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I know nothing about
lemmy.world, butlemmy.mlandhexbear.netare filled with tankies (aka angry teenagers IMHO) and have been defederated with a lot of instances.lemmy.mlis writing the original source code of Lemmy, but I don't remember any betrayal. Most users are not throwing mud, we mostly and politely ignore each other I guess.(anyway, come to https://piefed.social/ instead because it's the best frontend!)
Is Piefed still using a hidden shadowban list?
When did that happen? I've only heard of that frontend UI doing that
The history is a bit confusing because the frontend scandal you’re referring to was for a frontend called “tesseract”, but piefed has also long had a questionable blacklist of phrases applied to screenshots and stuff using the Tesseract OCR toolkit. Piefed has been much more open about it than the frontend dev was, but it’s the same idea:
https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/04/anti-fascist-piefed-features/
I hadn’t caught this blog post previously, thanks for sharing
And they killed pugJesus!
He was a bit of a zionist, but otherwise decent.
Its instance based and not hidden. Last time I checked(?) Its been a while since I dove into the source code. But anyone can.
Yes
Tankies are not just "angry teenagers" but in fact hostile advocates of militaristic dictatorships, many of whom are under their direct employ.
Piefed.social and most piefed is created by a man baby that bans anyone that ask or criticizes his shitty decisions. Check numbers and you'll see that over the past several months Piefed has been slowly decreasing in daily active users.
It there some alternative raising up?