There is pro and cons using lemmy or piefed. Both have a different stance on moderation and offer a different experience.

Lemmy doesn't check downvote or users with bad reputation. How are you able to act with toxic users ? For example one downvoting a lot and the other one that post terrible thing thus get lot downvote ? Is this good for your community ? I don't think you will enjoy interacting with them.

Piefed score was requested by most admins and mods. It help us creating good community, our main job is creating a place where people enjoy sharing their experience. There are 2 scores :

• attitude : it calculate the ratio of downvote/upvote. How do you react when people have lot negativity ? Most of us are around 70%. If you downvote a lot, that's not a good behaviour. There are few users or bots that downvote a lot. their attitude score is around 20% something like that, it is low. It removes the ability to downvote until you upvote and reach a threshold. So it invite user to use other tools (filter) to improve their timeline instead of voting.
• reputation : that's the upvote you receive. Posting meme don't boost your reputation. Why ? Because of karma farming. Let's say i post terrible things, and i receive lot downvote. Meanwhile, i post fun meme and get lot upvotes...

So it just give us a general idea on users and improve community ambiance.

Futhermore, you can't just take the scoring system alone. Those features work together :

• mods can remove downvote per community. I removed them in my communities.
• filters : you can filter keywords, communities, instances and users.
• report. It is more efficient, i prefer it over the automod that work well.