Unsure tbf, though something comes to mind. Maybe "we don't want to accept conservatives"? I know of a guy, tech journalist with conservative views who tried Mastodon before but got banned twice, and then migrated to a Nostr-first instance with Mastodon support, where he hasn't been banned even after months. If his case is an example, maybe people on the other protocol are more accepting of different views?

I’ve asked for #1 already (but not in Codeberg issue format) so this is good confirmation for them that such is still desired. Looks like they like the idea and it'll be in v5.1. Looks like they already completed it. ... also instance admins are not going to rerun it each time they update to the latest software, so their “surprise” came about due to the lack of #1, and bc Rimu tried to sneak it in buried amidst a rather large list of other features as if it were a tiny unimportant matter (even though he knew that it was a huge deal and extremely controversial ... Fair point. ... essentially Kickstarted PyLova to be created ... Silver linings ... “hard-coded” features existed buried in the PieFed codebase ... Yeah, I remember that 'argument'. That was annoying to deal with. I can well imagine others being opt-out or hard-coded at first and then upon push-back being converted into opt-in. There was another feature/set of features that were opt-out and poorly communicated before the vote-limiter, maybe a year ago. I don't remember what it was though. I recall it went over just as poorly as the rate limiter and made me view Rimu in a different light. Speaking of, the last I knew the shadow-censoring daily vote quotas are not opt-in, but rather turned on by default, being instead opt-out. That's my understanding as well. I had to ask my admins to remove it. Only if looking at their actions rather than words . Haha. Yeah. I do think their call for a vanguard kind of gives away the game (wiki: "According to Lenin, the purpose of the vanguard party is to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat"). I think using the word "dictatorship" at all is unlikely to go well or attract the people you want that would be okay with giving up power, once they have it. Okay but by FAR the biggest change there in PieFed subscriber numbers was due solely to fedinsfw.app, which in turn resulted from the demise of lemmynsfw. And it begs the question for me: how many MAUs did Lemmynsfw have, compared to fedinsfw.app? Like, yes PieFed gained ~7k MAUs, but how many more did Lemmy lose? I doubt they were equal, which again illustrates the overall pattern of decline across the Threadiverse instances. Absolutely. According to Fedindex, it looks like Lemmynsfw may have only had 3.6k MAU when it crashed. FediNSFW is now at ~3.6k MAU. So, weirdly it came out to be an even exchange. PieFed stats are still fairly similar to what they were before, right? Looks like Fedindex is putting Fedinsfw creation on 02-18-2026. Fediverse-Observer data, puts Piefed at 4816 MAU on 02-17-2026. Piefed is at 6742 MAU and Fedinsfw only at 3583 MAU, leaves non-Fedinsfw Piefed at 3159 MAU today. Last time Piefed was below 2k MAU (1990 MAU) was 2026-01-20. So, up ~59% in 10-ish months, not bad, percentage wise. Personally I think that a more nuanced take might be to look at the increasing number of instances total - even if they are only tiny ones, that’s still something? Otoh, pound for pound, Lemmy already has both those AND the huge buckets of users, so perhaps it’s not worth digging into such, bc in essence such matters are already baked into the comparison between platforms anyway. Looks like Lemmy has had 63 new instances since 2026-06-08, 20 still active (Piefed: 18 new, 8 still active). So better percentage fro Piefed, better volume for Lemmy. From 2026-07-28 to 2026-10-27, Lemmy alive servers went from 321 -> 294 (Piefed: 66 -> 59). So, with the increased total threadiverse MAUs, it looks like some consolidation is happening. And even if we do bring in the porn instance into the comparison, as the largest PieFed instance, it is still far smaller than the largest Lemmy instance, by quite a large margin. Also, people may literally have multiple accounts - one for porn and another for other matters, for separation. I only hope that Rimu considers why Mbin became so irrelevant, especially after the huge start given it by the demise of Kbin: Mbin does multiple things yes, but it does neither of them well. With you there. 'Whole ass 1 thing, rather than half-assing 2 things'. PieFed has numerous layout concerns too, such as making it exceedingly difficult to distinguish between downvotes vs. upvotes in the overall count (+151 & -100 is enormously different than just +51 & -0, or +71 & -20 - that is outright information that PieFed obscures and in many cases makes nearly impossible to get readily). This has legitimately been a huge annoyance for me on web (and a reason I prefer Voyager). I made FR about this too. I’m quite curious how they are going to implement it. Very exciting indeed!! Looks like it's already live. Looks like it's only contained to users. I was hoping this could also be an admin feature to help stop scraping (with automation only 1 instance has to be hit by a scraper before the subscribed instances are 'inoculated'). Added another FR. Edit: added an additional sentence to the ml discussion.

I cannot make any sense of what is going on there but that's part of the fun!