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What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does (join.piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Just like Reddit, PieFed keeps track of how many upvotes and downvotes your posts receive and the net value of all the votes received is called your “reputation” (Reddit calls it “karma”). This is not shown in the UI anywhere (except to administrators), to dissuade the karma-farming behavior common on Reddit. Reputation is not a game or status symbol, it is a mechanic for enhancing trust and safety on PieFed.

Some people have criticized PieFed for this, calling it a “social credit system” similar to the one in China so I thought it’d be good to explain exactly what it does so people don’t need to guess or rely on hearsay.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just had a look at that community.

Those people are all Donald J Musk's alts and that guy is universally hated.

Working as intended in that case.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I suspect I can infer from this I should create a separate wnba community on a separate instance, then, rather than continuing to post there?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes all his communities will never go anywhere, he's banned from most instances.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I understand your meaning more broadly, but thinking narrowly about the mechanics of blocking and federation, does a community's owner or moderator being banned from an instance effect how posts to that community from other actors are disseminated across the fediverse?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, it doesn't stop posts in their communities (except their posts in their communities). It might stop their moderation actions from being accepted though, which effectively makes the community unmoderated and a liability.

This seems like a bug. Probably when someone is banned all the communities they're the sole active moderator of should be locked. Or a warning shown to the admins, or something.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining the mechanics. I'm kinda glad you're thinking about federating moderation actions for blocked accounts instead of me cuz that sounds complicated and difficult to get right.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's endless!

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Btw papasqat is another one of his alts and plays games like this https://piefed.social/c/modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org/p/2265140/i-got-banned-from-seven-pointless-slop-subreddits-that-i-d-never-heard-of-and-want-noth

Lemmy.today is silenced now, which will stop people from stumbling into their Comms.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I knew that guy's behaviour seemed familiar, somehow. Just couldn't place why.