rimu has pretty strong opinions on social media. This filter is optional and can be turned on/off by an admin. Some of my contributions to piefed have been to make filters or features that are strongly opinionated like this optional. For piefed.social specifically though, rimu has all of them on because that is his instance and he runs it the way he wants.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not entirely against banning 4chan content (as you said, it's his instance), but I think doing it this way is sloppy at best, and deceptive at worst.

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 29 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't necessarily disagree. I haven't really taken a close look at how this is implemented, but it also hasn't really been a high priority to revisit, at least not for me. There are still plenty of more fundamental features to get right first in my opinion. The big one I have worked on for the next piefed version is to get local sticky posts working for example.

My experience from working with rimu though is that he has been pretty receptive with contributions to make it less opinionated in these kinds of ways. I have removed or made optional tons of stuff that he spent time coding and I haven't really gotten any pushback from him over it. I know it kind of makes me sound like a douche to just say open a PR, but if somebody out there feels strongly about this filter, that is probably the fastest way to get it changed.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

Interesting. If this is intentional, it could be easy to change. Maybe I'll take a look at the code tomorrow and see if I can change it

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 4 weeks ago

Actually he seems pretty cool

[–] blockityblock@piefed.zip 23 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

How do I know whether my instance has these filters applied or not? And if rimu is putting "deliberately misleading error messages", how can I be sure of anything?

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, as a developer if you ever catch yourself thinking "my software should lie to the user", probably take a step back and reconsider.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm on your instance. I never encountered any of the filters mentioned in this thread.

You can always the details on !home@piefed.zip to be sure, the admins are quite reactive.

[–] blockityblock@piefed.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was hoping to see a page with the list of instance rules. Mastodon and PixelFed seem to have one.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

The code of conduct is linked in the About page showed at the bottom of the page

https://piefed.zip/coc

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean okay sure, you can disable these things. But the fact that they are enabled out of the box in the software as written is a huge red flag.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, it speaks to the developer having a philosophy that is really at odds with the concept of open communication. I'm no free speech absolutist, but some of these restrictions are just ridiculous.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago

the filter this post is about and most of the others mentioned in this thread are off by default.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/b168820a089ff6e835059f0d806f81b612987a79/app/models.py#L3513

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 10 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sure you will be pleased to know that the filter this post is about and most of the others mentioned in this thread are, in fact, off by default.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/b168820a089ff6e835059f0d806f81b612987a79/app/models.py#L3513