well to be honest, I haven’t done any thorough research on the topic, but I know I haven’t personnaly blocked anyone on PieFed since it was my first day and my first post on it.

For now, especially because I can’t find a mobile app with an UI similar to Voyager, I think I’ll stay on Lemmy unless PieFed makes major progress.

Edit: although I’m now noticing that the Progressive Web App has an UI I appreciate more than Interstellar’s, so I’ll give it a shot

Edit2: it turns out that PieFed was already blocking 4 instances without me doing anything, so that’s why some comments were missing.

Voyager support Piefed

Oh wow, which ones are blocked automatically?

It seems like PieFed.social is quite opinionated, which is a fact that has not been made transparent to the community - e.g. I have a PieFed.social account myself, and I had no idea that these blocks were there (also, they aren't present for me).

But that's the instance itself - the software PieFed or its fork PyLova are outstanding, and definitely superior to Lemmy, even though your choice of instance admin matters far more than choice of software platform.

If you did leave PieFed.social - not that I am recommending that you do, especially now that you see how to remove the blocks, which solves your immediate issue - then I recommend checking out PieFed.zip or PieFed.ca as both having outstanding instance admin teams that take good care of their users. e.g. PieFed.zip also has a couple of instance blocks placed onto your account when you join, but you are sent a message explaining what these are, and importantly how to remove them, not leaving you guessing what is going on.

Again I am really curious which instances were blocked automatically for you, on PieFed.social?

One more note: Lemmy.ml is notorious for being an echo chamber as well, instance banning MANY people over the years, so the fact that PieFed.social has lately become similar is not a strike against the PieFed software platform itself anymore than lemmy.ml's choices would be a strike against you having an account on some other instance like sh.itjust.works.

Only the beta version does for now, but it’s coming.

But in the end the PWA version of PieFed is fine too (Interstellar wasn’t for me at all).

Well from what I remember, there was lemmy.ml and 3 others that I don’t remember.

Also to be fair, I got a message telling me some instance were blocked when I signed in on PieFed.social, but I never read it

So I’m the guilty one!

The ones usually defederated from by most instances across the Threadiverse are hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, and hilariouschaos.com. However, it would be weird to instance block them from PieFed.social because they look like they are still already defederated from, so there should be no need to add a block on top of that?

I am kinda glad that PieFed.social helps provide a less toxic environment for new joiners. The problem is, as you are discovering first-hand, the confusion that it creates when people have a really hard time finding this stuff out.

Now that your immediate problem is solved, do you think you'll remain on PieFed.social, or switch to something like PieFed.zip or quokk.au?

How are you liking PieFed itself? For me it took weeks to figure out a whole new workflow, but once I adjusted I was definitely sold on it being better.

There was at least another instance which wasn’t in your list which was blocked, but, again, I don’t remember what its weird nane was

Since the problem was me not reading their onboarding message, I’m gonna stay on PieFed.social except if there is a weird controversy I don’t know about yet.

I also think I’ll progressively stop using Lemmy.

There was at least another instance which wasn’t in your list which was blocked, but, again, I don’t remember what its weird nane was

Since the problem was me not reading their onboarding message, I’m gonna stay on PieFed.social except if there is a weird controversy I don’t know about yet.

I also think I’ll progressively stop using Lemmy.