In the runup to the 2024 US election, there was an article about a dramatic surge in voter registrations just as Biden stepped out and Kamala replaced him. I posted it to !notvoting@slrpnk.net and it got removed. Censorship was a dick move and an abuse of power, but at least the mod DMed me to explain why. Most mods are not decent enough to make their censorship transparent.
His rationale was to claim irrelevance to the topic.
Of course, that’s nonense. Voting and not voting are both relevant to communities about voting and not voting. To a “not voting” community, a surge in voter registrations is “bad news” but it’s still relevant news. I said that to the mod, to which there was no response.
It is a manipulated scenario of controlling the narrative. Making sure that only one viewpoint is represented to the point of blocking relevant news from reputable news sources (and discussion thereof).
I did not even write a comment in favor of or against… I simply linked the article. The mod was simply angry at facts.
I mean it’s hardcoded into the project. The main dev did that.
You can now disable it, but when it was introduced, this wasn’t a possibility. They basically made it seem like their opinion is the truth, when it’s not
Right, it was once unable to be disabled. But now it is. I’m aware of Piefeds history on this. I don’t get the huge deal when analysing Piefed instances in general.
The fact that it happened is a red flag to me
Putting purely subjective judgments like this, wanting to categorize a category of people as bad just because you don’t like the same humor than them is wild
I don’t believe people hosting piefed instances are culprit of that. Same goes for Lemmy which is worse.
I criticize the developing choices and the people behind the project, not its users
If they do have this enabled, then I can better evaluate whether I like this instance or not. Same goes for modlog transparency, admin policy…