Rimu built a tool for new instance owners to bulk federate external communities on their instance to populate it. Kind of like a piefed lemmy-federate. In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up. The keywords were taken from another function that piefed.social has to stop listing posts and comments after 6 months applied to specific communities.

This didn't translate well, and he removed multiple keywords referenced here from the mass federation tool when 196 mod complained.

Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet. The owner literally said it's all set up now but he's tired and doing other things now in the Zulip chat.

[–] BB84@mander.xyz -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet.

That cannot be true. I can see a bunch of communities federated on that website. For example, search for 'news': https://piefed.co.za/communities?search=news&language_id=0

In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up.

Okay. I call that a hardcoded block (that can be manually worked around).

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Does he have all minor communities on there too?

Yes, but again - it has been adjusted to pretty much just refer to slurs. I actually spoke to him about this weeks ago.