So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.
What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?
Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.
On which one should we put our weight?
Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: https://lemmy.ml/post/40744781
https://diggita.com/post/93963/91551
Sry for the hexbear thread, couldn’t find the sane post i got the info from in the first place.
TLDR
Piefed has a list of words that are banned and no instance can federate with others that use words like porn
No, that’s not true. Piefed has no list of banned words. That specific function (which has been toned down) is purely for when a new instance wants to fetch new communities. It will ignore communities with specific keywords, most of them are just insults.
I suggest not purely relying on the word of Hexbear users who have never used Piefed and are trying to interpret the code.
I saw that in a very different thread, but search engines are useless nowadays.
The “most of them” part is (or was) a huge problem a bunch had been communities which the programmer had some weird personal agenda against.
Rimu does not like meme communities and 4chan culture, and piefed.social specifically will automatically erase all post from meme communities (and drama communities) after 6 months to save space (or at least that’s a partial reason). Other instances like piefed.world have disabled this function. There were other terms in the original code that blocked other things too, like “196” and “piracy” so new communities with those in the title could not be auto-fetched (although could still be added manually), but they’ve now been removed.
It sounds like that comment chain is discussing two different things. First is the piefed default block list, which admins can edit as they please for their instance. Hexbear and lemmygrad are on there.
Second is the lemmy slur filter, which used to be applied across all of lemmy and was not configurable. That may have changed, but it isn’t clear how. But regardless, that doesn’t seem like a complaint about piefed, unless I am misunderstanding.
Huh, on one thread I notice cunt was censored, the comment still went through with removed under that word, while other swear words went through.
I hate that kind of censorship, bad words are case by case, just because people have used cunt in bad ways doesn’t mean no one should be able to use it, if it did the ill intentioned could disallow any word or argument by starting to use it, not all that hypothetical, the right co-opts left terminology and issues all the time, and discredits them with the sheep as such.
What you are talking about is way worse though, I find that disqualifying if true. Wtf? Is piefed started by religious extremists, trying to stay out of the crosshairs of extremists? Hate freedom of speech? Segregating from each other from some imperiously minded administrator deciding what’s good for us is a road to NOT overtaking social media that has become parasitic.
This is all configurable by site admins and not baked into the code.
Fuck. I moved here from instance that was sinked. I need to move again? Is that true?
No, there’s no word censorship of posts or comments. Rimu did add in a word filter for instances to be able to use if they wanted - but it’s unused currently.
For piefed.social specifically, there are some words/phrases in the filter currently. Most of them are malicious links that have been spammed in the past or phrases that have been present among private message spam waves. Only one racial slur that I see in the list.