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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    5 days ago

    Oh, nice! It’s good to see progress. So this line from OP:

    there is no easy opt-out

    Is outdated? All 3k+ addresses can be removed from this interface?

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      5 days ago

      If they want to click 3000 buttons, yes. These buttons are not new functionality, it’s been like that since the beginning.

      Easier just to empty the relevant database table! It’s called ‘domain’ if anyone in the future finds this.