If there’s another place to find answers, do let me know. I went over the piefed feature page and did a couple searches already.
I came here from Lemmy to try out Piefed and make another community, but I get an error that my account is too new and/or I don’t have a reputation.
Questions:
What does reputation or attitude mean? What do I need to have to make a community?
How old does my account have to be to make a community?
Why do I need to have an X account age to make a community?
Is there a way to separate upvotes and downvotes? If not, I don’t like it. Just seeing a number doesn’t tell me very much, especially about engagement. A -1 score could have 200 upvotes.
Why are the communist/socialist instances blocked by default and not like, maga? I see it’s blocked by my instance anyway, but thought it was weird to block those three considering there are much worse instances. I already unblocked them, so I don’t need help, I’m just wondering why.
Oh, and why can’t I see the modlog?
Thank you all for your time.


im on piefed and post to a lemmy.ml comic instance and I have been blocked from like one community but no more and have all sorts of comments not so great with russia, nk, china and even communism in general. No uber ban has come my way. Are you sure its defederated from piefed???
You may be conflating several things. For one, no Lemmy.ml is not defederated from PieFed.social (see its presence in the allow list at https://lemmy.ml/instances). There are some issues with things like community discovery across the Lemmy vs. PieFed divide but the federation itself works just fine.
Two, you are actually banned from MANY communities there (I stopped counting at 6, though at least one has since expired). Unlike Reddit, there is no method for Lemmy to actually notify you that you are banned, you kinda just have to figure it out yourself somehow. And then there’s no mod mail to appeal or even ask questions about it - you exist at the mercy of the mods and admins, with no rights for anyone to notify or explain anything to you, yes somehow even more so here than on Reddit (at least our landlords here are nicer, plus you can spin up your own personal instance if you like, PieFed makes that a lot cheaper and easier). See your bans at https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=17651002, and if you change the settings you can also see e.g. your removed content.
Three, your negative comments tend to only trigger issuance of a ban when they are made specifically in a community located on Lemmy.ml, as they do not check across the entire Threadiverse for content elsewhere. But if your comments were there, then I don’t know why you were not banned - this would be the first story I’ve heard of someone getting away with having done so. Maybe you made them in posts that got removed or mostly ignored by the community and therefore the admins missed you? There are so extremely many stories of people that were not missed in !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works if you want to read about it happening to others.
ok it sounded like you were saying it was defederated but you were only talking bannings when you talked about lemmy.ml and the whole defederate was just close by in your comment maybe?
It was exploding-heads.com that was defederated from, by almost every instance across the entire Threadiverse.
Lemmy.ml on the other hand is the opposite in that it is defederated from by almost no (major) instances.
I wouldn’t broadcast the content of that community as accurate or in good faith. It is heavily curated and includes sockpuppet accounts by the mod team going onto those instances to create their evidence. It’s run by avowed voat users.
You gotta be careful with anti-authoritarianism sometimes considering the kind of anti-leftist company it can attract.
Is cm0002 the avowed voat user? I tried to search for cases where that account used the word “voat”, but mainly it was in the context of a Nazi bar whereupon tankie instances seem akin to a leftist Voat 2.0.
Do you have any evidence for this?
Can you site a specific post on MOG that’s not accurate.
Can you provide evidence for your sockpuppet account theory?
What’s wrong with being an anti-leftist? I am Ukrainian (living in Ukraine), of course I am going to oppose western “leftists” who wish harm to me, my family and my fellow citizens. It’s reasonable to consider them mortal enemies.
There are thousands of examples of western “leftists” cheering for the russian invasion and spreading russian propaganda.
I am on the same instance so my Local feed has a constant stream of posts and comments before they’re purged for curation. I don’t run an equivalent counter-MoG so all there is are deleted comments from Permanently Deleted threads. There’s a reason the focus is on screenshots of 2 minute old comments with names censored out.
Like a user named BeanCounter was an alt of someone who spammed .ml users with death threats. There’s nothing left of their posts or comments to reference today. Some of it was on older versions of Lemmy so I am not sure it can even be searched for anymore.
Mostly it has reduced to just a few people personally harassing the lemmy devs and a few powerusers by other powerusers. But two years ago especially it was aggressive enough the devs started doing content moderation.
Which, of course, has become a new focus.
Uh…
You follow with referencing “leftists” as a something of a falsehood… So do you mean to ask what is wrong with being an ‘anti-“leftist”’ or ‘anti-leftist’…?
So no evidence, OK!
Ok, then tell me how the screenshots of Dessalines justifying the russian invasion of Ukraine are taken out of context? Or say the posts of Devel, the main ML admin saying China genocide against the Uighurs is a CIA operation. What do you mean out of context?
Is this a conspiracy by the haters? Or conspiracy by the CIA?
Funny how this is what you latch on and not that: