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PieFed has done it once again, this time adding 'warning' labels for opposing ideological perspectives, well at least one; Can't find any warnings for fascism or capitalism 🤔

This can be demonstrated here: https://piefed.social/c/globalnews/p/1697164/sudan-civil-war-spills-over-into-neighboring-chad-peoples-dispatch

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 64 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think Rimu has tied this warning to the peoplesdispatch.org domain. I think this is a custom thing he did to his instance, because I didn’t find it in the PieFed codebase. ~~[ETA: it is in the codebase, in a separate repo].~~ [ETA: I’m told that no specific site warnings are baked into the code, just the feature is. For site blocks, there is an optional default list of domains, which I’m told contains only far-right/fascist sites.]

I don’t think People’s Dispatch is even Marxist-Leninist. I think it’s an international anti-imperialist media site. But I wouldn’t assume Rimu could explain the difference or care that there is one. Maybe all anti-imperialists are tankies to him.

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[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago

Will they have a warning label for Zionist outlets?

[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 weeks ago

Nah but they have some for theintercept and electronicintifada ...

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 26 points 3 weeks ago

Unsurprisingly not currently. Based on current behavior and responses doubtful in future

https://lemmy.ml/comment/25577925

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. My question was not a serious one. I knew the answer.

Are you sure this is a "warning"? /s

Sounds like an indicator of quality, instead. Even the icon is in red, the color of hope.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 weeks ago

The whole piefed thing has to be a bit right?

[-] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 42 points 3 weeks ago

All the bullshit they say about silencing and 1984 is as always, a classic case of projection.

Please enlighten us on where we should be getting the full objective unbiased reality from, the New York Times maybe? God forbid a media takes a pro working class / global south bias instead of the usual neoliberal status quo ideology. Call them out on it and they'll deny they even follow any ideology, they're just being Objective™.

[-] Five@slrpnk.net 40 points 3 weeks ago

Two years ago, Lemmy.world tried a similar move with their MediaBiasFactCheck bot. It was soundly rejected by the community, and they finally relented after weeks of outcry. Why is @Rimu putting us through this again?

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[-] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 weeks ago

It's right in the name. Fed.

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[-] iso@lemy.lol 28 points 3 weeks ago

If I hadn't given the instance to someone else, I would have considered leaving a community note on Rimu's user page with a red exclamation mark saying "this user is a complete idiot".

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