Ye Power Trippin' BastardsRimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.
This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911
This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747
Dessalines, Rimu, Admiral Patrick... some people just cannot be trusted with the barest mote of power, and apparently federated software calls to them.
Don’t worry his Sycophants will make the excuses.
Drama again? 😐
Of course he did. This is total PTB!
Which sucks because I loved what Rimu was doing in the beginning by creating piefed. Then he banned me for no reason. Ok, dick move, but ok. I still supported him and his vision. More fediverse stuff, the better I thought.
But then there was the whole karma rating and all that other stuff. Then seeing how he would reply to people who brought stuff up.
Now this. Fuck that guy. He's proving himself to be an ass. Which sucks, because I really wanted to like him.
Total PTB!
Yeah, this is PTB.
You can't just shut down an otherwise on topic comment because you don't like it. I mean, you can, but if it's in this situation you're using your position to block dissent. That's literally what power tripping is.
I don't see how people can still use piefed with someone like this in charge. A new red flag pops up every month. It's hard to see them among all the other red flags.
Totally agree with you. Which sucks because I really wanted to like the project. But the more stuff that comes out about it and the creator just makes me shake my head.
Same here. I even tried it, finding the whole project tainted with Rimus outspoken ideals. While, on lemmy, all the bullshit is in the open and corralled into the devs pet instance.
good news, nobody who like Piefed has to use it. we've gotten PyLova to the point it's running Quokk.au and Anarchist.Nexus, and we've not only removed the censorship and the bias, but we've also improved the UI, made some new themes, and most important of all patched some security vulnerabilities.
at this point it's better than Piefed in every way.
What's the differences between PyLova and Lemmy? Why use it over Lemmy?
More features, faster updates.
PyLova has a lot more features than Lemmy does.
Just curious, but why not use Lemmy instead?
there's a lot of features that PyLova has that Lemmy does not.
There's a number of negative things about the Lemmy devs as well. This isn't a whataboutism, or deflection. One of the lead Lemmy devs account is named for a genocidal dictator. I will give them acknowledgment and props for not perpetuating larger systems of oppression through software. Instead choosing to gleefully micro manage their own fiefdoms by hand doing it.
Point being if you're using the threadiverse, you're not going to find a major backend that isn't it developed by someone with a toxic relationship to power. And ultimately a tool is still a tool regardless of Who develops it.
What about kbin/mbin? I haven't heard anything terrible about them at least.
Your comment is whataboutism and a deflection. Saying something isn't what it is doesn't make it any less is.
This isn't whataboutism. Someone asked why people still use Piefed, and for a fair number of people, that is the reason. I personally only noticed the Piefed controversies bubbling up recently. The problems with the Lemmy devs have been known for years (at least to me). And some people may see what Piefed devs do as the lesser evil, whether you agree with it or not.
It's definitely whataboutism.
I asked why people use piefed despite the drama, Eldritch's argument was that lemmy devs are bad, and hey, aren't all developers kinda bad?
That's like if I asked why some people like shit on their chest and they said "some of us don't like getting pissed on."
Okay.
So why do you use Lemmy despite the drama?
Preference. I tried piefed and didn't like it. I like lemmy. Lemmy's devs are more objective when it comes to their platform than Rimu is. The way the devs run their home instance doesn't bother me too much. There is no equivalent to .today, in terms of no blocked instances and a viewable modlog, on piefed.
Your assessment of the Piefed's Devs' actions being worse than those by the Lemmy devs is a subjective one. That's precisely the point: one could argue that what Lemmy devs do is worse than what Piefed's devs do. And to be fair, not everyone knows about every alternative (although I will use the moment to shoutout Mbin, which, as far as I know, hasn't had any such issues - at least not yet).
Your assessment of the Piefed’s Devs’ actions being worse than those by the Lemmy devs is a subjective one.
I never assessed such a thing.
No my comment was strictly with regards to you calling out users of a particular software. When it comes to rimu. 100% ptb unfortunately. I can't support the authors of Lemmy or piefed. But people are free to use whichever tools they choose in this instance. But good luck constructing that straw man.
This has got to be the worst use of "straw man" I have seen on lemmy so far. And I've seen some bad ones.
Just a tip, you can't call every argument you don't like a straw man. It has a meaning.
I dunno that the original dessalines counts as genocidal, despite his attempts to rid haiti of whites. It was more or less a mass murder, and outright unnecessary since he had other options, but I don't know that genocide would be the right term for it? Maybe, I'm not fully convinced either way, just starting a tangent
That tangent is that the real dessalines was.... complicated. He essentially became a central figure in Haitian liberation. One can argue that the revolution might not have succeeded without him. He was certainly effective.
He was also effective as "emperor" (in quotes because it's hard to be an emperor of a single nation) for the most part. Made Haiti pitchy officially an independent nation, declared slavery abolished, stripped colonialists of property, and generally kept things running.
Of course, part of keeping things running was treating Haitians like slaves, just without the label.
Which shows both why the dev dessalines might have chosen the name, and why it doesn't really fit. Plus, you know, the whole emperor thing being contrary to socialism being weird.
Fwiw to anyone here for the tangent, there's been a goodly number of books about the real Dessalines. Likely available at your local library, or on the high seas. He was a fascinating figure.
Most genocide is Mass murder. You are basically making an argument of ability and scope. Genocide is a genocide. And it doesn't even require murder all the time. Though generally it does include it.
The fact remains that not only did he target what had become a minority group on the islands and wipe it out. Basically genocide. Worse they had been allies fighting alongside him.
And the United States certainly weren't the good guys in the whole situation either. They did their normal thing showing up just long enough to kill a foreign leader. Even if the large portion of Haitian population desired is removal. It still doesn't excuse what France did afterwards and how America followed along buddy buddy enabling France.
fact remains that not only did he target what had become a minority group on the islands
The American Civil War was actually the oppression of a South American minority group (white European slave owners)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haitian_massacre first sentence.
A genocidal dictator? Do tell, which one? Hitler? Netanyahu? Bush??
Under the rule of Dessalines, Haiti became the first country in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery.
Oh so that makes it okay that they rounded up all the white polish etc minority on the island that had fought alongside them. And then exterminated them? That's some moral relativism right there if I ever heard it.
I differentiate between the people of Haiti and their first self-proclaimed emperor. My sympathies lie with the people of Haiti. After fighting one revolution for their freedom. They had to turn and cooperate with bad faith actors like the United States. To assassinate their own ruler so they could actually have it. Only to then be fucked by France and the United States for the next Century afterwards.
the white polish etc minority
Interesting you'd mention the one white group that was completely spared due to allying with the revolutionaries.
start reading argument about Lemmy and Piefed
somehow end up reading about Haitian racist genocide.
Internet be hittin today, bruh
When one of the lead devs of the Lemmy backend names their online presence after the enactor/leader of said alleged genocide, it's bound to come up at some point.
And Hitler was a vegetarian and loved dogs.
Do you even know the history of Haiti and why it is globally relevant? You CANNOT divorce that from the context of this.
Yes. And if he hadn't slaughtered his White allies. Or been so oppressive to his own people I would probably think he was a pretty decent guy. He wasn't. Like people in general he was a complicated and morally problematic person. How was slaughtering his white allies winning freedom for him and his people? Or do you view it as impossible to do wrong in pursuit of revolution?
I didn't say any of those things, I am pointing out you are carrying water for european slavery empires by stripping the context.
If you cannot get over the individual to understand the context, your understanding of people and history will continue to be egregiously broken and myopic.
No explicitly not. I've condemned France and the United States in plenty of places elsewhere in this thread for their behavior related to this. My critique of Dessalines is not defense of them. Or their empires.
Okay so, since you didn't quite understand it before:
do you view it as impossible to do wrong in pursuit of revolution?
That's a strawman.
Kinda weird that you don't mention the whole former slave who led the resistance to abolish slavery and free his country thing.
Oh that totally justifies his genocide then.
Okay, see? That's a strawman. Now you know.
I saw the thread without context trying to defend their actions and I just laughed.
"Boy golly, I'm just so new to this FOSS thing!"
Like, I still don't really know the details, but this pattern has gotten old.
Rimu is not just instance-beefing, he's so salty he's going against the whole FOSS ethos just to be as petty as possible. PTB.
Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.
Is this person like... actually important in some way, or do they just... loudly think that about themself?
They're a piefed dev/contributor or something?
scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
I love this saying, but I always forget to use it!
the main author.
Wait piefed has a secret shadowban list too?
Did they learn nothing from Tessaract?
Pretty sure they did it first, so if anything tessaract learned something from them.
Actually, tesseract learned from rimu
The Tesseract rants did mention that Rimu should thank him for taking the heat off of him for his blocking.
Rimu:
I fucking knew it.
“You can’t trust those commies who make Lemmy! I know, I‘ll put in secret censorship to protect others from that I think is wrong! I’m the savior of the world!”
You can feed this pie right up your ass 🖕
Every accusation is projection
They say theirs is okay because the options show when setting up the system for admins 🙄
It does have a list of instances it defeds from by default, but quokka isn't on it.
Piefed did add the ability to 'silence' instances which hides posts from those instances from the All feed, but posts from communities you subscribe to still show up. It's similar to Lemmy's 'hide community' feature. Quokka is on piefed.social's hidden instance list.
That feature was made to silence Quokk.au. Rimu added it only after he started melting down and having issues with everyone.
Don’t Forget anarchist.nexus
I'm not disputing that, he absolutely did, it's just not really similar to the Tesseract situation.
That’s fair. Even Rimu said the Tesserect dev went too far.
Apparently not, or maybe they just think they can get away with it.
Rimu rehashing old drama?
What is the manchild trying to distract from now, did he invade Iran and fuck up or something?
Someone forked piefed and is claiming rimu stole their code.
someone forked piefed, and Rimu uploaded their code without attribution AFTER patches were OFFERED to him and he blocked those patches and banned the PyLova devs.
but keep on being a parasocial asshat, cause anybody looking closely at the PyLova commit history is gonna see all the security vulnerabilities in Piefed we patched, and Rimu ignored.
Literally all I did was say allegedly because I was too busy playing videogames last night to actually look into what happened. Like people are supposed to when they don't have all the information. You are being a cunt to me for no reason.
Maybe don't spout comments when you don't know what you're talking about and can't be bothered to find out, then.
And now I'm getting lectured by the guy with a pathological need to downvote everything he sees. Great.
Says the guy with the pathological needs to comment on things he doesn't know about
Because they did and you can see the chat conversation where Rimu talks about trying to remove Mia’s attribution from the code and complaining it went through on some of them.
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PTB, but it’s Rimu so what can you expect?
BPR - I tried to look at this from both points of view. Both parties have had beef in the past, so tempers are going to be quick on both sides.
Rimu could have done things differently, but AGPL is AGPL. There's no requirement to provide attribution unless the license is specifically modified. The PyLova license doesn't add that requirement from what I can tell. The creator(s) of PyLova are getting a little too upset about this, so it's a reasonable reaction to delete a comment that isn't really made in good faith.
If they would like attribution in the code, why don't they act like adults and reach out?
No. The AGPL requires declaring alterations to the code. You cannot alter the license. And you must attribute the original author.
Rimu did not declare alterations and attempted to remove attribution.
You seem pretty sure of that, but I don't see any of that in the actual AGPL license.
Section 5
This has already been debated on the internet and I'm not an expert so I'm giving up. I guess it boils down to what is a "copyright", and if the source in this case (PyLova) has a copright notice that needs to be copied over. That's beyond my expertise.
Edit:
::: spoiler Read this if you want to, but I'm not completely convinced that I'm right
"5". Conveying Modified Source Versions.
You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.
b) The work must carry prominent notices stating that it is released under this License and any conditions added under section 7. This requirement modifies the requirement in section 4 to "keep intact all notices".
c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.
d) If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display Appropriate Legal Notices; however, if the Program has interactive interfaces that do not display Appropriate Legal Notices, your work need not make them do so.A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.
Thanks. I'm trying to understand where you're seeing the requirement to give attribution still.
I read this section as "if you use code from an AGPL project (PyLova in this case), then you need to:
a) have a dated commit on the project that is using it (PieFed)
b) keep the license the same
c) the entire project (PieFed) now falls under this license (it does)
d) have legal notices about it being AGPL, unless the original source (PieFed, then PyLova, then PieFed again) don't have them.
Then there's a paragraph about aggregate projects and how the AGPL license doesn't automatically spread to all parts of those projects.
So I'm still confused where it's required to say "Mia was the author". All it's saying is "this is AGPL code -- keep it AGPL and make the code available for others to see."
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Oh, I didn't realize you meant the attribution. Section 5 is about declaring changes. Attribution comes from including the original license, which should have a line like "Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>", per the AGPL text.
It doesn't look like PyLova changed this when forking, because the top of the license file attributes the project to the FSF, and the bottom of the file attributes it to rimu. So both projects screwed this part up, because piefed should contain a line like "portions of this software copyright 2026 rimu atkinson", and after picking the changes from PyLova, piefed should have "portions of this software copyright 2026" whoever is the author of the portions used.
It's a common practice and one of the few "moral rights" recognized in the Berne Convention:
Article 6bis
Moral Rights:
1. To claim authorship; to object to certain modifications and other derogatory actions;
2. After the author's death; 3. Means of redress(1) Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work [...]
Edit to add: Death to Copyright Laws!
why don’t they act like adults and reach out?
because Rimu blocked us for making the fork in the first place. we tried to reach out when we offered him patches for the zero-days that .ML user dropped, and he refused them before copy/pasting them to Piefed and purging the Piefed Matrix channel of anyone who called him out for being a manbaby. even MrKaplan said he was out of line when he admitted that he did it that way specifically so that Mia did not get credit for the code SHE wrote. these were bugs that had existed in Piefed, PyLova devs fixed them, and we offered them as a peace offering to Rimu since he was mad we forked his software.
well, he burnt that bridge. now, if anyone wants to see further Piefed security vulnerabilities, they can just watch the PyLova changelog. we're not going to go out of our way to help him fix his shit anymore, and we're not going to keep security patches on the down low just to protect him and his shoddy fucking code.
MrKaplan does seem like the most level headed person in this from the little bit that I've read, but that doesn't make him the AGPL police.
On the topic of "should the comment have been deleted", I still see it as BPR. The overall tone wasn't in good faith, combined with previous beefs. You can't be surprised that the comment was deleted.
