I keep hearing a lot about piefed and I’m curious to try it. I really like this instance, though. Is there something similarly hands off out there for piefed?
Piefed is very much not hands-off. Starting from the moment you sign up, they’re going to try to load you down with their preset subscriptions to pre-approved communities and their automatic censoring of whatever posters and sites they disapprove of. You can opt out of most of their anti-features, but still…
Who’s “they”?
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When I joined Lemmy I also had preset communities so I don’t really see the difference. I even unsubscribed from many of them.
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Piefed.
“It” if you’d prefer.
Does it not work like Lemmy where instance owners set the settings?
Probably. I know there were plans at least to make some of the features - like auto-hiding downvoted posts and threads and attaching an icon to accounts that got downvoted - configurable. I don’t know if that’s actually been done or not, but I assume so.
Look - I’m not here to convince you of anything. You asked a question and I gave my opinion in response. You wanted to know if there is “something similarly hands off out there for piefed,” and IMO that’s not likely, since “hands-off” is one thing that Piefed is not.
But yes - it’s certainly possible that at least some of the censorship and reputation anti-features are now configurable, and even that someone has started an instance with them all disabled.