shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done
Yeah, this is exactly what I’m talking about. You present some “evidence“ that you claim is from a hard coded block, but that is a lie. The code in question is an ignore list for newly loaded communities - it does nothing to prevent anyone from joining that community.
This is more related to the aversion of meme and shitpost communities, which I don’t agree with but again there is nothing that prevents a operator from adding them (you literally just subscribe to the community, lol).
Not to mention that you apparently had to reference 10 month old release because it’s it there in the current release.
You are being dishonest. I did not say block, I said hide.
This was hard coded into the files to ensure people couldn’t as easily find the 196 community. That was an attempt at hiding it unless people specifically went looking to find it.
I know it’s not in the current version, because Rimu angered a lot of people when they found out and he had to apologize and remove it. Which is a familiar pastern for Rimu, try to sneak his opinionated takes into the software to users detriment, face backlash, and backtrack.
You’re still presenting it in a very dishonest and bad faith way imho.
I also don’t agree to a lot of the decisions of the main instance, the classification of meme communities as “low-quality”, blanket classifying 4chan screenshots as alt-right, or the vote limits. So it’s a good thing none of that is enforced in the source code, and that in the places where it previously might not have been an option Rimu has actually listened to feedback and made sure it’s configurable (and IIRC all except the defederation/domain blocks is disabled by default)
I have been nothing but factual in my claims of what the software does/did.
Fact is Rimu continuously does these things and only reverts course or makes it opt-in after the backlash. He doesn’t listen to feedback so much as he does damage control.
The very public thread with PugJesus shows what he is like. Even Snoopy one of the most vocal supporters of him has stepped down recently, which is telling in its own right. The project is suffering because of his personality and refusal to listen until it’s too late.