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What Features Make PieFed Better/Worse (piefed.ca)
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What features made you choose PieFed over Mbin/Lemmy?
What features do they have that you’d like to see in PieFed?

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[–] 3dmvr@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

votings never private when someone can spin up a friendica instance and see it all, or since its activityhub anyone could make an app exclusively to see downvoters.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's private because there are essentially two of you, and your vote is the anonymous you.

https://piefed.social/post/205362

"PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account ..."

[–] 3dmvr@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

Wouldn't that make it easy for ppl to run a piefed instance and mass downvote without showing whos doing it?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I bet it would be fairly easy to match comments with upvotes/downvotes and get a pretty good idea of who's 'anonymous' accounts are pretty quickly.

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's already the case when you're debating with a single person and every of your comment gets downvoted

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I rarely down vote, but when I do, I don't leave a comment. I can't be the only one.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but I bet you upvote or downvote other comments in the thread around the same time you make comments.

That activity would make an educated guess pretty easy.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. It would probably also depend on the number of other people downvoting and commenting. Also this assumes that someone consistently downvotes and comments on one post.

[–] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

Fundamentally obsessing about votes and building a community based on votes will corrupt the whole system. We've been here before

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Didn't know that. But at least the extra steps make it less convenient I think.