piefed dev is very opinionated and hardcodes stuff in, gets backlash, and only then makes it opt-out. He doesn’t like certain instances so they are defederated by default. A huge huge list of websites so they are blocked by default and afaik it’s not possible to just empty the list with a button click, you have to do a manual database transaction or remove them one-by-one. There’s like a belgium filter to There’s like a whole rigmarole to setting up a piefed instance that is at 0 opinion in order to be able to go from there. But I think most damningly is the ability to ban users without it showing up in the modlog and not showing reasons for bans unless the instance issuing the ban is on an allowlist.
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Kraiden@piefed.social 13 hours agowait, what’s this about a piefed dev doing something similar?
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 hours ago
I didn’t know about the silent bans/modlog circumvention in Piefed. That’s like, really really bad.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Oh I forgot an even more egregious part, if a person blocks you, you can’t reply to them. If you try to reply to them in a community of their server then the replies won’t even federate but will silently get dropped. And you will never know about it because they show up for you on your instance. Only if you visit the same comment on another instance will you see that your replies don’t federate.
So if blockingUser@piefedinstanceA blocks you, and you reply to a comment or post of theirs in the community NoMemes@piefedinstanceA then piefedinstanceA will say “oh blockingUser has blocked Coelacanth@feddit.nu, lets drop everything that feddit.nu sends us that’s from Coelacanth in response to blockingUser” and you will be none the wiser.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 hours ago
Yeah, I don’t like that one bit tbh.
Allero@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
PieFed (the software, so this relates to every instance) blocks links to certain websites, it is hardcoded and without a fork, you’d have to manually reallow them one-by-one (and there’s like 4000 of them).
A lot of them are blocked due to political motivations, and Rimu himself said software shouldn’t be politically neutral.
Kraiden@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Tankies. You mean tankies.
For anyone else reading, it’s not the same thing at all. There’s no subterfuge in what Rimu is doing. There’s a fucking admin interface to manage the list for a start, and the list itself is open source and categorized by reason for blocking
Suggesting that this is in any way the same thing as a secret hidden block list that contains specific users and has no way to be disabled is disingenuous at a minimum, but I’d go further and say it’s outright bullshit.