According to Rimu, the main developer of PieFed, all PieFed instances come with a 3000-long block list of resources that cannot be linked to. These include all sorts of right-wing outlets. There is no easy opt-out, forcing existing instances to follow the blocklist.

The flagship PieFed instance also rolled out a feature marking various other sorts of outlets - among them, resources considered AI slop and Marxist outlets. These are specific to piefed.social.

Related discussion: https://piefed.social/comment/11254679

Why YSK: Many users have hard time choosing between Lemmy, PieFed, and Kbin/Mbin. Users that prefer a more curated and politically uniform experience might prefer PieFed over the alternatives. Users that are right-wing, Marxist, or generally concerned about global censorship of the Fedi-/Threadiverse, might opt for other options instead.

Note: The post is only meant to inform users of the potentially important differences between Threadiverse platforms. Any ideologically charged discussions are better left in the respective topic.

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[+] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (24 children)
  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (23 children)

    If you can't opt out as an instance its a bit more than "default settings" imo

    And my whole issue is not wanting too wide a net being labeled under "trash sites" I hate Fox News and Infowars but I also hate them being hidden from me with no way to get around that besides switching from piefed to a different service. Who is to say what the next trash site will be? Spam is one thing but I don't need a net nanny.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (22 children)
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (19 children)

    "Changing the setting" would involve forking the codebase, as it's hardcoded iirc

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Just make a different account on a different instance, nothing is stopping you.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What? You mean lemmy? I have one. If you mean a different piefed instance, that's what I was saying, you'd need to fork the pyfedi repo to remove the list, it's on every instrnce of piefed

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Make your own and opt out or use lemmy since you're complaining specifically about the features that differentiate piefed. Like this is a seriously dumb complaint. Like why would you want active disinformation sources? What benefit does that provide to discourse? Or do you just want disinformation to be disseminated? It's not a matter of fuckin opinion, these sites propagate actual fake news and that's their primary purpose. Fox news literally argued in court they're purely entertainment, like the onion.

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  • [+] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)
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    Literally yesterday I tried hosting a piefed instance, with no intervention, it applied these exact lists, and there was no option to change it which is why I switched back to self hosted lemmy

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  • [+] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I'm not going to look through the code for proof for an online argument, but the reason I believe that is because there is/was code that searched for anonymous and No. in any uploaded image, and failed with a fake error message when you try to upload it

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  • [+] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)
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    I literally installed it the day before yesterday, the first page of logs was applied x blocklist, applied x blocklist... Unless the pyfedi repo is unofficial?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Okay? Just because it's possible does not mean the avg instance will bother, much less avg person

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