Really not a fan of repeatedly seeing these oddly specific posts jumping to conclusions and “just asking questions.”

This type of disengenuous behavior has a specific label called ‘Sealioning’. It is against lemmy.world rules, which this community says to follow. Section 1.1 specifically hyperlinks to Sealioning. Yet this post remains.

That and the fact that, strangely, all my critical comments of Rimu are not visible on piefed.social despite my posts and other comments being visible. No removals in the modlog either.

That comment will be invisible on piefed.social as Rimu has sidestepped the modlog and personally silenced me for criticising him <3

He also has silenced my account from piefed.social. None of my comments are federating to that instance yet there is nothing in the modlog about me. So, Rimu is out here complaining about the modlog problem but he’s actively sidestepping it. He’s silencing users without any reason. So… he’s shadowbanning people.

Are we SURE he isn’t Spez?

I have grown so weary of your flagrant lies, Rimu.

This is nonsense. Stop posting lies based off of your own misunderstandings. Stop using this community as your own personal drama cope.

Edit: Lol this comment, and none of my recent ones criticizing Rimu, are visible on piefed.social. Hmm. I wonder why. You really going to complain about people running things as a fiefdom and then act the way that you are?

I would concur with this assessment.

I’ve not had many run ins with Rimu myself but the ones that I have had have been… tense. For example, he said that he believes that Lemmy devs should have added guardrails to Lemmy in order to stop it being, as he described, “overrun with memes”. So he hardbaked in something that marked meme communities as “low effort”. He doesn’t like reaction gifs so he hardbaked in something that gave negative reputation to people using reaction gifs. Oh yeah, and he made up the whole reputation garbage all over again so certain users could be more valuable than others.

Yeah. It really does feel like he is trying to be the king of the fediverse and slip his opinions in wherever he can. Then when someone notices it, he fights against it before eventually adding on a toggle.

Edit: Only made more clear by the fact that my comments critical of him are not visible on piefed.social.

What I’m saying is that even though admins know there were some opinions in the software, they still started Piefed instances. And that’s in a world where Lemmy exists.

I did not state whether or not Piefed.world was created before or after it was found out that Piefed is littered with Rimu opinions. You are making a conclusion you simply cannot make.

In other words, every instance admins assesses whether the additional Piefed features make it worth it to accept the opinionated aspect of the software.

He said, off of a false conclusion from a random assumption.

Doing something, even imperfectly, but listening to the users, still seem valuable to a lot of people.

Brother, you are not listening to a word I have been fucking saying.

He’s not doing it imperfectly. HE’S BEING DISINGENOUS. If I were to talk to you and give you a ton of shit, fill all of it with some useful stuff but the rest is hyper opinionated, you’d expect me to tell you what was opinion and what isn’t. Rimu doesn’t. People have to discover it and then hold his fire to the flame. That is not listening to feedback over things that you knew was a problem. Especially when he knows it is opinionated and then puts it through anyway without informing anyone, without making a note of it, and expecting others to comb through his garbage and hold him accountable. And you are saying that is perfectly acceptable behavior?

Brother, you have lost essentially all of my respect here. As stated elsewhere, because you started two conversations with me at once, I am not continuing this with you.

The same arguments are made when an overwhelming amount of paperwork is dumped on someone during discovery in a trial. It’s not a good argument then and it’s not a good argument now. If you have to go through and check every single thing he’s done to find the hidden things he’s put in there without announcing then that is not transparent. You simply cannot change the fact that Rimu overwhelmingly puts his opinions into Piefed as a whole and then leaves it for everyone else to find the opinion and then tell him to add a toggle. He fights against it before eventually adding a toggle. Meanwhile, damage has already been done for however long with his garbage running rampant without anyone noticing it.

If he is not willing to point out what is opinion and what is code then I am not willing to fact-check every piece of his work to find what is code and what is crap. He’s being disingenous and underhanded.

I am not continuing this conversation.

So Kaplan knew about the “garbage”, but still wanted to go on and keep running Piefed.world?

Either Kaplan’s judgement is supposed to be relied on, or not, but that argument seems weird to say the least.

Others are doing the same thing. This isn’t “weird” or bad judgment. I don’t like Kaplan but they did nothing wrong here.

So it is opted. That people have to convince Rimu to make changes isn’t really an argument.

Yes. If you skip over the entire problem, it does appear as if there is no problem. My issue is that he had to have his feet held to the fire over something that minor because he did not disclose it in the first place. If someone keeps trying to sneak shit past my face and then keeps backing down and going “Uwu sorry I add opt out” but then doesn’t add opt out for the other opinionated stuff that was not discovered yet, why would I applaud them? They’re still doing the bad thing.

He only changed his mind after someone discovered it. The thing I don’t like is his obfuscating his opinions that he’s injected into Lemmy. Having to manually discover them and then bug him about adding an opt out toggle is not exactly trustworthy behavior nor is it something I’m going to applaud. He still tried to sneak it in regardless and only backed down when called out. I’m not giving him props for that.

The same seems to be now true for this old issue you specifically pointed out here.

But it isn’t. First off, you made an assumption and dismissed my initial complaint. Now you’re dismissing this one saying it’s basically the same thing when it isn’t. Having a long discussion with large admins saying “Hey. What the fuck is this stuff?” only for Rimu to constantly push back and saying how he wants to reshape everything is fucking concerning. The fact it took everyone pushing back against him to add it under a toggle even more so. You’d have a point with the whole “this happens” if this didn’t happen with every single major Rimu feature.

But, once again, Rimu is actively pushing misinformation and you have dodged the point that you are doing the same. This is not an admin or instance level problem. Moderators are doing this and claiming this is “instance level” is to be a liar.

It is perfectly normal that things get overlooked or implemented partially and when someone reports a bug (like a missing admin configuration setting) it usually gets fixed quite quickly, and at least in my experience without much discussions.

And, as we all know, your experience is the only universal experience that everyone has at all times. I guess the month long conversation I had with Kaplan, head admin of Lemmy.world, about unfucking Piefed because Rimu filled it with his opinionated garbage didn’t happen. I guess the fork of Piefed being created that’s taking out all of his opinionated garbage didn’t happen. Not to mention his 4chan screenshot scanner (that can be bypassed immediately), the cm0002 filter he put onto piefed.social (that can be bypassed immediately), the blocking of any numbers of 88 put together (which can be bypassed immediately), the private votes that would prevent admins from locating vote brigaders (which can be opted, granted, but after a HEATED discussion in the piefed matrix).

Rimu is over opinionated to a fault and Piefed is the same.

You know nothing of which you speak.

But, once again, the only important point is that Rimu is actively spreading misinformation by claiming this is an instance problem when it is moderators that is doing it. Once again, with action after action, Rimu cannot be trusted.

Please don’t spread old mis-info

I mean, you just did it. The OP post is not factually correct as he stated that it is at an instance level. It is not. It is at a moderator level.

Please don’t spread old mis-info or at least back this up with actual links to the source-code (and if we are talking about the same thing, this was clearly debunked).

Gotta say though, getting real tired of people telling me that I didn’t understand conversations I was a part of. No. It was not ‘debunked’. It was added under an opt-in toggle after everyone noticed it and called out his bullshit. You might be thinking of something else, but this is what I was talking about.

Piefed is infected with Rimu’s extreme opinionated garbage and he only backs down and puts them into a toggle after someone notices it. That’s not the behavior of a developer that I find personally trustworthy. So when he’s out here making a post that is outright false, claiming that instances are doing something that moderators are doing, I don’t trust him. Not to mention the extremely long conversations I had with Mr Kaplan about how Piefed.world needed to be un-rimu’d in order to work as LW wanted it to.

Yep and it doesn’t help that Rimu himself is a very questionable dude. He says he defederated from lemy.lol over their pepe frog logo but honestly I don’t believe it is the reason/ He hates memes. He said as much to me himself. A while back, someone realized that piefed was hard coded to give negative reputation to certain people, regardless of what settings the admins had made. Piefed is built off of Rimu’s opinions and he puts the majority there as an opt-out, not an opt-in. When I made a jokingly apology for all the memes I post, he said “It’s not your fault that the lemmy devs didn’t put guardrails in.”

If he’s that opinionated about memes…

Combine that with the fact that this post has literally no information other than “Trust me bro”? I don’t trust Rimu as far as I can throw his garbage platform and I can’t even throw the thing because its digital code. Hell, Mr. Kaplan even had to do a ton of un-fucking of Piefed to get piefed.world to work and was talking with me about it at the time. Just LITTERED with Rimu’s stances.

Not to mention that Rimu routinely comes in with preconcieved notions that others have to point out the bullshit of and he quietly then steps back from it or refuses to engage entirely and dismisses it out of hand.

Like… the Lemmy devs suck, absolutely. But the only facet in which Rimu is better is he’s not a transphobe.

Edit: See below for screenshots. I’m tired of this shit. Yes. He’s wildly opinionated.

Edit 2: Lol this comment is not visible on piefed.social. Rimu out here screaming about fiefdoms and hidin things critical of him.

<3

Probably just the vibes lol also gotta think about the fact that if we hit on the wrong person we can die lol we gotta be careful about that in general. Also I wouldn’t worry about looks either. I’m into dudes that look Seth Rogan and stuff. See the right side of this meme for some my type of omnom. Boop

As a gay man I’ve seen people care so much they tried to kill me lol

It is strange how many women hit on me and I have zero response for it everytime

Well you’ve done pissed everyone off.

Good job <3 I mean that legitimately. The best shitpost I’ve ever made have always been the ones causing straight dudes to get ravenous over me being gay. So much funnier seeing them just drool in rage and seems like you got the same pricks going lmao

Hi.

I post a lot.

I started posting about 3 years ago to another instance before moving to lemmy.world and then shifting over to lemmy.dbzer0.com. I’m gay and a massive die hard Star Trek fan. I also post a fucking lot, way more in the past that I currently do. The things that I do post to shitpost communities are pretty gay or pretty horny and have similar vibes to the stuff that Violet apparently posts.

I’ve been called a power user (which I hate), a lemmy celeb (which I hate even more) and an asshole (which is accurate). Someone also accused me of being Gallowboob (a very prominent redditor) once which was kinda funny. I’m just a known quantity.

You’ll never know either

Well a useful tip is that I don’t post in this community or to any Lemmy.world communities anymore lol