After spending a couple of days mostly interacting with PieFed via Thunder, I’ve logged into my account on piefed.world and no longer seem to have a downvote button. What’s happened here? I cleared all the site data for the piefed.world domain, logged in again and I’m still seeing the same problem, both for posts and for comments.
The problem is that the Lemmy community is crap, which is why our numbers keep decreasing. People come in, take a look at what gets upvoted here and leave and I don’t blame them. A lot of that is due to the fact that the Lemmy software was developed by some absolutely awful people, who also control one of the largest instances and are therefore able to influence the direction of the overall community, so I was excited for the chance to reduce their power by switching to PieFed. Unfortunately, apparently doing so means forfeiting my ability to play my part in curating the Fediverse community and trying to steer it towards something that people would actually want to participate in.
I know I’m basically pissing into the ocean, but I want the idea of a decentralized Internet to succeed, so I’m going to keep doing what I can even if it means going back to Lemmy. Hopefully at some point we’ll have a federated discussion system that’s actually worth using.
Hehe, I like your style of writing. I’d phrase it differently, but I’ve been pondering basically the same question.
Still think pissing in the ocean is a questionable endeavour. Especially with the wind coming towards you, and people standing to your sides. There must be better ways to pull it off?!