Apps do work with Piefed, but they do not necessarily have all the features Piefed has.
I didn't make a statement, I just asked you a question - trying to see where you're at regarding moderation in general.
Legit question: Do you oppose any and all moderation, and quality of life tools to that end for moderators and/or instance admins?
The tools for stopping bad behavior can be used to stop any behavior.
Not really. Do you know what the tools are specifically? They're just isolating the behaviour of new users for instance admins to catch tendencies often presented by spammers, trolls, bots and AI posters. There's nothing baked in that can specifically target a specific group.
There already are various lemmy instances known for partisanship moderation without any specific tools.
Just confirming. I don't see that as a bad thing though. The instance tools are designed to make it easier to catch spammers, trolls and AI posts.
"Alright, it doesn't do any defederation, this function just controls what the api reports. It will list which of those four instances the instance is defederated from but that doesn't look like it is actually used anywhere to do something...let me grab you links here is where piefed digests this api endpoint to populate the instance_chooser table, and the defed_list field isn't actually used at all
Piefed provides instance owners and admins with more tools to catch bad behaviour, that's absolutely true.
No, I don't run an instance myself personally. I can see the defederated instances in the admin toolbox though. I'm not going to purge them all briefly just to experiment. But I don't believe piefed.zip has any servers they refuse federation with (I can ask demi if he actually does defederate with anyone either on lemmy.zip or piefed.zip), and given the inclusion of lemmy.ml in that list - I suspect it doesn't work like that in the first place if you were to do so.
Also, this is regarding the instance chooser in the code.
Okay? And as I've told you, there are active Piefed instances THAT ARE FEDERATED WITH HEXBEAR, LEMMYGRAD AND HILARIOUSCHAOS. I've never heard anything about the system automatically re-applying those instances in the event of an instance wiping all preset defederations. Lemmy.zip, and thus Piefed.zip has no defederation and they currently federate with those instances.
Piefed has a bunch of tools Lemmy doesn't have: Flairs, Hashtags, Custom Feeds (Private and Public), Scheduled Posts, Combined comment sections for crossposts, Emote Reactions, Events, Polls
Like 80 or so are also defederated.
Afaiu if you try to 100% federate by having no defederated instances, this overrides and defederates from these 4 again.
How would you know this at all? You run a Piefed server, have you?
Why are you trying to lecture me about how Piefed must work when you've never run or looked at Piefed from an admin perspective?
I'm pushing for major Piefed instances to be able to network together, so when one instance adds or federates a new community - it will automatically network to other piefed instances.
That admin instance function would of course, have to remain optional though - as small personal instances would find that welcome - but it would automate a lot of this.