It’s not computers, it’s the latest drama here in the Fediverse.
Big frontend called Tessarect did a sneaky.
They made a hidden shadow-ban list of instances, users, and phrases, keeping it secret from users and admins by not including it in the open source code and instead loading it at runtime, and added in there all non-centrist (instances, users, and phrases) they could think of. They also lied about it, by claiming it to be a technical issue, when any user looked for the banned instances from the front-end, instead of calling it what it is, a targeted exclusion.
Essentially, hidden censorship, and sliminess.
To the degree that some people, (like OP here), have taken it as a badge of honor, that they are among the ones banned by name, in that list.
And some other people, are definitely not jealous.
Which are only blocked if the admin specifically asks for them to be.
In other words not hard-coded at all.
PieFed is quite opinionated, and the instance picker even more so, but the “hard-coded” arguments have long since been debunked (though last I checked, without being acknowledged by those who initially spread the story).
Also the flagship instance PieFed.social does block a lot, but that’s as different as an instance is from software. Btw Lemmy.ml rather famously blocks a lot of content as well.
Whatever software you use, pick good instance admins that you feel reflect your values (or even self-host your own), and you’ll enjoy your experience on the Threadiverse much better than being at odds with them.
It’s not computers, it’s the latest drama here in the Fediverse.
Big frontend called Tessarect did a sneaky.
They made a hidden shadow-ban list of instances, users, and phrases, keeping it secret from users and admins by not including it in the open source code and instead loading it at runtime, and added in there all non-centrist (instances, users, and phrases) they could think of. They also lied about it, by claiming it to be a technical issue, when any user looked for the banned instances from the front-end, instead of calling it what it is, a targeted exclusion.
Essentially, hidden censorship, and sliminess.
To the degree that some people, (like OP here), have taken it as a badge of honor, that they are among the ones banned by name, in that list.
And some other people, are definitely not jealous.
thank you kindly!
so the same thing piefed did?
Huh, haven’t heard about that drama, what happened?
piefed has hardcoded blocks for instances the dev doesn’t like
Which are only blocked if the admin specifically asks for them to be.
In other words not hard-coded at all.
PieFed is quite opinionated, and the instance picker even more so, but the “hard-coded” arguments have long since been debunked (though last I checked, without being acknowledged by those who initially spread the story).
Also the flagship instance PieFed.social does block a lot, but that’s as different as an instance is from software. Btw Lemmy.ml rather famously blocks a lot of content as well.
Whatever software you use, pick good instance admins that you feel reflect your values (or even self-host your own), and you’ll enjoy your experience on the Threadiverse much better than being at odds with them.
I follow along a lot in the chats and run the software. They did move everything to configuration a long time ago.