It seems that a lot of new people have learned about these platforms from a popular post on Reddit. We currently see 78 notifications (and counting) and a pile of applications on piefed.ca too many registration applications for me to keep this up to date.
I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!
Please let us know how we can help! For example, here are some tips on finding communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities The guide says Lemmy, but the steps are the same on Piefed
Since a lot of people arrived here from r/BuyCanadian, maybe you will be interested in [email protected]
🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed
- Open a topic from this list: https://piefed.ca/topics
- Browse that entire topic, or subscribe to individual communities from the sidebar
edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳
Were downvotes disabled or is it just me?
Downvotes should be enabled, what are you seeing on your client?
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Logged out and the upvotes were there, logged back in and the upvotes dissapear so I guess I am restricted for downvoting too much or something, guess it’s time to leave the threadiverse
Downvote being enabled is an instance setting, not a per-user configuration
it is currently enabled on lemmy.ca, where this community [email protected] resides
and also enabled on piefed.ca, where your account resides
Just to confirm, I don’t see any flags on your account that would restrict downvotes
Another thing you can try is force refreshing the page. On a lot of browsers, you can do that by hitting the refresh button while holding down the shift key
None of that applies, I’m using the default theme, I haven’t changed addons on firefox for a long time, literally just woke up one day and they were gone.
It’s not about refreshing because I completely deleted the cookies and cached content from here (hence how I saw that while logged out the downvote arrow was there again).
Already checked on my pc and it’s the same so it’s not a local device thing.
Do you have any custom CSS / theme enabled, or a browser extension that might be blocking the icon?
I don’t see any restrictions on your account, and I’m fairly certain that it’s not possible to block downvotes like that. Nonetheless I’ll pass this along to the rest of the team to check if anyone knows anything.
We can take action if someone is abusing the downvotes (ex. Following someone around and down voting everything they post), but we do that by banning the account. Those actions will be listed in the modlog. See here: https://piefed.ca/modlog?mod_action=&suspect_user_name=Ofiuco%40piefed.ca&communities=&user_name=&submit=Search
Looking at our dashboard, I don’t see any unusual voting activity on your account that would justify admin action.