Skepticism makes sense, though if we were to make an instance we'd definitely start small at first (maybe invite-only?) and then see how it scales, just in case.
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I know :) just addressing the albeit outdated post she linked.
Clients can only do so much sadly. For example, they can't make polls, user flairs, implement passkeys, following threads, disabling, proper blocking implementations, and etc.
Even then, the features that clients can somewhat implement (like post tags) rely on others using the same client, and aren't considered as a standard.
For the karma features, we'll be sure to disable it if we made our own instance. And as we said; the lemmy instance will always be active and the main instance.
I pinged him in the threadiverse room, no need
You will get banned QUICK from any of the popular fediverse discussions unless you bend the knee to Mainstream tending views on transgenderism.
Guess what? You're right. Begone conservative chud
Fwiw he repealed most of the karma system, and made it completely optional; so it's gotten better. But i see where you're going at, thanks for your input
We don't have interest in being mainstream, we like dbzer0 how it is. It's mainly about the faster development/extra features, and shouldn't be a problem to manage
Thank you :) it will not affect lemmy.dbzer0 at all, and we don't bother modifying the source code of lemmy/piefed (besides themes) but besides that, it should hopefully be smooth sailing if it happened.
I think rimu has made the karma system to be optional (i.e. in the admin settings, not hardcoded) so we'd just disable it anyway. I think the second feature should only apply to mods/admins, since its a very useful tool. #1 #3 i agree, they are not good.
I'll address each point in the Piefed Features for growing healthy communities:
Find people who have low karma
This applies to admins, and while not really that effective, its okay to have.
Find people who downvote too much
This is a very useful tool, since this is a big problem on lemmy. Same thing; only for admins
Spot spam easily
Sounds like a good idea; but with feature #3 as you pointed out, this might cause some new-user shitposters to get falsely flagged, but we would disable it anyway.
Don’t award karma in low-quality communities
This is now opt-in, and we would disable it.
https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/5-admins/topic/Low.20reputation.20communities/near/1872
Warnings on unusual communities
We would add nothing to communities, anyway; users are free to do whatever they want, themselves. (maybe to our own instance communities like /0 and governance? But not much honestly.
Icons next to comments by low karma accounts
As i said before, probably should only be seen by admins/mods.
Icon for new accounts
No problem here; most clients do this anyway.
Automatically delete content based on phrases in user name
Sounds very useful, and which is why piefed didn't struggle at all with nicole.
Report accounts, not just posts
Good idea.
Instance-wide domain block
We have this on lemmy too
Automatic reporting of 4chan content
Not a good idea imo. We'd disable it.
Plus it's written in Python and has only 1,6k MAUs, so we can only guess how well it scales
We'll always have this lemmy instance anyway :) but afaik it scales fine, and has some optimizations coming along soon.
Nothing really. Db0 has his reasons for keeping them around and i don't bump heads with them.