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This has been refuted time and time again by people literally running Piefed instances.
No, it in fact hasn't. If anything, it's been verified by them, because they generally start off by admitting that everything I said is true. It's just that they then go on to say that it somehow doesn't count because it's possible to opt out of those anti-features.
Which misses both the point that the anti-features do exist (as opposed to Lemmy) and do exist because rimu stuck them in there, and that most of the reason it's possible to opt out of them is because other people - notably wjs018 - added that functionality.
Jesus fucking Christ.
"It's an admin option" /=/ " forced into virtually everything the software does from the moment you sign up for a piefed instance…" or "baked into the software."
This part is thought-provoking.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/23664761
This person would be really upset if they knew Lemmy.zip blocks hexbear and grad by default in the user settings.
Those anti-features don't exist in Lemmy