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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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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 90 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Wait piefed has a secret shadowban list too?

Did they learn nothing from Tessaract?

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 60 points 3 weeks ago

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 🖕

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It does have a list of instances it defeds from by default, but quokka isn't on it.

Piefed did add the ability to 'silence' instances which hides posts from those instances from the All feed, but posts from communities you subscribe to still show up. It's similar to Lemmy's 'hide community' feature. Quokka is on piefed.social's hidden instance list.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

That feature was made to silence Quokk.au. Rimu added it only after he started melting down and having issues with everyone.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not disputing that, he absolutely did, it's just not really similar to the Tesseract situation.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 weeks ago

That’s fair. Even Rimu said the Tesserect dev went too far.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

Don’t Forget anarchist.nexus

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apparently not, or maybe they just think they can get away with it.

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 weeks ago

Actually, tesseract learned from rimu

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

They say theirs is okay because the options show when setting up the system for admins 🙄

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 81 points 3 weeks ago (62 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 (3 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.

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[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 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.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 3 weeks 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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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 34 points 3 weeks ago

the main author.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 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.

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[–] Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Rimu rehashing old drama?

What is the manchild trying to distract from now, did he invade Iran and fuck up or something?

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I saw the thread without context trying to defend their actions and I just laughed.

"Boy golly, I'm just so new to this FOSS thing!"

Like, I still don't really know the details, but this pattern has gotten old.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

Don’t worry his Sycophants will make the excuses.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Of course he did. This is total PTB!

Which sucks because I loved what Rimu was doing in the beginning by creating piefed. Then he banned me for no reason. Ok, dick move, but ok. I still supported him and his vision. More fediverse stuff, the better I thought.

But then there was the whole karma rating and all that other stuff. Then seeing how he would reply to people who brought stuff up.

Now this. Fuck that guy. He's proving himself to be an ass. Which sucks, because I really wanted to like him.

Total PTB!

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