I feel like I’m missing a key piece of information here. Wtf is “tesseract” in this context?
UPDATE: never mind. Other posts were more detailed. Apparently it’s a Lemmy instance/front end? And the owner(s) compiled a huge block list by usernames.
I still don’t know why it matters, what’s so special about tesseract.
It matters because tesseract was/is used by some large instances, so the tesseract dev was secretly censoring content from thousands of users without their knowledge and even without the knowledge of the instance admins. It’s a pretty big deal because this means that a lot of people on Lemmy have been getting a highly censored view of the community without realizing it. A lot of those people, probably even most of them, came to Lemmy specifically to get away from that kind of thing. So its really shady, a huge breach of trust, and this single dev has been covertly influencing thousands of people’s political exposure.
I’ve made less than 50 comments on Lemmy and none were very popular and yet I made the list? Maybe some kinda keyword thing. Strange.
Yeah the list to me seems arbitrary enough that it seems like this idiot largely used ai to make it
Would explain how I’m somehow not on it.
EDIT: I think the list doesn’t apply to any piefed content?
I’m on the regex list, presumably because I switched from Lemmy.world to piefed.world a year ago
What’s even left on lemmy if you block everything left leaning? Might as well not come to this place
There will be no one left
Idk that sounds all right.