Piefed has a shadowban/defederation tool. Like, I can post in piefed.social communities but they don't federate for anyone to see except for the individual user responded to. It's a way of moderating without it showing up in modlogs.

Sure, but just because you can only have a blocklist of only leftist sites doesn't mean that makes any sense at all

You say, the guy is fed up by the extremists? What an asshole!

Yes, unironically. The communists are correct, even if we are far from the liberal establishment politically.

I'm a communist myself

Well fuck you. May all the people who died in the concentration camps, in famines, cultural purges, or just simply shot dead at the border crossings, haunt you tonight.

Again, Mia has a history of maliciously mislabeling people who are very clearly not as anti-Left and anti-trans.

Unless you're actually saying that beefing with someone for any reason is transphobic as long as that person happens to be trans.

You were obviously being sarcastic with stating it was "unrelated" and you're obviously playing dumb, also in bad faith now.

You're deliberately trying to confuse the "idiots" that agree with you, not the idiots that support this ridiculous move.

My username is a pun. You're welcome to get bent out of shape over it if you want, but I hope people reading this realize you're doing further bad faith tactics by tossing in this Red Herring as a cherry on top.

Who only has a blocklist of only leftist sites?

While excesses have been committed in socialist countries, they absolutely pale in comparison to the atrocities committed for capitalism and colonialism. I won't weap for landlords, capitalists, and fascists that were killed or imprisoned for their crimes against the working classes, and I will celebrate the immense gains made by the working classes after successfully gaining political power.

Everywhere the working classes have taken power, life expectancies, literacy rates, housing rates, and more have all dramatically climbed, while food insecurity and poverty dramatically declined. Every single time. The sheer effectiveness of socialism in uplifting the people is undeniable, and while it's unfortunate that this can only be successfully established via revolutionary and therefore violent means, this violence is a response to the daily brutalization of the working classes

Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else?

Same folks that complain endlessly about Far-Left censorship and militant authoritarianism, no less.

I wonder how many of the developers on these projects are spill-over from the reactionary shitholes of Reddit.

Can confirm. I believe I'm explicitly on their blocklist.

Same! Congrats on being a fellow hall-of-famer!

Also, apparently, Jeffery Epstein was a big Quora power user.

It's really incredible how silently preventing other instances that use this front end from accessing the largest trans-centric instance on the fediverse (to my knowledge) isn't transphobic, but drawing attention to it is 'malicious'. No need to provide an actual reason for the silent blocking, it's actually just bad faith to notice that's going on.

What reason is there to 'beef' with Blahaj that isn't centered in right wing or transphobic policies, or both?

Also, Mia didn't even make the OP. How is she responsible for the conclusions drawn by db0?

Sure, the links are there

I mean, we had Joe Biden force the sale of TikTok to a cartel of Silicon Valley fascists based on some spurious links to Chinese communism. If you can get from "Tankie TikTok Post" -> "President Xi Jinping undermined US electoral security" and enshrine that belief in federal communication policies, I don't think "Shitty Piefed Dev" -> "Ghislaine Maxwell" is that big of a joke.

Double, extra, plus, too, you need to keep in mind how much influence Steve Bannon had back in 2016, largely by organizing and deploying white nationalists out of 4chan and the grosser corners of Reddit. And Bannon was bosom buddies with Epstein.

It’s really incredible how silently preventing other instances that use this front end from accessing the largest trans-centric instance on the fediverse (to my knowledge) isn’t transphobic

It is not inherently transphobic, unless, again, you think anything bad happening to people who happen to be trans is inherently transphobic.

but drawing attention to it is ‘malicious’.

It's really incredible how you think it's okay to mislabel people as anti-Left and anti-Trans even when they aren't.

No need to provide an actual reason for the silent blocking, it’s actually just bad faith to notice that’s going on.

I never said there was no need to provide a reason ot that it's bad faith to notice it happening. Why are you making things up?

What reason is there to ‘beef’ with Blahaj that isn’t centered in right wing or transphobic policies, or both?

Is that all trans people/leftists are to you? They have no existence or relevance or opinions or actions that aren't explicitly about being trans/leftist? Yikes.

Shhhhhhh.

Quiet now, no one cares what you think.

Extremism is a matter of perspective and has no quality other than „far away from this arbitrary fix point“.

Why don’t you call all capitalists and their liberal enablers extremists for enslaving and annihilating the world and its inhabitants?

It's not very pro AI, it's just not rabidly anti AI. There have been too many pitfalls with AI causing major issues in the piracy world to be very pro AI as pirates.

Either way, nothing on this list seems to be for AI acceptance reasons.

I won't weap for landlords, capitalists, and fascists that were killed or imprisoned for their crimes against the working classes

Well, yeah. Those are among the groups you said you explicitly want to mass murder. Why would you weep for them?

Edit: he never said mass murder, my bad. I should have fact checked before saying anything. Come one, come all, see how fucking stupid I am. It's alarmingly stupid, and I probably should just fuck off forever instead of being a fucking moron in public. I'm so sorry for inflicting myself on you all.

"Mass murder" is dishonest. Revolution is violent, but is a response to violence. It's self-defense. Either way, those are the groups most harmed by socialism historically, so when someone tells me they wish these groups haunt me, I can only say that I won't shed a tear for them. Same as the United Healthcare CEO that got Luigi'd.

It still thinks "The Economist" is 'Least Biased'.

MBFC equates political centrism as being unbiased, which is fundamentally flawed.

You explicitly told me you support using the power of the state to kill all fascists, landlords, slavers, capitalists, and etc though? I'm not saying you should weep for them mind, just that it was a weird thing to bring up.

No? I said I support using the state to suppress them. That can include killing them, but it does not necessitate it. The working classes should have full authority over the state, and be able to use it to forcibly appropriate property from the owning classes. Those that violently resist, the working classes should be able to respond in kind.

You have a clearly dishonest view of what I said. Are you imagining a state just killing landlords for fun? Why resort to violence when unnecessary?

Maybe I misunderstood you then. I reviewed what you said again, and you did just say state sponsored murder was a good thing, I must have added the mass in my head. I still vehemently disagree, but I attacked you for something you didn't say. That's my bad, I'll not harass you about it again.

I have never said "state sponsored murder is a good thing." I'd love to see a link, but either way, I guarantee it was a response in a similar context, stating that killing violent fascists and the like to protect the gains of socialism is a necessary measure. I never said "kill all owning classes," such a dogmatic and reductive stance is wrong. You cannot kill your way to a collectivized economy, you have to develop into one. You still have to protect socialism, but making it state policy to kill all owning classes is a reductive take.

https://piefed.world/comment/3172127

I'd appreciate if you included the parent comment you responded to:

I perceived your comment as being in bad-faith, and responded curtly. Still, I never once said "kill all xyz," I said force is necessary to protect the gains of socialism.

I was curious to see if you were simply so passionate about the issue you were accidentally commenting in bad faith because you lost your cool or if that's just something you double down on because you're a troll.

Given it's the latter, enjoy the block!

I honestly don't see how those two are related but I do think it is interesting that the person I replied to insists they were joking while you insist they were not.

Schrodinger's Douchebag at play.

From a purely software engineering point of view, I don't understand why they feel the need to hardcode such a list. This is precisely the kind of thing that should be a configuration file, not code.

There is also a penchant amongst some tech types to force their worldviews. Look at all the AI people, Zuckerberg, and so many other tech leaders.

Lemmy has managed to survive in spite of the tankies that develop it. I guess federation works in the end.

Lemmy is surviving because communists are ideologically coherent and committed to FOSS and federation. The communism is a huge plus, and communists make up a huge portion of the userbase.

I'm referring to the alienation of people who browse all, see a thread, and make an innocent comment only to be savaged by a mob of angry types who sort by new comments and continually hit F5.

Which instance got blocked?

I'd rather it be this way over Reddit, where you get the same but for far worse political views.

It's really incredible how you think it's okay to mislabel people as anti-Left and anti-Trans even when they aren't.

Lmao, how are you mad about what you think is an unsubstantiated claim and going around saying this? Show your work. ‘You can’t prove this is transphobic to my standards’ is not proof someone is not transphobic. Unless that’s the conclusion you want to reach to begin with.

Answer why Mia is responsible for someone else’s conclusions.

that all trans people/leftists are to you? They have no existence or relevance or opinions or actions that aren't explicitly about being trans/leftist? Yikes.

Lmao, imagine telling a trans person they’re tokenizing themself by recognizing a duck that’s walking and quacking like a duck. Absolute cringe shit.

I can see it on the NZ PieFed instance. Interestingly on Lemmy/Voyager I can't see that it's a cross post, nor the original post text UNLESS I go to reply to the post.

I honestly don’t see how those two are related

They're both (ostensibly) oligarchs and political insiders dictating the operation of mass media.

I can't remember if it was No Agenda Social or its successor No Authority Social, but I am quite sure that both are included in their blacklist.

Lmao, how are you mad about what you think is an unsubstantiated claim and going around saying this? Show your work. ‘You can’t prove this is transphobic to my standards’ is not proof someone is not transphobic. Unless that’s the conclusion you want to reach to begin with.

I have interacted with Rimu enough to know he's absolutely not anti-Leftist or anti-trans. But the fact that you think asking someone to prove a negative is sound reasoning says a lot.

Answer why Mia is responsible for someone else’s conclusions.

No one said she was. Stop making things up.

Lmao, imagine telling a trans person they’re tokenizing themself by recognizing a duck that’s walking and quacking like a duck. Absolute cringe shit.

You're unironically saying that you cannot possibly imagine any reason why someone might beef with a trans person besides being anti-trans or right-wing. That's a huge yikes from me.

Trans people are people. They can beef with other people for a multitude of reasons that have nothing to do with being trans.

they absolutely pale in comparison to the atrocities committed for capitalism and colonialism

Colonialism is colonialism. No matter the color.

I won’t weep for landlords, capitalists

Then weep for the workers who were denied education because they refused Leninism. Weep for those who has been sent to work in the uranium mines. Weep for those persecuted for their faith. Weep for those who has been put to a fucking jail for watching a Knight Rider on TV.

working classes after successfully gaining political power

What you call a working class has never achieved political power. Only the chosen faithful families could ever get anywhere near the office desk, not even mentioning a political function. Without pledging you allegiance to a one of the worst dictators who ever lived, you were not even considered.

The sheer effectiveness of socialism in uplifting the people

Yes. The toilet paper outages and bribes for the butcher so you can skip the line were certainly very uplifting.

it’s unfortunate that this can only be successfully established via revolutionary and therefore violent means

And here we are. You're openly advocating for death and destruction to follow some kind of a fairy-tale. You're no better than an american soldiers leveling a primary school to the ground, or a russian soldier executing civilians in Butcha.

daily brutalization of the working classes

Open your fucking eyes. You can no longer see the real wold for the veil of victimization you have put upon yourself. There is no class.

And most importantly, stop scheming about some great revolution and CREATE the means of production!

Doesn't piefed also do OCR on every image to try and detect if it's a 4chan screenshot and then pretend it had an error when uploading? Sneaky lil shits.

Lemmy also gets a boost for survival because ActivityPub also lets alternatives like Piefed interact nearly seamlessly. It's the federation across competition that helps sustain even the bad development teams.

for far worse political views.

Opinion.

Not saying I don't agree with you, just be aware that's just your opinion.

There is no class.

Are you really saying that there is no such thing as class? There is no proletariat and bourgeois?

I've seen quite a few trolls coming from those instances. Yes dbzer is odd but I understand that the red line was crossed with the blahaj one I'm surprised I didn't quokk on it (or maybe missed it?). A lot of odd things are happening on the threadiverse lately and it seems like some groups are trying to deive wedges between us.

It also displayed bogus error messages, as if to appear to be a technical issue with the community instance, while hiding the black list deep in code. So the point here was to deceive and manipulate.

If it was a toggleable and customisable list that would be a good feature for instances.

Correction, *would help. You need to actually have it in order for it to help you.