when you're modding on piefed but you're a reddit mod at heart

I thought piefed was bad news when I first read their document on tools for upholding healthy communities where they defended the idea of a karma system. Skavau very adamantly defends it claiming it's not a Karma system while describing everything wrong with Reddit's Karma system as if it's somehow a good thing. I'm not really glad that I'm right, this situation is awful. I am glad though that more people are seeing it for what it is, and hopefully will stop endorsing piefed so openly.

Piefed as a software was always hipster pop. People gravitated towards it because it was new, it's not Lemmy and it tries to be everything. Some features are genuinely good and others aren't implemented in Lemmy for logical reasons. Anyway, point is, the people that create pop tend to be superficial and not want to rock any boats. It's unsurprising that he'd want to create a silo of confirmation bias. But I'm biased because I want my threadiverse experience to be full of people with differing opinions, stances and lifestyles.

That said, I also don't think brigading helps, even when they're baited. Inadvertently or not. Everyone's own mental health should remain the priority.

I'm new around here and I must say you guys enjoy your drama.

My piefed account wasn't loading. Now I wonder if I was blocked my I rarely have an opinion about anything to be banned at all

All sides of the fediverse agree unanimously that Rimu is a piece of shit.

the people i recognize on the list are anarchists

y0kai, unruffled, db0, stamets, quokka

what is happening here

Being online via Lemmy caused me not one, but 2 mental collapses (I'm fine now, diagnosed with bipolar and have meds now) so I decided to give PieFed a shot, since I get bored on "fedi" (I hate that name for the Misskey forks). The promise of better features faster seemed amazing (politics of Lemmy devs aside). I've been around since the very first day of the Reddit API fiasco, and despite this 2 week-old account, I've been around the block. The age of this account is not coincidental. Thankfully, the FAF exposed Rimu's bullshit so I decided to start fresh yet again with the FAF (I'm already an anarchist, so why not?) due to this inexcusable drama stirring.

My biggest hope is that the AN fork of PieFed is deployed soon and properly maintained, because Rimu has changed from "dev making a new product with easy contributions" to "perhaps the biggest authoritarian threat to the threadiverse driven by sycophants" in a matter of weeks.

Rimu has banned some of the largest voices on the platform with this fell-swoop. This entire thing likely deserves its own static website in order to document what's going on, because people on the flagship PieFed instance are never likely to see it. I may do this just because this is worse more than many realize, I think. We collectively saw threads dot net happening and basically all of the threadiverse defederated due to obvious foreseeable issues.

This reminds me of that guy that was DM'ing people with a ban every time they used the word "bro" but on a much larger and more influential scale. We aren't talking about a mod (that was on piefed btw, I think he made his own instance) now, but an entire development effort that can deeply harm not only this platform, but the very idea of this platform as a whole.

In short,
FUCK RIMU