Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
Mass instance bans
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Done
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
He has abused the modlog to claim ‘harassment’, which I have never engaged in. I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.
He has decided to mass ban 20 users because they have spoken out against his erratic and hostile behaviour as of late.
For people already running PieFed instances, starting from scratch today isn’t realistic compared to a hard fork of their current codebase.
It’s Python. It’s not that hard to find out.
Yes, a hard fork would entail maintaining a codebase ever-more divergent from PieFed over time. Anyone serious about forking should consider how much work it would be embark on an independent path.
Alternatively, perhaps people will build a PieFed to Lemmy converter, because switching platforms while keeping the existing users, communities, and conversations intact is hard.
evidently
Yeah I saw that. I’d venture to guess @[email protected] fed the code to an LLM and told it to find vulnerabilities.
Yup, that’s exactly how I zeroed in on these. I got curious and used an LLM to do an audit then looked closer at the stuff it flagged, and oh boy it’s bad.
Publicly-facing server applications really need to be overseen by developers with knowledge & experience in security & networking.
People tend to underestimate how hard it is to do security properly.
Oh. I hope he tested them at least??
nothing worth doing is easy.