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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.

          • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            23·
            3 months ago

            Me: don’t equate tankies and all leftists.

            You: rants for paragraphs about your own (incorrect) definition of tankie.

            Yeah, no, you didn’t. More tankie bullshit, shocker

              • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                23·
                3 months ago

                I never equated tankies with all leftists

                You repeatedly said “leftists” in replies to people using “tankie”

                What’s with you tankies and lying about easily checked reality?

                I gave a fully valid interpretation of the word

                No, you gave your wrong definition of it.

                You haven’t actually engaged with that

                “why won’t you engage with this irrelevant bullshit I brought up?!?!”

                I can’t imagine this attitude is useful for the organizing work I assume you do.

                It’s incredibly useful for keeping morons like you out, actually

                  • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                    15·
                    3 months ago

                    ’s impressive how you can say so much while saying nothing at all.

                    Even more impressive how you can write all that and still be illiterate.

                    How is what I said wrong?

                    I gave you the correct definition. Yours doesn’t match that. Very simple.

                    Are YOU aware that pretending to be an illiterate idiot is why tankies aren’t respected by anyone of value?