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.
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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