Serious question, why do people even bother with piefed at this point. Also, I'm not really against libs creating their own bubble if that means they stop being obnoxious all across the fediverse.

ML and anarchist solidarity ✊

This is completely unsurprising when you're aware of the reasons that motivated PieFed's development (anti communism). Features designed to limit the voice and reach of certain instances lines up with that motivation. PieFed exists to counteract communist influence in the threadiverse.

Some here who helped push it spin it as a way to make the fediverse more palatable to the average Internet user because they care more about growth than culture, but the underlying motivation has always been to try to separate the threadiverse from its communist roots.

I'll take the tankie devs over liberal devs every single time, personally. You can say what you want about them and how they personally run their instances, but I'm not aware of them developing any underhanded features like these and others in PieFed.

we had been shadowbanned from the PieFed.Social Instance Chooser

Badge of fucking honor

Yeah rimu is hellbent in his crusade against memes and defense of us imperialism. His "q-anon" blocklist contains leftist sites like grayzone as well as sites like wikileaks.org. He has warnings on his instance for sites like electronicintifada and peoplesdispatch. He put out a hit piece on bans from db0 like a week ago, days after a troll made a fake screenshot accusing some db0 admin of being an undercover nazi, then made his "LLM moderation" scarepost even though he knew that there was none because he asked about it before, blocked db0 the user so none of his posts show up on piefed.social (or federate if the post is in a community of piefed.social) and at this point I'd really ask if you all want to keep with software whos designer is openly hostile to you, be part of his network and introduce people to it. All of this right after MrKaplans knee-jerk defederation. Like it's been a busy two weeks of hostilities from the liberal side of the lemmy/piefed fediverse mainly from rimu who has been very open I must say about being on an anti-tankie crusade and doing everything in his power to make "his software" hostile for people whose ideology he doesn't like. And very much not open about how he intends to achieve this.

Instance silencing similar to Mastodon. A silenced instance is not defederated from but their posts do not show in the Popular or All feeds and their communities are not shown in Starter packs aka Topics. Their communities can still be found in the communities list and joined in the normal way. Once joined, posts in there show up in the subscribed feed as usual.

This is just cannibalising smaller instances. When their communities can't be as easily discovered the conversations naturally will be on the bigger instances and posters will naturally fluctuate towards the bigger instances so their posts can be seen. I bet you all are "silenced" as well.

reposted from my hexbear account for more visibility

This stinks. I remember someone from anarchist.nexus posting a question about being banned but not seeing why (I think, I don't remember the details) and a very terrible response from Rimu. I don't see anyone else from piefed.social posting here but I can't be the only one that has seen this negativity over the last month or so. Maybe time to instance hop again or use an old account. Guess I didn't learn any lessons about flagships after being on kbin.social, although that was very different.

PieFed has been giving me the ick the last few weeks, it looks likes it’s heading in a bad direction.

Not directly related, but many different instances are very buddy-buddy and share user info. Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works and discuss.social for example all share information like user emails, etc. this leads to shadowbans, defedding, and all sorts of privacy offenses.

Likely quokk is cause up in that.

This is why it’s important all users use a VPN and unique burner/alias emails.

It's always very interesting to see the imperialist type of "leftist" always punch left harder than they punch right. Almost as if that's their actual intended purpose all along..

kicked Marxist-lemonist

Made me laugh.

I actually like having a second order of downgrading an instance over pure defederation. For example it would be really cool to mark instances from which to accept downvotes. Etc

Pretty awful changes. Doubt I'll ever be moving to Piefed and unless it has a pretty substantial course correction gonna end up giving side eye to anyone promoting it