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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.

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[–] lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

We really need an alternative to Lemmy and piefed for the threadiverse. I say this as a leftist. People are not children who need child locks put on their internet. This is not the type of environment I joined the fediverse to be a part of, that censors links just because the server admin disagrees with the politics.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Neither Lemmy nor PieFed puts locks on anything, other than what an instance’s admins choose to put on them. One might try to argue that PieFed’s optional default blocklist is a bridge too far, but that’s about it.

Edit to add: Okay, PieFed does put some locks on by default, though they can be unlocked.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So join a different instance or deploy your own server. We don’t need a third alternative. All are interconnected via ActivityPub, so you can choose what blocks you want, who you want to federate with, etc.

If you’re choosing to sign up on someone’s instance you’re choosing to agree to how they’re managing it.

That’s frankly why I like Lemmy.zip, the only time they’ve defederated is for a technical issue was was causing the servers to crash. Beyond that, I’m treated like an adult capable of making my own choices of which instances I want to block or interact with.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

i know right, tankies love to say they are being censored like CONSERVATIVES, but they would censor you in return without a single thought.

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Since you proclaim to be a Leftist, what's wrong with Lemmy?

Mbin exists, but it never seems to get as much attention :/

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what are the differences? i signed up with this instance but am still learning.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

People are not children who need child locks put on their internet.

Except it seems like we do since these platforms have propagandized an entire generation towards far right ideologies.