I think this warrants a fediverse wide boycott of all piefed/fedia instances until this is rectified.

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    1. It is just a configuration change for the administrator of a specific instance. But if somebody wanted to make politics-free pie feed as a fork of the project, without the opinionated block list, but otherwise following the original project. That would be totally appropriate.

    For instance I use pipe pipe which is a fork of new pipe plus sponsor block, because the new pipe developers decided sponsor block wasn’t good philosophically

    If new pipe gets an update, pipe pipe updates, and it rolls through a couple hours later. No big deal.

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      Indeed, I agree with what you are saying, but the quoted comment is still incorrect. A fork is not required to change the configuration of the federation list.

      A fork could be made later following what you just said, but that’s not what was being said in the quoted comment.

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        I have no interest in debating your quoted comment from above. I’m as an individual saying a fork makes sense to get around the strong political opinions of the developer.