Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
@rimu@piefed.social
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
Mass instance bans
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Done
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
He has abused the modlog to claim 'harassment', which I have never engaged in. I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.
He has decided to mass ban 20 users because they have spoken out against his erratic and hostile behaviour as of late.
Soooo hes killed piefed with consistently idiotic behaviour. (I'm being kind here)
Hopefully the fork takes off and saves the project.
Hopefully any popular fork unwinds its ActivityPub deviations and works with the greater fediverse community going forward.
ActivityPub compatibility has never been a problem with Piefed, and in fact we are collaborating very well in private. Of course Lemmy doesnt yet support all the features that Piefed has, but thats not their fault.
Oh. Multiple times I’ve heard that it has unilaterally broken ActityPub rules, but I never investigated exactly how.
Not that I know of, but I also haven't tested Piefed nor followed the development closely.
Recently there was a case where federation of Piefed Feeds was incompatible with Multi-communities in the Lemmy dev version. It would have taken me a lot of boilerplate code to make these compatible, for little or no benefit. Rimu agreed to change it on the Piefed side instead, much easier.
A few days ago I read read about some blocking or hiding feature in Piefed that is incompatible with Lemmy. That might be inevitable if Lemmy simply doesn't support that feature. In the end there will always be some degree of incompatibility on the Fediverse, because every software has very different priorities.
Thanks for your work! By the way could you check this comment about compability. I would like to hear your opinion of this.
While JSON-LD is part of the ActivityPub specification, Lemmy doesnt use it at all (and afaik neither do Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube etc). Instead Lemmy uses JSON and Piefed is probably the same. We do provide the JSON-LD definitions which that comment complains about, but they have also often been incomplete.
Honestly I dont even know which Fediverse software uses JSON-LD. It doesnt seem useful to know "there is something called an Accept activity" when you dont have the UI logic to display them.
I was going to make a fork, governed by the users to ensure PTB features weren't present.
Is there already a decent fork, to save me time?
Pievolution is the AN fork if you want to go that route
Is https://anarchist.nexus/ already using Pievolution? I wasn't sure since the footer still says Piefed. I'd rather use that than go back to Lemmy, it's just less feature rich unfortunately.
FYI after some chats its going to be @Quokka@quokk.au's fork, PyLova (python+pavlova), which has a community at !pylova@quokk.au with links. Details to come.
I'm not sure if its deployed yet off the base, this is all fairly recent I believe. Hell I just cloned earlier today so I can see where I can help.
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com may know more
Maybe I'll have enough energy after the kids go to bed to address some of the silly items like naming/links, or starting some documentation.
A quick google turned up an agricultural consultancy in Malta. Do you have a link?
https://codeberg.org/Situation0262/Pievolution/
Also https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova
Thats the one!