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Excuse me while I go donate even more money to PieFed
PieFed dev here.
The screenshotted post is very misleading. As you'd expect from a hexbearian. It is not a baked-in ban.
Hexbear is mentioned in the PieFed source code, as an initial default value for the defederation list. That list is quite long and includes various instances that have been a source of trolls, CSAM and spam in the past (mostly Mastodon instances). As part of the normal setup process it is assumed that instance admins will review that list and alter it as they see fit. They can change it any time by going to instance.tld/admin/federation.
Do not take anything a hexbearian says at face value.
That's exactly what this is, an initial defed list. Even the way they present this is disingenous as fuck, calling it a "one way federation, silencing our voices" or some other weird phrasing, making it sound like some underhanded/hidden hardcoded piece just for them, when it's just a boring-ass defederation with one instance among many others. How difficult is it to say "piefed software defederates hexbear by default"? Everyone knows what that fucking means!
I honestly don't understand why everything has to be taken so goddamn uncharitably by the regulars on that instance. It blows my mind how they manage to always act in bad faith. Always.
I honestly don't understand why everything has to be taken so goddamn uncharitably by the regulars on that instance. It blows my mind how they manage to always act in bad faith. Always.
It's pretty straightforward, imo, they built a feedback loop into their instance culture that encouraged social dopamine junkies to participate in toxic behaviors, valuing things like "dunking", othering, and dehumanizing the out group (non-hexies) over things like factuality, good faith, and not being dicks.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this also wouldn't mean "one way federation" right? There would just be no synching at all.
we need a fediverse-wide boycott of hexbear
And lemmyml
less so but yeah they’re pretty toxic
Idk, just got done reading yet another monologue from Cowbee about how the PRC really is better than the U.S. in every single way — I'd personally weigh .ml as being much more toxic.
Not sure I dig baking it into the code, that starts walking into the broken by design space. Feasibly the tankies developing Lemmy could do the same to any instance not painted the right shade of red.
I might propose instead a step in setup, or on demand, to select major instances to allow/deny federation from with a description of them. Impossible to keep a list of every new instance up to date, but catching the major hubs shouldn't be impossible.
Edit: For all those who replied along the lines of it being optional not a hard coded block, point noted. I should expect no less misleading a post from a pool of people prone to leaving out vital facts.
My understanding as it being an opt-out default defederation is still a bit grating since I tend to think of software as a neutral tool rather than promoting specific ideals, but it's far better than a fixed in state and does serve some purpose to shield new users from some of the most egregiously bad actors.
I don’t know if this is the answer, but it sure sounds like a step in the right direction.
It's just a default ban that can be turned off if desired.
Sane defaults make self-hosting approachable.
Fediverse wide
Do they think they have influence beyond the ML instances?
think
There is the error in the logic.
It's exhausting wasting effort on those that put none in.
There's a lot of .ml users who make accounts on sjw and fail at radicalizing those users.
It's just a default block on grad and hex when creating a new instance which can be toggled off. Keep coming crying with your ALTs Tankies no one wants to deal with your incessant propaganda.
Based.
The only thing better than this was Nutomic whining that he needs more donations to feed his family (he literally said this) but absolutely refusing to just ask Dessalines to chill the fuck out with the tankie censorship shit.
Why bother with the 1 way federation, though?
So your users can go on their instance, I guess? That's not a great reason. Cut them off or don't.
Agreed, there is no good reason for a one way federation with a trash instance.
Even if the idea is that they have communities that aren't horrible, the taint is strong enough that the same communities should just be promoted on non/less shitty instances.
I think it’s the other way around, actually. It sounds like hex users are actually receiving posts from outside but it’s their own content that is being blocked
IMO, it's not great regardless of which direction it's going. Fuck ML'ers, but it isn't really necessary to create one-way engagement with them.
What gets me is that their users are so smug. It's really off-putting.
I mean I think that is a bad and unhealthy idea. If piefed.social, world or a particular instance wants to set it up that way then go ahead, sure, but I do think it should be up to the admin using the software to decide which servers this should or shouldn't apply to rather than what sounds like an opt-out scheme. I mean sure go ahead, code how you like, who am I to judge, but I'm only saying it in consideration of best practices.
If HB runs into the silly issue again that almost lost them their domain (and temporarily switched to chapo.chat), this code will be a maintenance burden just because of the developer's specific grudge.
I'm saying this as a user happy about the fact that my instance defederated hexbear and lemmygrad, there are cool communities there, but they are an insufferable bunch.
I believe they further clarified that there are specific default filter sets that can be loaded when a new piefed instance is created, not that they are literally removed in code.
Here's the comments discussing it:
I'd say don't block anything at the top and let users filter their own feed as they see fit, except blocking communities is not very effective, in my experience.
More robust filtering and sorting for the user would be welcome. For instance, Reddit Enhancement Suite lets me hover over a name that has an "ignore" button for users, and a "filter" button for subs. That's very user-friendly and effective there. The same here would be a good addition.
I understand that the structure of Fediverse makes this more challenging.
