Edit: For context, @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com discovered that the developer of Tesseract had discretely banned numerous instances and disguised it as a server error. This included more heavily leftist instances, but also blahaj.zone. More recently, it was discovered that they had also been suppressing individual users, phrases, and communities that criticize power tripping on fedi.

Needless to say, I implore non blahaj.zone users to drop the Tesseract client (support for the client has already been dropped for blahaj). So called “liberals” like this who call out “extremism on both sides” are an insult to the values they claim to be upholding.

      • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        Damn. I guess I’ll have to be more inflammatory.

        you’re in the more exclusive part of the list.

        Wassat mean? Double secret probation?

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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          23 hours ago

          Basically, any account on other instances with the same name are automatically banned. For example, Gates9@lemmy.blahaj.zone or Gates9@piefed.world would be banned regardless of if they currently exist. Even Gates4@lemmy.world or Gates8675309@lemmy.dbzer0.com would be banned, as any user with “Gates” followed by numbers is also included

          • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            23 hours ago

            Oh so for American non-tech people it’s like how the Republicans purge voter rolls to suppress voters.

            • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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              18 hours ago

              I mean, at least you’re told that you’ve been purged when you go to vote. The dev never intended for this list to be made public. It’d be like if your votes were discarded when you don’t vote for the right party, and they put measures in place to make it harder to audit the election. It is still possible to do a recount and discover it, but there was still clearly deception.