Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)

rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to

  The problem with grabbing small snippets of code is a lot of context is lost. Don’t trust anyone who does that. PieFed has 50,000 lines of code so anyone showing you 50 lines is leaving out 99.9% of the picture.

  These 2 statements are incompatible.

  Plus depending on the snippets they definitely can tell how things work

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  • wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Previous threads about these filters were people complaining about them being hardcoded, completely ignoring that they are completely optional and off by default. It would go something like this:

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    Look at this awful thing PieFed does!

    def do_the_thing():
        # relatively simple code that does the thing
    

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    It completely ignored the context that the do_the_thing function is only called if the admin wants to do the thing.

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    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Most of the issues people have brought up have been about why the snippets are even in the code not trying to obscure what the code does.

      It completely ignored the context that the do_the_thing function is only called if the admin wants to do the thing

      Again it’s why is this a thing

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  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Simple != few lines of code, nothing incompatible about those two statements

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    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Saying the simple code needs lots of context outside of the code block says it’s either not simple or not easy to understand

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      • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        « The problem with grabbing small snippets of code is a lot of context is lost.» does not mean that a lot of additional code is required to understand the context, additionally, simple code may require you to read a bit of code to understand it.

        Simplicity does not mean small scale, nor that it must be understood at a glance.

        Rich Hickey got a great presentation where he discuss simplicity vs complexity. It’s worth a watch if you want to better understand the concepts.

        www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

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• Shatur@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The problem with grabbing small snippets of code is a lot of context is lost.

  To me, it was obvious that these parts were configurable. There were literally boolean checks for it.

  But these features remind me Reddit.

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The 99% of the code does not deal with keeping Shadow Profiles on netizens and punishing them (as well as misinforming them about what’s going on). This 50something lines, does, and thus is a weighed key on which to judge the subject.

  , we need […] community evangelists

  What will they be commenting to the public on the CCP-like thing?

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Shadow profiles”? Huh?

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah. You know, Shadow Profiles? Datasets on users collected for the purpose of control and manipulation, basically the equivalent to back when McCarthynism and the FBI had a “dossier” on you.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s not what’s being done at all here. It’s not that deep. It’s just a number based on downvotes received/given.

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• DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why the constant shitting on “tankies” if you’re gonna have a social credit score?

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• seawoowaes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  get back to work hardcoding censorship and pushing your tankie ideology in your code.

  What is wrong with you? Why would you put malicious code into piefed that deliberately misleads users?

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