I haven’t seen it yet lol

Pretty well, too

At this point? Fuck it. Sure.

And I wouldn’t have gotten into a pointless fight if Rimu didn’t randomly pick one by saying that simple criticism was “coordinated harassment”. But you do you. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Cool. I am not making demands of the developer. I’m just saying that his behavior is problematic as hell. Honestly, so is yours if you’re going to repeatedly dodge the point being made. Problematic behavior doesn’t get to be dismissed just because its open source. People are allowed to criticise something even if it is open source. That defense is worthless.

Invalid comparison. Rimu is not a simple admin, he is a dev of the leading alternate competitor to Lemmy and is personally hardcoding his bias into the project itself.

You want to try that again but with a more accurate comparison?

With how Rimu has been behaving recently, I wouldn’t be surprised if he just started screaming that the vulnerability doesn’t exist if you brought him up to him privately. He doesn’t listen to anyone but himself and pressure on his ego. Reasonable admins get reasonable responses. Tyrants can cry about it.

Blaze has lot all respect and credibility from me. He will criticize what he does not like and dismiss criticism of what he does. I used to think he was reasonable and at least listen to others but, from what I can tell, all he does is pretend to sit on the fence while having some pretty strong opinions with his toes in the grass.

Brother, Rimu is an enemy of the fediverse. Why? Because he re-created reddit. He basically reinvented shadow banning, controls the narrative of his instance, actively keeps spreading misinformation about other instances and users, will actively suppress certain instances using his platform and lashes out against criticism like a petty tyrant.

I’m tired of this nonsense that “We’re all here to leave reddit!” Yes. We are here to leave reddit. So stop giving Spez 2.0 a pass.

Rimu is. The rest of them are either tacking onto his coattails because they believe they’ll also gain some amount of control, believe (naively) that they can control him or are buying into his bullshit as the single irrefutable source.

I’ve got no other explanation for why he’s banning users that he has already defederated from. The only way he could be coralling that list is if he’s looking at stuff from another instance and attempting to control the narrative for other admins.

Here.

He pushed that into the code of Piefed at the same time that he was getting criticized a few days ago. Added the feature specifically to control the narrative.

No. It isn’t. Because adding in a filter for a single user is extremely fucking problematic and should be left up to admins to ban or users to block.

Well, he already admitted that guardrails should have been put up on lemmy to prevent memes from taking root. So why not put up guardrails for users he doesn’t like?

Oh wait.

He did.

He made an anti-cm0002 filter.

The only thing I ever did was post screenshots of his own statements and evidence that he was either actively lying or being a confused old man.

The only thing I’ve ever said to him was pushing back against his criticism with screenshots of evidence that proved him wrong.

He is not removing people for a coordinated harassment campaign. He is removing people to silence dissent and exert a stranglehold on his platform and his own ego.

PTB is, quite literally, not strong enough. He is an active danger to the entire fediverse as a whole. He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed and has proven that not only is he a manchild incapable of regulating his own emotions and ego.

Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you’re helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.

It’s also kind of strange that Iso@lemy.lol is on that list. They’re a former admin of lemy.lol who had beef with Rimu but Rimu defederated from lemy.lol a while ago over their logo. The fact that he’s banning that user in amongst all the others kind of proves that this is a personal hitlist and not harassment. Otherwise, why are you banning a user that you’ve defederated from?

I don’t know. But it’s gotten to the point that I don’t trust any piefed instances anymore at all. Rimu pushed a piece of code into Piefed a few days ago specifically to silence criticism against him and to silently delete/block posts on Piefed. He is exerting such an extreme amount of control onto the entire platform itself that I cannot trust the platform itself.

Every piefed instance, as far as I’m concerned at this point, comes with an enormous asterisk.

Iso@lemy.lol is the former admin of lemy.lol. It’s also a bit odd because Piefed.social defederated from lemy.lol over their logo and Iso has told Rimu to go fuck himself a few times over it. The fact that he decided to block him here and now is telling because it proves its a personal hitlist and not coordinated harassment as he wants to claim. Otherwise, why wasn’t he blocked prior? And even then, why block an account now from a defederated instance?

Oh there are a bunch of great ones if you wanna stay on Lemmy, and I do recommend staying on Lemmy at the moment. At least until a De-Rimu’d fork of Piefed is available. He’s been having… a time lately and that time seems to involve a lot of misunderstandings at best or outright misinformation at worst. Combine that with weaponizing his platform… eh.

For Lemmy, Dbzer0 is a good one, as proven by the fact that they have handled this with more grace than anyone else at the LW team. Quok.ka (I’m probably fucking up where the period is or missing a letter) is also a solid one with great admins. Blahaj.zone has really protective admins if you’re queer and tired of dealing with bigots. Those admins tend to be a wall that deals with a ton of shit and deserve all the praise for the crap they see to protect others from. I mean all admins do but them especially with the level of bigotry. Lemy.lol just had cm0002 take over so that’ll be a good spot for memes, why I started posting there recently. Lemmy.ca seems to be pretty reasonable.

I do not personally recommend lemmy.ml but I don’t condemn those who use it or the admins. Just personal differences which is how lemmy be. Startrek.website has actively abusive admins and wouldn’t recommend there either. Hexbear is… hexbear.

I’m sure there are others off hand but my brain is currently a soup

Rimu is single handedly generating so much misinformation and nonsense that essentially anyone else who works on Piefed alongside of him is becoming radioactive. Not sure how much I want to trust someone who is willing to help further Rimu’s behavior. Working on Piefed used to be a bullet point and it is rapidly turning into an asterisk.