After a couple days of discussions about the newly implemented vote quota, I’m kinda exhausted. It seems like a situation we won’t ever agree on. Me personally, I don’t want to argue like this over a piece of software that I have high regards for. It tears us apart, where we should work together.

It’s okay if there is a quota on piefed.social the instance.
It’s not okay if there is a default quota of 240 on PieFed the software - and thus for all instances.

I suggest it should be implemented like this:

  • It should not be a default value
  • It should be an empty input in the admin interface, where instance admins can set a vote quota if they want to, or leave it empty to disable the vote quota.
  • The /about page should display the set vote quota.

That way all instances can decide for themselves and users can see the instances’ vote quota transparently.

  • univers3man@piefed.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I agree with you, and I think this change, and especially making it opt out instead of opt in, is just blatant vote manipulation and is actively making me not want to be here. I will likely migrate back to Lemmy since at least I can upvote and downvote without shady limits.

    I really liked Piefed, but I just cannot support this. If the developers want to control what I see, then I’m out. There are other ways to solve this if they think there is BOTing, but even Rimu admits they don’t think it’s users with BOTs. Plus, I also sort by new like you mention, so other people voting doesn’t even affect me or my feed.

    I can’t tell if this is a well-meaning, but badly implemented idea, or if this is a grudge against the most active members of our communities, but I can’t just assume the best anymore.