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EFF is promoting the Fediverse!
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35270153
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Replying to @grue@lemmy.world
don’t waste your money EFF this place sucks
Replying to @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
Have you considered it’s not the space you hate but the people who occupy it? Try as hard as you may, you will not find a place for people to talk without finding people talking.
Replying to @Feathercrown@lemmy.world
err yeah? it’s the people here who I don’t get along with because I have hobbies outside of American politics, I have no issues on reddit or whirlpool or other places
Replying to @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
It can improve if you use the block button liberally, especially on mastodon
Replying to @Cleisthenian@lemmy.ml
trust me I definitely use it, however fundamentally this is taking a place that has like 3 hobbies (American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics) and making it even smaller, this was supposed to be an alternative to reddit but it has like 7 active comms that aren’t somehow related to the above 3, even Lemmy Shitpost is filled with American/Left Wing Politics ALL the time
You’re going to say next: be the change you seek and I am however I am a drop in the American ocean
You might find that Piefed makes it easier to curate your feed. It has keyword filters which for me makes all the difference.
Replying to @eleijeep@piefed.social
Yeah it looked great until the creator of it went on a mad dash banning everyone he didn’t like for wrongthink, not quite sure how your message came through to me I’m pretty sure I was banned for every ism under the sun
It’s especially ironic when I get called a right wing American when I detest America, the level of thought here is the most primitive I’ve ever seen on an internet forum “agree with me or you are nazi”
So here I sit, Lemmy has chased away all the normal people and left people like the above who say things like “why don’t you bring all your rightwing friends” when I don’t have rightwing friends, I have friends with hobbies outside of American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics, and if I dare complain about the lack of interesting content here it’s because I am lazy and not doing enough :\
What happened with the creator of piefed?
Replying to @atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone
If you search for rimu you’ll quickly find all sorts of interesting threads and comments, that said I thought he banned me but it looks like I mixed up rimu mass banning from piefed.social and teseract mass shadowbanning users
it’s funny because I thought coming from reddit there would be less moderation but instead it looks like the opposite has happened
Shout out to piefed for promoting this thread though:
piefed.socialAnnouncing the Threadiverse Vibrancy Challenge (Sep 1-30, 2026)This is the announcement of the Threadiverse Vibrancy Challenge!
The Challenge - From September 1 to 30, 2026, complete each one of the categories…Replying to @atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone
Rimu basically went nuts and made a List, like The List from the Tesseract guy. Except this one was baked at the code level of the software running the backend of the communities, so communities got forced to ban left-wing aligned content on update without a choice in the matter. Plus, the software had CCP-style shadow profiling of people to hide their posts, and in at least one known case editorializing someone’s posts on client view, without the poster being made aware that their content was being editorialized (essentially, attributing them false speech).
Replying to @lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
Rimu and the Lemmy devs are all complex characters. For instance, the Lemmy devs are widely known to edit people’s messages without telling them. Otoh, most of us consider that fine. Note that this is a weird, conspiratorial manner of phrasing the slur word filter that changes a message’s content after submission, and obviously the author will subsequently see that their message has been altered from what they had intended - there have been numerous posts over the years asking why this is, from people who did not realize that this feature existed.
Rimu’s addition of an attribution not to singular people but to whole entire URL domains or instances is one such example - it is not “blocking” or “filtering” content, but allowing instance admins a third option to retain the content while placing a message next to it, which could for instance warn users that their home instance takes no responsibility for the correctness of such a message, or that the expectations for comment replies differs from the norms. Otherwise the only other option would be to filter out the message entirely - which I also note that the Lemmy devs are infamous for doing extremely often anyway. Rimu thus offers this as a LESSER limitation upon free speech than what the Lemmy devs have deigned to offer.
The PieFed software is “opinionated” - that’s valid - but most of the hate it gets is extremely overblown, while overlooking how it offers MORE rights to people than Lemmy. We don’t need to be so tribal - which I admit I’ve been myself for far too long.
Anyway, FOSS is free software regardless, and anyone at all could fork it at any time. In fact, PyLova already did just that, and is even adding several nice features that PieFed lacks:-).