Mbin was looking for more devs but they're into generative AI so you may consider that.

(I'm a different person than who you were responding to earlier)

Those other things that you mention here are validated, however the "hard-coded blocklist" was demonstrably disproven. I suggest removing it from your comment because it only complicates the matter to mix in lies with the truth. There are a bunch of valid reasons to criticize PieFed over, we don't need to spread misinformation muddying the issues.

Before I knew they were the piefed admin I had Rimu tagged as "psychotic hatred of leftists, extreme neoliberal" so yeah that seems like a fair label.

I’ve got grievances with PieFed, but even I don’t think it’s ai slop.

Or PyLova which has some really cool features, and responds to users ideas.

If you talk about the matrix screenshot, there is this line from Rimu : "imagine that i do a post about lemmy blabla...". This line refers to a post from Mia where she did an announcement and Rimu wasn't happy about it. He considered it was Piefed appropriation.

It was also part of the conflict along false accusation of piefed being anti-trans. We did ask blahaj what feature would they like, added trans flag...

The main problem with Rimu is its behaviour that led to its ban spree. Most of people on Matrix won't say anything about it, they know but they remain quiet and stay here because they use piefed and support it.

It wasn't the first time. At the beggining of Piefed (2 year ago) Rimu banned Rikudo's instance. Because Rikudo instance at that time suffered from spam. Rikudo wasn't happy about the defed and wrote something on Piefed on fediseer.

So I reached Rikudo and did the mediation and they worked together. I tried with Ada/Pugjesus. Mia/Rimu...

When there was the shitstorm about the local IA used for moderation by dbz0, i really hoped that the explanation from dbzer0 would calm things down. I hoped that Rimu would recognize that he was wrong about its analysis. And then maybe they would continue together.

For me, we lost plenty contributors and people.

You have also to take into account mysticmushroom ban spree for zionism and how dbzer0 reacted.

And then there are people that perpetue fedidrama on yptb or even here, on a post where we should support the fediverse. That was my message that everyone missed on yptb.

If we want to continue, we have to move on. It doesn't erase the past, but recalling those events, behaviour impact the relationship we have between each other.

It polarizes our relationship, and may make newcomers leave. So i think we have to move on and support what we love.

I just don’t have friends to ica.

Third party apps can take advantage of the software platform however. I’ve been testing the PyLova app and it’s got lots of stuff you can’t do in the Lemmy based apps.

but I do think you play defence for your side and are biased as fuck to the point you spread literal misinformation about a feature rich fork.

That’s rich considering how often people who defend PyLova point out how there is hard coded blocks in PieFed.. yet can never really seem to point out exactly what is hard coded (in a very ”I’m only asking questions” way). Spoiler alert: Those blocks doesn’t exist. There are some filters, and I don’t agree with all of them, so I simply turn them off. There’s also the default instance and domain blocklist, which is also very easy to remove.

trying to hide meme communities (196) via hard code is surely a libertarian move and not the one sided actions of a wannabe dictator.

See? This is a straight up lie, i.e. misinformation. That makes it very clear that you’re arguing in bad faith. Or you have no idea what ”hard code” is and just using it to add an emotional emphasis to your point.

Lemmy devs are Marxist Leninist (State Socialist). And Marx did write a out a transition phase. Only idealists think you can "press the communism" button without removing the class contradictions that gave rise to a state in the first place.

Piefed has a social credit system

They pressed the communism button in Catalonia and it worked great. Only problem is it was the middle of the Spanish Civil War, and they got betrayed by their allies.

Anarchist communism has 65,000 years of proven success. Vanguard socialism hasn't worked once. Russia failed, it's capitalist. China is failing, it's capitalist. North Korea is failing, it's feudalist. Those failures aren't because they got couped by the CIA or conquered in a war, these are internal flaws to the political system of state "socialism". The idea that you can slowly reform an authoritarian state into communism was always a fantasy, it never happened once.

Anyway, Piefed has karma. Like Reddit. It's just karma. If you wanna call karma a social credit system, go ahead, but it does seem disingenuous to not explain what you mean by it.

As a piefed admin, I see a little red warning sign next to Sxan, the thorn person. Because they have low karma. When I see it, I chortle and then read what innocuous comment with a thorn has got people downvoting this time. It's just a warning that they have low karma, it doesn't do anything.

See? This is a straight up lie, i.e. misinformation. That makes it very clear that you’re arguing in bad faith. Or you have no idea what ”hard code” is and just using it to add an emotional emphasis to your point.

Want to try that one again champ?

Cookie monster!

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Yeah, this is exactly what I’m talking about. You present some “evidence“ that you claim is from a hard coded block, but that is a lie. The code in question is an ignore list for newly loaded communities - it does nothing to prevent anyone from joining that community.

This is more related to the aversion of meme and shitpost communities, which I don’t agree with but again there is nothing that prevents a operator from adding them (you literally just subscribe to the community, lol).

Not to mention that you apparently had to reference 10 month old release because it’s it there in the current release.

You are being dishonest. I did not say block, I said hide.

This was hard coded into the files to ensure people couldn't as easily find the 196 community.

I know it's not in the current version, because Rimu angered a lot of people when they found out and he had to apologize and remove it.

Unityposting? Well well, maybe there is still hope.

You're still presenting it in a very dishonest and bad faith way imho.

I also don't agree to a lot of the decisions of the main instance, the classification of meme communities as "low-quality", blanket classifying 4chan screenshots as alt-right, or the vote limits. So it's a good thing none of that is enforced in the source code, and that in the places where it previously might not have been an option Rimu has actually listened to feedback and made sure it's configurable (and IIRC all except the defederation/domain blocks is disabled by default)

I'm not convinced that what I said about that checkbox was misinformation. I remember the checkbox situation, I remember thinking it was weird, and I read enough posts from various instances at the time from multiple people that lead me to believe that it wasn't all that great and there was ambiguity about Rimu's motives for including it. Furthermore, his response about it wasn't convincing. So I'm not going to acquise and change my original post. Even in this thread there's no actual agreement on the subject. I understand you are trying to help, but what I said wasn't specifically a lie. Thanks for your comment.

I have been nothing but factual in my claims of what the software does/did.

Fact is Rimu continuously does these things and only reverts course or makes it opt-in after the backlash. He doesn’t listen to feedback so much as he does damage control.

The very public thread with PugJesus shows what he is like. Even Snoopy one of the most vocal supporters of him has stepped down recently, which is telling in its own right. The project is suffering because of his personality and refusal to listen until it’s too late.

That doesnt't seem transphobic only uninformed and like a shitty analysis

Yeah I've seen the screenshot, it's a lazy take and reeks of lack of knowledge but it doesn't seem transphobic.

If we are trying to get to a better and more enlightened future, there are a lot of people we do not agree with we have to meet with dialogue instead of judgement.

I am not talking about forgiving og listening to people like Rowling. I am talking about showing would be comrades a more nuanced way of seeing the world instead of writing them off.

That road always leads to a smaller and smaller select group that see the true way forward, but having a harder and harder time talking to anyone else. Eventually the group gets so small and isolated it doesn't means anything at all.