It’s a frontend for lemmy, and it had a secret block list. Generally made of people who held such extreme and toxic positions like “fascism is bad” or “rich people shouldn’t be rich when other people are starving”
Yeah it doesn’t need “permission” in the traditional social media sense, that’s the thing. Dude just made it so the things or people he didn’t like caused “error messages.” And yeah it really should have to be the instance that blocks things, that’s what everybody’s pissed about.
Well from what i know it’s not really blocked, the targetted users and communities get their content either not displayed, either as an error message. They’re technically there, not blocked, but the frontend chooses to hide them.
I have no idea what Tesseract is
It’s a frontend for lemmy, and it had a secret block list. Generally made of people who held such extreme and toxic positions like “fascism is bad” or “rich people shouldn’t be rich when other people are starving”
Or “animals don’t deserve to be put in death camps”
whuh? why does a front-end have the ‘permission’ to block users? shouldn’t that fall to the instance instead?
And that, you see, is the crux of everybody’s objection to it.
That and how it was done.
Yeah it doesn’t need “permission” in the traditional social media sense, that’s the thing. Dude just made it so the things or people he didn’t like caused “error messages.” And yeah it really should have to be the instance that blocks things, that’s what everybody’s pissed about.
Well from what i know it’s not really blocked, the targetted users and communities get their content either not displayed, either as an error message. They’re technically there, not blocked, but the frontend chooses to hide them.
My guess is that the blocking is done client-side.
Apparently it also includes opinions such as, “penguins are cool,” and “check out this silly knife.”
Well you’re obviously trying to rile people up with those statements.
Your knives ain’t silly, they’re cool af
At just a quick glance, I don’t see my account listed but my username is in the regex. lol
I’m the same. I think you’re blocked if either is true
That’s correct. The regex based blocking will block the username on any instance
Removed by mod