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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 week ago* (2 children)

could you please explain? what else outside of hiding censor mechanisms and "incompatibility" because of "i don't like you" on external URLs could have a similar impact?

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    People who seem passionate about PyLova don't seem to grasp that blocking/filtering weirdos is the whole point of PieFed. I don't understand the overall reaction to PieFed doing what it does. PieFed was never meant to be an "anything goes" type of thing.

    On the surface I love that there's another fediverse project to consider, but everything I've read from developers and supporters of PyLova seems like an overreaction. Lots of personal attacks and overall childish behavior. It's ok to have a different view of how social media should work, but for me I'm going to hang with the adults in the room.

    If I wanted unfiltered social media full of misinformation, conspiracy theories, Russian Propaganda, etc. I'd go to Lemmy or Twitter. I don't want that, so I use PieFed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    There is a difference between preventing misinformation and outright preventing installation of your software based on domain names, and NOT MAKING THIS PUBLIC and grabbing the list of "banned" domains from an external server (which already shows that they knew this is fucked up). Not even the Russia-Fans Nutomic and Descartes stoop so low.

    The first one i can understand. But dbzer0 is not a place of misinformation, (neither is anarchist.nexus for that matter - we are not a homogenous group and i dare you to find me posting misinformation outside of honest mistakes, and it is obvious when something i write is an personal opinion) and there is NOT ONE reason outside of personal animosity to do this.

    The Fediverse is not a place for hidden mechanisms like that. They were upfront with their implementation and that they have an opinionated software, which i can understand completely. The swift change towards hidden triggers to prevent usage of their open-source software by whoever they do not like at the moment (and that's exactly what you are getting into with the mechanism they implemented), and their reaction after being found out, doubling down and inciting defederations instead of doing the right thing, disqualifies this person as a whole in this space.

    Edit: The important thing here is: they made it about themselves, not for a larger goal like combating disinformation or making the Fediverse a better place. Their personal animosity vs. specific worldviews tainted their pretty good product. As I said, i have enough criticism regarding the lemmy devs (especially that the finances of lemmy.ml and donations towards lemmy development are intertwined), but even with their left-auth worldview, they did not prevent anyone from using their software because they are "are thinking the wrong way".

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