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 !buycanadian@lemmy.ca

🍁 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 🥳

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Downvotes should be enabled, what are you seeing on your client?

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.caMEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Downvote being enabled is an instance setting, not a per-user configuration

        it is currently enabled on lemmy.ca, where this community !main@lemmy.ca 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

      • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        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

              • otter@piefed.ca@piefed.caEnglish
                1·
                18 days ago

                Interesting, I’m going to try and ban + unban your account in case that helps. You’ve likely already tried this but is the problem limited to a particular user/post/community or does it happen everywhere. Can you try downvoting this comment?

                I’ll also tag a Piefed maintainer in this thread to see if there is something else we should be looking in to.

      • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.