PieFed has a dizzying array of settings and options that instance admins can tweak. Most of them have obvious and sensible default values but some of those have been a bit controversial, especially to do with what gets blocked by default. In this post I explain what those are and how they can be configured.
Bookmarking this, so I can link it to people who keep comparing Piefed to Tesseract.
I agree it’s nothing like the Tesseract situation, tho I was recently told about some other things the PieFed dev has done, and it isn’t all defensible. I’d like other people’s takes on this stuff.
Yes I listen to feedback and make changes accordingly. This is how good software gets made.
Incorrect.
I went no contact with the whole flotilla after they were abusive for weeks. Going no contact is grounds for more abuse, according to them. In any case, inter-instance drama is a separate thing from what features PieFed has.
Those links seem surface level at best while remaining quite alarmist. If that’s concerning to you then you must hate the Lemmy devs
I mean, I do dislike the Lemmy devs bc they’re tankies, but it hardly goes further then that. I just want to confirm or debunk some of what I’ve heard.
I felt like the “stealing code” part was worth dealing with separately so I wrote this https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/14/did-piefed-steal-code-from-pylova-lets-look-at-what-happened/
Insane that someone forking an entire project would complain about taking a single patch.
It makes a perverse kind of sense in the context of the disinformation campaign the flotilla (which Pylova is a part of) was/is running. They desperately needed anything they could to undermine trust in PieFed. Because to them I’m not a human being - they’re convinced that I’m a transphobic zionist nazi, so any kind of attack is acceptable to them. A means to an end.
He’s the OP on this post, and what this post is here to explain. Why don’t you ask him yourself?
Oh… wow I didn’t notice. Thanks lol