PieFed has done it once again, this time adding 'warning' labels for opposing ideological perspectives, well at least one; Can't find any warnings for fascism or capitalism ๐ค
This can be demonstrated here: https://piefed.social/c/globalnews/p/1697164/sudan-civil-war-spills-over-into-neighboring-chad-peoples-dispatch
Rimu's responce
I'm happy to explain. You could have just asked, though.
During initial installation PieFed downloads a big list of 3000 right-wing domains from https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon and blocks them all. Admins can unblock them if they want but they would need to do them individually so I bet none do.
The list includes things like fox news, breitbart, etc. Before starting work on PieFed I spent 3? years studying right wing disinformation - qanon, antivax, all that and that blocklist is an output from that. Every site on that list was reviewed personally.
So.
Additionally, I have manually added these warnings (not blocks) onto some domains, for piefed.social only. You can download a list of those warnings from https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/warnings.ods
Most of them are tabloids, AI slop farms and a handful are authoritarian government mouthpieces.
So there's 3000 right wing sites that simply can't be linked to and 47 sites with warnings, about 10% of which are left wing. There's no need to warn for fascism because posts that link to them are not displayed in the first place.
There's an ideological slant to PieFed for sure, and it's very much in favor of the left. That could be why maga.place and lemmychan.org use Lemmy and not PieFed.
I'll take another look at peoplesdispatch and see if there's a less triggering warnings I can put on it.
Link to the post https://mander.xyz/post/51662963
I don't know, it probably won't most of the time, but I always hope this kind of obvious bullshit scaremongering will have the opposite intended effect. Along similar lines to the Streisand effect, where it turns more people onto Marxism-Leninism simply by virtue of it being pointed out in a way people would not have paused to consider otherwise. Something they're told is bad, even taboo tends to drive a curiosity in at least many people along with a desire to dig into it further and find out. I hope some people see the kind of post or article that receives this "warning" and think "yeah that perspective actually make sense," only to see a red exclamation mark warning of the the terrible threat that "this perspective is bad and wrong(tm)!" I think that this warning alone would probably have that positive effect at least some of the time. Like a parental warning labels on album covers in the 90s.
The real issue, the part that really does kill that curiosity is when it's backed up by the culture within the community that a person identifies with, where all their friends and people they respect echo that it's bad. Where it's not just a warning marker on a post, but where a person's in-group who they see posting memes and making funny jokes and saying silly things that make them feel happy and comfortable, giving them those hits of dopamine we all get when we feel part of a group. When those people are also going on about how bad the "Marxist-Leninists" are, that's when warning labels like this just make a person shut down any consideration for it, roll their eyes and close the post. The truly insidious thing that pieFed is doing (and that reddit does and that all the bourgeois-captured social media does) is they foster and cultivate anticommunist (aka fascist) community and that really is what puts the nails in the coffins of what could have been so many people's radicalism. That's what makes pieFed a cancer metastasizing in lemmy.