whether or not it's american doesn't matter. piefed's creator admited in an interview that one of the driving forces behind creating it was to control "content quality" of the fediverse.
this fact combined with w the fediverse's undeniable leftist leaning makes it clear that this was a dog whistle along the same vein as other dog whistles like "narrative management" and "suppression protocols" that the epstein illuminati spoke about in their emails to each other with respect to reddit, 4chan and several other social media platforms.