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Sorry, yes. Correct.

Piefed’s level of voting transparency is little different to Lemmys now, except for Piefed defederating from lemvotes. I was also present during the discussions about it - and Rimu was very open about why he initially didn’t like public voting. He changed it because of public pressure to do so. That’s not an absence of transparency.

In any case, even if piefed.social is poor for this. That wouldn’t mean that piefed.zip or piefed.ca would have to follow the same instance policies.

There are also regional and national communities too like lemmy.ca, feddit.uk, quokk.au, feddit.org

Yes. Some instances will block (known as defederate) other instances, so you won’t see any users or posts from those instances. Some instances disable downvoting. Many are similar to each other.

Lemmy.world is the everyman instance though, so you will get the broadest look at the fediverse.

Some instances will be topical themed, such as mander.xyz (science), or programming.dev. others have political and aesthetic leanings: lemmy.dbzer0.com (Anarchism, AI and cyberpunk aesthetics).

Yes. Although lemmy.world is broadly the “normie” instance, so they won’t make many assumptions.

Moderators don’t literally “own” the communities they run now. They steward them. They can power-trip, but they can also be supplanted and replaced much easier on the Fediverse than they are on Reddit.

As for being able to “ignore” specific community moderators decisions, that’s a recipe that doesn’t scale well. In more active communities, that would mean that you would end up consistently seeing a lot of spam and abuse and nonsense because even a poor moderator will do the janitorial work that all communities do.

In terms of instances, there simply isn’t any appetite for the type of instances and community culture you want. You are simply in a minority here.

Make it pull instead of push. Each user has way too little control over their own experience in my opinion. To me from an old-school-internet background, it’s very weird that a moderator can override what comments you’re allowed to see or not allowed to see. I much prefer Bluesky’s model, where you pick your moderators, and someone can’t override you and decide that certain comments you’re not allowed to read just because those comments happened to land within that person’s little domain after they were the first to claim the “worldnews” name for their community or whatever.

I feel like we’ve had a debate on this before. This would just negate the concept of communities built up by moderators. Also, in many case, instances have rules before communities. How does that system work here?

I haven’t looked at how Piefed does “feeds,” but that might be one good approach; let someone create or share a “politics” feed for example, and it can be a modification of someone else’s feed (”!news@lemmy.world but take out the Trump stuff” or “block these specific annoying users” or “ignore decisions by these two moderators"), so that it’s not a monopoly in terms of who gets to curate and control the content. You could subscribe to !betterpolitics@lemmy.world for example, and it’s just the identical posts sourced from !politics@lemmy.world, but with some users that are widely disliked banned, and then also with certain moderators who consistently make bad decisions disabled. That’s a lot harder to implement of course… IDK, this is just me thinking out loud about solutions I could see, but hopefully it makes some kind of sense.

Feeds are just made and maintained by one person that draw from a pool of selected communities. You can subscribe to a feed or follow new posts made in it. The creator doesn’t curate it beyond curating what communities are visible in it. Piefeds word filters already work to mitigate content users don’t want to see.

How would you redesign the moderating system on lemmy?

https://lemmy.world/communities

You can set the filter from “Local” to “All” and you’ll find a direct community search on the side.

That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.

Yeah, but Reddit has a much larger userbase and in some cases it’s good that topics can be split across multiple communities. The Fediverse has the opposite problem.

I think maybe it could be set up that closed communities could be manually hidden from search results, or defunct instances essentially completely delisted. Piefed handles this better because you can directly filter by weekly activity in the community browser.

If power-hungry mods want to discredit themselves by banning people for a single downvote and then getting bad publicity for it, and then risking the chance that a rival community is set up - draining their numbers, then so be it. I’m all for people showing us who they are in those situations.

Not the OP, but yes I personally do.