That’s exactly where I’m at. I don’t align with a lot of the choices Rimu makes for Piefed, but I am 100% for him designing a tool that works for him, even when the defaults he chooses don’t align with my preferences. As long as I have the option to disable/change them as an admin, then I’d rather see a passionate dev creating tools that they want to use than a burned out dev creating something their heart isn’t invested in.

Unfortunately, tesseract isn’t that…

Downvotes aren’t how you address racists and bigots. Banning them is.

Downvoting is a tool that racists and bigots use when they’re trying to avoid getting banned though. On top of that, most targetted groups are minorities, which by definition, have small numbers. All off which means that the impact of downvotes hits vulnerable minorities harder than it hits bigots.

To you, this is some sort of hypothetical ideal that you’d like to see. In your mind, if things “worked the way they should”, downvoting would be a useful tool. But things don’t work the way the should. They work they way they are used, and in this case, that means they often hurt vulnerable groups more than they help them, despite how it ‘should be”

In your analogy, downvotes aren’t the tool. Social media is the tool. And turning off downvotes is how we use that tool to match our needs.

Same with b.zone

It’s also really easy to weaponise against minorities

Your language settings are probably hiding a lot of content. You need to enable any languages you speak and also enable undetermined

The calculation doesn’t account for the leap year

Either that, or you create an account on the communities home instance and give it mod privileges too, and that way you won’t ever get caught short by federation issues, blocking etc.

Shouldn’t you be taking pictures of birds though, haha.

Soon! It’s Friday evening here, but I’ll be out again this weekend :)

I just unstickied it from the Blahaj side for you

Ideally, it wouldn’t be either of those things.

Trans communities for example, Closeted trans folk benefit from people being able to see trans communities and browse them, and just lurk before they post or before they’re ready to join a private community.

Yet at the same time, sometimes, members have questions that really only other trans people can answer. And there is no problem with other folk seeing it or even engaging with the content, but once it hits all, the ratio of useful answers goes down. So being able to just stop some posts from hitting all, without otherwise locking them down would be a nice option

Blahaj zone doesn’t do downvotes, so that side of being visible on /all is a non issue. The only thing that really seems to be an issue is that we will get the odd post intended specifically for members of the community that get visibility in /all, and a bunch of non helpful/irrelevant replies.

I think it would be nice to be able to make some posts “community members only”, but other than that, I generally think communities are helped by the increased of exposure that comes from /all

I like your version even more than mine

Lets not, and say we did

Anything but upvote % as default, because many instances disable downvotes.

Your language settings are wrong. You need to select undetermined, English and any other languages you speak

That’s not lemmy world, that’s the bot configuration for a specific community, chosen by the moderators of that community.

I’m a wizard?

If fascists are getting downvoted but not banned, you need to find a new instance

Downvotes are often disproportionately used to silence members of vulnerable groups when they post in shared spaces so some instances already ignore them.

Upvotes from the microfediverse is a non issue

We use it as an (imperfect) speed bump for spammers. Also for password resets. That’s about it.