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The Tesseract lemmy front end has been removed from blahaj.zone (self.main)

submitted 1 week ago by ada to c/main

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In light of the dev silently blacklisting blahaj.zone, many of its users and several other instances, we have removed tesseract from the available lemmy front ends we offer.

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[-] SnotFlickerman 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It really roils me because you seem to be one of the most level-headed people in the Fediverse. I love running across your comments in random threads because you always have something of value to add, and you write well, to boot.

As you said yourself, it's not the blocklist that's the issue it's that it's not documented, seems somewhat intentionally hidden (including the apps claim that blocked sites are "incompatible"), and so the people deploying it aren't even aware it's there and don't have the option to disable or change it to suit their needs. It's very, very sketchy behavior on the part of the developer.

[-] SCmSTR 33 points 1 week ago

I was peeking around on db0's post about it, and somebody mentioned that it's really bad code structure, too. Which is true, hard-coding lists is atrociously hostile to convention and clean habits. It would be like if a chef never washed their hands because they thought it added flavor.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Hard coded lists are sometimes ok… but not for something that will change frequently like a ban list of websites

[-] SCmSTR 14 points 1 week ago

I mean, in really really really small, personal projects, I suppose. But again with the handwashing/sanitation analogy... It's better to just wash your hands and make THAT the habit.