Every time I hear “censorship” cried in relation to piefed, I think of the same cries with Voat, another Reddit clone/refuge. It never compromised on that.

And it turned into a (now long dead) toxic wasteland. As that ethos smothered all the interesting niche communities.

IMO, the #1 Fediverse dev priority should be UX that discourages toxicity. That’s what will keep it alive. A militantly, forcibly “unbiased” UX is a quaint old internet ideal, yet it always seems to snowball into an unsustainable toxic monoculture.

So, if piefed uses “opinionated” defaults to stave that off, good.