A Lemmy.World user informed us about an instance we are federated with that was hosting very illegal content a while back. This was a result of an attack more than a year ago, and said content federated to many other instances, which made local copies of the material. Unfortunately, when this material was taken down at the source, that action did not federate to all linked instances, meaning that there are still some instances showing this material.
Once we were made aware of this, we realized that this was likely not the only occurrence, so we started looking for other instances where this content may also still exist. We have identified more than 50 affected instances and already reached out to many of them to inform them about this content to have it taken down.
It seems that it is quite difficult for instance admins to do things like permanently remove posts locally which have already been removed by a mod somewhere else. Ironically, by intentionally making it difficult to access, its inaccessibility afterwards makes it difficult to... uh... access, e.g. to delete it, very much a design flaw.
PieFed has this feature, Lemmy does not. Actually, there are a lot of things that I could say that about:-). Post flairs, polls, multi-communities that are user customizable and shareable, etc.
I'm not sure why a mobile app should be considered a prerequisite? Some people access solely by desktop, others by tablet, personally I access nearly 100% by Firefox on Android, so I'm mobile but not app, and I know I'm not the only one.
Anyways, the connection between apps and platform is rather fluid - e.g. at one point many of the apps used by "Lemmy" were intended to work for Reddit, but then they ceased working for Reddit (which is just one of many reasons prompting many of us to come to the Fediverse over the years), and now they work for "Lemmy". Some also work for Mbin and PieFed too, like Interstellar, and an unofficial fork of Thunder is being tested right now. Though PieFed's API is still in development, so not many apps currently support it, that's true.
I've never used Sync, so I'm not positive, but I do know that PieFed has many features that people say that Sync has. But I've mainly only used a web browser to access PieFed (and tested it in Interstellar). Also, is Sync still being developed actively? (Or perhaps I am thinking of Connect.) The world of apps is constantly changing, and ones that aren't maintained may one day stop working for Lemmy too, as the communication with the backend changes.
Regarding "political views", um I'm pretty sure it's a bit more than something like whether to promote trains or cars, it's EXTREMIST viewpoints like whether genocide is okay or not (the answer, it seems, depends on who's doing it, for some reason?).
In any case, it's awesome to have alternatives. Even assuming total goodwill towards every dev of every platform, it's good to not have all the hopes and dreams of the entire Fediverse placed into one platform. Like one thing I absolutely adore about PieFed is how it can add new features, which even Reddit was refusing to do near the end. They kept focusing exclusively on their profits, whereas PieFed keeps focusing on improving the end user experience, and I love that! đ
I'm just being pedantic, but also the problem seems easily solved by having someone else moderate that instance, while they focus on just the coding.
Of course they are 100% free to do as they choose and I would not dream of wanting them to do otherwise.
Then too, the people deciding whether to donate can do the same - and it seems that the rather unusual moderation practices of lemmy.ml are a sticking point for whether they want to contribute funds or not. The amount of those funds, whether the devs have the "right" to do so or not, that is all besides the point. Some people just don't like to fund things like genocide, period.
But now we are veering into political territory that I know less about. Thank you for sharing those facts about the situation, as I continue to learn about it that is very helpful:-).
OpenStars @ OpenStars @piefed.social Posts 5Comments 1,438Joined 9 mo. ago
It's a good thing you added those additional words instead of saying simply
They really helped make your point much more clear:-).