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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 81 points 3 weeks ago (60 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.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Totally agree with you. Which sucks because I really wanted to like the project. But the more stuff that comes out about it and the creator just makes me shake my head.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Same here. I even tried it, finding the whole project tainted with Rimus outspoken ideals. While, on lemmy, all the bullshit is in the open and corralled into the devs pet instance.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I appreciate how the lemmy developers keep their views and moderation decisions separate from the software. Opinions and moderation are unavoidably divisive topics. Keeping that separate from the software itself is smart. I don't hold their views against the lemmy platform because of that separation.

I wish Rimu would see the wisdom in keeping those things separate. Its damaging to piefed, which is otherwise quite good.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish Rimu would see the wisdom in keeping those things separate. Its damaging to piefed, which is otherwise quite good.

Sadly it isn't possible as they're less making a federation software as trying to make their own vision of what social media should be.

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[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well we have PyLova as an option now, and it's coming along nicely now it's been largely stripped of Rimu's dark patterns. It's definitely worth considering moving your genAI comms over to AN because they would be more protected from trolls.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's probably a good idea. I'll look into it.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Awesome sauce :)

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 7 points 3 weeks 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 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago

That would only happen if lemmy world admins disagreed with rimu

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Based on some of the comments in this thread it's people who are still ignoring red flags, projecting onto others, and still would rather insult others that aren't those dirty fucking tankies than be willing to acknowledge any flaws with rimu or the piefed code

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