slrpnk.net in general is a good instance.

This is just a single community in the instance.

And PieFed is a software that is compatible with lemmy. So basically it’s a whole bunch of instances that run piefed, not just one.

And “karma” per say isn’t calculated on piefed, just users who get more downvotes than upvotes on most their comments lose some priviledges.

There are exceptions, I think Piefed (see !piefed_meta@piefed.social ) calculates and uses it in a couple ways.

And some communities like !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net autoban people with low karma scores I think. Using !santabot@slrpnk.net.

Is this automatic?

I think server admins can access. It makes sense moderation wise, if for keeping a tab on alts for enforcing permabans.

Yes, but as long as you don’t reveal your identity, they can’t do much to track you.

They don’t have access to your IP.

Of course, it you’re using the same username over multiple services, or reveal identifying information (which is much easier to analyse now due to AI) they will be able to track you.

To be fair I think lemmy kind of radicalised me. When I got here I felt like a left wing outcast on reddit, but I was in reality more like somewhere between a socdem and a dem soc type.

After a year here, I’ve been enlightened so much on online privacy and FOSS and stuff, learnt a lot about leftism and cool movements like solarpunk, and now find myself using the label “anarchism” to describe my political views. Lemmy has definitely slowly radicalised me and taught me a bunch of stuff.

Bluesky has a feature where you can stop someone from quoting your post if you don’t like what they are saying.

I would disagree. The default UI might feel shoddy, but using apps and custom UIs like tesseract or photon and it really doesn’t look shoddy at all.

I’m stuck with voyager now that I’ve invested lots of time into their tagging system.

I look at it this way. If my grandparent asks me how to do “the email”, I’m not going to explain to them how they could choose protonmail or nextcloud or whatever. I’m just going to choose and send the one I think is easiest for them to set up.

This isn’t always the case though. That’s just one example of difference between instances.

Instances can change everything, from being able to view nsfw content, if you can downvote or not, and who you can talk to (big difference between instances federated with ML/grad/hexbear and not. (And then the BeeHaw Defeds make a difference too).

That’s why I when I recommend the threadiverse (aka. lemmy or piefed or Mbin) to people I just send a link to an instance I think they’ll like. Instead of explaining the whole thing. If they join the instance with time federation will start to make sense to them and they might migrate later on.

Cool idea. But no thanks:

Thank you for your service 🫡

Yep. It’s kind of annoying when people see everything through an “english” lense and assume anything that isn’t made to work for english speakers won’t work…

I agree that defed from lemmygrad hexbear and ml is a plus, but it doesn’t really answer my concern of it being run by a single person

Specific reason for recommending sopuli? I quite like them but isn’t it more of a hobby project run by a single person? As we saw with kbin and feddit.de the single person run instances can disappear quick.

It’s a corporate built frontend for a decentralised FOSS messaging protocol (Matrix) that has activitypub federation

Yes finding the right instance on peertube is a nightmare — and also the general lack of quality content, or subtitling, which makes it as good as useless for deaf people like me.

The difference is signal has millions of users and most people have already maybe heard of it.