cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/53878016
Rimu not simply happy with deleting comments is removing entire users now to suppress people countering his lies.
Free speech is banned on PieFed.Social, only praise of dear leader is allowed.
Can someone give me context to this drama revolving him? I’m new to the fedi so I don’t understand much but all I know is that Rimu made the Piefed software…
Yes, Rimu is the main developer of piefed. While the project originally started with very noble stated goals, Rimu is turning out to have some very strong opinions and uses his control of the software and his adminship of the main piefed instance to impose those opinions on everybody. Very often so far, his actions and his stated reasons do not line up. In a way, it’s even worse than lemmy where at least the software is free of the ideological beliefs of the devs.
If you’re on piefed.social, there’s a lot of content being censored you might not even be aware of. About half of that is said controversy about piefed.
First of all: there’s no context here; hell, we don’t even know if it was Rimu who removed those. There’s 6 admins on that instance.
More importantly though:
That’s his instance.
He’s also the main developer of the Pyfedi software, aka Piefed.
Please do not confuse the two.
And if someone argues that it’s still a shitty thing to do, I say: compile such lists from all fediverse instances and make an informed comparison.
The great thing about the fediverse is that you can start an instance with your own rules 🥳
Thank you OP for taking 5secs out of your hectic day to construct a useless shitpost demonstrating *exactly* what Rimu just blogged about:
https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2282837/open-source-runs-on-good-faith
Trump says a lot of stuff too. We all know what that’s worth. Your comment is meaningless since it doesn’t actually address whether Rimu actually did the actions shown in the screenshot and any mitigating factors.
I have no idea who any of these people are and whatever this is about and I’m not sure if I even want to know.
The fediverse seems to have a real penchant for petty drama.
I’m not saying that’s what this is, just that when there’s a spat it tends to draw everyone in.
As someone that hasn’t been around here for a few months, I’m just going to guess that it’s these freeze peach people who feel entitled to say whatever they want wherever they want, and like the rules don’t apply to them.
They were complaining about the Blahaj admin a lot as well before because she’s hardcore with moderation just like the instance says on the tin. And the neckbeard edgelords that grew up using 4chan and think it’s “early internet”, always get up in arms when moderators and admins try to create spaces for like-minded people without needing to ‘debate’ bigots, just like they did on the actual early internet on forum sites.
This doesn’t excite me enough to do my homework particularly but I’m gonna guess there’s more to this than “wah the evil blue haired SJW with nose rings is censoring us with the woke agenda”.
Fediverse drama! Even if there is a kernel of truth behind it, the drama around it is always dumber than it should be. IMO a symptom of people wanting control over things as consumers that they simply don’t and never will if they remain consumers. A bit of an insidious trap the Fedi lays for people.
I’m not sure I really understand you.
One of the foundational concepts of opensource software, self hosting, and federated software, is that users have more equity and agency than they would if they were users or “consumers” on a corporate platform.
If you don’t want to support the behavior of a developer, you don’t have to.
That said, I’m aware that my instance is running piefed, which is at the centre of this drama.
I suspect they mean that you can run your own instance, but in practice most users fall for the ‘trap’ of using someone else’s instance where they have no control over what happens to their accounts and what they post.
I don’t think it’s that big of a deal and thay you’re absolutely right that you don’t have to support a developer or that you can hop to another instance, giving users more equity and agency.
Yea, this.
I’d say that whether it’s a big deal is up to what people expect and want. The issue I was citing is that Fedi drama often involves, IMO, a disconnect between what the Fedi offers and what people expect.
Even if you run your own instance, your ability to access most communities is still at the whims of the dictators who run a few large instances.
That’s probably the post where the drama has happened.
https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2282285/did-piefed-steal-code-from-pylova-let-s-look-at-what-happened
You probably don’t want to know
Both party’s have miss-stepped, Rimu seems to be trying to put across his side of the story. At least one of the comments removed was a real rant towards Rimu on his server, he removed it.
