• Skavau@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    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.

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      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.

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        This again is completely baseless. You have not spoken to Rimu regarding this and have zero idea of his motives. I see zero connection here. I can easily imagine a hypothetical communist social space designing a block system to work in the same way.

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          But we aren’t talking about hypotheticals, we are talking about real views and someone who allows those views to influence their development of FOSS.

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            4 hours ago

            Again, no reason to connect Rimus anti-communist position with his stance on how blocking should work. They have zero relation.

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              No reason to say they have zero relation. If we consider it a scale of relation between 0 and 100, it’s just as unreasonable to say it has 0 relation as it is to say that they are fully related. My point is that it has some influence.

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                  I already have, Rimu opposes the widespread communist presence on Lemmy and is making tools that make it easier to censor views admins deem unsavory. I even gave you an example of it in practice.

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                    4 hours ago

                    The blocking tool is not an admin-level tool. Anyone can block.

                    Would you argue that the anti-AI checks on Piefed constitute an attempt to try to censor communists?