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What Features Make PieFed Better/Worse (piefed.ca)

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

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What features made you choose PieFed over Mbin/Lemmy?
What features do they have that you’d like to see in PieFed?

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[–] 3dmvr@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

votings never private when someone can spin up a friendica instance and see it all, or since its activityhub anyone could make an app exclusively to see downvoters.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's private because there are essentially two of you, and your vote is the anonymous you.

https://piefed.social/post/205362

"PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account ..."

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

Wouldn't that make it easy for ppl to run a piefed instance and mass downvote without showing whos doing it?

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

Didn't know that. But at least the extra steps make it less convenient I think.