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[–] socsa@piefed.social 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Based.

The only thing better than this was Nutomic whining that he needs more donations to feed his family (he literally said this) but absolutely refusing to just ask Dessalines to chill the fuck out with the tankie censorship shit.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fediverse wide

Do they think they have influence beyond the ML instances?

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 23 points 3 days ago

think

There is the error in the logic.

It's exhausting wasting effort on those that put none in.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a lot of .ml users who make accounts on sjw and fail at radicalizing those users.

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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It just works.

I don’t follow this meme terribly well as I don’t know the context.

I hate to learn that there is trouble in the social media that has saved me from corporatocracy and technocracy bullying.

I don’t know a hexbear from a hex

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I mean I think that is a bad and unhealthy idea. If piefed.social, world or a particular instance wants to set it up that way then go ahead, sure, but I do think it should be up to the admin using the software to decide which servers this should or shouldn't apply to rather than what sounds like an opt-out scheme. I mean sure go ahead, code how you like, who am I to judge, but I'm only saying it in consideration of best practices.

If HB runs into the silly issue again that almost lost them their domain (and temporarily switched to chapo.chat), this code will be a maintenance burden just because of the developer's specific grudge.

I'm saying this as a user happy about the fact that my instance defederated hexbear and lemmygrad, there are cool communities there, but they are an insufferable bunch.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I believe they further clarified that there are specific default filter sets that can be loaded when a new piefed instance is created, not that they are literally removed in code.

Here's the comments discussing it:

[–] HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

centrist extremists

can't make that shit up...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

It's up there with vibe learning

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Those are the liberals (the definition of a centrist imo, as opposed to a progressive who is the first notch on the left) who will gladly work across the aisle with a fascist to preserve democracy.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why bother with the 1 way federation, though?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So your users can go on their instance, I guess? That's not a great reason. Cut them off or don't.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Agreed, there is no good reason for a one way federation with a trash instance.

Even if the idea is that they have communities that aren't horrible, the taint is strong enough that the same communities should just be promoted on non/less shitty instances.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think it’s the other way around, actually. It sounds like hex users are actually receiving posts from outside but it’s their own content that is being blocked

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Good luck with that they/them in Russia.

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