I mean you literally need it in the UK to access lemmy.zip locally and imgur.

Fair enough.

Do you think it could be something worth adding? Idk how many might use it.

Signatures are very much the ‘old school’ forum experience.

A detail: You actually can kinda follow users on Piefed. You can get notified when they post new threads, although it’d be cool if you could also “subscribe” and thus threads they make could show in your feed.

!olympics@sh.itjust.works

I saw the posts. Pretty confident the rate and style of them at account launch was AI.

Probably suspicion of AI

I think it is possible, but highly unlikely in this context.

I suppose I mean they’d account hop before they got caught and their posts removed.

Also, plenty of instances would like to restrict it. Ie I doubt lemmy.blahaj would really appreciate lemmy.world accounts hopping over.

I thought the point of migrating an account here would be to automatically migrate the post history too.

Piefed already has an extensive feed system for this btw

I am posting outside of my instance right now by replying to you

I feel like a bunch of trolls would abuse account migration tools by instance hopping before they get banned.

Paging @rimu@piefed.social

Find me a single user on lemmy.world upvoted for defending the invasion of Iraq or calling for the end of/opposing socialised healthcare

Votes technically being public and viewable however does mitigate voting manipulation and brigading and overall keeps the fediverse more honest and transparent.

I found that about 1/10 of the top lemmy posts (after filtering out jokes and sports) are links to AI slop that nobody bothered to check, comments just take the headline as real if they affirm. Pointing this out in the comments did not reduce engagement or drop the posts.

Can I see where/how you found this out?

Yes, they can in certain contexts. Bulk downvoting on posts can degrade their visibility.

Piefed.social admin here. They are absolutely aware of this and are trying to stop it.

We make a lot of effort to consolidate communities by closing on one instance, and opening it on another.

But sometimes multiple communities for the same topic make sense depending on different local moderation methods and instance rules.