Piefed is very much not hands-off. Starting from the moment you sign up, they're going to try to load you down with their preset subscriptions to pre-approved communities and their automatic censoring of whatever posters and sites they disapprove of. You can opt out of most of their anti-features, but still...
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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If you experience issues or problems with this instance (lemmy.today), this is the place to discuss them. Or if you just want to ask questions about how something works. Anything related to the instance or lemmy itself.
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one of the barriers to entry to the fediverse is finding the content you want to see, and subscribing to it. some instances like piefed preload a feed to get users started.
this really rubs some lemmy users the wrong way as they get butt hurt about auto-anything, and really dont want the fediverse to be easy to use. to them the technical difficulty of finding content is a feature not a problem.
When I joined Lemmy I also had preset communities so I don't really see the difference. I even unsubscribed from many of them.
i dont understand it either. id recommend exploring all of the different platforms.. they all have their own ways of implementing the fediverse content streams
you can check out https://fedidb.com/ for a list of platforms.. im partial to mbin and piefed.
no reason you cant make an account on many
Piefed.
"It" if you'd prefer.
Does it not work like Lemmy where instance owners set the settings?
Probably. I know there were plans at least to make some of the features - like auto-hiding downvoted posts and threads and attaching an icon to accounts that got downvoted - configurable. I don't know if that's actually been done or not, but I assume so.
Look - I'm not here to convince you of anything. You asked a question and I gave my opinion in response. You wanted to know if there is "something similarly hands off out there for piefed," and IMO that's not likely, since "hands-off" is one thing that Piefed is not.
But yes - it's certainly possible that at least some of the censorship and reputation anti-features are now configurable, and even that someone has started an instance with them all disabled.