It's just shocking that they'd create a front end that filters out a bunch of stuff without telling the user. To me, that's not the job of a front end client program. If they want to add additional filtering over the backend, it needs to be directed by the user or at least specifically approved by the user.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If he was as proud and confident in his choices as he claims to be he would have advertised it as a feature to get more users.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 8 points 2 days ago

Good point.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes if this had been opt-in. Something that the user had to explicitly enable it. And was thoroughly explained. The worst anyone would have to say about them is that they were overly opinionated. But no one would care beyond that. The reason it's a big thing. It is the way it was hidden and enabled by default. It 100% is a mess of their own making.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I use blocklists on bluesky but I have to enable them. That way if I can't see someone's post I know it's not a bug and I can change it myself.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They wanted to be a self appointed moral guardian for all of Lemmy but are themselves immortal because they intentionally hid that they were censoring anyone.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

themselves immortal

lulz

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Funnily enough it does also work. This will likely be what most people remember them for lol. And it was all their own doing

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Unidan moment.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Haha yeah that's where my head went too

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Bunch of instance admins running around cutting each other's heads off until there's only one left.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

seems to be working fairly well for piefed.