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[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Side note, I have a personal belief that if you don't occasionally get a couple of downvotes, then you're too agreeable, and you likely don't think for yourself enough.

You have to be comfortable in your own skin and think for yourself and say what you actually think in a public forum. Otherwise, what's the point?

Simultaneously, if you get tons of downvotes almost every time you post, you're an asshole and you need to reevaluate yourself.

If you occasionally get downvoted into oblivion because you didn't express your thoughts clearly or because your thought actually is kind of fucked up, then you should keep that post visible and evaluate and learn from it.

Sometimes 60 million people are wrong, sure, but also, sometimes you've not fully thought out your position

But if everyone likes everything that you have to say, then how much of what you're saying are your own original thoughts?

And if you're not sharing at least partially original thoughts, then what are you actually contributing to the forum?

Edit: I wish I could find the person who downvoted this comment. I feel like they did that just to give it extra credibility, and I really appreciate that. That's pretty freakin' funny.

[-] ada 10 points 3 days ago

tfw I'm on an instance without downvotes!

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well I just down voted you to show that I both agree and can think for myself. Am I doing this right?

[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If you were the first person to do it, you might have been, but being the third or fourth person just means you're following a trend. Think for yourself, bro.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Ok I just swiped right. :*

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

It's so much better if you hide the votes entirely. Then suddenly I don't feel bad about getting 50 replies that say I'm wrong, because who knows, maybe 500 non-repliers thought I was right? I don't know, because I can't see! Haha!

[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 11 points 2 days ago

Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals corruption. For some people, it takes shockingly little power to go full mask off. This guy will probably go on to make some HOA legendary.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Disagree. It takes the reins off the easily corruptible. Once there are no or severely limited consequences for actions we get to see who people really are. Also it’s highly probable that the easily corruptible are drawn to power.

[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 5 points 2 days ago

"Disagree. Agree. Agree again. Agree with the tacit point being made." -you for some reason

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That’s not what I said. “Revealing corruption” is not the same as granting ability to corruptible people.

Your sarcasm is inverse to your comprehension.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago

I'm just happy to be included.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago
[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Wait, is it still changing from the 3761-line, 111654-byte file (SHA-1 400A59DA592B56D1AF50524C32C081497CFDA2D4) I downloaded last week? The dev is basically the only user of the blacklist-enforcing version now.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

The Codeberg archive has 3771 lines. Don't wanna check the GitHub version 🙈

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 14 points 3 days ago
[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Completely ootl of this tesseract thing. Could someone fill me in? It's a Lemmy app?

Is it a good idea to get into it? Usable? FUBAR after some fiasco?

[-] mathemachristian 11 points 2 days ago

Copy-pasting a comment I already made:

Some guy makes a semi-popular front-end for lemmy. He then sneaks in a blocklist that goes unnoticed for almost a year. It gets discovered when he blocks entire instances from using the front-end by an admin trying to troubleshoot why the front-end won't work on his instance. Drama unfolds but shit really hits the fan when it gets discovered that the major portion of the blocklist isn't even hardcoded, it gets pulled from the devs own server. The dude made a centralized secret blocklist that he can update however he wants and people won't even know they're on it. He is blocking comments containing keywords, whole communities, users he doesn't like, it's wild. He can effectively shadowban across the entire platform (well everyone using his front-end) with no oversight, no accountability.

People didn't even know they were shadowbanned by him, no reason is given, no path to get off the list is mentioned. So now people are pouring over the list hoping to be one of the cool ones that got blocked (I was in the OG blocklist back when it was part of the code 😎) and are really fucking pissed off. So he throws out some long letters telling people he isn't mad at all and the last one apparently contains a piece of code to make anyone who views part of a DDOS attack on db0, the instance whos admin first made this list publicly known.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks!

Is it drama because the front end is really good and the dev turned out so tilted or just the drama?

[-] mathemachristian 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think the front-end had some features, particularly mod features, people liked but I haven't used it so I don't know. I think the outrage is mainly that someone wanted to alter the user experience across many instances without getting noticed. So people that were using it didn't see posts or comments no matter what instance they were logging in from, without ever getting notified that there was a filter in play. As someone who has a couple accounts on different instances specifically in order to choose what I currently want to see, this would have been infuriating to me.

Plus users had to figure out for themselves that their experience was getting altered and then find a very hidden checkbox in the settings that was just labeled "toxic mode" in order to disable that list. And people didn't even know they were on that list. I was on it since at least end of april without ever knowing about it.

[-] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

It was a frontend for Lemmy. The developer hard-coded blocks for instances, communities, and individual users that they didn't like into their software without informing administrators running the software, and giving them no option to unblock any of those entities. https://lemmy.world/post/49778353

[-] Marija@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

This destroys open collegial community trust.

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