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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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (14 children)

I don’t need to agree with the sites to know this isn’t a good idea. The list is full of junk but it also has sites like fox news.

Should be an opt in.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The list is full of junk but it also has sites like fox news.

    but then again, you repeat yourself

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    you dont think someone posting about how fox news is reporting on something could be relevant? simply linking to an article is not always the poster agreeing with the reporting.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago*

    you dont think someone posting about how fox news is reporting on something could be relevant?

    that's right. If you want to or not, you are propagating the misinformation and helping them by giving them more exposure for their stats, more data for them to sell and more money for them to gain through ads.

    EDIT : What is there to learn from a misinformation link? Everyone knows its misinformation.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The list is full of junk but it also has sites like fox news.

    🤔

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Fox news argued in court that they're fictional entertainment and no reasonable person would take their reporting seriously.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I get that, but we can’t play the free speech for me, not for thee game

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Free Speech means the government shouldn't prosecute people for their speech, that's all its ever meant. It doesn't mean non-government places must allow Nazis to say their piece on your platform. That just turns places into Nazi bars.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This isn't allowing them on a platform, this is disallowing platforms to choose whether to allow them on a platform based on the opinions of a guy that has endorsed genocide and child rape.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    this is disallowing platforms to choose whether to allow them on a platform

    The block list is editable by any admin, and the sysadmin can delete the block list entirely.

    based on the opinions of a guy that has endorsed genocide and child rape.

    Uhh, gonna need a source for that one, Chief.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago

    The block list is editable by any admin, and the sysadmin can delete the block list entirely.

    So your choice is trust the genocide guy, spend WEEKS vetting a giant list that is mostly filled with dead links, or have no blocklist?

    Gee wilkers I wonder which one most will pick.

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