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Blaze

@ Blaze @piefed.zip

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  • Returning to the fediverse is hard.

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  • Balance is important. I’m thinking about creating a seperate account and blocking all the political communities and filtering by keywords so I can just be here for hobbies and folks chatting when I want that

    That's what I do, having two accounts definitely help!

  • Returning to the fediverse is hard.

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  • PyLova v0.2.2 Released!

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  • Nice to see that Anarchist.nexus moved!

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    Privacy Messenger Session Is Staring Down a 90-Day Countdown to Obscurity

    itsfoss.com /news/session-call-for-donations/
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    who do you think are legendary lemmings?

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    A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/05/hackers-guide-circumventing-internet-shutdowns
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    PieFed Flagship Instance Shadowbanning Instances from Discoverability & Other Questionable Updates

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  • The "obvious reasons" come from the drama I tried to summarize in this comment: https://lemmy.ml/post/47022286/25575766

    If we go down to the core of the issue, there's a fundamental disagreement between some instances on a niche use case: can the modlog be used for permanent slander, without giving people the option to reply?

    Dbzer0, quokk.au and anarchist.nexus instance admins didn't see the value in allowing admins to act on other instances modlogs. Rimu and other people in the Piefed staff were interested in this, hence the new feature regarding the modlog.

    There was some additional tension between Quokk.au admins and Rimu on the way he handled the AI moderation disclosure, leading to a quokk.au admin leaving the channel.

    Now remember that all of this only affects Piefed.social. I've been a Piefed.zip user for 11 months now, and that's the instance I recommend to everyone. Even from a federation perspective, Piefed.zip doesn't defederate from for instance hexbear or lemmygrad (but the Piefed instance blocking is an actual blocking compared to Lemmy's incomplete one).

    Switching between Piefed instances is as easy as it can be.

    Some people will see these decisions for Piefed.social and the new Piefed feature as "drama", but they seem to be a way to deal with what triggered the drama in the first place (slander in modlogs)

  • MAU vs UE

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  • Exciting!

  • This may be a stupid question, but how do you decide in what community to ask questions?

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  • It would be nice if crossposting allowed people from both instance to see and answer in the same message.

    Piefed does this.

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    Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, sign letter opposing UK age verification

    cyberinsider.com /mozilla-mullvad-proton-sign-letter-opposing-uk-age-verification/
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    ‘They protect the law while breaking it’: Inside Europol’s shadow IT system

    www.computerweekly.com /news/366642525/They-protect-the-law-while-breaking-it-Inside-Europols-shadow-IT-system

  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • So at the end of the day, you seem to be calling someone a “bit of a twat” based on policy decisions. Someone who’s donated loads of his personal time, effort and brainwaves to a community project for loads of others to enjoy. Can’t say that sounds particularly cool to me, mate.

    Good summary

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    Proton Mail introduces post-quantum encryption | Proton

    proton.me /blog/introducing-post-quantum-encryption

  • Beware of lemmychan.org: it’s exactly what you’d expect.

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  • Is that supposed to make it better?

    Rimu is not a Zionist. It's this wrong accusation that escalated the tensions. I'll clarify my comment.

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  • Those removal happened in the context of a mod calling Rimu a zionist (which he's not)

    It didn't happen out of nowhere.

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  • Others are doing the same thing. This isn’t “weird” or bad judgment. I don’t like Kaplan but they did nothing wrong here.

    What I'm saying is that even though admins know there were some opinions in the software, they still started Piefed instances. And that's in a world where Lemmy exists.

    In other words, every instance admins assesses whether the additional Piefed features make it worth it to accept the opinionated aspect of the software.

    That's the main value of Piefed here, and that's why so many people prefer it compared to Lemmy. All the features people wanted, be it users, mods, admins, Rimu delivered them, and fast.

    They’re still doing the bad thing.

    Doing something, even imperfectly, but listening to the users, still seem valuable to a lot of people. Some people obviously dislike it a lot, and expect the software to be written be a perfect person, but the devs behind Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin all have their flaws.

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  • Comparing a single open source developer to one of the biggest tech corporations worldwide doesn't really seem relevant.

    Adds in things the higher ups felt was needed.

    Who are the higher ups in this case? There's no Piefed board of management or investors to answer to.

    All of that being said, I'm looking forward the day Pievolution can be run easily, then every instance can make their own choices, and these endless debates will end.

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  • The code is open source, nobody bothers to read it. If that's supposed to be obfuscation, then that's not really effective.

  • Spotted a fediverse sticker for the first time today

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  • Definitely. I think I saw on !home@lemmy.zip monthly update people suggesting the instance staff to do some merch. There's definitely some demand.

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  • I guess the month long conversation I had with Kaplan, head admin of Lemmy.world, about unfucking Piefed because Rimu filled it with his opinionated garbage didn’t happen.

    So Kaplan knew about the "garbage", but still wanted to go on and keep running Piefed.world?

    Either Kaplan's judgement is supposed to be relied on, or not, but that argument seems weird to say the least.

    which can be opted, granted, but after a HEATED discussion in the piefed matrix

    So it is opted. That people have to convince Rimu to make changes isn't really an argument. People have to also convince the Lemmy devs to make changes on a regular basis, with less success.

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    Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom
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    Weighing privacy and security, Congress punts again on key spying law

    www.njspotlightnews.org /2026/05/weighing-privacy-and-security-congress-punts-again-on-key-spying-law/
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    It’s not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans

    edri.org /our-work/its-not-just-spyware-scandals-eu-is-funding-the-industry-that-spies-on-europeans/
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    Greece to ban anonymity on social media

    www.euractiv.com /news/greece-to-ban-anonymity-on-social-media/
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    GeoSpoof – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) Spoof your browser's geolocation, timezone, and WebRTC to match your VPN — or any location you choose.

    addons.mozilla.org /en-US/firefox/addon/geo-spoof/
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    Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying Social Media Ban

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/04/act-now-stop-californias-paternalistic-and-privacy-destroying-social-media-ban
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    US lawmakers introduce bill to require warrants for government data searches

    cyberinsider.com /us-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-require-warrants-for-government-data-searches/
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    Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

    www.yahoo.com /news/articles/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-161321992.html
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    Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

    archive.is /9UjjI
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    We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online | Proton

    proton.me /blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online
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    Dangerous Apps - How They Trade Your Data - (2026 ARTE 52min documentary)

    www.arte.tv /en/videos/123951-000-A/dangerous-apps/
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    EU's age verification app: Zero-Knowledge, Plenty of Questions

    open.substack.com /pub/doriandiaconu/p/eus-age-verification-app-zero-knowledge
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    EFF pushes back on Google data scandal response: 'Google screwed up'

    www.androidauthority.com /eff-pushes-back-on-google-exception-claim-3658264/
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    EU Parliament Blocks Mass-Scanning of Our Chats—What's Next?

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/04/eu-parliament-blocks-mass-scanning-our-chats-whats-next
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    BrowserGate: Technical breakdown of LinkedIn’s covert browser extension fingerprinting

    the.unknown-universe.co.uk /privacy-security/linkedin-browsergate/