PieFed has a dizzying array of settings and options that instance admins can tweak. Most of them have obvious and sensible default values but some of those have been a bit controversial, especially to do with what gets blocked by default. In this post I explain what those are and how they can be configured.
Before we created the bulk community import feature, all communities were manually imported.
Back then it happened by people importing their profile settings from Lemmy, which includes their community subscriptions. As soon as a dozen people joined piefed.social and imported their settings, 80% of the popular communities were added, including ones with ‘shit’ in their name.
So this anti-shock filter on the bulk import isn’t a big hurdle, at all. Shitposts abound, regardless.