@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml banned me from !ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml (permanently!) and removed my comment from the post, because I dared to note that there are protests in Iran and shared a link to a crimethinc article with voices from within Iran. They call it “imperialist propaganda” if leftist voices from within Iran are distributed.
My comment:
I get it that the western media narrative is incredibly one-sided, focused on ideological bogeymen and focused on getting the monarch back in power. But I’d like to point out that there is in fact quite massive repression going on against the protestors. Leftist orgs in Iran need international solidarity now.
Their “reasoning”:
reason: Ignoring the post to spam imperialist propaganda
I don’t think that person can be reasoned with if they call crimethinc imperialist propaganda, so I’m not getting my hopes up for them lifting the ban.
I also think that they might be a bit butthurt, because I called out their zionistic worldview (i.e.: that judaism equates zionism) a few days ago.
Then why does it give me an option for it, if it doesn’t actually do anything?
Does piefed instance block .ml?
it does block some things, it just doesn’t block everything completely. it’s more of a filter than a block, from what I understand.
if you are on a piefed instance and block a domain, then every person and community from that domain is totally blocked. nothing any of their users post will ever appear to you, and none of their communities will ever show up. it’s a total and complete block of everything from them, everywhere.
there’s also filtering options. for example, if I never wanted to see anything about Elon Musk, I could add a filter for Elon and Musk and then any posts or comments that mention those words could be either hidden or made so that they show up semi-transparent. I could make it so the filter only applies on the home page, or also in all communities.
honestly, piefed is just a much better option than lemmy. it’s much more feature rich, and way more flexible than lemmy will likely ever be. the only downside is that there is only a couple mobile clients that have experimental support for piefed. the most popular is voyager.
I see. So is it a separate thing entirely? I thought it was just another instance on lemmy.
But if it’s a different forum entirely then I’ll probably switch over there cause there’s too many tankies on lemmy
it’s a separate software. it federates with lemmy, so you can still see any communities from instances yours federates with. piefed.social is the largest piefed instance.
I see. Thank you!