PieFed has a dizzying array of settings and options that instance admins can tweak. Most of them have obvious and sensible default values but some of those have been a bit controversial, especially to do with what gets blocked by default. In this post I explain what those are and how they can be configured.
Autoblocking lemmygrad and hexbear is a solid W in my book
Yeah, fuck tankies. All my homies hate tankies.
That’s disgusting, it basically makes anyone using the platform pro imperialism, exploitation and pedophilia. Being tolerant with this kind of people is why the world sucks. I’ll add piefed.social to the default blocklist of my fork.
Tankies support Stalin, an imperialist who surrounded himself with pedophiles.
weak bait, tankie
The “Tankie” Smear: A Confession of Imperialist Bloodlust
You are basically making a libel against e.g. entire Federated Anarchist Flotilla ( /0, anarchist.nexus, quokk.au), which has never been featured on PieFed’s default block list.
No, it’s because those instances are the nexus of a lot of the fediverse’s garbage: the kind of people that unironically decry fascism while adopting a lot of its worst features.
They’re called “tankies” for a reason.
Not to throw shade, and I don’t block either instance, but that is massively overselling them. There are plenty of other anti-imperialist/exploitation/pedophilia instances, communities, and users on Lemmy and PieFed. Not to mention the rest of the world that’s never heard of us.
Lemmygrad and hexbear are openly pro imperialism, genocide, exploitation