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Again, no reason to connect Rimus anti-communist position with his stance on how blocking should work. They have zero relation.
No reason to say they have zero relation. If we consider it a scale of relation between 0 and 100, it's just as unreasonable to say it has 0 relation as it is to say that they are fully related. My point is that it has some influence.
Explain to me how they could be connected please.
I already have, Rimu opposes the widespread communist presence on Lemmy and is making tools that make it easier to censor views admins deem unsavory. I even gave you an example of it in practice.
The blocking tool is not an admin-level tool. Anyone can block.
Would you argue that the anti-AI checks on Piefed constitute an attempt to try to censor communists?
I understand that anyone can block, it's almost like you're intentionally missing my point. By deliberately fostering an environment where liberalism is the default, and creating tools to make it easier to shut out minority views entirely, these tools reinforce the dominant viewpoint.
Anyone being able to block doesn't inherently make liberalism the default. That liberalism is broadly the wider default across the Fediverse is incidental here. Rimu was not specifically holding communism in mind when designing the block functions.
In fact, in regard to discussions on this we have had about mitigation tools, most of it relates to community news spammers, trolls, AI trolls etc. Most of the admin level checks are designed with those types of users in mind.
Liberalism is the default on PieFed because the communists are largely on Lemmy and PieFed is largely made up of those jumping from Lemmy.world. It's a liberal-dominated space, and as such tools meant to push out minority views will uphold that. If communism were the default on PieFed then these same tools would push out liberalism, but my point is that this isn't reality.
Piefed federates with the same communities as lemmy.world and most other instances. By "Lemmy" you specifically mean 3 instances.
Yes your argument for the effects of the blocking function here are true based on the wider demographics of the Fediverse - but ultimately that is not why it was designed. That was my point.
You have no evidence that Rimu's views had no impact on why he made it easier to shut out minority views.
Other than my many interactions with him on this stuff and knowing his wider philosophy here. You have zero evidence that he made blocking like that just specifically so users like OpenStars could block you to reduce your spread because you happen to be a communist.
You keep speaking as if I have never interacted with Rimu.
You can't definitively say that Rimu's views have no impact on his work, when we know they do.
We are beyond max comment depth, and aren't going to agree. No point in continuing.
I should have also done this yesterday 😭
They do, to be sure, but you are severely overemphasising his anti-communist positions and injecting it where there is no obvious connection at all. And having spoken to him, I see no reason to make this connection here at all.
Piefed originally hid the mod logs and upvoting and downvoting data from users. Why? Because Rimu felt it could be used to harass and cause drama. It is likely the same mindset from which the blocklist logic comes from.
He eventually mostly about-turned on this due to most people opposing it.
I never once said Rimu is personally attacking me, but building tools to shut out minority opinions and fostering a space where liberalism is the majority.
That could be the impact of the blocking system for some people, but that is not why it was designed like that.