• crimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺@sopuli.xyz
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    16 days ago

    I haven’t used piefed myself but I wouldn’t want to switch to it because I feel like it gives more power to downvotes and karma (or “reputation” as they call it):

    • Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
    • People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
    • Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

    Those are three of the twelve points listed as differences to lemmy on their features page.

    I also don’t agree with some of the points in their article on “PieFed features for growing healthy communities”.

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      16 days ago

      I find a reputation system good, however it should use percentages instead of points to make it different than what the karma system in Reddit was. People are less likely to farm for upvotes when it can only show 100% max.

      Afaik piefed does not really show the reputation percentage to anyone (I might be wrong), but just shows a “low reputation” when it is under a certain percentage.