cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299
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.
Good call, I don’t see anything good coming from them in the future either. It’s definitely concerning that this person is a mod on piefed.social, makes me feel like people need to stay away from that instance and its communities. Also I wonder if Ada should be made aware of this person, considering their prolific history of acting in bad faith.
It’s rather telling they didn’t end up on the tesseract filters
It’s rather telling they didn’t end up on the tesseract filters
Telling of what?
What moderation have I done on that comm. Can you tell me?
Do you have anything to back up your slander?
Looks like deeply agenda driven anti-cognition with a side of insane respectability politics in an effort to appeal to other people who already think like them. It’s really too bad you can’t truly block people on fediverse, because that seems like the exact type of goal that, even if you don’t feed that troll, it still gets a quip in that appeals to their audience, energizing it and stroking the fire.
They’re also prone to stalk and spams users dms. But yeah it’s a wonderful example of how great piefed.social is since they’re one of the mods there if their fediverse comm
Cool slander. Got reciepts?
Because I do, for you following me around and downvoting everything. The thing you’re accusing me of.
Tell me, what “moderation” have I done?
You’re describing it here https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/26567313
Along with the behavior in this thread. The full thread above and so many other places.
This is not a debate its a warning to others
Describing what? You invented several accusations about me, which ones am I describing in that thread?
More vagueposting. Again, I can put together screenshots of you regularly downvoting my posts, and lying to others about me. That’s what I’m accusing you of, specifically, and I can back it up.
You accused me of stalking and spamming users DMs. So show me doing that specifically.
Exactly.
Keep accusing me of things you actually do and stay mad. Such a pathetic little coward.
At least the means one thing’s for certain: you’re actually a transphobe.
Downvoting isn’t staking. If you read the linked thread it describes everything.
It took ~10 minutes for you to prove there is no point in any discussions with you as you’ve now insulted me multiple times and now called me a transphobe out of nowhere.
So well done on the speed run. Have a fantastic day. Becare as anger like this raises stress immensely and can lead to other health issues.
If they delete comment replying too for everyone else.
That is some wild projection.
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I’m so curious: who’s my audience?