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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.

      • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        You can see the list, you focused on one shitty instance and ignored countless leftist and trans friendly ones in attempt to discredit the issue.

        • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
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          2 months ago

          The fact that it’s on the list debunks your implication that it was an anti-leftist and anti-trans block.

          I wasn’t ignoring anything. But you have a history of maliciously mislabelling people as anti-left and anti-trans, so worth pointing out that you’re doing it here too.

          • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auOPEnglish
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            2 months ago

            It’s a crosspost, I didn’t make the post nor the title.

            Make up all the excuses and deflections you want. There is zero reason for Blahaj.zone to be on this list except blatant transphobia.

            Having a look, your mod log is pages long of bad faith and trolling. Seeing as you’re a single user instance and defending transphobia right now it’s probably best to just go ahead and not with bother with your nonsense any further.

            • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
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              2 months ago

              defending transphobia right now

              It is amazing that you offered up a textbook example of what I accused you of right here.

              Absolutely nowhere have I defended transphobia. It’s disgusting how often you try to discredit people using that tactic. It totally devalues real criticism of actual transphobia that hurts real people.

              And if we’re comparing modlogs, apparently I’m in good company with a racist, violent troll.