Post by @rimu@piefed.social

2026-10-17 20:20 UTC

With the silencing and default-block setup piefed.social has now, we get all the benefits of defederation without any of the costs. There really hasn’t been the kind of crisis with them that would bring the issue to a head. When there are problems it’s not with the admins, it’s with individual accounts. So we just muddle on. There are worse instances. We can’t divide and fight our way to a fediverse that defeats reddit / meta. We need to build something together. Sometimes that will mean excluding destructive elements but most of our energy needs to go into making something awesome, a place people want to come to instead of big tech offerings.

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@Pratai@piefed.ca 2026-10-17 20:28

The problem is, remaining federated with them is supporting them, hidden or not. Silencing them just cuts them off on one side. .ml trolls still see content created on the instance. I see any instance not willing to completely cut ties with that shithole as supporting it. Even in the smallest way. And frankly, I don’t understand why anyone would NOT disassociate with them. They have proven themselves to not want anything to do with fair discourse or allow facts into any discussion. This isn’t an opinion, this is very well documented. Not only is there an entire community dedicated to calling them out- but the modlogs are full of those asshole admins banning anyone they disagree with regardless if they violated any of the posted rules. Who would want to be a part of this? If you’re not defederated from it entirely; you support it.

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