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.
Lmao they blocked thelemmy.club for a few weeks for seemingly no reason. Unhinged stuff.
What the hell?!? Why isn’t Anarchist Nexus on the blacklist? Are we not posting hard enough? 👿 /j
notice they’re not denying the quoted criticisms
nice try implying that all the trans instances were banned btw, classy
The quoted criticism sounds reasonable and objective to you?
Yeah I’m not denying anything, I like watching pearl-clutching shitlibs squirm 😆
nice try implying that all the trans instances were banned btw
“All” the trans instances? Which ones come to mind for you other than blahaj?
Omg some leftists think that killing nazis is fine and dandy. Ban em all! Average liberal mod.
notice they’re not denying the quoted criticisms
Because the criticisms aren’t relevant to the objections being discussed? The blocks are happening inside the code without the user being aware. Maybe if it was a setting (even enabled by default) to use a “recommended blocklist” then it would make sense to dig in to why something or someone was blocked.
Blahaj.zone is certainly not “extremist”. It’s a pretty innocent instance. Must be some major queerphobia going on here.
When you’re an extremist, everyone in the world looks like a radical.
My best guess is that one of the dev’s alts got put in the corner for transphobia, and they were butthurt about it.
Well, they’re radical about their genders. Gender is dangerous. You know, to their social order at least. Also lots of organic chemistry involved, and we all know that shit’s cursed.
Hey you speak for your damn self. We’re making ALL the frogs gay!
It’s literally the pot calling the kettle black. Because we (trans people) believe in introspection, gender studies, biology, scientific methods, harm reduction, and can connect all these things, it conflicts with what people who don’t think. It comes down to immovable ignorance and misattributing through that ignorance, and they see us though a freaky fetishist rhetoric cynic lens. We end up being extreme difference alien extremist idealogists, and therefore different and must be a threat to their current worldview. And honestly, yeah. If you’re so stuck in trad bullshit that you stand in the way of progress and then claim “science” but then exact hate and oppression of humanity while aligning with the Nazis, then yeah, we are your enemy in every aspect of the word. We just wanna live our lives and love and be loved by our families and build communities and be happy. But in order to do that, APPARENTLY, some shit’s gotta change. Stop beating your wives, stop abusing your kids, read more, actually listen to people when they tell you something hurts, be more human, have empathy for people. We got told the future is hopeful and bright for everybody. We realized it isn’t that way. We figured out some ways it could be better. We aren’t perfect and are all human, just like everybody else. We literally all want the same thing, unless you’re a freaky hater rapist murderer racist piece of shit human. WHY are there SO MANY of those??? How do we help people? First step is accepting and understanding ourselves, and to do that, sometimes we need to listen to others who are also trying to understand THEMselves. We (everybody) aren’t that smart, and because of that, we have to continually try to be better, to ourselves and to others. And that takes effort and energy and time and patience. It takes examination of our biases, drilling down on “why” and researching history. And once you start doing that, shit gets a lot clearer. Not crystal clear, but definitely clearer. I still don’t understand why people get stuck on hate, but I know it makes me really, really sad when I lose a friend to it. It makes me sad when I talk to somebody I haven’t in a long time, and they hit me with angry, super stupid political rhetoric that illustrates how far down the fascist hole they’ve fallen. It’s always from a point of self confidence, pain, and a sense of overcoming intellectual adversity. But it’s always ignorance and needing belonging, resulting in hurting others.
I’m rambling because I’m tired of it. I’m also just tired in general. A lifetime of it all really wears you out and makes it hard to recover. Less friends, less family, less government, less rights, people talking you down everywhere, the constant considering and strategy. I’m tired. So tired. I do think we’re all gonna make it, but like db0 said, “we aren’t pacifists”, we just… I dunno, trans people are the tanks I guess. Politicians are the dps, everyday people speaking out in support are the support. I don’t want to be a tank, I want to be a normal person. I want to be a game dev and have friends and go visit my family. But I can’t do that anymore, so I must fight for the chance at maybe my younger siblings to have a chance at that future.
And if that makes me an extremist… I don’t think so. But if somebody does, then yeah, fine, I guess we can have beef.
Somebody else in here commented that they couldn’t stand the jokes and memes and stuff. And honestly, fuck that person. It all hurts. Of course it does. But we have to keep going and not give in to the hate. Otherwise… We lose everything. Identity politics, culture war… More like rights to life and love and freedom and equality. Losing civil rights weekly in 2026 is crazy. Defunding scientific progress and research. Everything is politicized against us now. We can’t even get a passport anymore. I can get executed for using the restroom in public. I get side eyed by every dad and verbally assaulted by the drunk ones. My offense? Walking in public on a sidewalk, in the evening, back from the grocery store.
I hope all fascists die in a fire. And now you have a better idea why.
I’m tired. I’m going to bed in hopes that things will be better tomorrow.
Hexbear.com 🤦🤣
missed shrekland 🌝
Classic
Oh whoops 😅. I guess we were banned before this commit?
I suspect so. I think it all came down during the big slapfight with piefed where A.N. was the first one to get pointed at for “extremism”
Yeah, we were banned in the initial wave of “unsupported instances” in March here.
Seems like db0 was upgraded from being allowed with a content warning to fully blocked in April with the commit linked in the op.
Congrats @hexbear for being #1 on this guy’s list.
Looks like the admin is anal enough to sort these alphabetically, so it’s actually abolish.capital
He’s not anal, he’s using AI all over the place and not acknowledging it.
Why do you think so?
Nobody manually arranges things in alphabetical order. It’s much more likely an LLM was used, I would have thought.
There’s a linting rule that does pretty much exactly this.
You don’t need an LLM to alphabetise lines. In Emacs you can just select a number of lines and run
M-x sort-linesand it’ll do it for you.
I ordered things alphabetically before AI because it made it easier for other people to read the list. It’s a built-in command in a lot of languages too.
Fair enough, I’m just pissed at the guy I guess.
I am too. This is insanely stupid, I depend on Tesseract to keep trolls at bay and this guy is abusing his power as a dev to try to get in the way of that. I really hope we don’t lose Tesseract because of this shit. I need it.
“Bitch eating a cracker”
They’re seemingly pissed at you too. You’re on their super-secret filtered users list.
Nah, that’s reaching.
Why assume good faith with this guy when everything else he does is bad faith? But sure, i agree it’s not proof of anything. Just a possibility.
I’ve made it! I’d like to thank all the liberals who made this possible, without you I’d never be a real tankie!
lmfao @ 2k “”““Russian disinformation””“” websites and built-in ‘Media Bias Factcheck.’ What a fucking dork. We’re going to start the revolution not to abolish capital, but because we’re coming for this dweeb’s toothbrush specifically.
I would appear asimon04 changed their name to paulo-roger. It appears they are trying to remove some of their repo from public view. But git doesn’t remove data just because it’s orphaned.
Here are some updated links, these might be good for another week before git does GC.
link in title: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/blob/e70e3a3cef739c59288ec78f0bbb4f0e1b4fa194/src/lib/blacklists.ts#L2270
Commit Explaining Specious reasoning: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/commit/2b53f17a5506b7c4b3ad1d5c26af49662f03a478
Old Main before they rolled it back 3 years: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/blob/e70e3a3cef739c59288ec78f0bbb4f0e1b4fa194/
It doesn’t seem to be working correctly. I can’t see any posts or profiles on dbzer0.
I’m not sure what you mean
This is what I saw when I tried to access [email protected]. Now it shows all posts but ones from dbzer0, and it seems like every post is marked NSFW.
I think it works if you search for
!share_anime_art@lemmy.dbzer0.comspecifically. Not sure about the NSFW and missing posts, but it does come with some opionated user filters which one can disable in user settingsIt’s back to showing nothing again for me, even with all the filters off.
Check that you’re showing read posts
I’m not logged in while viewing the posts. I’m using a private tab on Firefox.
I dunno mate, it’s really not worth troubleshooting this anyway
I thought Admiral Patrick “”“left”“” lemmy more than a year ago?
I think a bit of a problem with the fediverse might be that the majority of instance admins are just barely competent enough with development that if they get upset with how other admins run their shit, they end up forking some piece of the project in order to put their thumb on the scale and bend the network to better fit their worldview.
This bullshit is starting to feel like a bit of a pattern.
Nope only did an announcement but nothing else changed
Also seems to include queer instances like blahaj.zone, which is… Interesting. Blahaj is pretty tame I think as far as leftist politics goes, but is explicitly a trans instance, so I can’t help but think that’s the reason they are being blocked.
Also, I have never seen this app, but is it useful at all? If there is any value, would it be worth it to fork it and make a better version with the hidden blocklist removed?
Itself is a fork of the photon frontend, so ultimately it’s not as important to fork it imho. I liked using it because it integrated the fediseer and had some tweaks I liked, but the dev’s actions and opinionated design eclipsed those benefits.
I tried Photon and it doesn’t have as many functions as Tesseract does. Viewing a user’s modlog is more tedious, and banning user from communities is much more tedious. If Photon were updated to make its actions as smooth and easy as Tesseract then I would agree, but I wouldn’t want to be left without Tesseract as a mod unless there was an effort to bring some of its feaures and functionality to Photon and I don’t even care about the extra stuff like Fediseer integration of MBFC.
Just being able to view user modlogs easily or take action against them clicking on their profile would be all I would need:
A similar context menu for communities would be nice as well:
Having easy access to all these options makes moderation easier, which is why I use tesseract for moderation. Photon doesn’t provide this for me though, at least not in its current state.
Well at least open source coding makes it so this is easier to spot and the community can choose better going forward. The beauty of descentralized social media
Ye nobody would trust a proprietary one previcely for this reason
Lol. I’m on lemmy.ml because I thought it meant .machine-learning. I just thought it sounded cool. So my content would get banned
It means marxist-lenninist I think.
I recommend you to check the profiles of the creators of Lemmy which are also administrators of lemmy.ml. At least one of them has plenty of writings that make their ideology pretty clear.
It’s Mali.
The commit history of that file (not naming it denylist is telling enough, tbh) is hilarious!
Shadowbanning users in the client, telling users they are subscribed to the wrong communities, it has everything lol
Lol what do they have against archive sites??
There’s something about the archive.is owner using it to ddos some blog threatening to dox them
Sure, but blocking archive.org? and web.archive.org? That’s just weird.
Oh yeah that’s weird
Seems rational as an actively preventative solution, NGL. 🤷🏼♂️
It’s against copyright and therefore evil per liberal thought processes. Think about the artists and all that tripe.
Imagine being so liberal you think that news should be gated by paywalls and not freely available for the masses.
It’s not that strange when you consider that a lot of liberals lean pretty far right.
Splitting the Right into two “opposing” colors hasn’t done anyone (worth an iota of compassion) any favors, historically, but that doesn’t seem to stop the masses from going full Team Spirit. 🤮
Don’t you want to defend the billionaires who are decaying your standard of living? Think of tHE eCoNomY before speaking next time /s
Call me crazy but I don’t think that maga.place is a lefty instance
Do a tally how many leftist and how many right wing instances are in that list.
NOOOO!!
That’s clearly just the Mutual Aid of Greater Atlanta’s lemmy page! 🤣
Wtf did trans-friendly instances do to them??
I blocked a lot of them because I’m not a fan of seeing the same shit page after page. For instance the flood of selfies recently.
But deciding what a user does and doesn’t want on their feed should be the user’s decision, not some sneaky hidden bullshit pulled by the world’s lamest dev.
selfies? you can just block specific communities
Yeah, that’s what I do.
Devs like this do not belong with open source projects.
I agree. People who do this are emotionally compromised and in my opinion can’t be trusted when writing code. There was a different developer who through similar political convictions made his software wipe PCs that were in Russia or Belarus. Maybe that seems more extreme but it comes from the same politically charged and emotionally compromised place.
wipe PCs that were in Russia or Belarus.
What a no-effort adult* tantrum. Were they hoping to somehow strike it lucky and wipe govt rigs? Nevermind the innumerable civie casualties along the way? Fuckin’ chud. 🤮
*being generous, I know.
Unfortunately that piece of shit didn’t even get fired or cast out of the open source community, let alone get sent to prison for that. And yes as an American he could get sent to prison for that because he also effected American military systems in the region.
Fascist bootlickers you mean?
Neo Nazis
Only the derpiest of wannabes need apply. 🤢
Can you imagine what we’d be dealing with if they were actually competent? 🙆🏼♂️
Amazing how these projects keep killing themselves by alienating huge portions of their userbase. Hard to survive in a FOSS environment by being extremely reactionary.
The system works then
Yes, I agree! FOSS and federation do actually work, as we see these right-wing projects tank themselves. It affirms my belief that the Lemmy approach is correct.
Good on you for making that fork. What a bunch of nerds.
