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.
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.
Lmao I was there, it doesn’t “describe” anything you’ve accused me of. Again, just be specific. If it’s so obviously true, that should be simple.
How dare I respond to your multiple insults with multiple insults??
Truly pathetic that you want to dish it out but can’t take it.
Have the day you deserve.
Unlike the crybullies you associate with, I don’t delete or ban or block things that threaten my hugbox.
In fact, anyone who’s not a coward can join the room in my profile if they have beef. No bans or deletions for anything other than illegal content.
No crying to the mods to delete or ban because you can’t defend your made up shit.
Stay mad, keep stalking!