• NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
    551·
    17 hours ago

    What, why 196? Actually why any of these? I get 4chan and greentext sort of(?) but even ignoring the terrible programming practices here, this is really stupid.

    Edit: actually almost makes me regret switching to Piefed

      • qaz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        4·
        1 hour ago

        It has been removed from 2/3 places in the codebase. I’m guessing they missed the other list so I’ve opened an issue and PR on Codeberg.

      • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
        29·
        14 hours ago

        Ah, that’s good to hear. I’m still sketched out by the hardcoded blacklist of terms though. I’m very much a person against the sort of free speech that hinders other’s freedom to live without discrimination but the filter still seems so arbitrary and entirely the response to the dev’s own vandettas and that just gives me bad vibes.

        On top of that, hardcoding English language terms to block is bad programming on a number of levels. Why isn’t it a configurable list? The hardcoded values don’t contain any other language variants so you can still have those communities if you speak something other than English (or just add an extra couple characters or anything really)

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          40 minutes ago

          Just to be absolutely clear, there is foundationally no expectation whatsoever that either PieFed or Lemmy are trying to make a “free speech” platform. Truth Social and 4chan seem to already have that covered…

          Rather, the owner of the instance (aka the one who pays for the machine and in all likelihood has to register it with their irl credentials within its country of residence, for legality purposes e.g. CSAM) gets to decide all of the rules that govern it.

          If someone wants to use the Threadiverse to e.g. spread CSAM, they are welcome to make a fork but that’s not what either PieFed or Lemmy (or Mbin, Mastodon, nodeBB, etc.) are about.

          Anyone is free to say whatever they want, but none of this software is not bound to have to offer a platform to send those thoughts out to everyone, particularly those who do not want it.

          • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
            1·
            30 minutes ago

            I think you’re misunderstanding my comment. I’m all for built in safeguards but it being a rather arbitrary hardcoded list is silly. Even keeping the existing arbitrary list would be fine to me if it was pulled from the database instead of being a copy/pasted list in the actual code

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
      54·
      11 hours ago

      Maybe they’ve had a bad experience with the 196 moderators, as many have. I hope that’s all it is.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        151·
        10 hours ago

        The mods are awful. But basically all mods are awful. You have to have brain damage to want to be a moderator of an online community.

        So it is a bit of a catch 22

    • vga@sopuli.xyz
      24·
      10 hours ago

      Insane toxic trolls are insane toxic trolls regardless of how virtuous you might think their “cause” is.