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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Rimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.

This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911

This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 61 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Wait piefed has a secret shadowban list too?

Did they learn nothing from Tessaract?

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I fucking knew it.

“You can’t trust those commies who make Lemmy! I know, I‘ll put in secret censorship to protect others from that I think is wrong! I’m the savior of the world!”

You can feed this pie right up your ass 🖕

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every accusation is projection projection

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It does have a list of instances it defeds from by default, but quokka isn't on it.

Piefed did add the ability to 'silence' instances which hides posts from those instances from the All feed, but posts from communities you subscribe to still show up. It's similar to Lemmy's 'hide community' feature. Quokka is on piefed.social's hidden instance list.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That feature was made to silence Quokk.au. Rimu added it only after he started melting down and having issues with everyone.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not disputing that, he absolutely did, it's just not really similar to the Tesseract situation.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

That’s fair. Even Rimu said the Tesserect dev went too far.

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure they did it first, so if anything tessaract learned something from them.

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[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Apparently not, or maybe they just think they can get away with it.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Tesseract rants did mention that Rimu should thank him for taking the heat off of him for his blocking.

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

Actually, tesseract learned from rimu

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago

They say theirs is okay because the options show when setting up the system for admins 🙄

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 55 points 1 week ago (73 children)

I don't see how people can still use piefed with someone like this in charge. A new red flag pops up every month. It's hard to see them among all the other red flags.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 33 points 1 week ago (14 children)

good news, nobody who like Piefed has to use it. we've gotten PyLova to the point it's running Quokk.au and Anarchist.Nexus, and we've not only removed the censorship and the bias, but we've also improved the UI, made some new themes, and most important of all patched some security vulnerabilities.

at this point it's better than Piefed in every way.

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[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Totally agree with you. Which sucks because I really wanted to like the project. But the more stuff that comes out about it and the creator just makes me shake my head.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rimu is not just instance-beefing, he's so salty he's going against the whole FOSS ethos just to be as petty as possible. PTB.

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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

PTB, but it’s Rimu so what can you expect?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.

Is this person like... actually important in some way, or do they just... loudly think that about themself?

They're a piefed dev/contributor or something?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 1 week ago

the main author.

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[–] Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Rimu rehashing old drama?

What is the manchild trying to distract from now, did he invade Iran and fuck up or something?

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this is PTB.

You can't just shut down an otherwise on topic comment because you don't like it. I mean, you can, but if it's in this situation you're using your position to block dissent. That's literally what power tripping is.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I saw the thread without context trying to defend their actions and I just laughed.

"Boy golly, I'm just so new to this FOSS thing!"

Like, I still don't really know the details, but this pattern has gotten old.

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