Excuse me while I go donate even more money to PieFed

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[–] 214 points 1 year ago (21 children)

PieFed dev here.

The screenshotted post is very misleading. As you'd expect from a hexbearian. It is not a baked-in ban.

Hexbear is mentioned in the PieFed source code, as an initial default value for the defederation list. That list is quite long and includes various instances that have been a source of trolls, CSAM and spam in the past (mostly Mastodon instances). As part of the normal setup process it is assumed that instance admins will review that list and alter it as they see fit. They can change it any time by going to instance.tld/admin/federation.

Do not take anything a hexbearian says at face value.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    That's exactly what this is, an initial defed list. Even the way they present this is disingenous as fuck, calling it a "one way federation, silencing our voices" or some other weird phrasing, making it sound like some underhanded/hidden hardcoded piece just for them, when it's just a boring-ass defederation with one instance among many others. How difficult is it to say "piefed software defederates hexbear by default"? Everyone knows what that fucking means!

    I honestly don't understand why everything has to be taken so goddamn uncharitably by the regulars on that instance. It blows my mind how they manage to always act in bad faith. Always.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I honestly don't understand why everything has to be taken so goddamn uncharitably by the regulars on that instance. It blows my mind how they manage to always act in bad faith. Always.

    It's pretty straightforward, imo, they built a feedback loop into their instance culture that encouraged social dopamine junkies to participate in toxic behaviors, valuing things like "dunking", othering, and dehumanizing the out group (non-hexies) over things like factuality, good faith, and not being dicks.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but this also wouldn't mean "one way federation" right? There would just be no synching at all.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I assume if you are on instance A and post something on instance B, your instance doesn't federate with hexbear but instance B does, then you will not see the comments from the hexbear user through your instance? Not certain if that is how it works or not though.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thank you for your good work, whats the funding status been like for you lately?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The per-user donations for PieFed are half that of Lemmy (and the number of users are 5% of Lemmy). More is always welcome.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's not at all what the above comment says.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's crazy how that happened. Just...fully read something different.

    Sometimes I think even with telepathy people would find a way to miscommunicate.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not sure what they said or how off topic it was but I would like to point out that Connect has this rare bug where posting a comment in one thread, sometimes ends up posting to a totally different and random thread on a totally different and random post.

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