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So what’s going on here, most likely, is that the intake of new users is declining as opposed to people specifically being driven off the platform (as some users allege).

The difference, one would assume, is that on the whole, Reddit’s political biases influence more what is not shown (much like lemmy.ml banning people for any criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea, or the echo chamber in hexbear), whereas Lemmy’s tankie issue also manifests as people actively sea-lioning (e.g. Cowbee) and (especially from hexbear) overt trolling, which shows up more in people’s faces. Both are issues, neither are good.

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[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

such as not displaying replies publicly if a blocked user replies to someone

This is slightly wrong, it's not that it doesn't display it, it's that it completely drops the comment. The comment is never added to the instance's database. It also is never federated, which I believe has the result that if you are talking on a community on the same instance as the blocker, the comment never makes it to other instances.


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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

Interesting, so it's even more abusable than I thought!

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yup. Of course, replies to that reply will also never show up. So this is one of the reasons I wouldn't use piefed, if user A has blocked user B or instance B, you won't see the reply from user B or instance B and replies to that reply (regardless of who or from where). So there can be an entire interesting discussion being had that you as a user on some piefed instance cannot see, not because you blocked someone or an instance but because someone else did.


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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep, it's a really short-sighted decision with major ramifications that is entirely the product of the type of McCarthyites that would make their own Lemmy alternative just to curb communist influence. I was even considering proposing a PieFed commie instance to keep that connection going and increase exposure, but this seems like it wouldn't work at the moment.

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Did you know, attempting to upload an image with "Anonymous" and ("No." or " N0") can^[1]^ decrease your "reputation"^[2]^ and you might^[1]^ be denied that upload, with as the code itself states: "deliberately misleading error message". Source

^1^: If the text check hasn't been disabled by the admin of your instance.
^2^: Literally Social Credit Score.


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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

Incredible, every accusation is truly a confession.

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And hey, if your reputation is severely bad (<-10) you cannot downvote

We had a code review yesteday, and this is only half of what we found.


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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

I'm kinda surprised by just how bad it is, this is almost comically on the nose.

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[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If your comment ~~is nothing but~~ starts wtih a link to a gif reaction it will decrease your reputation and not accept the comment

Just a line below that if your reply_is_stupid it won't accept it either.

If your account is created_very_recently and the reply contains an em dash (—) it sends a notification to the admins

If your attitude is < 0.0 you cannot downvote either. Attitude is as the code says: "(upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). A number between 1 and -1 is the ratio between up and down votes they cast"

If your reputation is <= -10 you cannot create new chats.

If your account [Edit: is created recently and] has less than 100 reputation you are not considered trustworthy (what things you can do when you are trustworthy I don't know, but again literally social credit score)

If you have 0 posts, 0 replies, and your username is specifically 8 characters long, you cannot vote

Mods can kick you from a community which unsubscribes you from that community


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[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 months ago

So much for supposedly having more free speech than us.

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Something I didn't see in yesterdays code review.

if your reply contains a blocked_phrase, it won't accept the comment.

Seems like Lemmy's slur filter, but worse in that it just won't accept the comment (and I think that all of these things I have linked to in PostReply.new() where it won't accept a comment, results in federated comments... just never showing up on a piefed instance)


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[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago

I'm guessing this probably blocks any hint of not libaral-establishment-approved sentence too? Do you know what's in their block list?

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 11 points 3 months ago

No, it's set by the admins


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