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[-] rimu@piefed.social 225 points 5 months ago

PieFed dev here.

The screenshotted post is very misleading. As you'd expect from a hexbearian. It is not a baked-in ban.

Hexbear is mentioned in the PieFed source code, as an initial default value for the defederation list. That list is quite long and includes various instances that have been a source of trolls, CSAM and spam in the past (mostly Mastodon instances). As part of the normal setup process it is assumed that instance admins will review that list and alter it as they see fit. They can change it any time by going to instance.tld/admin/federation.

Do not take anything a hexbearian says at face value.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's exactly what this is, an initial defed list. Even the way they present this is disingenous as fuck, calling it a "one way federation, silencing our voices" or some other weird phrasing, making it sound like some underhanded/hidden hardcoded piece just for them, when it's just a boring-ass defederation with one instance among many others. How difficult is it to say "piefed software defederates hexbear by default"? Everyone knows what that fucking means!

I honestly don't understand why everything has to be taken so goddamn uncharitably by the regulars on that instance. It blows my mind how they manage to always act in bad faith. Always.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I honestly don't understand why everything has to be taken so goddamn uncharitably by the regulars on that instance. It blows my mind how they manage to always act in bad faith. Always.

It's pretty straightforward, imo, they built a feedback loop into their instance culture that encouraged social dopamine junkies to participate in toxic behaviors, valuing things like "dunking", othering, and dehumanizing the out group (non-hexies) over things like factuality, good faith, and not being dicks.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 29 points 5 months ago

Thank you for jumping in.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this also wouldn't mean "one way federation" right? There would just be no synching at all.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure what they mean by that. But v1.2, to be released very soon, has strengthened the effectiveness of defederation so pretty soon hexbear will see even less PieFed content. They'll twist that into something bad too.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

They defederated now anyway

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

I assume if you are on instance A and post something on instance B, your instance doesn't federate with hexbear but instance B does, then you will not see the comments from the hexbear user through your instance? Not certain if that is how it works or not though.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Thank you for your good work, whats the funding status been like for you lately?

[-] rimu@piefed.social 11 points 5 months ago

The per-user donations for PieFed are half that of Lemmy (and the number of users are 5% of Lemmy). More is always welcome.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Sent you a little tip. Ever consider setting up a KoFi?

[-] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks! Will look into KoFi, it seems popular...

[-] Master@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe you should bake it in then. Maybe you are not going far enough...

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