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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
    45·
    2 months ago

    “If I use a different definition than what everyone else uses I can bend it to my beliefs”

    This is why you tankies aren’t liked by a lot of people.

    Authleft are tankies, it’s VERY simple.

      • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        The definition I gave is the one that makes the most practical sense, and is a better identification for a group we both know exists.

        Your definition is wrong and clearly being used to shift the meaning of a long-defined word. Which is some classic tankie shit.

        how does that account for the anarchists and liberals that people call tankie?

        If you’re actually stupid enough to be serious asking this then oof, lol.

          • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            14·
            2 months ago

            How is the definition I gave wrong?

            Google’s right there AND I defined it already. You’re pretty stupid, eh?

            Further, again, you dodge my question

            How dare I keep the conversation on topic, right?

            • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              13·
              2 months ago

              I really don’t care if you two want to argue all week, but be respectful and don’t call names or I’ll have to take action.

              • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                13·
                2 months ago

                You didn’t explain how I’m wrong, though.

                Gave you the definition of the word. That’s all you should need if you can read

                You’ve not yet engaged with what I said.

                Because I’m not an idiot who falls for tankie bullshit. Keep on topic: tankie isn’t a replacement word for leftists and never has been.

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

                    I never said “tankie is a replacement word for leftists,”

                    I never said you said that. You are amazingly bad at the language you’re using.

                    Authoritarian” isn’t an objective term,

                    Tankies and being retards so they don’t feel bad, classic