PieFed Flagship Instance Shadowbanning Instances from Discoverability & Other Questionable Updates
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Yes the game of sharing info, which I now see is not allowed here.
I also manage several communities beside this one and i’m doing it during my free time. So…
Oh so you should have more moderation here. Unless saying all the mod accounts are the same person?
Yes the game of sharing info, which I now see is not allowed here.
No. I did the same for the three posts before, i’m applying the same rules.
If i don’t allow to share information, then explain to me :
- why those three posts are here ? And the comments from mia ? dbzer0 ? Everyone exposed their point of view.
I was talking about the game of playing dumb with the intention to trigger a certain reaction from myself. Maybe i’m wrong ?
Furthermore, the discussion is open. It is allowed on a limited timeframe like the three posts.
Unless saying all the mod accounts are the same person?
They are not the same person.
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Yes the game of sharing info, which I now see is not allowed here.
No. I did the same for the three posts before, i’m applying the same rules.
If i don’t allow to share information, then explain to me :
- why those three posts are here ? And the comments from mia ? dbzer0 ? Everyone exposed their point of view.
I was talking about the game of playing dumb with the intention to trigger a certain reaction from myself. Maybe i’m wrong ?
Furthermore, the discussion is open. It is allowed on a limited timeframe like the three posts.
Unless saying all the mod accounts are the same person?
They are not the same person.
I was talking about the game of playing dumb with the intention to trigger a certain reaction from myself. Maybe i’m wrong ?
It wasn’t but again that’s your reaction tells me everything
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cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/37047080
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/887450/piefed-flagship-instance-shadowbanning-instances-from-discoverability-other-questionable-upd
This morning while checking if Quokk.au’s new instance logo was federated out, I discovered that overnight we had been shadowbanned from the PieFed.Social Instance Chooser (This is a tool to help spread out users across the platform and help avoid funnelling users into the largest.)
Knowing that Rimu was happy to explain, I just asked for some clarification as we were visible on every other PieFed instance except his.
Apparently for ’ obvious reasons ', of which I can only assume is our left leaning anarchist/pro-trans stance we were chosen not be advertised on the PieFed flagship instance and first point of contact for many potential new users. Seeing as a large portion of our new users found us via this method, it will have a tangible effect on a small instance such as ours.
This was a pretty sad sight to see, and reflects the sort of petty drama that is emanating from the PieFed project lately. It’s now the third such move to discredit and harm left leaning instances by PieFed’s lead developer. This also shows a trend towards autocratic unilateral decision-making on Piefed.social, of which is starting to be run as a personal fiefdom without consulting the team or users.
I must commend Lemmy.ml for remaining neutral and not letting its own political leanings influence join-lemmy.org, while simultaneously condemn PieFed.social for this immature move that is harmful to the health of the Fediverse.
Following this exchange, Rimu announced a new update to PieFed allowing for some rather concerning things.
- Modlog: Reason for the action is only shown from trusted instances, so abusive mods won’t have an audience. Admins can still see the reason though. Which instances are trusted is set in the admin UI.
This feature means problematic users can now go undetected, and will harm moderators ability to view their past moderation history. For example PieFed.social runs a ‘trusted’ list of only 34 instances, meaning any mod action taken by any of the hundreds of instances outside of this will not show up. So for example if Quokk.au was to ban a user for transphobia (our most common ban), this will not be reflected for piefed.social users potentially leading towards more hate speech on the Fediverse.
- Instance silencing similar to Mastodon. A silenced instance is not defederated from but their posts do not show in the Popular or All feeds and their communities are not shown in Starter packs aka Topics. Their communities can still be found in the communities list and joined in the normal way. Once joined, posts in there show up in the subscribed feed as usual.
This is another way to shadowban instances and not ‘advertise’ them. Surely if an instance is problematic enough that a defederation would be in order rather than this reddit-like move.
Edit, per comm moderator apparently this time of post has no business in fediverse piefed.social.
Leaving it up but just go ahead and lock it since it’s obviously nothing productive will happen here.
I’m locking the post.
Thank a lot for reading the post and your participation. I’m taking a break and you should too. :3
If you want to continue the current discussion, you can talk there :
https://threadiverse.link/ttrpg.network/post/37047080
There is an interesting idea from unruffled about modlog.
Have a good evening :3
Edit: corrected the bad link.
