Par for the course for Beehaw, they’ve been known to be overbearing and controlling, apparently even when it isn’t any of their business. PTB.

I think @[email protected] has always been like this but it seems in the past he was able to hide it and make himself seem more genuine and less reactionary to others. Though now it seems the mask has fully come off. PTB for sure.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I’m not sure if this level of power-tripping or inter-intstance drama breaks any rules but just wanted to let you guys know that this is a thing since it’s a community on your instance which was the source of the drama and bannings.

PTB for sure, this is blatant bad-jacketing and their behavior in this thread is also extremely hostile.

No, they haven’t, this is one of the weirdest things to lie about since you know anyone can go to https://lemmy.ml/instances and see the blocked section, and see that sh.itjust.works is not blocked.

Other users’ downvotes against you. Social credit score is a feature of piefed. A pretty awful one if you ask me since anyone can downvote you for any reason, and anyone can create more accounts to downvote you twice and if they make some posts and vote on other people it’s not so obvious.

I heard that they’re probably going to be using the Google Play store and probably similar modules to play protect to enforce this. So the question becomes will disabling the Google Play store bypass this? It outright kills play protect dialogue as well as its app disabling capability as a whole since play protect is part of Google Play store.

I think this is a great write up and shows why it doesn’t make sense to opt out, votes on the fediverse like anything else shared over activitypub are public, an opt out doesn’t change that.

Personally I think that a service like Lemvotes should fight against this as much as possible, some people have and admins have made slanderous and outright evil accusations towards them as a result but it ultimately doesn’t matter. This place is open and public, all activitypub data is shared publicly. If someone running a server doesn’t like that, they should move to whitelist mode or turn federation off entirely.

Providing server admins with easy opt-out while still remaining public hurts the viability of a server like that and encourages decisions based on a false sense of privacy.

I’m not a fan of this, it gives a false sense of privacy in the Fediverse. Voting data is public even if specific tools to view it decide to cater to the desires of admins. It’s very easy for developers to just not do that, and it has been done before.

I don’t see why the name should be different I mean Seinfeld is both the name of a show and the name of a person. I think it’s fine the way it is :)

Have you tried using Tor yet, also potentially Mullvad Browser with a VPN since Mullvad’s Browser has similar anti-fingerprinting and anti-tracking capabilities but for use outside the Tor Network.

Also there is a lot of disinformation surrounding hardware based bans on Websites, typically pushed as fearmongering by Reddit’s moderators. Websites on modern secure browsers can’t read your hardware identifiers because modern secure web browsers are Sandboxed. Of course this doesn’t apply to Reddit’s mobile app so don’t use that ever really.

Also you need to use a different email since they check for matching emails.

Absolutely not, this is a terrible idea considering that they were defederated for being toxic and aggressive to our overall community, and also many people there are disingenuous in their takes, it’s not a discussion community, it’s brigading. The only way I could ever support anything like this is if their domain expired and someone used it to make a completely different instance.

That hasn’t happened so I can’t support this.

I usually have one with me because the place I work at keeps the AC very cold and it can get uncomfortable. Though I don’t usually wear it outside when it’s warm.

People still think it’s weird though that I’m wearing a sweater even though in the building it can be as cold as 3°C and while that feels nice at first when you get in from the heat, it gets old after about 2 hours.

Disengage

No I meant Norse Hell. And if it’s too cold for you, that’s kind of the point.

Hell

Corporations want people to act like their EULAs are written in blood when they’re just ramblings of an entitled child on the playground. What are you going to do? Ban them again?

This is definitely giving me Twilight Princess vibes.

What’s the issue if most instances don’t run with a karma system? So you might get low karma’d in some piefed instances that you don’t post from?

That would be the case if most instances operated like that but most don’t. Most will ultimately have it enabled, and if most of them have it enabled it will affect users even on ones where it is turned off.

The modlogs have already been made public by Rimu due to popular demand.

Is this a piefed.social change or a piefed software change. If it’s the ladder then that’s good and it’s not really an issue anymore. If it’s the former it’s still a big trust issue because it can presumably be turned off and on at will, by making it hardcoded it can still be disabled but it’s more work, requires maintaining a fork and basically guarantees that 99% of modlogs will be there and be recording.

Of course not, but enough do that it’ll become a problem. Something to consider is that for many admins the default options might as well be hardcoded since they are not attentive enough to turn it off, but for others. Karma requirements are enticingly lazy solutions for moderation, and turning modlog off is also enticing because it makes it easier to hide when things are removed and people are banned.