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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Looks like they’ve deleted their repo for tesseract.
Probably for the best given their credibility as a FOSS dev is shot now anyway. But at least nobody else will unwittingly walk into their
curatedenforced bubble.Nah, they just renamed their account https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract
Fair enough. I noticed that one from the fork you made. I just assumed that’s where Patrick forked it from originally.
but muh authoritarians
lmao
Haha, what a small pathetic man.
He absolutely is. I have no clue why anyone would defend him at this point.
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
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
It is kind of amusing to me how often these people who run their own instances force other people to accept their own ideology.
Admiral Patrick has ruined all credibility and has proven that he doesn’t add value to the fediverse. He actively detracts from it by shaping instances other than his own into his own image. Without their consent.
I’m not saying this because I’m on that user list (fucking lol) but because it’s just pathetic. Rimu is doing the same thing on Piefed, Kaplan tried to do something similar by pressuring other instances to blacklist Dbzer0… Meanwhile the Flotilla seems to be the only ones willing to be completely transparent about what is going on and actually have their users decide.
And for Admiral Patrick, considering the dipshit seems to love Star Trek so much, let me remind you of what someone far better than you once said who you seem to admire.
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
I’m adding on my own quote.
Fuck you.
I’m not saying this because I’m on that user list (fucking lol)
It’s good company, and I don’t just say that because I’m on that user list. But yeah, fuck asimons04.
Asimons04
Otherwise known as AdmiralPatrick here on lemmy.
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.
It’s Mali.
lmao ironic.gif
If they could hid a blacklist I wonder if they also could hide a coin miner or a backdoor.
With this, the author has forever ruined their own credibility.
Of course they could. They would totally ruin their credibility but they’ve already done that it seems. They shut off their instance and redirect it to a cartoon picture telling people to go away.
Calling a “blacklists.rs” directly in the top level rust source tree hidden is an overstatement. The blacklist is not obfuscated or compressed. It is just a blacklist.
There’s a worse one here
aw man blobs in oss? why is there no scanner for that?
I really hope you don’t get rid of tesseract completely. It’s a very useful tool when moderating and I haven’t found anything with a similar feature set. This dev sucks as a person for doing something this stupid and reactive.
Edit: Apparenly he’s also blocking trans friendly instances too. What a transphobic piece of shit!
Lmao they blocked thelemmy.club for a few weeks for seemingly no reason. Unhinged stuff.
Why the fuck are trans-friendly instances blocked too?? They just make wholesome memes and once in a while come over to comment “:3”
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.
What’s wrong with piefed dev? Genuine question. Edit: found it, https://lemmy.ml/post/47306551
Devs like this do not belong with open source projects.
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? 🙆🏼♂️
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.
You don’t understand! Freedom of speech is only good when it’s freedom of their speech!
But seriously, this recent shift of project leads deciding what users should and shouldn’t see is concerning. And honestly, I could give them the benefit of the doubt if they added it as some sort of opt-in list. But no.
They will force their narrative down the users’ throats.
I might not always agree with db0, the Anarchist Flotilla, or the “Tankie Triad”. But whatever shakes Lemmy right now, consider me an ally. Whatever these egocentric folks attempt to create, it is everything Lemmy was created to replace.
Also, that’s a lovely list they made of places to follow.
