Fediverse

Can I as a user see which of these settings an instance has enabled?

"You can be pretty sure anyone with 1488 or even just 88 in their user name is a nazi, for example.

Speaking of which, PieFed has an optional approval queue for new registrations. New accounts with “88” in their name are always put in a different /dev/null queue that leads nowhere. The UI tells them they’re waiting for approval but that approval will never come."

https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

This is ham-fisted.
People born in 1988 or August 8th or people of east asian descent might all like the number 88 or 888888

Is there anyway for users to know which piefed instances have this and the other censorship settings enabled? I was trying to upload an image the other day and kept getting an error and now i realize it was because of the code itself?!

Like why the fuck wouldn't it tell me that image isn't allowed instead of giving me an error

It's as if someone saw a federated social media codebase that enabled the free movement of users and expression online and though, "someone should fix that".

It isnt that the codebase 'forces' moderation decisions - it's that it's undoing the work done in the lemmy codebase to flatten moderation across instances and make them transparent, and introducing arbitrary metrics that can be used to limit the visibility of expression not just on the local instance but across many

You're free to use whatever software on your server you like, but IMO these 'filters' are petty, low-effort workarounds to features in the lemmy codebase that are what make it truely democraticand decentralized, and they degrade the health of the entire federated network by extension.

Those checkboxes have been there since version 0.9. Ages.

The problem with grabbing small snippets of code is a lot of context is lost. Don't trust anyone who does that. PieFed has 50,000 lines of code so anyone showing you 50 lines is leaving out 99.9% of the picture.

Link to the comment for more context: https://lemmy.ml/post/42339089/23619001

Wasn't the biggest concern and question why it didn't do an actual error message and is there any notes to say the performance impact having the 4chan filter on?

I'd also argue

To hide the reputation system, here's a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user

Does absolutely nothing to assure people concerned about it being a thing. Like hiding it doesn't do anything about it being a thing

A lot of people looking at the code were saying these things were hardcoded, even after seeing an if statement which checks if the thing is enabled, which is straight up wrong unless you consider it hard coded because its coded, into the codebase.