Defaults matter. We always complain about that when it comes to eg.: Firefox, no sense in being a hypocrite here and letting Piefed do just about.

uses regex to parse HTML

I see we are having fun these places!

It’s only illegal if “here” files a lawsuit against Microsoft.

Will it?

The extra b was half in jest, but yeah. I was actually surprised at first to find out “mobb” with two bs is an actual word.

I guess it’s from “mobb”?

That and the problem people are the ones who wouldn’t use this function in the first place.

Booo. Here I was hoping for something serious to spice up the news and it just turns out it’s “it runs on a browser”.

Yeah. You know, Shadow Profiles? Datasets on users collected for the purpose of control and manipulation, basically the equivalent to back when McCarthynism and the FBI had a “dossier” on you. It’s not even that old, Facebook was caught doing it in a big scandal and pretty much every corporate since then (Reddit uses it for shadowbanning Fediverse mentions, etc).

The 99% of the code does not deal with keeping Shadow Profiles on netizens and punishing them (as well as misinforming them about what’s going on). This 50something lines, does, and thus is a weighed key on which to judge the subject.

, we need […] community evangelists

What will they be commenting to the public on the CCP-like thing?

I recently tried posting about decentralized alternatives on r/tiktok, but it seems the post was suppressed.

Reddit has been known for a good while to shadowban even mere mentions of the fediverse or anything involving it, as well as shadowbanning accounts. If you want to truly promote an alternative to a walled garden, it has to be out there in the open, not in another walled garden.

Yeah it reeks of “you can complain about CCP-like behaviour but not in a way that actually effects any change”.

Wait what? I read in other threads the code was bad, not I didn’t think it’d be this bad.

I was using the pro/anti AI as an example but the point is, Piefed already has a history of editorioalizing user discourse secrelty and for the benefit (or whininess) of the dev. I could have used eg.: pro/anti shipping, or pro/anti consumerism instead. The point is the reputation is hard to earn back.

So it’s funny that it’s even stricter “moderation” AND NOW ITS HARDCODED so it affects every instance.

Lol, people so afraid of Lemmy devs bowing to the CCP that they migrate to the fediverse option that actually implements CCP societal control features. McCarthysim really did a number on the Amerikkkan brain, dunno if it is impacting people from elsewhere that much. This surely was not in my 2026 Bingo card!

Like, how? It’s perfectly readable (even as an ESL can do it without issues, for one). And honestly it’s a goof bit of flavour. Like using ß for things like aßhole, although San’s choice has the advantage that it is actually part of Ebglish.

I mean, yeah, they call out for attention towards a problem.

How do you find out what instances have it enabled or disabled tho? And is there a published code of conduct / long-term committments on whether instances will change their minds about that at some point?

Ironic how piefed defederates from lgml and lml by default, yet implements CCP-style and CCP-vibe content and behaviour moderation.

“Social Credit” eh? Well I guess I did not expect anything more.

Oh yeah, they made a statement about to “inconvenience AIs somewhat”, which is not bad and is something that honestly more of us should be doing. The conformists claim that AIs can easily deal with such annoyances but that’s the point. They still have to do the work, and we can poison the meaning of the data they collect (intentionally or incidentally), kinda like what happened with AIs suddenly starting to use em dashes for everything.

All that said, none of that merits the kind of backend-level censorship that was applied to that user. How can I trust a platform that offers a certain level of trust if my messages are being altered behind my back? How can I be sure that my statement anti AI are not being modded into pro-AI statements, for example? Even more if I’m being specifically targetted? Rimu simply does not, currently, offer that kind of trust of person, which is one of the reasons I’ve made no effort, nor plan to in the short term, into piefed as of yet.