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PieFed (and the fediverse) is fucking awesome. (quokk.au)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by PurpleFanatic@quokk.au to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Oh my god, guys. The fediverse is changing my life. In an age of a profit driven, AI enshittified internet, fediverse platforms like Lemmy and PieFed are a fucking god send.

I swear to god, I feel my brain is being cooked alive by the overwhelming algorithm bullshit that Instagram and YouTube is driving down my throat. But since discovering PieFed? On top of using Mastodon, most of my social media takes place on the fedi now. What a fucking privilege. I can reach the end of my days without my brain feeling like jelly… I can use these platforms without feeling like I’m causing harm to myself.

Is it perfect? No. But it doesn’t need to be: it’s not infested with AI bullshit, and most my instances defederate Nazi bars.

This is the internet I’ve been yearning for the past couple years.

I’ll be contributing to PieFeds source code whenever I can. This shit is so fucking important for the internet.

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[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As it becomes more popular, bots will pivot here, and it will be harder to block them than in centralized platforms. Even after being banned from one instance, they can move to another and continue. The Reddit-style moderation system puts too much strain in a handful of users making necessary to rely on automods. The automod on lemmy.world banned me instance‑wide for reasons unknown, and as the number of bots increases, the automods will become looser. There will be many false positives and genuine users being banned.

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[–] PurpleFanatic@quokk.au 6 points 1 day ago

I can’t disagree with you fully there… but I’ll say that: after 6+ years on Mastodon, yeah the bot problem has gotten worse, but the core of its magic? It’s still there. I feel like that’ll ring true for PieFed and Lemmy too.