Excuse me while I go donate even more money to PieFed
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I mean I think that is a bad and unhealthy idea. If piefed.social, world or a particular instance wants to set it up that way then go ahead, sure, but I do think it should be up to the admin using the software to decide which servers this should or shouldn't apply to rather than what sounds like an opt-out scheme. I mean sure go ahead, code how you like, who am I to judge, but I'm only saying it in consideration of best practices.
If HB runs into the silly issue again that almost lost them their domain (and temporarily switched to chapo.chat), this code will be a maintenance burden just because of the developer's specific grudge.
I'm saying this as a user happy about the fact that my instance defederated hexbear and lemmygrad, there are cool communities there, but they are an insufferable bunch.
I believe they further clarified that there are specific default filter sets that can be loaded when a new piefed instance is created, not that they are literally removed in code.
Here's the comments discussing it:
can't make that shit up...
Those are the liberals (the definition of a centrist imo, as opposed to a progressive who is the first notch on the left) who will gladly work across the aisle with a fascist to preserve democracy.
I actually lol-ed at that
If I don't make it back, tell my wife... Hello.
Haha based as fuck.