As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

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[–] orlyowl@piefed.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It’s up to the admins of the instances and not the devs to curate and this is one of the main reasons why I don’t trust the piefed dev.

Can you elaborate on that? Asking for curiosity, not to challenge you.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The two main lists that are implemented by default are a defederation list and huge huge listof blocked domains which includes wikileaks for instance, there are other lists (I don't know if the "trusted instance" list comes prepopulated) and almost all can be emptied or added to. But that means that an admin that sets up the software has to go through a whole rigmarole to get the instance to neutral before being able to do what they think is best. And hope they didn't miss anything.

In the case of the blocked domains it's particularly grating since it has like 4000 entries that you either have to delete one-by-one or have to do a manual db transaction to empty the list and that is by design. Plus all you get as a warning that such a list exists is one line during the setup that says Added 'No-QAnon' blocklist, see https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon but it's definitely not just QAnon links.

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

FYI, next version of PieFed has an "Unban All" button for clearing all domain bans to try to make this easier.

Screenshot from my instance:

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Oh that's good to hear. It sucks that people have to constantly fight the dev to keep his opinions out of the code though, must be tiring for all involved surely...

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

PieFed has a default list of domains/instances that are blocked when you do a fresh install for a brand new instance. A critical difference between PieFed and the Tesseract blocks is that any of the blocks in PieFed are completely visible to, and under the control of the admins of the instance. So, ultimately, it is just an out-of-the-box default, but the instance admins always have ultimate control over moderation/federation choices. This Tesseract stuff is taking those powers away from the admins.