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.
If I want to point something out that a shithole site is promoting, I don’t need admin to put up a baby gate so I can’t talk about it. I don’t know how that relates to legitimizing anything.
You can literally just say :shitholesite said “very evil shit”. No need to feed clicks to their website.
Sounds like what a right-wing dipshit would say.
How so? Do we even have cons on lemmy?
The gatekeeping is to take away a cornerstone of misinformation. If brigading and manipulation didn’t work the world wouldn’t be in the state it is today. I run into conservatives frequently, even the question is disingenuous.
So I want to link to things idiots on reddit r/con are saying to point out a trend in right wing media, and that makes it spreading disinfo?
Yeah, it’s not worth losing this place to them.
Losing it to… reddit cons? You’re not even on piefed. If you’re so worried about disinfo why don’t you switch instances?
I have a piefed account as well, as of recently. Just odd that you’re so adamant about allowing misinformation.
OK well, the rest of us with good media literacy will keep checking the bad places and let you know what to watch out for. Hurry on over to your safe account now before you get swayed by info you can’t be sure about.
That’s a good point. Lemmygrad doesn’t disallow links to anywhere, because it trusts its users to have a solid ideological foundation and the media literacy to read anything without catching ideological “cooties.”
In fact, I often say that liberals believe in the cooties theory of ideas. They usually don’t understand how ideas develop or spread, nor how propaganda actually works. Previously. Previously.
The only reason any instance online doesn’t get brigaded, botted, and psyop-ed to hell is because of the low user count and impact, currently. Again, the proof is in the pudding. It works on entirely too many people.
I’m afraid you are correct. They’ve had their eye on us for a while now. They just haven’t deployed significant resources on us yet.
I don’t trust you as the “misinformation decider”, heaven forbid.
And you don’t have to, genius.