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 guys don’t seem to understand where the center is. Just because communism is far, far left, it doesn’t mean “slightly left” is “right”.
You don’t seem to get what makes something left vs. right. It’s about what direction they take us, in the direction of the status quo, being right wing, or if they take us forwards to socialism, being left wing. In the future, socialism will be right wing, and communism will be left wing. That’s just how it is, we must proceed forward exactly as much as we can without letting idealism cloud our judgement.
That’s complete BS mate lol
What part, and how so?
All of it. Every part. Because it’s wrong.
Socialism will never be “right wing”. This is the problem with you full on leftists - you think moving further left makes everything to your right “right wing”, when all that has really happened is you’ve gone even further down the communist hell hole.
Why would socialism not be right wing in a communist society? If we advance to fully collectivized production and distribution, and a stateless, classess society, reintroducing class, the state, and decentralized production would be reactionary and take us backwards.
Left and right based political standing are not based on going in some perceived “forwards” or “backwards” direction. Communism is a giant leap backwards because it is a system that has been proven to not work every single time it has been done. It ends in an elite ruling class and extreme poverty and death for everyone else.
Being to the right of the far, far left doesn’t make something “right”.
“Leftism” as a concept originated in the revolutionary side of the French Revolution. Leftism is inherently tied to forward progress. As for socialism (which you call communism), it has worked dramatically well every single time it has been established. It has resulted in removal of the former capitalist and landlord classes from power, and a dramatic uplifting in the lives of the working classes. Your assessment is utterly detached from actual historical evidence.
I didn’t call socialism communism. I called communism communism.
Which socialist or communist countries are there right now?
How did Stalin’s Soviet Union go?
Maoist China?
Cuba?
North Korea?
Venezuela?
Raging successes I assume?
You’re arguing with a communist and an authoritarian. Anything right of Stalin is considered right-wing.
Cowbee is deep in that camp. You will get nowhere with him.