Hello m@teys,
I've been waiting for this a long time (half a year), personally. After seeing the surge in piefed instances, i.e. blahaj, .ca, .zip, quokk.au, and .world creating their own instances, and clients guaranteeing future piefed support, we've been thinking about potentially opening an instance in the future. Not a guarantee, just an idea. This isn't a voting thread, just a discussion. Later on we'll actually vote on this.
Do note that this thread will not guarantee an instance; we are discussing a hypothetical. Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? make your voice heard.
Have a good week!
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Honestly I don't think it matters much since what admins can do isn't usually what they will do. Defaults matter, and also it's very tempting for them to disable some features like modlogs that it will be done disproportionately.
But also the problem with the Karma features is that they are present on all of them, turning it off in yours doesn't make the issue go away and doesn't prevent people from abusing it the way subreddits abuse Karma scores right now.
The modlogs have already been made public by Rimu due to popular demand.
What's the issue if most instances don't run with a karma system? So you might get low karma'd in some piefed instances that you don't post from?
That would be the case if most instances operated like that but most don't. Most will ultimately have it enabled, and if most of them have it enabled it will affect users even on ones where it is turned off.
Is this a piefed.social change or a piefed software change. If it's the ladder then that's good and it's not really an issue anymore. If it's the former it's still a big trust issue because it can presumably be turned off and on at will, by making it hardcoded it can still be disabled but it's more work, requires maintaining a fork and basically guarantees that 99% of modlogs will be there and be recording.
I feel like this is speculative. I don't think karma systems across the fediverse are popular enough for that.
Both.
You could say that about a lot of things that Lemmy instance admins could do, but choose not to.