According to Rimu Atkinson, the main developer of PieFed, all PieFed instances come with a 3000-long block list of resources that cannot be linked to. These include all sorts of right-wing outlets. There is no easy opt-out, forcing existing instances to follow the blocklist.

The flagship PieFed instance also rolled out a feature marking various other sorts of outlets - among them, resources considered AI slop and Marxist outlets. These are specific to piefed.social.

Related discussion: https://piefed.social/comment/11254679

Why YSK: Many users have hard time choosing between Lemmy, PieFed, and Kbin/Mbin. Users that prefer a more curated and politically uniform experience might prefer PieFed over the alternatives. Users that are right-wing, Marxist, or generally concerned about global censorship of the Fedi-/Threadiverse, might opt for other options instead.

Note: The post is only meant to inform users of the potentially important differences between Threadiverse platforms. Any ideologically charged discussions are better left in the respective topic.

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    Far-left politics are politics further to the left on the political spectrum than the standard political left. The far-left encompasses a wide range of heterogeneous ideologies, including anarchism, communism, and Marxism; it includes groups that advocate for revolutionary socialism and related communist ideologies, as well as anti-capitalism and anti-globalisation. The modern far-left distinguishes itself from social democracy through its inherent opposition to capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalisation. While anarchist strains of far-left thought are anti-authoritarian in nature, and most far-left schools of thought aim at a classless, stateless society, Leninist-led revolutions have imposed authoritarian rule in practice.

    Sounds good tbh. Well, except for the authoritarian bullshit of course.

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      ‘Authoritarian’ is a meaningless buzzword. There is no definition of it that includes ‘authoritarian’ countries while excluding non’authoritarian’ countries.

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        Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom.

        Pretty succinct actually.

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              Your definition excludes them, though. In both practice and in context the Communist party of China’s constitution has more protections and encouragement for individual freedom than the US or Sweden; and unlike those two China has fully adopted the entirety of the UDHR into its current constitution.

              So it’s not authoritarian by your definition. Nor is Cuba. Russia on paper also isn’t, though in practice they’re capitalist so inherently, like all capitalist countries, they would be authoritarian under your definition.

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                In both practice and in context the Communist party of China’s constitution has more protections and encouragement for individual freedom than the US or Sweden;

                I don’t think that’s true.

                like all capitalist countries, they would be authoritarian under your definition.

                That’s also blatantly not true. Germany is capitalist yet I am free to criticize the government.

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                  No, you can’t. You can go to jail for suggesting Germany’s support of Israel is support of genocide.

                  But specifically both in China and Cuba you’re free to criticize the government. Hell there’s a ~100k strong protest in China every couple of months regarding the government’s apathy towards Israel; and the recent while the most recent cuban ‘protests’ were more in line with ‘encouraging’ the government to just spend more money to encourage countries to break the US military blockade, they were still ‘criticism’ that the government wasn’t doing enough.

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                    No, you can’t. You can go to jail for suggesting Germany’s support of Israel is support of genocide.

                    That’s another lie. Strike three by my count and personally my limit of where I can still maybe see someone as wanting to have an honest conversation. Bye.