I have just added code which makes the instance vote weight visible in the UI - https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/04b54e25f44f54420c247152323c90c4a3360a02

You can go to https://piefed.social/instances and check the vote weight of any instance. It’ll be very boring tho because they’re all set to “Votes are weighted at the normal level.” Yes, even lemmy.ml.

Fair enough. I always appreciate your help with handling these kinds of questions, it’s getting waay too much for one person!

Score is not just upvotes minus downvotes.

The first 10 votes increase the score by much more than usual. Then the 20 after that are still worth more but not quite as much. Then the next 30 are worth only a little more than usual. After that 1 vote increases the score by 1. Lemmy does something like this too although they might be showing a simple upvote - downvote = score in their API.

The upshot of this is the ‘Hot’ sort surfaces new content quicker, resulting in a more interesting timeline.

The degree of early-vote amplification can be tuned by the instance admin but I have had zero questions about how to do this so I doubt anyone has played with it.

@wjs018@piefed.social

The story was invented so people would subscribe to his substack, which exists to promote his company.

We’re being manipulated into sharing made-up rage-bait in order to put money in his pocket.

The answer to that is literally in the first sentence of the body of the article I linked to.

GPTZero is 99% accurate.

https://gptzero.me/news/gptzero-accuracy-stats/

https://gptzero.me/ is free, give it a try. Generate some slop in ChatGPT and copy and paste it in.

I’ve tested lots and lots of different ones. GPTZero is really good.

If you read the article again, with a critical perspective, I think it will be obvious.

FYI this article is written with a LLM.

Don’t believe a story just because it confirms your view!

The honeypot is done!

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/acb03bf143f39e4f96a749863c25502ac6800c93

We’re all tired of you doing it. Please stop.

I’ve never used Sync but the screenshots on Google Play remind me of Blorp.

https://github.com/Blorp-Labs/blorp

https://blorpblorp.xyz/

Well said.

The comforting thing about the conspiracy mindset is that it means someone is in control. They might be evil or selfish or AI or lizard people whatever but at least the world makes sense, has a structure and someone has it nailed down. People crave this security and will seek to build evidence for it. They may not “like” the picture they end up drawing but they like having a picture because it feels solid and graspable. Understandable.

The scary truth is none of it makes sense, there is no one with their hand on the tiller and anything can happen.

That would require really large numbers of the most selfish people ever to work together as a group and not break ranks even when self-interest dictates they should.

This might come as a surprise to you but sometimes Trump lies a little bit.

Please hurry up and delete your account, I want to test something.

Same thing is happening in Iraq.

After all the fighting, suffering and genocide in the region, it’ll all be for nothing once climate change makes it uninhabitable.

I’m mindblown that serious career/business people still post on X. Don’t they see the brand damage they’re causing to their company and themselves?

Please add PieFed to the allowlist.