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.
Oh no, so when I eventually set up my own piefed instance, I’ll have to spend ten more minutes then initially expected? That’s awful.
You’re going to go through several thousands of links in ten minutes all to… maybe have a slightly less reddit like experience?
It takes you more than 10 minutes to run a db transaction?
…Do you think that is auditing a list?
Do you know what auditing is?
No, the physical action of removing things you already know from a list that may or may not include them is not the problem. No one has claimed it is.
What is the problem is going through the list, thousands of entries, and finding out if they’re accurate to what has been claimed. That take going to every single site you don’t necessarily recognize, which for a list of thousands will be thousands, and doing even the bare minimum of research.
Why would you audit the list? Just remove it lol
Cool, now you can be spammed by scam sites. Since its the same list.
So you’re starting from zero. Congrats. Hope your instance is never, ever actually populated otherwise your entire experience hosting the instance will be spent doing moderation.
Lmao okay, so how would you have it handled then?
Blocklist? Dystopian.
No blocklist? Spam city.
Enlighten us.
Don’t offer it by default. Offer a feature. Then, separately entirely from the project, offer a block list or set of block lists. Have that extra step.
Nearly all software users, and yes especially self-hosting server admins, use default settings. By declaring yourself as the arbiter of all things bad and including it by default, you have changed your software from a neutral party, to one that is the arbiter of truth that requires effort to turn off, and that’s not something most are going to do.
Thus whatever you say becomes the majority opinion. This isn’t a new or surprising opinion btw, it’s the literal reason the DMCA has section 230 in the US, and all countries have something similar for platforms, scientific journals, and news organizations.
So looks like you concede that your take that it would require ages to remove the blocklist because you would have to check 1000s of sources one by one or have absolutely no blocklist was completely stupid.
But no blocklist by default = spam city. You already ruled that out when I suggested doing that for PieFed.
Try again?