Rimu built a tool for new instance owners to bulk federate external communities on their instance. Kind of like a piefed lemmy-federate. In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up. The keywords were taken from another function that piefed.social has to stop listing posts and comments after 6 months applied to specific communities.
This didn’t translate well, and he removed multiple keywords referenced here from the mass federation tool when 196 mod complained.
Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet.
BB84@mander.xyz 2 days ago
That cannot be true. I can see a bunch of communities federated on that website. For example, search for ‘news’: piefed.co.za/communities?search=news&language_id=…
Okay. I call that a hardcoded block (that can be manually worked around).
Skavau@piefed.social 2 days ago
Does he have all minor communities on there too?
Yes, but again - it has been adjusted to pretty much just refer to slurs. I actually spoke to him about this weeks ago.