Another i admire with frindica and its family (hubzilla is mine) is how they implemented groups, if i make a post on a group it doesnt get delivered to every one of my connection, it only goes to the community and people in it. On the other hand i can make a post on lemmy using my hubzilla account but it will show up in every one of my followers timeline since it is by default a public post.

This sounds amazing but also prepare for absolute chaos. People would also still post their grievances to PTB in order to get others to 1 star it as well.

Also people would brigade it

I like the idea but I have a few questions.

1. Which instance determines the rating for lack of a better way to put it.

2. Would it have any actual effects.

3. What about an instance wide rating as well since admins can be just as prone to being PTB in some cases.

I have more ideas and thoughts but I'll leave it there its a really fucking good idea honestly, the more I think about it the more I like it.

I like Piefed for that too. All the replies from different instances are under one post feels neat. Also collections of similar communities. Still exploring Piefed, but these features are the most helpful to me.

I can see why it might be appealing in a microblogging context. There it's all about the individual and their little kingdom and having 'followers'. I think what would happen in practice is Threads' moderators step back and do less moderating and that will let abuse run unchecked more often. But that's their problem, whatever.

On Lemmy/PieFed they're not only your posts. You're the person who started the discussion (in the community which we all built together) and the people who posted in the discussion are all co-creators of it. In this context one of the worst people to moderate a thread is the person who started it. They have the least objectivity and are the most likely to try to distort the direction the discussion goes in.

I don't think that's a fair thing to add on a Reddit-like site. You're posting to a community stewarded by other people. It means people could post highly controversial and objectionable opinions and then just pre-emptively de-facto lock the thread, preventing others from engaging with it. It sort of has the same consequences as the block function on Reddit has now where you can just block the other account replying to you to force the last word.

Now in the event that Lemmy/Piefed incorporates profile posting, self-posting, then absolutely - that sort of screening makes sense.