the-fediverse-a-look-at-voting-patterns
i really don't see the issue. are they worried about vote manipulation? if so, that is the most naive approach to it: you hurt the most active users, which hurts overall content, which the threadyverse does not have too much of anyway. all the while the problem does not get solved.
i am not sure whether it would work on piefed the exact same as on lemmy, but they rely on the same technology. so i guess yes. if i wanted to manipulate votes, i would spinn up a couple of instances, generate users and let them automatically vote. wanted to write a POC to raise any comment/post into the sky or condemm them to oblivion using this approach. that was a long time ago and never got around to do so - probably won't ever happen. but i don't think it would be too hard for anyone to use this type of manipulation, while it is relatively hard to defend against...
https://piefed.social/post/2203748#comment_12082581
Thanks for the context. I rarely comment on your posts but seen them a lot. You will be sorely missed.
I've batted for piefed.social over in reddit to bring people into the threadiverse as well as here to newcomers that might want all the other good features piefed have. I guess I'll have to change instances, where I'm on as well as what I recommend.
What do you think you will end up recommending?
Discuss.Online used to be one of the top go-tos, prior to the rise in prominence of PieFed. Very high stability and quite welcoming to anyone who wants friendly discourse.
PieFed.zip is still one option too, as they seem resistant to all the anti-social media bias making its way into the PieFed software as of late. Lemmy.zip was also always one of the top options as well. I'm a bit personally biased against the .zip domains being run by Google but for a Redditor this likely won't matter in the slightest, and the admin team seems at first glance to be very sensible.
I would not recommend PieFed.ca though, bc while it is a very fine instance, when the USA invades Canada or otherwise increases tensions that's going to be more problematic in the future.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts as well.:-)