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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Rimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.

This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911

This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 88 points 1 day ago (68 children)

I don't see how people can still use piefed with someone like this in charge. A new red flag pops up every month. It's hard to see them among all the other red flags.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, they need to be able to see the red flags for them to get them to leave.

This community doesn't exist on piefed.social, so anything posted here isn't visible to anyone there.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

If he's manipulating how the fediverse looks so much, maybe a defederation is in order.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Some people still believe @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml are out to get them I guess. It's ironic because every talking point about developer overreach and unilateral decisions applies to piefed more than it does Lemmy. I know it has more features and it feels like Lemmy 1.0 is taking forever, I'm still holding out hope for it and making do with what we have here.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 2 points 10 hours ago

Some people still believe Dessalines and Nutomic are out to get them I guess.

But then they can come to Mbin instead of Piefed! We don't have any of these issues.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 46 points 1 day ago (10 children)

good news, nobody who like Piefed has to use it. we've gotten PyLova to the point it's running Quokk.au and Anarchist.Nexus, and we've not only removed the censorship and the bias, but we've also improved the UI, made some new themes, and most important of all patched some security vulnerabilities.

at this point it's better than Piefed in every way.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

This is my first hearing of PyLova, could I get a rundown? Is it a fork of piefed? Seperate project? Are there things it has that piefed doesnt, or things piefed has that PyLova doesnt currently? What's the state of app support (I assume not there presently, which is totally fair)

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It's a fork of piefed that's currently more feature advanced. If you scroll through the comments on this post somebody else posted more details about said features.

App support is identical to piefed, since the api is the same.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 23 hours ago

Just wanna say the new themes slap, got my vaporwave fix.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rimu is not just instance-beefing, he's so salty he's going against the whole FOSS ethos just to be as petty as possible. PTB.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 98 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Wait piefed has a secret shadowban list too?

Did they learn nothing from Tessaract?

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I fucking knew it.

“You can’t trust those commies who make Lemmy! I know, I‘ll put in secret censorship to protect others from that I think is wrong! I’m the savior of the world!”

You can feed this pie right up your ass 🖕

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

Every accusation is projection projection

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Tesseract rants did mention that Rimu should thank him for taking the heat off of him for his blocking.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure they did it first, so if anything tessaract learned something from them.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 hours ago

Tesseract just learned they should hid it better

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 day ago

Actually, tesseract learned from rimu

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.

Is this person like... actually important in some way, or do they just... loudly think that about themself?

They're a piefed dev/contributor or something?

[–] sudo@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rimu initially made PieFed because he wanted more moderation tools that the lemmy devs didn't want. It was always about censorship for him.

All the original PieFed fanboy power users and slowly realizing that they picked a fascist over the communists.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well TIL, thank you.

... fucking hell, goddamnit.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 hours ago

Going off the extra mod tools/features,it's very much rimu wants to try and make the next version of social media. One that makes reddits control over users look like child play in comparison.

Basically if you don't act like how rimu wants the walled garden to be you get progressively filtered out

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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

PTB, but it’s Rimu so what can you expect?

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

Yeah, this is PTB.

You can't just shut down an otherwise on topic comment because you don't like it. I mean, you can, but if it's in this situation you're using your position to block dissent. That's literally what power tripping is.

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