The “harsher censorship option” here is simply the blocking system which was not designed specifically to censor communists. Because a user with a specific grievance with it has blocked you doesn’t somehow make it designed for it anymore than if a lemmy.ml blocked PugJesus and kept complaining about them (knowing PugJesus could not respond as he is based on piefed).
I simply fail to see the relevant connection between deciding how blocking should function on Piefed and being anti-communist here at all. I think a position on harassment is a far more likely relevant aspect here. You are making completely baseless assumptions. There’s nothing that really can be done at an admin/instance level to somehow specifically mitigate communism beyond blocking Hexbear/Lemmygrad in the first place.
My point isn’t that harassment isn’t a reason for the blocking anti-feature, but that Rimu’s anti-communism is also likely having an impact on making stronger censorship tools. Again, you’re reading absolutes when I’m talking about influence.
This again is completely baseless. You have not spoken to Rimu regarding this and have zero idea of his motives. I see zero connection here. I can easily imagine a hypothetical communist social space designing a block system to work in the same way.
The “harsher censorship option” here is simply the blocking system which was not designed specifically to censor communists. Because a user with a specific grievance with it has blocked you doesn’t somehow make it designed for it anymore than if a lemmy.ml blocked PugJesus and kept complaining about them (knowing PugJesus could not respond as he is based on piefed).
I never said that it was specifically designed to censor communists. You keep reading absolutes out of my comments when I am talking about influence.
I see no reason to believe that Rimus anti-communist disposition has anything whatsoever to do with how he set up the block system.
I see no reason whatsoever to believe that Rimu’s anti-communist stances have absolutely nothing to do with features implemented into PieFed.
I simply fail to see the relevant connection between deciding how blocking should function on Piefed and being anti-communist here at all. I think a position on harassment is a far more likely relevant aspect here. You are making completely baseless assumptions. There’s nothing that really can be done at an admin/instance level to somehow specifically mitigate communism beyond blocking Hexbear/Lemmygrad in the first place.
My point isn’t that harassment isn’t a reason for the blocking anti-feature, but that Rimu’s anti-communism is also likely having an impact on making stronger censorship tools. Again, you’re reading absolutes when I’m talking about influence.
This again is completely baseless. You have not spoken to Rimu regarding this and have zero idea of his motives. I see zero connection here. I can easily imagine a hypothetical communist social space designing a block system to work in the same way.
But we aren’t talking about hypotheticals, we are talking about real views and someone who allows those views to influence their development of FOSS.
Again, no reason to connect Rimus anti-communist position with his stance on how blocking should work. They have zero relation.