Actually I think it predated a good amount of that. Iirc PyLova was started much earlier than most people realize, stemming out of a frustration from wanting to contribute to the project but then Mia’s contributions were reportedly taken by the main PieFed dev without seemingly proper acknowledgement. And then yes the PieFed drama caused additional attention to be paid to PyLova than previously (particularly in the earlier stages of the fork - surely that’s a huge learning curve).

PyLova hasn’t done a whole awful lot yet in some respects, but especially some of the more recent inclusions may be absolute game-changers moving forward, especially the ability to support user shareable blocklists. That should go a long way towards retaining people coming here from Reddit who would otherwise flee this toxic shithole (well, some major parts of the Threadiverse are that way at least - certain highly notable politics communities in particular spring to mind, though after blocking this place can become much more chill! even if noticeably quieter…:-P). And PyLova un-does a lot of the minor annoyances that the main PieFed dev did not feel fit into his vision - e.g. a user can choose to display both upvotes and downvotes side by side, just like in Lemmy.

Meanwhile, PieFed is off chasing better compatibility with Mastodon. Some people want that, so it is a laudable goal, but then PyLova is focusing on improving the existing experience here within the Threadiverse, which also seems laudable to me?

However it got started, it is contributing to improving things, as software forks often do - that ability is part of what makes FLOSS so great!!

How many Rimuminbi do you get paid to write this?

PyLova has many features PieFed doesn’t, to the point PieFed is having to copy them poorly such as allowing more than one image in a post.

You’re only saying that because you’re a butthurt .social mod who got banned from every leftist instance. Now that’s cringe.

As someone who uses both, they both have their place. I still use Lemmy from time to time too.

Your choice of admin team is much more important than which software platform you use, especially if you use a third-party app like Voyager.

Oh so same as every other instance.

Just as with literally all federated social media, users are encouraged to find an instance that matches their values and preferred admin involvement, or to spin up their own instances.

Of course users will not have complete control of content moderation on their instance, that is literally impossible on so many levels. If you want complete control, create your own instance. Even then, it’s not complete control because you can not force other instances to federate with you.

If there is anybody capable of configuring a non-default blocklist, it is the type of people that choose to host their own fediverse instance.

They pressed the communism button in Catalonia and it worked great. Only problem is it was the middle of the Spanish Civil War, and they got betrayed by their allies.

Anarchist communism has 65,000 years of proven success. Vanguard socialism hasn’t worked once. Russia failed, it’s capitalist. China is failing, it’s capitalist. North Korea is failing, it’s feudalist. Those failures aren’t because they got couped by the CIA or conquered in a war, these are internal flaws to the political system of state “socialism”. The idea that you can slowly reform an authoritarian state into communism was always a fantasy, it never happened once.

Anyway, Piefed has karma. Like Reddit. It’s just karma. If you wanna call karma a social credit system, go ahead, but it does seem disingenuous to not explain what you mean by it.

As a piefed admin, I see a little red warning sign next to Sxan, the thorn person. Because they have low karma. When I see it, I chortle and then read what innocuous comment with a thorn has got people downvoting this time. It’s just a warning that they have low karma, it doesn’t do anything.

Yeah I’ve seen the screenshot, it’s a lazy take and reeks of lack of knowledge but it doesn’t seem transphobic.

If we are trying to get to a better and more enlightened future, there are a lot of people we do not agree with we have to meet with dialogue instead of judgement.

I am not talking about forgiving og listening to people like Rowling. I am talking about showing would be comrades a more nuanced way of seeing the world instead of writing them off.

That road always leads to a smaller and smaller select group that see the true way forward, but having a harder and harder time talking to anyone else. Eventually the group gets so small and isolated it doesn’t means anything at all.

That doesnt’t seem transphobic only uninformed and like a shitty analysis

(I’m a different person than who you were responding to earlier)

Those other things that you mention here are validated, however the “hard-coded blocklist” was demonstrably disproven. I suggest removing it from your comment because it only complicates the matter to mix in lies with the truth. There are a bunch of valid reasons to criticize PieFed over, we don’t need to spread misinformation muddying the issues.

If you talk about the matrix screenshot, there is this line from Rimu : “imagine that i do a post about lemmy blabla…”. This line refers to a post from Mia where she did an announcement and Rimu wasn’t happy about it. He considered it was Piefed appropriation.

It was also part of the conflict along false accusation of piefed being anti-trans. We did ask blahaj what feature would they like, added trans flag…

The main problem with Rimu is its behaviour that led to its ban spree. Most of people on Matrix won’t say anything about it, they know but they remain quiet and stay here because they use piefed and support it.

It wasn’t the first time. At the beggining of Piefed (2 year ago) Rimu banned Rikudo’s instance. Because Rikudo instance at that time suffered from spam. Rikudo wasn’t happy about the defed and wrote something on Piefed on fediseer.

So I reached Rikudo and did the mediation and they worked together. I tried with Ada/Pugjesus. Mia/Rimu…

When there was the shitstorm about the local IA used for moderation by dbz0, i really hoped that the explanation from dbzer0 would calm things down. I hoped that Rimu would recognize that he was wrong about its analysis. And then maybe they would continue together.

For me, we lost plenty contributors and people.

You have also to take into account mysticmushroom ban spree for zionism and how dbzer0 reacted.

And then there are people that perpetue fedidrama on yptb or even here, on a post where we should support the fediverse. That was my message that everyone missed on yptb.

If we want to continue, we have to move on. It doesn’t erase the past, but recalling those events, behaviour impact the relationship we have between each other.

It polarizes our relationship, and may make newcomers leave. So i think we have to move on and support what we love.

You aren’t wrong, it’s gone through many itterations from the initial block. Even now it’s still the initial config hidden to users. Hell Grail is even saying it’s still there but only idiots would keep it on. (ironic considering it’s Rimu’s default and piefed.socials setup)

Be more specific, and please link explicit examples with sources, instead of using thought terminating phrases that your owner taught you when something clashes with their programming.

Thank you for being open minded. Here is a much better sourced article: https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/08/20/the-comprehensive-tiananmen-square-massacre-hoax-dossier/ for the Wikileaks cable, no. It was sent after. https://peds-ansichten.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1989-07-12_Lilley_Gallo_Tiananmen_WikiLeaks.pdf

That’s sad that you have so much potential[1][2][3], but then blindly and stupidly believe everything the American government tells you to believe when it comes to non-white and non-western people. The links will still be available for you when you decide to grow past your limitations and your owner’s education.

This is incorrect, but common misinformation. https://www.idcommunism.com/2016/10/truth-and-lies-about-socialism-on-60th.html

The right wing of the CPGB that supported the counterrevolution in Hungary were not “Orthodox communists.” You seem to think Marxism is a purity-based moralist doctrine, but in fact the right-wing supported a fascist movement and a destruction of worker power. The Hungarian revolt in 1956 was infested with anti-semitic pograms. MI6 funded, supplied, and trained the Hungarian counter-revolutionaries. These counter-revolutionaries were allied with fascists who were lynching Jewish people and Communists. The Truth About Hungary by Herbert Aptheker heavily relies on citing western sources like the New York Times. Aptheker backs up his claims heavily.

"The special correspondent of the Yugoslav paper, Politika, (Nov. 13, 1956) describing the events of those days, said that the homes of Communists were marked with a white cross and those of Jews with a black cross, to serve as signs for the extermination squads. “There is no longer any room for doubt,” said the Yugoslav reporter, “it is an example of classic Hungarian fascism and of White Terror. The information,” continued this writer, “coming from the provinces tells how in certain places Communists were having their eyes put out, their ears cut off, and that they were being killed in the most terrible ways.”

“But the forces of reaction were rapidly consolidating their power and pushing forward on the top levels, while in the streets the blood of scores of massacred Communists, Jews, and progressives was flowing.”

“Some of the reports reaching Warsaw from Budapest today caused considerable concern. These reports told of massacres of Communists and Jews by what were described as 'Fascist elements’ …” (N.Y. Times, Nov. 1. 1956)

“The evidence is conclusive that the entry of Soviet troops into Budapest stopped the execution of scores, perhaps thousands of Jews, for by the end of October and early November, anti-Semtic pogroms - hallmark of unbridled fascistic terror - were making their appearance, after an absence of some ten years, within Hungary.”

"A correspondent of the Israeli newspaper Maariv (Tel Aviv) reported:

During the uprising a number of former Nazis were released from prison and other former Nazis came to Hungary from Salzburg . . . I met them at the border . . . I saw anti-Semitic posters in Budapest . . . On the walls, street lights, streetcars, you saw inscriptions reading: “Down with Jew Gero!” “Down with Jew Rakosi!” or just simply “down with the Jews!”

Leading rabbinical circles in New York received a cable early in November from corresponding circles in Vienna that “Jewish blood is being shed by the rebels in Hungary.” Very much later-in February, 1957-the World Jewish Congress reported that “anti-Semitic excesses occurred in more than twenty villages and smaller provincial towns during the October-November revolt.” This occurred, according to this very conservative body, because “fascist and anti-Semitic groups had apparently seized the opportunity, presented by the absence of a central authority, to come to the surface.” Many among the Jewish refugees from Hungary, the report continued, had fled from this anti-Semitic pogrom-like atmosphere (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15, 1957). This confirmed the earlier report made by the British Rabbi, R. Pozner, who, after touring refugee camps, declared that “the majority of Jews who left Hungary did so for fear of the Hungarians and not the Russians.” The Paris Jewish newspaper, Naye Presse, asserted that Jewish refugees in France claimed quite generally that Soviet soldiers had saved their lives."

Further, the CIA also backed Hungarian resistance forces:

Prague in 1968 was a similar fascist uprising in both cases there were some elements of progressive protest, but these were greatly overshadowed by the fascist movements. Dubcek wanted to sell out to the IMF, and restore capitalism. The idea that any of this was about “democracy” or “freedom” is silly, it was always about Cold War tactics to destabilize socialism.

TL;DR imagine if the January 6th rioters were armed and trained by foreign governments, started lynching officials and Jewish people, and the US sent in the army to put down the insurrection. The MAGA chuds would claim that it was about “freedom” and “democracy,” but we all know that they just wanted Trump in office.

Regarding the Tian’anmen protests, a color revolution grew from what originated as protests against the marketization shifts under Deng Xiaoping that had turned into western-backed protests against CPC control, resulting in a few hundred deaths from clashes between rioters and the PLA around Beijing after the PLA had been sent in to disburse the protests. Once the PLA reached Tian’anmen Square, the center of the protests, the square was dispersed bloodlessly. The CIA-backed student leaders were evacuated in Operation Yellowbird. For more, I recommend this Tian’anmen Protests reading list.

Hi, my two sources directly answer your CIA propaganda and debunk it.

Thanks for proving your illiteracy.