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PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances. (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Draconic_NEO to c/ghazi

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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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[-] mathemachristian 3 points 1 week ago

Don't you think it's weird that after all this campaigning against them, copying content across instances to minimize the interaction the wrong leftists have with the wider fediverse, it's not the "authoritarian tankies" that have you on weird blocklists, make you part of their software, and have not even banned you afaik? But you got on the wrong side of the people, who by all accounts should be with you, not once now but twice. You are in the piefed code and the tesseract code. Not the "tankie" code.

To be completely transparent I asked for you to be banned from hexbear in the hexbear mod chat since you are very open about being a wrecker (I must commend you on your openness and honesty, it's kinda refreshing actually and I mean this sincerely) but the sentiment was largely "nah why bother".

[-] cm0002@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago

it's not the "authoritarian tankies" that have you on weird blocklists, make you part of their software, and have not even banned you afaik

.ml admins hate me, all my accounts are banned from them (not that I would interact with them anyways)

should be with you, not once now but twice. You are in the piefed code and the tesseract code. Not the "tankie" code.

Because that's just good software design, which was the whole point of my original comment

I asked for you to be banned from hexbear in the hexbear mod chat

TBH I'm surprised I haven't been, I have come up on there more than once, even have a couple threads specifically about me LMAO. But hopefully it goes through so I can add it to my list of Threadi erse achievements!

[-] mathemachristian 2 points 1 week ago

.ml admins hate me, all my accounts are banned from them (not that I would interact with them anyways

To be clear, you have been antagonising them and trying to wreck the instance. That has been an openly declared goal of yours. This was a predictable outcome, I don't think you're complaining about this.

TBH I'm surprised I haven't been, I have come up on there more than once, even have a couple threads specifically about me LMAO. But hopefully it goes through so I can add it to my list of Threadi erse achievements!

yeah for all the fearmongering about hexbears moderation policy it's usually just once someone starts problems that action is taken.

[-] cm0002@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To be clear, you have been antagonising them and trying to wreck the instance. That has been an openly declared goal of yours. This was a predictable outcome, I don't think you're complaining about this.

Nah, the ban came well before any of that, they widely site banned me early on when they originally temp site banned me because I naively had a good faith argument (like many new here I thought these tankies weren't as bad as I was told) then I got perm banned for merely calling them out and talking about them on the Threadiverse publicly (and not even anywhere on their instance). The documentation came later, which they definitely don't like, authoritarians don't like to be documented

[-] mathemachristian 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oooh loredrop 😄 thanks for that info that does paint a different picture

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