Yes, Rimu is the main developer of piefed. While the project originally started with very noble stated goals, Rimu is turning out to have some very strong opinions and uses his control of the software and his adminship of the main piefed instance to impose those opinions on everybody. Very often so far, his actions and his stated reasons do not line up. In a way, it’s even worse than lemmy where at least the software is free of the ideological beliefs of the devs.

If you’re on piefed.social, there’s a lot of content being censored you might not even be aware of. About half of that is said controversy about piefed.