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I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day https://old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1ijmkc0/make_the_switch_away_from_meta/

Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc. If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.

I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.

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[–] Canyon201@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Why would you suggest piefed when it has so much biased hard-code in it's database?

It is clear that Rimu has forced his personal viewpoint and ideology into his code. Despite the claims there has been no evidence that this is the case for Lemmy.

He has coded in deliberatly misleading error messages when you try to upload images he doesn't like

  • You cannot cast a vote on PieFed if you’ve made 0 replies, 0 posts, AND your username is 8 characters long
  • When a reply is created, from anywhere, that only contains the word “this”, the comment is dropped
  • Every user (remote or local) has an “attitude” which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your “attitude” is < 0.0 you can’t downvote. Again there is no mention of this anywhere but deep within his biased-code
  • Every account has a Social Credit Score. If your account has less than 100 Social Credit Score and is newly created, you are not considered “trustworthy” and there are limitations placed on what your account can do. Your Social Credit Score is calculated as upvotes earned - downvotes earned aka Reddit Karma. If your reputation is at -10 you also cannot downvote, and you can’t create new DMs. It also flags your account automatically if your reputation is to low. Echo-chamber achieved!
  • If you use em dashes your account is flagged to the admin, more like 1984-fed
  • if you try to comment a .gif ... you fail because the code lord Rimu doesn't like it
  • Rimu has turned the block into an instance wide shadowban again without telling anyone
  • He has hardcoded which instances are allowed and which arent
  • He has hardcoded links to his ideology into the sidebar
  • He vindictively targeted a single user with code

The code review can be found here

Maybe someone should do a code review for lemmy to see how those tankies have influenced it.

[–] quinceyBones@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

All that is optional and can be turned off in Admin settings.

Not to mention you’re exaggerating a loot.

[–] Canyon201@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Glad you agree that Rimu is putting his own beliefs and ideology into the piefed code, any chance you know of similar issues with the lemmy code? Not if there isn't any documentation and how do the users know if the social credit score is active on their instance? He intentionally makes it hard to know if your image or comment even applies, it is like this bizarre shadowban for anyone the glorious leader doesn't like.

[–] RetroLemmings@retrolemmy.com 0 points 4 days ago

So everyone is clear your an alt-account of someone from lemmygrad or Hexbear.

You only seem to be active every few months in very specific posts where your beloved instance pro-Russia propaganda mill is at threat or you can bad mouth people who you don’t agree with.

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