A few people in the other thread assumed that it was required to fork the code to disable those filters. That’s not the case, the filters can be configured, and are off by default.
To hide the reputation system, here’s a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user
That CSS line can also be used by any user wanting to hide the score at the user level.
Mbin isn’t nearly as egregious as piefed in the way they introduce breaking changes to the network.
I’m not assuming anything, it’s been stated repeatedly. Rimu could implement his preferred features in ways that don’t degrade the health of the network but chooses not to.
I’m not sure what relevance that has, but you can count those instances on a hand missing two fingers (i’d note that dbzer0 does not defederate from 2 of the three that I assume you’re referring to, nor would I advocate for it). It would be interesting for someone to map out just how much of the fediverse is effectively being defederated for piefed servers with large user block lists - i imagine it’s quite a large chunk, especially when the most popular users to block are the ones producing the most activity. The larger those servers grow, the bigger those holes will become.
Is Mbin updated much?
Have Lemmy mods approached Rimu at all?
Just noting that there are already holes of communication due to defederation (hexbear/lemmygrad are pretty medium sized).
He chose to fork his own code rather than work with them - I think the better question is why he hasnt vetted his changes with the existing codebase better, or why he cant be bothered.
So in your mind just the existence of an alternative platform that reads Lemmy instances here is in itself evidence of a problem? It seems like that to me.
I haven’t seen a single instance owner (on piefed or lemmy) complain about the interpretation of the block system as developed by piefed so far.