The main problem I have with piefed is its focus on vote totals for moderation, particularly how it deals with downvotes.

While it is likely that rule-breaking content has a low vote total, this does not need to be the case. A call to murder someone might be upvoted, while unpopular opinions are downvoted.

I don’t have many downvoted comments, but just as an example here is one, two. I don’t see anything at all wrong with these comments, except that they’re part of expressing an unpopular opinion.

The problem with putting your focus on discouraging downvotes, especially in moderation (but not only: “Accounts that get downvoted a lot end up with a negative karma. Once this happens they get a small red icon next to their user name so everyone knows that they might not be worth engaging with.”), is that it encourages hivemind thinking, it discourages diversity, it encourages conformity.

This focus on downvotes has already led to at least one instance of a mod using it to abuse their powers. Of course, that is the mod’s fault, but tools that give you this power encourage this sort of behavior.

For that reason I don’t think it’s a good idea to put communities on piefed.

You can always use piefed to browse minecraft@lemmy.world, and get whatever frontend features you like, for example this “nice gallery view” you talk about. However you could also probably use different frontends for Lemmy directly, I think Voyager has this gallery feature?

Tags are also coming to Lemmy pretty soon, the feature has been merged a few weeks ago.

For me, a general lack of curiosity how things work, from human behavior, to technology, to economy, and everything else. And how you inform yourself.

Of course you can’t always be interested in everything and can’t know how everything works in detail, no one has time for that. Also you might be wrongly informed in certain instances. But if you’re so uninterested that you don’t know how almost anything works even in basic ways, or you for example only get your information from “my parents told me” or “I only believe what I have seen” or similar, I’m seriously questioning your general intelligence.

Otherwise, their reaction when their beliefs are challenged. I don’t necessarily mean when they’re told they’re wrong, but when they do something and reality gives them an unfavourable result, idk, like a magnet not sticking to a surface, if they keep trying to stick it on instead of maybe evaluating that the surface (or “magnet”) is not magnetic.

Autistic people are famously known for not getting sarcasm. Usually they assume you’re not intelligent when you sincerely make statements that are nonsensical or obviously wrong. Who is “low intelligence” there?

Most people in the world do not have adequate healthcare, many never seeing a doctor in their lives. Plenty of those live to much older than 38.

I’d say it’s very simple to see that whatever you found there is either misrepresenting majorly or complete bollocks.

Same, my bank also doesn’t require strict play integrity. I think I ran into an issue with a dating app once, but that’s about it, and that’s no real loss.

If my bank would suddenly stop working on Android with microG (with no simple alternative), I’d just switch to another bank, there are enough.

On the respective ROM websites:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

https://doc.e.foundation/devices

and whatever else ROM you’d like.

Link to the trailer mentioned

Don’t use a fingerprint sensor anyway, law enforcement everywhere basically can force you to put your finger on it, they more often can’t force you to give out a password.

I like AirVPN

Neither did the person you replied to do that, nor is what you say actually against democracy. Forcing others to vote a certain way is against democracy, but telling someone why they should vote for something is just advertisement.

e os is not less secure than any other Android. Maybe Graphene is better in that regard but that’s literally the point of it. e should be fine for all normal Android usage.

Dude, you are in a million years battle with other organisms trying to exploit and kill you, and you’re fucking winning. I would call that a blazing success. The other organisms are trying their literal best, their survival depends on it, and you just KEEP. ON. WINNING.

Except the ability to register an account without any personal details. Which makes it completely private if you want.

Where is this from?

You can deny it if you want, but anyone who can view this is a Lemmy user.

Would be my question as well. It seems quite obvious that if you participate in publicly viewable discussion, that the stuff you do is publicly viewable.

If you don’t want it associated to your physical person, use a VPN and unidentifiable account name.

(And the statement “at least reddit is safe” seems absolutely ridiculous to me.)