Hello m@teys,

I’ve been waiting for this a long time (half a year), personally. After seeing the surge in piefed instances, i.e. blahaj, .ca, .zip, quokk.au, and .world creating their own instances, and clients guaranteeing future piefed support, we’ve been thinking about potentially opening an instance in the future. Not a guarantee, just an idea. This isn’t a voting thread, just a discussion. Later on we’ll actually vote on this.

Do note that this thread will not guarantee an instance; we are discussing a hypothetical. Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? make your voice heard.

Have a good week!

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governance type: sense check

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    18 days ago

    private voting

    After having discussed with a few people, Rimu agreed to drop the private voting. The system will switch to two votes button

    This provides better transparency than Lemmy, as users are now complaining about tool like lemvotes: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48233901/19876557

        • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          18 days ago

          Seems like maybe that was premature considering a lot of people are still surprised by this. I’m on here pretty much daily and hadn’t heard of it. Also it’s incredibly shitty to stovepipe that conversation on matrix. It’s the same shit reddit mods do with discord.

            • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
              4·
              17 days ago

              Seeking stakeholder involvement is the product of publicity and outreach, not just technically something being in public. I do a lot of community organizing and local government stuff and “the meeting was public” doesn’t cut it if you don’t advertise it. In fact, people will rightfully get pissed off if you say that.

              I’m not going to spend a bunch of time worrying about this either way, but a bunch of devs and admins talking about it on matrix isn’t exactly community outreach. Rimu puts universal messages for other things, so it seems like that could have drawn some more widespread input.

              And again I know this isn’t the place to debate this, but a lot of users in that thread seem to want to preserve private voting. It’s mostly admins and devs punting on the issue.

              • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
                41·
                17 days ago

                Seeking stakeholder involvement is the product of publicity and outreach, not just technically something being in public. I do a lot of community organizing and local government stuff and “the meeting was public” doesn’t cut it if you don’t advertise it. In fact, people will rightfully get pissed off if you say that.

                This was posted in the Piefed_meta community, where else was it supposed to be posted?

                Also, the new version of voting allows private local vote, and public federated vote. Obfuscating the federated votes was trivial to overcome