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.
Ayyy look who discovers that censorship against the “tankies” will soon turn into censorship against all wrongthink.
no no they’ll come for the communists and stop there
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
And that was that the end
No, tankies love to conflate their authoritarianism with communism at large so they can make that exact argument
Guess what kind of communists that poem is about…
Lol, if you had read what I said carefully, I didn’t say that at all.
I do not care for the fact that both right and left authoritarians (Tankies = left authoritarians) get “censored”. Just as most agree that right-wingers and their toxic “ideology” should be shutdown, left authoritarianism should be as well because it is just as equally toxic. Known to call democracy “fake” and encourage people to not vote, spreading genocide denialism and even spreading literal Russian propaganda on Ukraine being “the aggressors” and not Russia
I also find it funny that Tankies cry about being “censored” just like right-wingers do. And then turns around and censors dissenting discussions on China.
In fact, there’s a whole lot of censorship as documented here in the mega thread , but sure keep going on how the “only true communists” are being unjustly censored
And before you say “it’s just anti-communism!” No, tankies love to conflate their authoritarianism with communism at large so they can make that exact argument
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”.
.ml admins hate me, all my accounts are banned from them (not that I would interact with them anyways)
Because that’s just good software design, which was the whole point of my original comment
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!
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.
yeah for all the fearmongering about hexbears moderation policy it’s usually just once someone starts problems that action is taken.
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
Oooh loredrop 😄 thanks for that info that does paint a different picture