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The current default blocklist is bad (tarte.nuage-libre.fr)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by administrateur@tarte.nuage-libre.fr to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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During the installation, it is just "Added 'No-QAnon' blocklist, see https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon" but if we use the link, it becomes "A blocklist for QAnon, conspiracy, fake news, nazi websites.", then "An anti-fascist domains blocklist of QAnon, conspiracy, fake news, far-right and discriminatory websites.". Not a bad thing if there is only that in the list.

In reality, it is also activism against government and the right at least for content from France.

The error message in english :

An unexpected error has occurred

Sorry for the inconvenience! Please let us know about this, so we can repair it and make PieFed better for everyone.

It blocks governmental websites. It should not be enabled by default.

It blocks center/center-right/right party with the comment "Macron démission". It is cleary activism.

It gives to the piefed project a bad image because it is not very serious to include anti feature without documentation to explain it (the error message is not very clear).

How to solve the issue ?
- do not include the blocklist by default
OR
- remove any website which is not "QAnon, conspiracy, fake news, far-right and discriminatory" AND change the error message
OR
- explain the blocklist in the installation informations AND change the error message

I deleted the entire blocklist from my instance.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for this valuable feedback.

I have edited the no-qanon blocklist on github - I removed the websites you mentioned and several others also.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you!

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

It is not well maintained. It blocks a ton of progressive related websites as well.