It's fine, but it's too common in online communities (including Lemmy) and it discourages people from posting their original thoughts or events that they find important and relevant, since something needs to come from a 'real news source' or an 'online article'.

I can make a website right now and call it "The Daily Pragmatist" or some shit and people won't bat an eye.

Reality also is that many reach conclusions based on titles alone anyhow. I can't see how it would be worse, since the body of the post is always going to be a tad more accessible than opening a new website. And we see how little people want to work to gather their knowledge, on the whole.

I get removing crappy content, but what about when thoughts are backed up with sources and opinions are relevant to overall discussion?

And separately, what's up with aversion to 'non-standard' forms of expression? I would argue that something like the show 'The Rehearsal' by Nathan Fielder, is an equally valid way to deliver real and important news to people. I wouldn't be alone in this sentiment.

Imo this shit is busted and dumb.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 3 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Some piefed instances turn it off -- iirc piefed.blahaj.zone does as well. Piefed the software supports it, but maybe rimu turned it off for the default instance? I still can downvote from my instance.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 4 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm on piefed.social, seemed a logical option, I did find it odd that out of the box they have lemmy.ml and quokk.au blocked, couldn't find out why, feel like I don't know something that others know

I have a lemmy.zip account as well, but it has been hitting errors recently, so I thought I would try piefed

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

I quite like quokk.au, especially their sports community; I don't really recall why rimu is beefing with them, though I have a vague recollection that I thought it was somewhat overwrought. I don't think you're really missing out being defederated from lemmy.ml though. Most of all, though, I think you should avoid default instances whenever possible.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 1 points 2 minutes ago

my lemmy account is only 3 months old, I have no knowledge of the politics/squabbles between the instances, or even a decent understanding oh how it all works, so far it seems to integrate weirdly/awkwardly.

I only have about 30 subscriptions, 1/3 of them are slrpunk, with .ml, and .world making up a large portion of the remainder, that will no doubt change over time.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 2 points 49 minutes ago

I went into settings, deselected 'federate votes' then looked it up to see what it means... and reselected it, didn't change anything else, didn't find anything that appeared to be to do with downvotes, but now I can downvote, for no apparent reason.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Thank you, I will have a look in settings, it's needed because "Imo this shit is busted and dumb."

[–] stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

As in, you're quoting me because you think my post's content is busted and dumb? Or do you dislike that I said that?

[–] dusk@piefed.social 1 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Yes

To be fair, the majority of articles these days are also busted, often deliberately so.

[–] stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 1 points 43 minutes ago

Gotcha.

Hope you enjoy piefed, I learned about it shortly after joining lemmy.ca, and while I liked the look of it I just haven't had a reason I've seen to make another move.