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Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

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[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

But you just linked to a lemmy world community not a piefed one.

Piefed bans it from being created when the filter is on. It can't stop or do the image searching if posted on a lemmy instance or if the filter is off.

Rimu didn't block meme communities

He blocks the one he thinks are bad not all of them though

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago

No, reputation gain from them is blocked. Not the entire community. There are literally local based piefed.social meme communities.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 22 hours ago

Unless it's ones from the banned locations like 4chan?

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

That's more of a specific post restrictions as opposed to communities. But yes, Rimu chose to block a small number of directly 4chan-comms I believe. I think that's just a manual toggle in that any instance owner could choose to just to block a community.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 21 hours ago

Which is exactly what we're talking about and grail trying to say is fake news https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/25485026

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I don't think the default filter "hides" all meme communities. That's just wrong. I don't think it hides any communities. It just designates "meme communities = low-effort". That's it. 4chan@lemmy.world is blocked because rimu manually blocked it, just like how lemmy.world blocked piracy@dbzer0.com.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 20 hours ago

It's not the communities but the material being blocked when images are scanned.

designates "meme communities = low-effort"

Seems unnecessary.. The more I learn the worse piefed looks

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 19 hours ago

It’s not the communities but the material being blocked when images are scanned.

The original comment was: "piefed hides all meme and 4chan communities". No it doesn't.

Seems unnecessary.. The more I learn the worse piefed looks

Instances can turn it off if they want. Most do. It's just a little tick-box.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 3 points 16 hours ago

and enables built in image recognition specifically to prevent people from posting greentexts. it also keeps an internal tally of user "quality" based on what communities they post in.

So yes it is what it does by default.

Really hope getting paid to be pr for piefed and rimu

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

So yes it is what it does by default.

I didn't contest the parts about the image detection or greentext (although again, it's literally just a tickbox). I objected to the claim about "meme and 4chan communities" being blocked. That was the untrue part.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 hour ago

I've only been talking about the image detection though.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago
[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 32 minutes ago

Idk, your standard MO is to deflect and obscure anytime anyone questions why something is or was done the way it is.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

God I hope this guy gets paid for all the shilling he does, otherwise why else would he?

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 hour ago

They're and admin and staff too

https://piefed.social/u/Skavau

Instance: piefed.social (Admin) Role permissions: Admin Joined: 1 year ago Posts: 3113 Comments: 2524 Piefed.social Staff

this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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