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Fedia and Piefed have baked in code to block their users from seeing our replies, posts, and comments, while allowing a form of one way federation. (hexbear.net)
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I think this warrants a fediverse wide boycott of all piefed/fedia instances until this is rectified.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  1. Trying to help, I know how tedious it can be sometimes
  2. As I said, it can be improved, but we probably disagree on the importance on that problem. It's minor for some people due to how easy the configuration can be changed, it's more important for other people. Everybody will have their opinion on the matter.
  3. I think you misunderstood. Here's the comment I was referring too

I get not wanting to federate with specific instances but the way this works is to just automatically make it one way only unless the person using their fork manually changes it.

This comment implies that admins need to create a fork to modify the federation list. This is incorrect, it's a configuration change.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  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.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

All good then, see you around