Rimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.
This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911
This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747
I don’t see how people can still use piefed with someone like this in charge. A new red flag pops up every month. It’s hard to see them among all the other red flags.
good news, nobody who like Piefed has to use it. we’ve gotten PyLova to the point it’s running Quokk.au and Anarchist.Nexus, and we’ve not only removed the censorship and the bias, but we’ve also improved the UI, made some new themes, and most important of all patched some security vulnerabilities.
at this point it’s better than Piefed in every way.
There’s a number of negative things about the Lemmy devs as well. This isn’t a whataboutism, or deflection. One of the lead Lemmy devs account is named for a genocidal dictator. I will give them acknowledgment and props for not perpetuating larger systems of oppression through software. Instead choosing to gleefully micro manage their own fiefdoms by hand doing it.
Point being if you’re using the threadiverse, you’re not going to find a major backend that isn’t it developed by someone with a toxic relationship to power. And ultimately a tool is still a tool regardless of Who develops it.
Your comment is whataboutism and a deflection. Saying something isn’t what it is doesn’t make it any less is.
No my comment was strictly with regards to you calling out users of a particular software. When it comes to rimu. 100% ptb unfortunately. I can’t support the authors of Lemmy or piefed. But people are free to use whichever tools they choose in this instance. But good luck constructing that straw man.
This has got to be the worst use of “straw man” I have seen on lemmy so far. And I’ve seen some bad ones.
Just a tip, you can’t call every argument you don’t like a straw man. It has a meaning.
A genocidal dictator? Do tell, which one? Hitler? Netanyahu? Bush??
Kinda weird that you don’t mention the whole former slave who led the resistance to abolish slavery and free his country thing.
Under the rule of Dessalines, Haiti became the first country in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery.
Do you even know the history of Haiti and why it is globally relevant? You CANNOT divorce that from the context of this.
I dunno that the original dessalines counts as genocidal, despite his attempts to rid haiti of whites. It was more or less a mass murder, and outright unnecessary since he had other options, but I don’t know that genocide would be the right term for it? Maybe, I’m not fully convinced either way, just starting a tangent
That tangent is that the real dessalines was… complicated. He essentially became a central figure in Haitian liberation. One can argue that the revolution might not have succeeded without him. He was certainly effective.
He was also effective as “emperor” (in quotes because it’s hard to be an emperor of a single nation) for the most part. Made Haiti pitchy officially an independent nation, declared slavery abolished, stripped colonialists of property, and generally kept things running.
Of course, part of keeping things running was treating Haitians like slaves, just without the label.
Which shows both why the dev dessalines might have chosen the name, and why it doesn’t really fit. Plus, you know, the whole emperor thing being contrary to socialism being weird.
Fwiw to anyone here for the tangent, there’s been a goodly number of books about the real Dessalines. Likely available at your local library, or on the high seas. He was a fascinating figure.
Rimu is not just instance-beefing, he’s so salty he’s going against the whole FOSS ethos just to be as petty as possible. PTB.
Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.
Is this person like… actually important in some way, or do they just… loudly think that about themself?
They’re a piefed dev/contributor or something?
the main author.
Wait piefed has a secret shadowban list too?
Did they learn nothing from Tessaract?
I fucking knew it.
“You can’t trust those commies who make Lemmy! I know, I‘ll put in secret censorship to protect others from that I think is wrong! I’m the savior of the world!”
You can feed this pie right up your ass 🖕
Every accusation is projection
They say theirs is okay because the options show when setting up the system for admins 🙄
It does have a list of instances it defeds from by default, but quokka isn’t on it.
Piefed did add the ability to ‘silence’ instances which hides posts from those instances from the All feed, but posts from communities you subscribe to still show up. It’s similar to Lemmy’s ‘hide community’ feature. Quokka is on piefed.social’s hidden instance list.
That feature was made to silence Quokk.au. Rimu added it only after he started melting down and having issues with everyone.
I’m not disputing that, he absolutely did, it’s just not really similar to the Tesseract situation.
That’s fair. Even Rimu said the Tesserect dev went too far.
Apparently not, or maybe they just think they can get away with it.
Rimu rehashing old drama?
What is the manchild trying to distract from now, did he invade Iran and fuck up or something?
Someone forked piefed and is claiming rimu stole their code.
someone forked piefed, and Rimu uploaded their code without attribution AFTER patches were OFFERED to him and he blocked those patches and banned the PyLova devs.
but keep on being a parasocial asshat, cause anybody looking closely at the PyLova commit history is gonna see all the security vulnerabilities in Piefed we patched, and Rimu ignored.
Because they did and you can see the chat conversation where Rimu talks about trying to remove Mia’s attribution from the code and complaining it went through on some of them.
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PTB, but it’s Rimu so what can you expect?
