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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.

Thanks for your input! Don't worry, we'll keep both instances alive.

From my admin POV, lemmy lacks in a lot of ways that just makes it harder for me to get stuff done.

From my user POV, lemmy lacks features like flairs/tags, actually working blocking, feeds, etc.

It's not too much of a pain, since dbzer0 doesn't take much work to keep running.

It is possible, but piefed isn't 100% backwards compatible with lemmy, so stuff like custom-emojis (we don't use them much, but threativore relies on it) wouldn't be imported, since piefed doesn't support it.

And piefed/lemmy use different encryption, so each user would have to reset their password.

It wouldn't be too much of a burden, and piefed has some very nice additions to what lemmy offers

What's so bad about the lemmy devs?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43791059

Thanks for your input. To clarify we don't want a 100% switch, just a new instance alongside this one

Maintaining the instance isn't too big of a problem, but thank you for your input!

That's odd. I'll try to get the attention of the .ca admins

Is there a downside?

Not really, i think. We have the resources, and being an admin isn't too time consuming; surely we can make time for an extra instance.

Would this be in addition to lemmy or a replacement?

Addition

If it is in addition to, is that the permanent plan, would this be working toward an eventual switch-over?

Probably not. There would be way too many potential issues and it's risky.

I should probably try piefed a bit so I understand it a bit better, but it's just a different Lemmy basically, right? Does it federate with existing Lemmy?

Yep. Try https://quokk.au/ (anarchist instance, too!) which is basically the closest thing we have right now

@[email protected] told me to put it ;^(

@[email protected] here you go!