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Where is that code? Does it block some specific instances or how does it work?
For hexbear + lemmygrad it's by default
from what I can tell, when a server is spun up there's the option to subscribe to an existing blocklist on a piefed server.
This means blocklists can propagate transitively:
If instance A blocks lemmy.ml, and instance B subscribes to A’s blocklist, and instance C subscribes to B’s blocklist, then whatever instance is blocked on A will also end up blocked on C (unless filtered out manually).
quoting the developer of piefed, hexbear and lemmygrad are blocked by default:
This is why piefed is so popular with centrist extremists.
Piefed just seems like it's going to be a social chauvanist echo chamber, most people like Lemmy because even though the devs have their own ideological principles, it doesn't pre-configure the user experience based on those principles.
It's rather unfortunate that no one gets to see other perspectives. And it's messing with my hope that the USA can get better, because it's feels like this: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8939607
These people are willing to accept the "lesser evil," but it's the same evil, and they are condemning poor people and PoC to have to deal with it, because we're the buffer. But they won't stop at us.
Moreover, this is the censorship they screen bloody murder about with the "great firewall." Absolutely zero introspective ~~ability~~ effort.
It's deeply unfortunate, that's why I try to do the best I can to stay optimistic but realistic.
Well collective karma is real, and they think by throwing some into the volcano it won't erupt. But the volcano is going to do what it does, eventually.
I hope so.
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