This should be a user setting. Finding an instance is already hard enough with all the politicking and bans between instances. It shouldn’t be made even harder by turning these into instance-level settings instead of user-level ones.

I think PieFed should allow disabling down-votes. I genuinely dislike seeing down-votes, especially on my own content. I behave very differently on platforms like Bluesky that only have like/repost, compared to Lemmy, where saying something unpopular results in down-votes that feel like a punch in the gut. In real life, if someone disagrees, they either tell you or disengage. On PieFed, down-votes go further, they actively suppress your voice so others don’t see it. That is effectively what down-votes accomplish, and I don’t think it leads to healthier discussion.

This seems like overcompensating for the child limit. Are they going to be like a yoyo, swinging from one extreme to the other until they find a balance, like all things should be?

Or maybe somewhere where you don't have to spend half of your salary paying rent? Like China.

Imperialist shill.