I didn’t even know the link was from .ml. I haven’t blocked the instance completely, just some communities.
Post: https://vger.to/piefed.co.za/c/fediverse/p/21296/piefed-users-surge
Link to comment: https://vger.to/sh.itjust.works/comment/23563769
I’m not sure if blocking them deletes their comments like the piefed code suggested, but I’m done. I don’t have time to deal with drama on the fediverse, and I don’t care what comes from this. I just thought others would get a chuckle about how petty this is.
I was in that thread! It was a good one. Meanwhileongrad called us fascist bootlickers for… checking and commenting on the code.
Fuck Piefed.
Oh, and the mod is wrong for tone policing and paper thin defence of a blatant karma system.
Yeah I saw Goat’s comment there, that was really shitty. I really hope that a majority of Lemmy doesn’t insist on moving to piefed because even though Rimu and his cronies argue the feature can be turned off, it doesn’t really matter because having a karma system at all means it can be used to restrict people wherever it is enabled.
And it is enabled by default and therefore will be enabled on the majority of piefed instances out there.
On the other hand — the more we talk about piefed’s features, the more we’ll know about the kind of people who join piefed.
Except a lot of people are being kept in the dark about the shortcomings of piefed, it’s trendy and cool because it’s ““new”” and different than lemmy. Which is why a lot of people join it, including people who would be very against karma requirements being used as a weapon like on Reddit.
That’s what’s scary, a lot of people joining piefed being misled under false pretenses or just not being told upfront what they’re getting gives the platform more power. It makes piefed seem more legitimate. And more piefed instances popping up means those Karma requirements can ultimately effect Lemmy users too. I’ve seen a couple people point it out the score of Lemmy users on piefed already.
Lots of people just don’t look at the features anyway.
I joined piefed to check it out, left because I didn’t like it. I was neutral-cold about it until I read about how the code functions.
We can make more posts about how it actually works to make sure more people see it.
PieFed is made by liberal reddiors, for liberal reddiors. With a worse layout than new reddit, somehow.
When Microsoft makes its shit opt-out, it’s horrid. When Piefed does it, it’s justified that you have to recompile to remove them!
Fascism is when you read the documented code that does what it does and criticize it. But when they call out the long removed slur filter, that’s valid.
No posting links or talking in a way the Piefed dev doesn’t like, but you can say racial slurs! That’s freedom baby!
Actually I think he’s trying to use it as an appeal to hypocrisy also known as Tu quoque. And he’s using it to try and argue we don’t get to criticize him because Lemmy does it too. Except it doesn’t work like that, because Tu quoque is a logical fallacy.
Also Lemmy’s devs removed the API to get user scores because they feared it would be used to enforce Karma on Lemmy, and they were right to do that. It still kind of is but it would be way worse if they made it easier. You know, like piefed does.
I love it when someone asks which slurs they would like to say.
Weird how Goat is mad that you are not willing to bend over to his echo chamber and not tolerate his actions. While browsing your profile for dirt. Because that’s normal.
When Goat does it, it’s justified. He’s “interested in extremism” while having spies on group chats he’s banned from for xenophobia. But how dare you comment in another community!
And I know he’s reading this, instead of having a normal life.
Edit: yep, he is! Blocked his dumbass, he thinks I’m an alt of some dipshit.
Yeah, I saw that. I say good luck, I’m positive as fuck.
And he has dm’d me calling me an alt of some dumb username. Very good faith behavior from this person.
Edit: had to block his dumbass to stop harassing me in DMs. What a charmer. No wonder he spends all day stalking accounts, can’t get a human to enjoy company with.
Well that’s a crazy thing to do. But you can still see them even if they’re blocked?
“it’s not about the slurs, I just think I should be able to happily read slurs.”
“So you want more racism? That’s your argument?”
“Don’t put words in my mouth, I simply said I wanted more slurs to be used.”