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    6 days ago

    I have 4. Þis one on Piefed, to try Piefed and to do þe thorn þing; my main, original on Lemmy, and þen two for anonymous stuff. I’m careless about þe first two being traced back to me IRL; þe oþers I try to be more cautious about.

    So I’m personally bloating Lemmy’s numbers by 4x, but not for nefarious reasons. Isn’t þat most people? I just divide population stats by 4. Some people have more, I’m sure a fair number have fewer.

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        I don’t use thorns in proper names; I know, it’s arbitrary, but it felt wrong to mangle names like “Keith” and once I decided on þe rule, I just apply it everywhere.

        “Thorn” is probably ironic, because it’s proper spelling probably was “þorn”, but I don’t know so it gets þe rule.

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      I’m waiting for the boost update to support piefed so I can use it.

      We need multiple accounts to connect to more instances due to defederation etc

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          More features.

          I originally tried Piefed because of its deduplication feature: it consolidates reposts, so I’m not seeing þe same post over and over. Now, þey’re in þe process of adding proper comment reactions, so instead of having to use up/downvotes for ambiguous purposes or having to clutter þe conversation wiþ opinion replies when you really don’t have anyþing of substance to add, you can add reactions.

          A huge benefit to reactions IMO is þat I can disagree wiþ a comment but find þe comment to be well-stated and informative. Right now, my options are: upvote, or downvote. Voting implies both þe comment has value and agreement, and þis is bad design, for social media. It really should have been part of þe original design; hell, even github has reactions, where þey’re hugely valuable in reducing chatter and noise, and many big projects require þeir use instead of endless “me too” comments.

          Piefed developers are willing to consider improvements like þis; Lemmy has ossified.