According to Rimu, the main developer of PieFed, all PieFed instances come with a 3000-long block list of resources that cannot be linked to. These include all sorts of right-wing outlets. There is no easy opt-out, forcing existing instances to follow the blocklist.

The flagship PieFed instance also rolled out a feature marking various other sorts of outlets - among them, resources considered AI slop and Marxist outlets. These are specific to piefed.social.

Related discussion: https://piefed.social/comment/11254679

Why YSK: Many users have hard time choosing between Lemmy, PieFed, and Kbin/Mbin. Users that prefer a more curated and politically uniform experience might prefer PieFed over the alternatives. Users that are right-wing, Marxist, or generally concerned about global censorship of the Fedi-/Threadiverse, might opt for other options instead.

Note: The post is only meant to inform users of the potentially important differences between Threadiverse platforms. Any ideologically charged discussions are better left in the respective topic.

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[–] 47 points 6 months ago (18 children)

We know the enemy.

We know every unoriginal comment, trick, and bullshit they do, because they have repeated them over and over again for decades.

We don't have to keep giving them the false legitimacy of equal time or attention.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (17 children)

    We don’t have to keep giving them the false legitimacy of equal time or attention.

    If I want to point something out that a shithole site is promoting, I don't need admin to put up a baby gate so I can't talk about it. I don't know how that relates to legitimizing anything.

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  • [+] -7 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    Sounds like what a right-wing dipshit would say.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (14 children)

    How so? Do we even have cons on lemmy?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (13 children)

    The gatekeeping is to take away a cornerstone of misinformation. If brigading and manipulation didn't work the world wouldn't be in the state it is today. I run into conservatives frequently, even the question is disingenuous.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    So I want to link to things idiots on reddit r/con are saying to point out a trend in right wing media, and that makes it spreading disinfo?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That’s a good point. Lemmygrad doesn’t disallow links to anywhere, because it trusts its users to have a solid ideological foundation and the media literacy to read anything without catching ideological “cooties.”

    In fact, I often say that liberals believe in the cooties theory of ideas. They usually don’t understand how ideas develop or spread, nor how propaganda actually works. Previously. Previously.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The only reason any instance online doesn't get brigaded, botted, and psyop-ed to hell is because of the low user count and impact, currently. Again, the proof is in the pudding. It works on entirely too many people.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, it's not worth losing this place to them.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    Losing it to... reddit cons? You're not even on piefed. If you're so worried about disinfo why don't you switch instances?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I have a piefed account as well, as of recently. Just odd that you're so adamant about allowing misinformation.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    OK well, the rest of us with good media literacy will keep checking the bad places and let you know what to watch out for. Hurry on over to your safe account now before you get swayed by info you can't be sure about.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh heavens I feel safer already now that you've successfully ignored the argument, thank you useful tankie idiot

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