The comment section is a great place to post your well thought out and sourced opinions. I'd rather read the source up front in the post and then get opinions from strangers in the comments than the other way around.
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2026
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Most of the ones with article requirements also have rules about source reliability/reputation so your idea about making a new site to post your thoughts and linking to that wouldn't work for long.
It would still gain traction before somebody noticed. And what does that say about the community?
Do they agree with the content of your 'fake' site? Do they just want to hear something they agree with regardless of the source?
I totally get your point. It's still busted and dumb.
I strongly agree.
I find personal viewpoints way more interesting to read and easier to relate to. And I'd also like to post more of my own, but it doesn't seem to be the 'done thing' for some reason, which is off-putting. I don't know if there is a genuine thought-out reason for this on the part of moderators, or whether it's some kind of unconscious internet tradition 🤷
It's a missed opportunity for connection between people.
Subconsciously engrained way of doing things, I think you've hit the nail on the head!
Huge proportion of people here came from Reddit, and I guess it's easier to do things the way we're comfortable with. But that seems antithetical to the spirit and purpose of Lemmy and the Fediverse
I'm new to piefed, I'm wondering why I don't have a downvote option?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Thank you, I will have a look in settings, it's needed because "Imo this shit is busted and dumb."
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?
Yes
To be fair, the majority of articles these days are also busted, often deliberately so.
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.
I'm not sure because I don't use piefed, but at least on Lemmy you can definitely downvote. Maybe try downvoting from another app or desktop?
I don't think that it's a problem to have news-only communities. It's easy enough to create communities that do do original content, and if people want that, then they can subscribe to it.
Yeah that's what I meant to express by saying "it's fine".
Moderators are free to moderate as they please, just as I am free to think it's a largely widespread and pervasive problem overall.
Totally a place for 'news-only' communities which enforce certain websites or articles, but my point stands!
I never really thought about this. What are some examples of communities that require an article that you think would be better if they didn't?
/c/technology in lemmy.world
That's one example