In light of the dev silently blacklisting blahaj.zone, many of its users and several other instances, we have removed tesseract from the available lemmy front ends we offer.
In light of the dev silently blacklisting blahaj.zone, many of its users and several other instances, we have removed tesseract from the available lemmy front ends we offer.
They got my piefed account too!
It really roils me because you seem to be one of the most level-headed people in the Fediverse. I love running across your comments in random threads because you always have something of value to add, and you write well, to boot.
As you said yourself, it’s not the blocklist that’s the issue it’s that it’s not documented, seems somewhat intentionally hidden (including the apps claim that blocked sites are “incompatible”), and so the people deploying it aren’t even aware it’s there and don’t have the option to disable or change it to suit their needs. It’s very, very sketchy behavior on the part of the developer.
Well said. Ada works hard to achieve a reasonable balance, and is vastly underappreciated.
Thanks, Ada.
I was peeking around on db0’s post about it, and somebody mentioned that it’s really bad code structure, too. Which is true, hard-coding lists is atrociously hostile to convention and clean habits. It would be like if a chef never washed their hands because they thought it added flavor.
So it’s vibe coded?
No, it’s spite coded.
Hard coded lists are sometimes ok… but not for something that will change frequently like a ban list of websites
I mean, in really really really small, personal projects, I suppose. But again with the handwashing/sanitation analogy… It’s better to just wash your hands and make THAT the habit.
I feel attacked as someone who doesn’t wash their hands, you should be less extremist!
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Oh hi RFK
Lol this is RFK’s brainworm talking not RFK, fool.
…wait a minute… are you not a brainworm…?
slithers over to red button and squishes into it
alert alert we have a human in the brainworm bowl! alert alert
Ah dang. Did they get my nick at all? 🤞
Nah gotta up your posting game, I got individually and regex blocked 💪
Shiiiiiiiitfuuck. Gfdi.
I am disappoint.
Congrats. Well done. Happy for you.
Edit: I’m just laughing my ass off that they’re out there angrily regex blocking INDIVIDUAL people in hardcoded encrypted hidden files. The more I think about it the funnier it gets
Edit 2: okay now I’m starting to feel sorry for them. Because yeah that’s kinda sad.
Edit 3: nope, funny again hahahahahahaha
I know I didn’t expect to be so saddened about not being infamous enough to be on the blocklist.
Part of me is disappointed, but also part of me is glad the world at least still has gestures vaguely to everything this level of anonymity.
Wonder if we should ask the devs of Lemmy and Piefed to somehow disable access to them, as it’s far-right idiots doing this…
I’m not sure I understand, disable access to the blocklists? That’s up to the frontend Tesseract, it doesn’t interact with lemmy or piefed. It’s the frontend that is developed independently from either choosing not to display posts depending on the dev’s weird list.
As for piefed, the main dev has his own strongly opinionated lists that he maintains. Most of them can be disabled by the admins who set up a piefed instance.
And tankies aren’t rw.
That too of course
I meant as in, that those who ““develop”” the crap frontend, can no longer access whatever enables them to develop it. If that’s on Lemmy’s devs, then that’s there.
Oh, that’s not really thing in open-source. The source being public means anyone can work on it. There are certain restrictions in terms of monetizing that are put in place by licensing but you can’t forbid individual people from working with, rewriting or redistributing the code (for good reason).
Fair point. I suppose deplatforming is best, then, promoting the good frontends and not mentioning the bad ones.
As this unfolds across the comms the dev is doublefucked in the FOSS community anyway.
Dang, I only got regexed