Ngl Mbin is kinda awesome, but mainly only if someone wants to browse both Mastodon and the Threadiverse from the same account. It's better imho for e.g. long-titled news articles but not as good for e.g. memes.

I hope I'm not furthering the divide OP mentioned further more than being helpful but it's true so I'll say it: I only joined Kbin.social at first due to the off-putting connection between the Lemmy sourcecode and the tankie devs, but now PieFed provides a cleaner option for that.

that's completely irrelevant, because in internet and real life there are nutjobs everywhere. even tho the definition of nutjob might slightly differ for everyone, the platforms allow users to regulate the amount of nutjobs they meet individually, for example by subscribing communities with less of them and/or blocking/filtering.

also, the voting system helps a lot, so ppl get easy feedback about their content and it helps with sorting, too.

I found Piefed to be fine but, when sharing links, the recipients of my sharing complained about their format. It was several months ago, though, so maybe that's changed.

Yea I gotta say, I can tell dessalines must have had pain in the Reddit search and rage coded a fantastic search function for Lemmy lmfao

Yeah, I've said that Piefed needs to rip out its search UI and just copy Lemmy's really. It's more convenient. Rimu has said he's not happy with it if I recall.

The fact that it gives a misleading error seems like legitimate criticism tbh.

I see your problem. There's a .ml in that link. If you block .ml and grad, Lemmy is a pretty nice place.

You should try Voyager, then you'll know what I mean.

But someone downvoted you so obviously not all. 😝🙄🤪

As stated, most of the things here can be turned off

Is it possible to disable how user blocking works?

and one part specifically is a complete misrepresentation

If you're talking about defederation, then no: it's an updated version of the comment that properly explains how it works. To be honest, I think the correct interpretation is even worse: https://lemmy.ml/post/42415919/23664761

Seeing posts laid out the same as e6 wouldn't be the worst idea out there. 🤷‍♂️

Your comment made me want to try and self host pie fed, I hope your happy

I've never had that interaction. I'm also kind of a dum dum and don't even know the difference between between the fediverse, lemmy, all the little stuff. I got my account working and haven't put much thought into it past my brain rotted shit posting.

Lemmy != Tankies, Software != People, and Instance != Platform. e.g. you cannot simply delete someone from "Lemmy PieFed", it would have to be from a specific instance, perhaps PieFed.social?

Likewise railing against tankies is not the same as hatred vs. a FOSS offering - like, anyone at all could make a fork of the PieFed project and thereby become entirely independent of its original main creator?

I dunno what to tell you other than FOSS is FOSS. Hate against free software all you like, but at the end of the day it's still entirely and completely free.🤷

And their thing was a list of slurs.

It can all be turned off by other instances.

https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1005977/piefed-admin-settings-that-allow-to-enable-or-disable-content-filters-they-are-disabled-by

Misinformation item #1'

Piefed has hardcoded censorship?

No, it does not. It has options to censor things, if the instance admin so chooses. A simple click of a box in a UI can control this? (As just one possibility.)

Misinformation item #2:

They seem to be deliberately funnelling users to instances that block three of the most active Lemmy instances because they don’t like the pinkos there

Lemmy.ml is not blocked by default, and as people are saying there, this nonexistent block is also not hard-coded (chiefly since it does not exist, but also the blocks for hexbear and Lemmygrad are likewise not hard-coded, but again are options to select or not).

Btw, here is a post from 2 days ago made by a Lemmy.ml user to a lemmy.ml community, appearing on PieFed.social, the flagship PieFed instance. Can you please explain to me then how lemmy.ml is blocked by default, and that is hard-coded right into the software?

Misinformation item #3:

this rational system gets them labelled with “Defederation: Negligent” in the piefed onboarding flow.

No, it doesn't, nor was it ever thought to? For one, the word "negligent" does not appear anywhere in https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser (please do not take my word about any of this that I say here, look it up for yourself and see, but otherwise you are simply spreading someone else's disinformation) - what it says is "Newbie-friendly" vs. "Choose your own adventure", and PieFed.zip is clearly labeled as "Newbie friendly: Yes", and shows up when the selector has chosen Newbie-friendly rather than Choose your own adventure.

The word "negligent" is highly charged (enshittified?), but the wording "Choose your own adventure" is not, which anyway, again, does not even apply here to begin with?

There was a question about whether PieFed.zip was fully "Newbie-friendly", and if you look up hexbear's history you will see why. Especially when they were caught lying to other instance admins. They brought this censorship upon themselves, by refusing to moderate themselves and then harboring people engaging in trolling behaviors outside of their instance, effectively protecting those bullies. Hexbears are leftist MAGAs, and many people on Reddit legitimately cite having left the Threadiverse as a result of being exposed to such, making any instance that federates with hexbear not 100% fully "Newbie-friendly", and rather more "Choose your own adventure".

On the internet, people sometimes lie. You do not have to choose to repeat their lies elsewhere as if they were 100% true (without even so much as a "I heard that people are saying..."). Honestly I expect better from someone on mander.xyz.

Do you have any examples of the kinds of posts in your OP? Because Blaze had 2 in one screenshot...