“Due to feedback from a wider audience than before, some of the idiosyncratic features that I built because of my personal obsessions have been made optional and OFF by default, such as the 4chan meme filter, meme communities being flagged as ‘low quality’ and so on”
The piefed dev made some biased decisions, owned up to their mistakes, fixed it, but lost the trust of many users.
This is what drove me off of piefed and back to a lemmy instance.
"You can be pretty sure anyone with 1488 or even just 88 in their user name is a nazi, for example.
Speaking of which, PieFed has an optional approval queue for new registrations. New accounts with “88” in their name are always put in a different /dev/null queue that leads nowhere. The UI tells them they’re waiting for approval but that approval will never come."
So the dev is shadowbanning people born in 1988 or of asian descent that like the number 888888
https://lemmy.world/post/41022485
https://piefed.social/post/956553
“Due to feedback from a wider audience than before, some of the idiosyncratic features that I built because of my personal obsessions have been made optional and OFF by default, such as the 4chan meme filter, meme communities being flagged as ‘low quality’ and so on”
The piefed dev made some biased decisions, owned up to their mistakes, fixed it, but lost the trust of many users.
This is what drove me off of piefed and back to a lemmy instance.
One more issue: https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/
Again, straight from the dev:
"You can be pretty sure anyone with 1488 or even just 88 in their user name is a nazi, for example.
Speaking of which, PieFed has an optional approval queue for new registrations. New accounts with “88” in their name are always put in a different /dev/null queue that leads nowhere. The UI tells them they’re waiting for approval but that approval will never come."
So the dev is shadowbanning people born in 1988 or of asian descent that like the number 888888
https://sonofchina.com/what-does-888-mean-in-chinese/
This type of hamfisted moderation turned many people off of the platform.