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.
proton.me is in THROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS lol
Apparently you’re also a filthy commie that should be Operation Condor’ed if you prefer to use an email provider that doesn’t spy on everything you send and receive
that’s insane, they don’t even allow more than one free account
The epstien class got caught via gmail… nothing happened. 😒
Db0, welcome to the tankie troika 🤝
Amazing how these projects keep killing themselves by alienating huge portions of their userbase. Hard to survive in a FOSS environment by being extremely reactionary.
of course it does. all they have is censorship and calling you names.
Piefed blocks any non-leftist sources, among other authoritarian censorship measures.
piefed is a liberal right wing instance lmfao
Right wing? Any source that leans right wing is banned lol
Liberalism itself is right-wing, and is the only acceptable position on Piefed.social
Liberalism is classified as left-wing in most contexts.
This is the exact opposite of the truth.
Back when it was compared with feudalism, sure. As it stands liberalism is supportive of the status quo, it’s socialism that’s left.
That’s one of those things that sound right if your only frame of reference is smoking the crack pipe of US electoral politics.
I find it hilarious that .ml users who literally ban anyone not to their left are upset that someone else is censoring them.
ooh that’s gonna get me banned too lol
Well you and the subject of this post are the side supposedly against “all” censorship aren’t you? Or was that just a motto when convenient?
Also we don’t give a shit if we get censored by other instances or users, and we censor in return. Agree or disagree I think our logic around censoring/getting censored is mostly consistent here. Go ahead and block us, go ahead and get your instance and client to block us, you won’t. Because then you wouldn’t be able to fulfill your daily “hurr durr .ml hurr durr tankie” quota.
Because then you wouldn’t be able to fulfill your daily “hurr durr .ml hurr durr tankie” quota.
oh baby, there’s always hurr durr .ml content beyond lemmy.ml, no worries there rofls
Us living so rent free in your head that you’ll talk about us in other instances isn’t the own you think it is rofls
Also, great! You don’t need us then, so go ahead and block us.
