cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/46665693
PieFed blocks [email protected] (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
- https://feddit.online/communities?search=enoughmuskspam
- https://piefed.ca/communities?search=enoughmuskspam
- https://piefed.europe.pub/communities?search=enoughmuskspam
The block is only by default. The admin can choose to override it. Many big instances have done so, including
- piefed.social
- piefed.world
- piefed.zip


I was curious so had a look around.
I assume it’s this https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/cfc35b0e1b812d929d62aea87f47014f8ce845b4/app/main/routes.py#L131
if current_user.is_anonymous: flash(_('Create an account to tailor this feed to your interests.')) content_filters = {'-1': {'trump', 'elon', 'musk'}}Some of the complaints about hardcoded values were fixed in the last commits, but the code is a spaghetti mess littered with ad-hoc hacks for random whims of the developers. This is bad software design and disrespectful to users imo, but to each their own.