A random awful.systems user posted the recent disinfo about the FAF using LLMs for moderation. I went in and tried to clarify the situation, and I admit I got kinda upset when they kept ignoring my statements in order to be snarky. Eventually I believed we reached an understanding but I was sadly mistaken which I should have imagine as awful.systems residents kept downvoting all my replies.
As I finished writing a post to explain our official instance policy, I noticed they just jumped to defederation anyway, the reason being...the same disinfo I just went through a lot of effort to debunk. They just called my debunking of the disinfo as "DARVO" which is just disgusting trivialization of harasser behaviour by @dgerard, but I digress.
Anyway I finished my post and once I posted it in our instance, I thought they would at least allow me simply to link to it to provide what we actually believe.
Lol, nope, instant delete and ban
Here's their charming admin casually admitting that even though we explicitly told them this is not what we're doing, they just going to disbelieve and make up their own headcanon.
Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised, dgerard has been known to spread disinfo, so this is just more of the same.
I don't understand your logic mate, you put everyone critical of the piefed.social team in the same camp and assigning direct responsibility for anything anyone critical of piefed.social (or piefed itself) does, to all in that camp. It doesn't work that way. People are responsible for their own actions. Yogthos actions do not represent Sunshine. Sunshine's actions do not represent myself, and so on.
As far as "killing the threadiverse" is concerned, all you got to do to stop this is...stop escalating. The more you ban people, especially on flimsy or faulty reasoning, the more they're going to want to talk about it, especially since piefed.social presented itself as an alternative "neutral" instance, making a lot of people migrate their communities and accounts there, and is now taking radical actions disconnecting people from their communities, based on nothing more than vibes.
I can't believe that every day I have to see a new drama thread about piefed or rimu or piefed.social. I can honestly say I've never seen such a level of crash-out before. Do you not see how this works? The more you push people, the more they'll push back.