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  • SdWolf1902@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    75·
    6 days ago

    Hello and thank you for making the post! I just joined from reddit and have some questions. I really want to avoid some of the tankies I heard about it on the redditalternative posts.

    One of the lemmy servers recommended had this admin and he made this comment recently about piefed

    I feel like [PieFed] moving from moderation to sort of oppressive or authoritarian territory once you’re literally building a social credit system into your software. If you want that, sure use PieFed. I don’t want that, so I won’t.

    So is PieFed the tankie software or what? I dont’ really want to use software that is going to build a social credit score on me or build barriers to actually use the site

    • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
      161·
      6 days ago

      By “social credit” system, they’re referring to the fact that Piefed has a reputation and attitude system. “Reputation” is a bit like reddit - a downvote contributes negatively to it, an upvote positively. Accounts heavily downvoted will have negative warning signs on them (although the CCS here can be disabled by instance moderators who dislike it) so users can’t see it.

      “Attitude” refers to downvotes given. If you mass downvote, you’ll get a very bad attitude and this is measured in percentage form for users. If you bulk downvote, and get a very low attitude - you’ll be blocked from downvoting.

    • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
      91·
      6 days ago

      Note, I’ve now seen you make this comment four times now on a brand new account - so my response here is meant in good faith.

      • OiMate@feddit.ukEnglish
        22·
        6 days ago

        No they’re a 100% real user who despite only joining 35 minutes ago knows all about a 2 day old post.