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.
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.