Their ToS mentions the laws of New Zealand, while their privacy policy includes GDPR. Are the servers hosted in NZ, the EU, or somewhere else?
Also, is there any reason not to use the piefed.social instance (over other Piefed instances)? I’m interested in trying out Piefed, and use it in conjunction with Lemmy
edit: It looks like it’s hosted in Australia, and rimu (who operates the instance) is from New Zealand. Mention of GDPR does not mean it’s hosted in the EU.
Also, it looks like it might be better to use a different instance regardless of where piefed.social is hosted, for decentralisation (like piefed.ca and piefed.blahaj.zone, which are Canadian, piefed.nz, which is hosted in NZ, or nord.pub and retrofed.com, both German)
I am moving to Piefed at scallisto@retrofed.com (https://retrofed.com/u/scallisto)
pinging piefed.social makes gateway.rimu.geek.nz respond. going there you’ll learn that rimu is new zealander
piefed.social moderation is based on a number of questionable choices, and rimu previously hardcoded these questionable choices in piefed without explanation or an option to turn them off
Yes, and it has been forked because of this:
https://codeberg.org/quokkau/pylova
What questionable choices are baked into Piefed?
there are many default blocks.
Like what? What is piefed blocking that I can’t currently access?
The main reason I landed on piefed.zip was because it was the only instance I could find that didn’t defederate any content; piracy, .ml instances, hexbear, etc. Not that I necessarily want that content, but I don’t like the idea of an instance admin making that decision for me. I checked all the pylova instances and they seem to all defederate the above to varying degrees. Is the only way to ensure I see the whole Fediverse to spin up my own instance? (Something I’m very sure I do not have the know-how to do.)
these blocks were iirc removed good couple months back, after backlash, in two separate incidents, so now they’re opt-in only (by admin) and my understanding is that nobody else uses it. .social is rimu’s playground so these might be still on