I think I’ve mentioned this before but I personally really don’t like the way piefed is so opinionated. It focuses on low karma, high downvote rate, for some reason doesn’t award karma for memes and I just saw that “recognition of 4chan posts” feature which is just weird. To me, there can be legit reasons for all these things and I don’t think it’s the job of the software to handle these. That seems very opinionated/authoritarian to me.
Just because an application supports ActivityPub doesn’t mean it will be compatible.
Well of course, but it could be made to be compatible!I feel like we’re kind of missing out here on the threadiverse cause we can’t see all those other things happening elsewhere.
That’s fair - but in a perfect world, all these platforms would connect together, right?
Isn’t that a bit of a shame though? I mean the fact that there’s so little interconnection between these platforms. I know culturally there isn’t too much but also the threadiverse often doesn’t federate properly or support the way the rest of the fediverse works.
I see where you come from, but it’s still a platform, a network.
But that network is not Lemmy or kbin or mbin or piefed. That network is activitypub, the platform is activitypub. Those backends are just what you use to connect to the network, but you could use any other implementation (just that there aren’t that many right now).
But all that matters is the protocol. In time, we’ll have loads of implementations and we should hope we do. More choices for everyone :)
If a ban is justified, then there is (pretty much by definition) no power tripping, right? So I feel like it definitely makes sense for this community to downvote if the ban is justified.
My point is that I don’t think the software should be doing this stuff. Marking users and instances is akin to a kind of censorship on those instances. Censorship is the job of the instance, not the software. Collapsing comments at a certain level is again a kind of censorship that encourages mob thinking and hides any dissident opinion (so I find it a bit funny that you say it helps to include “more complex and nuanced views”; in my opinion, it would seem to do the opposite of that).
Anyways that’s just my take on it, I don’t really have the patience to write out a 10 paragraph response and I don’t need to because I use what I prefer and you can use what you prefer, fediverse is great like that.