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.
My solution: make blocklists subscription-based. I don’t mean for money, though like most of the Fediverse, donations would be accepted.
What I mean is, there’d be an independent site that maintains a list of everything that could be blocked with keywords that specify why you might want to block it. People who run instances can make a custom, dynamic block list based on keywords that they want to block.
Say we have a tag, “paedo shit.” I suppose most people would want to block that.
But say we also have a tag, “Zionist.” So some instance would block that. Others wouldn’t.
Now say you’re running some site, you go to this site and see you’re flagged as Zionist. You don’t think you are, so you contest it with your reasoning. This opens a thread and anyone can comment on it.
Now when you go to block all “Zionist” sources, you have an option to also include all “contested” sources as well. If you say yes, it doesn’t matter what they say. You’re taking the source repository at their word. If you say no, you are presented with the sources that have contested it, and you can read the threads, and add or exclude them as you like.
How is this a bad plan? (In the words of my boy Luis Guzman from The Count of Monte Cristo (2002, Kevin Reynolds))
sounds like exactly what piefied did, they provide a default set of sites and you’re free to adjust them on your instance as you feel.
Adding a check for the latests posts and the one flagged and see if any of those are blacklisted would mark the instance as not reliable. If 24 hours later the links aren’t down it gets an automatic block.