From the pattern that looks like a holstein pizza.

Great share. I’ve taken different levels of first aid multiple times, including one where we had to watch real clinical death so we knew not to stop CPR when it looked like someone was “waking up.” Death doesn’t look like death either.

I don’t know what you’re arguing with. Planning doesn’t create new space and resources from thin air.

From the article:

“The law here is a mess, and clearly many businesses will just go gender neutral to avoid the headache,

This is going to make it so difficult to plan out businesses and buildings that everyone will end up with gender neutral bathrooms and spaces. It’s my dream that all those lobby groups who think they’re protecting women will have to shit next to every man, woman, femboy, adult baby, theydy, them, zem, furry and otherkin in the UK.

Instead I made a new community on my home instance.

I wonder why people are complaining about me actively engaging and creating content for the fediverse. If you want to reboot the other community instead of arguing with me, it’s linked right here.

There have been six posts in six months and as you can see, two of them were mine, when I tried to reboot it - before I realized the community didn’t have an active moderator.

The last post is from more than a month ago.

I don’t see a userbase to split, there is no content.

Regardless, the link is there so people can decide if they want to try to reboot a community the moderator doesn’t even want to help build or maintain.

11 posts and 34 comments over three years is not active by my standards. I don’t want to post to that community so I’ve made my own.

I looked into it. The moderator is barely active and the community seems dead. With my own community I can curate and grow it knowing I can moderate.

Anyone who averages a ratio that low across all contributions is almost certainly not someone you want around.

That’s what banning and blocking are for, those are features already up to the users, admins and moderators. So what’s the point of the flag in the first place?

In order to notice a flurry of users downvoting the same person consistently, someone would have to be investigating. I’m a mod and I’m not sure how to begin to tell if they happened to be sockpuppets. This means tools would have to be built to monitor where votes are coming from and flag users who vote together (if they don’t already exist.) That increases mod duties to patrol a feature because it can be gamed, when, again, there are already tools for users to decide for themselves who they interact with.

I don’t see these things.

If someone has nine downvotes to one upvote, they’re a troll? Or even just ninety downvotes to ten upvotes? Given how easy it is to make multiple accounts, an enterprising user could easily sway that figure for new users or people who don’t post often.

Even if you argue the system isn’t that bad, it’s built on a factor that’s easily manipulated, and therefore can be manipulated. It shouldn’t exist in the first place.

I appreciate that, thank you.

Everyone should make up their own minds when it comes to picking an instance, but it’s important to know who’s holding the reins.

I don’t know what you consider extreme views. I don’t feel the need to try to handle anything.

If you’re wondering how I curate my feed, I only browse by subscribed communities. If I want to find new ones I look at cross-posts, the community promotion coms, or search by interest.

Cool.

I never suggested donating to anyone.

You mentioned real user registrations, which I thought was a hypothetical control you were suggesting. Appologies if I misunderstood, I was explaining my thoughts on it.

Absolutely agree that people will always try to game a system that can be gamed.

I would agree with real user registration if it didn’t open the ID Verification can of worms. Right now there is no way to make a KYC system airtight, and the risk outweighs the benefit, in my opinion. One user per account (if one could easily switch instances) would make for a healthier social ecosystem, though.

I’ve tried them both along with a few different lemmy instances and found .today on lemmy is my best fit.

Since others have covered the technical angle, I’ll say I prefer lemmy from a social perspective. My instance doesn’t block other instances, banning users only for extreme cases. I prefer to choose my experience for myself without being ideologically guided by someone else’s values.

For all the criticisms of the lemmy developers, their biases don’t make it into the code. Instances are run according to the admins and user’s wishes, which allows .today to operate as openly as possible. Piefed, on the other hand, suffers from the biases of its developer, who not only blocks users but also instances of admins who don’t align with them. They have passed along their ban list to other admins as well, getting users banned for disagreeing with them. That’s not the behavior of someone I want running my platform of choice.

Along with that. I, personally, don’t like the idea of reputation, low score flags, karma or any system based on the votes of users, since they can be easily manipulated. It feels like Piefed is trying to implement a more intense karma system, which was one of my main problems with reddit. I believe each post and comment should stand on its own merit.