According to Rimu Atkinson, the main developer of PieFed, all PieFed instances come with a 3000-long block list of resources that cannot be linked to. These include all sorts of right-wing outlets. There is no easy opt-out, forcing existing instances to follow the blocklist.
The flagship PieFed instance also rolled out a feature marking various other sorts of outlets - among them, resources considered AI slop and Marxist outlets. These are specific to piefed.social.
Related discussion: https://piefed.social/comment/11254679
Why YSK: Many users have hard time choosing between Lemmy, PieFed, and Kbin/Mbin. Users that prefer a more curated and politically uniform experience might prefer PieFed over the alternatives. Users that are right-wing, Marxist, or generally concerned about global censorship of the Fedi-/Threadiverse, might opt for other options instead.
Note: The post is only meant to inform users of the potentially important differences between Threadiverse platforms. Any ideologically charged discussions are better left in the respective topic.
Exactly my point. Let it be personal. I don’t understand why you would do this without a toggle and without being clear to users.
I don’t care that you don’t use Piefed. If you’ve seen it before and didn’t know about it, you’re in the same position as most users. This wasn’t advertised.
Also, you only said Stormfront or Infowars (now a The Onion site). If it was only extreme right stuff that’d be one thing (still bad if it’s not made clear, in my opinion). It isn’t though. It also includes some less radical right stuff, but also some left stuff. If he’s supporting the status quo by hiding Israel genocide information from users, that’s bad, right?
It’s a piece of software that should be designed to facilitate what the user wants, not what the creator thinks. It should be made in a way that’s easy for users to add or change the block list. It isn’t. The only option is to fork it, which is possible, so he isn’t stopping this, but purposefully chose to make this not clear so people won’t. It’s an attempt at thought control by being hidden and sneaking it in. If he wanted it to be a choice, again, it’d be a toggle. It is a choice through forking, so he hid it.