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'm working on this theory that there's a certain level of literacy that some people reach, where they can read and nominally understand a text, but not apply any critical thinking at all. And they're terrified of reading anything from a non-approved source because they feel like it'll reprogram their brain. Yes, I've read masses, elites and rebels, and I agree, for the most part. But it feels like in at least some cases this goes way beyond just "going along with it" and not wanting your worldview challenged. Like that post about people not liking books written in first person because "I wouldn't do that"; it just goes straight in, zero filter. On some level they're aware of this, but somehow can't concieve of reading a thing and -not- believing it. Entertaining an idea without subscribing to it. So they just reject it outright. And to be clear I don't blame them, I blame whatever passes for an education system.
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