• davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    582·
    1 month ago

    I think Rimu has tied this warning to the peoplesdispatch.org domain. I think this is a custom thing he did to his instance, because I didn’t find it in the PieFed codebase. [ETA: it is in the codebase, in a separate repo]. [ETA: I’m told that no specific site warnings are baked into the code, just the feature is. For site blocks, there is an optional default list of domains, which I’m told contains only far-right/fascist sites.]

    I don’t think People’s Dispatch is even Marxist-Leninist. I think it’s an international anti-imperialist media site. But I wouldn’t assume Rimu could explain the difference or care that there is one. Maybe all anti-imperialists are tankies to him.

  • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
    38·
    1 month ago

    All the bullshit they say about silencing and 1984 is as always, a classic case of projection.

    Please enlighten us on where we should be getting the full objective unbiased reality from, the New York Times maybe? God forbid a media takes a pro working class / global south bias instead of the usual neoliberal status quo ideology. Call them out on it and they’ll deny they even follow any ideology, they’re just being Objective™.

  • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
    35·
    1 month ago

    Two years ago, Lemmy.world tried a similar move with their MediaBiasFactCheck bot. It was soundly rejected by the community, and they finally relented after weeks of outcry. Why is @Rimu putting us through this again?

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I understood the reference, but if we’re going by that logic, the Fediverse itself is a federal ploy.

            • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              Then Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, Bookwyrm, Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, all made from disparate developers from around the world, are all one US Federal plot?

              Why would they prefer a decentralized, difficult to control social media network over the centralized ones that are already entirely under the control of right-wing billionaires?

              • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                8·
                1 month ago

                No one said they prefer it, but they’re also not going to ignore it, because they want to maintain their dominance of the public discourse. Previously. Previously. Previously.

                Though with that said, I doubt PieFed is an op. Some people are so propagandized that they’ll do the work for free and without any direct involvement. Some people are just that “patriotic”.1

              • GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca
                1·
                1 month ago

                Controlled opposition of course. The prevailing ideology can reinforce and sustain itself anywhere, even in a completely decentralized media environment. Dissenting opinions can be safely relegated to smaller venues while liberal orthodoxy prevails in the more visible ones. Thus, reddit is recreated.

                However, don’t read too far into this, I was basically just making a joke about how “piefed” has “fed” in it.