Just noticed I was subscribed to both this place and 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I’d prefer if this community were on PieFed proper, so I thought maybe it’s a replica of this one on PieFed… but it’s not. They’re both on the same server, but the numbers are actual numbers in the url instead of being spelled out. Huh?
What opinions are baked into PieFed? Most of the things I see people complain about PieFed over are either non-issues or really petty, but maybe that’s because I’ve seen tankies hate on it.
Maybe another time I’ll give a better explanation. I’m really tired and used all of my energy explaining why Shoe0nHead is a Nazi, so I’ll be brief:
Rimu see Piefed as software that should only be used by certain people with certain ideologies, and institutes platform wide rules by default. One thing he won’t tell you is that the toggle for these features were added after people complained, and users were given an error message rather than a notice for why they couldn’t post. It wasn’t as bad as the Tesseract client that shadowbanned without telling people, but mostly because he choose to take input and not to double down like that guy did. There’s also the reputation score that dings you for posting memes (don’t get me started)
It’s also not just fascists and tankies that he has a problem with. Following anti anarchist Lemmy world drama, he escalated his own anti anarchist action and cast a wide net. After almost nobody sided with him, he took a break from public posting for a bit. He also really hates quokka for some reason, going so far as to try and fail to steal her code, despite the fact that it was voluntarily offered (I don’t have a link for this rn, sorry)
Sorry I couldn’t give better receipts. I should probably make a master document with all the lore one of these days.
The last one us really nuts. I don’t think “stupid” is a word getting upset over, but the person who brought it up was being very respectful and his response… Yikes.
The middle one sounds bad but I’ll need to look into it a bit more in order to have a strong opinion. I think its irresponsible to claim all anarchists bad though, even if you generally dislike the ideology.
The first one is what I see all the time and I’m sorry I just don’t get it. The guy lays out the things he doesn’t want to give credence to, which seem reasonable to me, and has places that sympathize with those things, such as authoritarianism, filtered out by default. I don’t think it should be hardcoded now or in the future, but its not like he’s hiding it either. You linked to a page where he explains it for all to see. It doesn’t come across as slight of hand. That’s not to say everything is fine so long as the person doing it says they’re doing it, but I wouldn’t want dictator apologists in my circle either if I could help it.
Just re-read a bit and saw ppl were given generic error messages. Yeah, not cool. I’m really conflicted over all. Idk what this guy’s deal is.
He really wants piefed to be his personal domain, not a FOSS project to serve the fedi community. Even if I agreed with every feature, I still think these things should be up to the instance admins, not the platform developers. Him being so hostile and petty towards anarchists wouldn’t be as big of a deal if he didn’t want to police behavior on more than just his instance.
I ultimately don’t think he’s a bigot or some horrible, irredeemable person. He is stubborn and his own worst enemy, but I really do want piefed to be the best version of itself. Beyond any problems with developers, piefed introduced needed features to this side of the fediverse, which encouraged Lemmy developers to add them to their own platform. Piefed’s existence is a good thing, but that doesn’t mean I want to use it. I don’t want to make you hate it, just help you understand why it isn’t a clear cut successor to Lemmy.
Gotcha I really appreciate the explanation and extra details. I personally stick with Piefed bc I don’t want to use software run by MLs and that is indifferent to LLM usage, but I hope PieFed is either forked or that he comes to his senses in many ways.
I don’t get why someone would make a FOSS project if he wanted it to only serve him, as you describe. It’s straight up counter intuitive.
My guess is that it’s because the rest of the fediverse (ActivityPub) is FOSS, and a closed project wouldn’t get the same attention the fediverse gets. There has been early development on forks by people like Mia and db0 for personal use, but I’m not sure of the current status of such efforts. I suspect that such projects will remain obscure unless rimu goes off the deep end as hard as the Tesseract developer.