I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it's been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.
Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There's a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we've been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.
This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.
When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is "incompatible with that instance" which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.
Isn't it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don't just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn't it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think...
Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I'll doubt I'll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we'll bring up mlmym again now that someone's maintaining it again.
addy.io,mozmail.com(Firefox Relay) and evenproton.meinTHROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS. No Simplelogin/Proton pass thoughonly palantir allowed
I wish emails/SMTP was illegal. Hate it when I join webservices that ask me to use another protocol to authenticate my tired face. There’s 0 reasons to 2FA, even Kerberos, outside the protocol one is using.
You could generate a temporary mail address with guerilliamail
I appreciate your suggestion, but my conversation is above your academic title. If you don't have a CCNA or a bachelor's degree in CS, I urge you to disengage, or catch up.
What an odd response
Odd in the sense that you prefer to invite farmers to a technology expo, or odd in not wanting to engage with uneducated folks in a highly technical conversation?
Do you think farmers don't go to technology expos?
Some absolutely do.
How many of them do you trust to engage in honest 2FA & SBC security discussions?
I know someone who hacks John Deer tractors, or at least used to. I'd trust him a not more than some random troll I met on Lemmy who thinks they know everything.
what’s wrong with you?
It's the other way around, who asked for your unhinged downranking?
i downvoted the fucking stupid comments, it’s a coincidence three are yours.
e: whoop, four now lol
And how does your downranking help in anyway secure threadiverse frontend connections?
how would voting up accomplish the same thing? you’re asking a nonsense question.
Glad you could be honest about you will not help achieve. Disengage.
god i hope this is a bot. have a nice day fella.
uh okay
every so often you get to hear an opinion that's offensive not because of any bigotry, but just because it's assnine.
It's spelled "asinine" but I do like "assnine" lol
whoops. I've been spelling it wrong my entire life then. oh well! 😅🤣
Added to Dictionary.
Look I find the need to use a 50 year old protocol to authenticate with websites annoying, and I think we shouldn't do that anymore, but I don't think it should be outlawed.
But yet cumallover.me (owned by the chud at cock.li) is allowed
Hey, don't make me give up my airmail.cc address! I don't know of anywhere else that lets you make a persistent address so easily at a domain that's still accepted by stuff.
Seriously if you know of anywhere else I'm all ears. The small chuckle I got out of the airmail.cc email domain ain't worth the association.
I also have an airmail.cc box and it's basically IP and/or domain blocked on lots of places. I think some mail was even quietly dropped. Sounds like it's too easy to sign up and since that's not the "industry standard" (thanks alphabet and microsoft) it's often blocked even by self-hostables.
Try riseup.net and autistici.org. Or maybe on of these dozens of servers (although little of them with a good privacy notice, unfortunately needed under capitalism). Or maybe sign up for a pubnix and use that thing's email, although the only one I found with a proper privacy policy was envs.net and I was banned for trying to prove a point.
Alternative: open up Tor Browser, get your super banned super forbidden email address (like maildrop.cc), then open a new tab, smash that F12 key, press the little phone/tablet icon on the right, then change the first selector to "iPhone SE", change "UA: " to
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Mobile/15E148 DuckDuckGo/7 Safari/604, then go toduck.com/email(the .onion is broken due to bad csp lol), put your very illegal box there and get a very legal one back. You may ask, why Tor Browser. I say, to make DuckDuckGo shut up more easily about your brand new alias. You can just keep doing this, infinite legit email glitch. Just nobody tell anyone, sshhhhhhhhhh.I’m not well-versed in how email domains work, so I may be missing something here. Why block just @proton.me? Seems like if they were blocking all the free tier addresses then they’d block @protonmail.com, too?
Yup, you can just use @protonmail.com and since receiving is enough, @pm.me works too without paying.