I’ve been considering making the move to Piefed for a while, but I suppose there are a few things that I haven’t been able to find that I was wondering about.
First, what is Piefed.social’s structural situation like? After having survived the fall of Kbin (big RIP) and seen Lemm.ee fall because of admins who cannot continue for completely understandable and unavoidable personal reasons, what is Piefed’s situation there? I don’t see the list of admins on the sidebar like in Lemmy instances, do you have enough admins to weather growth? Is there a broader org you could theoretically cooperate with if there was a sudden need for admins?
Second, what is Piefed’s financial situation like? I’ve seen plenty of sites, though so far no major Fediverse instances, fall because of an inability to keep donations and expenses in order. I see the donation page, but what is the financial health of the instance like? Some instances post monthly or yearly reviews of the financial situation, but if Piefed does, I don’t know where to find it.
Third, what is Piefed’s position on genocide? I fucking hate that I have to ask this, but having seen too many people on the Fediverse deny the Holodomor, Uyghur genocide, etc, including the Lemmy devs themselves (who are no small part of the reason why I’m considering making the move), I don’t want to move here and then find out that the position of the admins is something horrific. I don’t expect that the admins intend to play whack-a-mole with genocide deniers themselves, since if anything that’s properly the job of moderators and communities to drive the bastards out, but simply knowing that the admins are not supporters of genocide denial would put my mind at ease a great deal.
Fourth, what is the defederation policy of Piefed.social?
Thank you for your time!
Oh, fantastic! I didn’t catch that, I’m too used to things being in the sidebar, lmao. I have a lot of UI to unlearn/relearn
I think making the rules more visible might also be on the todo list - they were just recently drafted after a discussion with the community. :)
Good idea. I’ve put a link in the sidebar now but only on the home page.
That should suffice!
With regards to rule 6 - what is the definition of sexually explicit content? For example, I recently posted, in .world, a 1st century AD artifact of a gladiator wind-chime fighting his own penis. Surely that is sexually explicit - is it banned? Similarly, on rare occasion I post risque memes with nudity or near-nudity and humorous sexual themes. Are those banned from Piefed.social?
Those examples are all fine.
Anyway if you’re posting them on communities hosted on other instances it’s really up to them unless you post things that are illegal, in which case I’d need to step in.
Piefed.social does not host NSFW-only communities like those on lemmynsfw. But community mods can make decisions about individual risque posts in their communities.
I meant the question as “What if I posted those examples on a Piefed.social comm”, but thank you for clarification!