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.
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Left and right based political standing are not based on going in some perceived “forwards” or “backwards” direction. Communism is a giant leap backwards because it is a system that has been proven to not work every single time it has been done. It ends in an elite ruling class and extreme poverty and death for everyone else.
Being to the right of the far, far left doesn’t make something “right”.
Can you state how these terms, left and right, came into being and what they meant?
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I didn’t call socialism communism. I called communism communism.
Which socialist or communist countries are there right now?
How did Stalin’s Soviet Union go?
Maoist China?
Cuba?
North Korea?
Venezuela?
Raging successes I assume?
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China is not a socialist/communist country. It’s a mix of communism and capitalism. They’re super authoritarian and brutal though, so….yay?
You’re absolutely delusional. There’s not a well functioning country in the world that is socialist/communist.
Communism isn’t a global system btw.
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The very fact that China is a unique mix, including massive capitalism - ~60% of China’s GDP comes from the private sector, which also accounts for 80% of urban employment and 90% of new jobs -is a perfect example of socialism and communism not being viable on their own.
They need a capitalist platform holding the whole thing up for it to work, and even then their socialist/communist parts are the worst and most deplorable parts of the country - authoritarianism, mass censorship, capital punishment for even remotely criticising the government, child and slave labor, extreme poverty in the underclass with an elite ruling class, state sponsored propaganda that is demonstrably false but all means to challenge it banned/blocked. Then there’s the whole persecution of Uyghurs thing as well, but I’m sure you’ll pretend that’s not a thing right?
Your definitions of “doing well” for all the other countries I gave are crazy. Just absolute madness.
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