The argument you’re making is that the views, opinions, and ideas held by people have no impact on what they design or how if there isn’t a “smoking gun” linking them. This is absurd, though, as we couldn’t create without views, ideas, and opinions, and we cannot sipmply shut out all views we hold when creating. Rimu has already proven willingness to do so with default blocking Hexbear and Lemmygrad to begin with.
I’m aware others disagree with me, I’ve said PieFed exists for those that want it and Lemmy for those that want it. Others disagree with you, and that’s fine.
The argument you’re making is that the views, opinions, and ideas held by people have no impact on what they design or how if there isn’t a “smoking gun” linking them. This is absurd, though, as we couldn’t create without views, ideas, and opinions, and we cannot sipmply shut out all views we hold when creating. Rimu has already proven willingness to do so with default blocking Hexbear and Lemmygrad to begin with.
I’m saying that the way in which Piefed handles blocking functions has nothing to do with Rimus position on Hexbear/Lemmygrad. I can’t see the meaningful connection there at all.
Most admin tools on Piefed, by the way, are crafted on the basis of trying to mitigate AI spam, trolling, abuse etc. Do you accept that?
Rimu has made it clear that communist views are to be hidden and obscured, and implementing harsher censorship options that allows prominent users like Open Stars to publicly and repeatedly bash me with no way for me to clear my name directly can be seen as an example of the end result of this. It makes less sense to thoroughly divorce the two and say there’s absolutely 0 overlap than it does to say that there may be slight overlap.
The “harsher censorship option” here is simply the blocking system which was not designed specifically to censor communists. Because a user with a specific grievance with it has blocked you doesn’t somehow make it designed for it anymore than if a lemmy.ml blocked PugJesus and kept complaining about them (knowing PugJesus could not respond as he is based on piefed).
I simply fail to see the relevant connection between deciding how blocking should function on Piefed and being anti-communist here at all. I think a position on harassment is a far more likely relevant aspect here. You are making completely baseless assumptions. There’s nothing that really can be done at an admin/instance level to somehow specifically mitigate communism beyond blocking Hexbear/Lemmygrad in the first place.
My point isn’t that harassment isn’t a reason for the blocking anti-feature, but that Rimu’s anti-communism is also likely having an impact on making stronger censorship tools. Again, you’re reading absolutes when I’m talking about influence.
The argument you’re making is that the views, opinions, and ideas held by people have no impact on what they design or how if there isn’t a “smoking gun” linking them. This is absurd, though, as we couldn’t create without views, ideas, and opinions, and we cannot sipmply shut out all views we hold when creating. Rimu has already proven willingness to do so with default blocking Hexbear and Lemmygrad to begin with.
I’m aware others disagree with me, I’ve said PieFed exists for those that want it and Lemmy for those that want it. Others disagree with you, and that’s fine.
I’m saying that the way in which Piefed handles blocking functions has nothing to do with Rimus position on Hexbear/Lemmygrad. I can’t see the meaningful connection there at all.
Most admin tools on Piefed, by the way, are crafted on the basis of trying to mitigate AI spam, trolling, abuse etc. Do you accept that?
Rimu has made it clear that communist views are to be hidden and obscured, and implementing harsher censorship options that allows prominent users like Open Stars to publicly and repeatedly bash me with no way for me to clear my name directly can be seen as an example of the end result of this. It makes less sense to thoroughly divorce the two and say there’s absolutely 0 overlap than it does to say that there may be slight overlap.
The “harsher censorship option” here is simply the blocking system which was not designed specifically to censor communists. Because a user with a specific grievance with it has blocked you doesn’t somehow make it designed for it anymore than if a lemmy.ml blocked PugJesus and kept complaining about them (knowing PugJesus could not respond as he is based on piefed).
I never said that it was specifically designed to censor communists. You keep reading absolutes out of my comments when I am talking about influence.
I see no reason to believe that Rimus anti-communist disposition has anything whatsoever to do with how he set up the block system.
I see no reason whatsoever to believe that Rimu’s anti-communist stances have absolutely nothing to do with features implemented into PieFed.
I simply fail to see the relevant connection between deciding how blocking should function on Piefed and being anti-communist here at all. I think a position on harassment is a far more likely relevant aspect here. You are making completely baseless assumptions. There’s nothing that really can be done at an admin/instance level to somehow specifically mitigate communism beyond blocking Hexbear/Lemmygrad in the first place.
My point isn’t that harassment isn’t a reason for the blocking anti-feature, but that Rimu’s anti-communism is also likely having an impact on making stronger censorship tools. Again, you’re reading absolutes when I’m talking about influence.