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.
Just as a thought as to why I don't trust piefed as software and would probably not use a server running it, I believe piefed is rather poorly thought out based on this thread which I dont have the expertise to know how true it is, but also the now infamous "this"-checking function which should be a regex gives me real doubt as to the expertise in putting this kind of software together. Checking if a string is equal to "this", "this." or "this!" by declaring them a set and seeing if said string is in that set is such a backwards way of doing. And that's just right there on the surface, god knows what lurks beneath?
Lemmy 1.0 is getting plugins which can be programmed in python as well, wouldn't that be a better idea long term? Rather than forking from a dev who is actively hostile to you and wants his software to be so as well? Also I think that if more instances then switch away from piefed to your version that his fragile ego wouldn't be able to take it and he'd ragequit the whole project leaving you all to maintain it.
For people already running PieFed instances, starting from scratch today isn’t realistic compared to a hard fork of their current codebase.
It’s Python. It’s not that hard to find out.
Yes, a hard fork would entail maintaining a codebase ever-more divergent from PieFed over time. Anyone serious about forking should consider how much work it would be embark on an independent path.
Alternatively, perhaps people will build a PieFed to Lemmy converter, because switching platforms while keeping the existing users, communities, and conversations intact is hard.
evidently
Yeah I saw that. I’d venture to guess @yogthos@lemmy.ml fed the code to an LLM and told it to find vulnerabilities.
Yup, that's exactly how I zeroed in on these. I got curious and used an LLM to do an audit then looked closer at the stuff it flagged, and oh boy it's bad.
Publicly-facing server applications really need to be overseen by developers with knowledge & experience in security & networking.
People tend to underestimate how hard it is to do security properly.
Oh. I hope he tested them at least??
nothing worth doing is easy.
I just commented here on that thread, its really not a big deal. Using regex for string matching also sounds fine. On the other hand Piefed is a smaller project than Lemmy, so it has less testing and reliability. In the end it depends on your own requirements whether Piefed or Lemmy is better.
Ah that's reassuring to hear thanks
well, judging from the conversations we've had, our end goal is a software diverged enough that we're the ones maintaining it because he has nothing to do with it. some of us have unused servers lying around the house, so we're setting up platforms as we speak for testing. there's currently several people who are planning to take part in the development, but that number might go up when we "officially" announce the fork later.