Of course it does, Piefed's development as an alternative to Lemmy has always been ideological in nature, wanting to create a platform where the leftists have all been purged.
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Piefed's development as an alternative to Lemmy has always been ideological in nature, wanting to create a platform where the leftists have all been purged.
To be fair, they also asked the question, "What if Lemmy, but with corporate sponsors?"
Yea lmao. Let's reinvent Reddit from the ground-up and learn nothing from its failures.
let's try to emulate their success and also get rich, more like
Wait corporate sponsors? What do you mean? [Genuine]
Remember kbin lol
Yea, did that die?
Of course, history tells us that every single time you make a space where leftists aren't welcome, it becomes a 100% nazi space in moments. Then the libs start to wonder why their feed becomes nothing but nazi shit.
Putting the fed in Pyfedi
piefed has been so obviously ideologically designed to suppress dissent, it auto-hides heavily downvoted comments in addition to the default banlists
it also has no public modlog that's usable so all censorship is lost in the wind
Piefed only took off because people were furious at communists running lemmy. That's why I downvote all piefed shills (and there are a lot of them and it's obvious astroturfed, artificial and boosted by people pushing it for ideological reasons). For example there's a movies community on lemmy.world, someone has been spamming every post on there with "post this on and join the piefed version instead, there are more people" which doesn't make sense given its newer.
I never liked them or the kbin/mbin people. I just don't think there's enough room in this "reddit-like" discussion fediverse site space for multiple contenders and I want lemmy to win, not per se because the founders are of a similar ideology but because they don't censor ours. If lemmy's devs were libs but absolutely deranged genuine free speech types who didn't want to defederate from communists I'd be fine with people like that as well. But not corporate backed shills, not people who weep and sob about "Russian disinformation psyops" despite Russiagate being blown open as we speak as a partisan hitjob. And not people who want to wall off anyone with another opinion on China. So in that vein I feel any competitors are sucking limited oxygen including donation funds out of the space. The fediverse may be diverse with things like mastodon being a twitter-clone but there needs to be some centralization to get a stable version of each type of fediverse thing including I think of the discussion-board type, reddit/digg type site.
But not corporate backed shills, not people who weep and sob about “Russian disinformation psyops” despite Russiagate being blown open as we speak as a partisan hitjob. And not people who want to wall off anyone with another opinion on China. So in that vein I feel any competitors are sucking limited oxygen including donation funds out of the space.
I am so fed up with these people running a smear campaign on top of everything else, meanwhile their whole place is a straight up nazi bar.
I'm an anarchist and have done organizing around that for years, and generally these types of people I give a wide berth because they're usually very unstable with sheltered worldview and online to the point of talking in meme references IRL.
idk i hate python and php, but we've already got minimum 3 leftist lemmy instances and their userbases are dedicated enough. there are few liberals who even want to use fediverse instead of reddit but the ones who do are the most annoying of the bunch. if they wanna act like redditors elsewhere i hope they do.
cowards
python and flask
Why would you use maybe the one worse language than rust
I am NOT taking this bait 😤
Oh but wouldn't it be sooo juicy?? Have you noticed the C# profile pic?
While I will not stand the Rust slander, C# is good at being a non-shitty Java. I wouldn't use it for a personal project if I can avoid it because M$, but it's tolerable to work with at the day job.
This is the completely correct position on C# in every detail.
You have C# as your avatar. C# is a language that ripped off Java and is owned by Microsoft. C# is the worst language by far.
Of course, Java is now owned by "former" CIA Project Oracle...
VB.NET 4 lyfe
Batch is obviously better
Prolog using the wingdings font, you say?
Powershell is the future!
Sorry best I can do is MIPS
Holy fuck this brings back nightmares
Only us cursed must bear this knowledge.
Real ones only code in Befunge
I adore Python (and flask), but I'll be honest, I would never use it to host an actually efficient server. Python is unparalleled for prototyping and small fun projects, it's not great for running a >100 user production webserver. Hosting costs alone will just be way more than necessary.
Fun fact: Lemmy is written in Rust
This explains why there were several posts about how great piefed is on the all feed (don't really bother changing it since it is mostly Hexbear with a sprinkle of Lemmygrad anyway).
i don't know what that is but they don't deserve to see our posts anyway, they're not worthy.
they have no consistency at all. where they get their blocklist from? most of them are the "common" blocked instances in popular blocklists but they don't even commit to that standard and just take a small amount of them. also, i think some of these instances are already defunct, making it even weirder.
the ones i identify from memory:
- lemmygrad.ml: comunismus
- gab.com: far right
- exploding-heads.com: nazis
- hexbear.net: trans comunismus
- threads.net: big corporation
- poa.st: far right harassers
- freespeechextremist.com: name says it all
- pawoo.net: trying to normalize pedofilia
- spinster.xyz: terfs
who?
On the bright side, at least they block threads.
I never cared what Python devs thought before, no reason to start now.