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.
I recently found out Admiral Patrick made a response to this situation where he doesn’t address any of the concerns related to censoring leftists and just points to the spam he included in the list.
Here’s his post:
https://lemmy.world/post/49817942What is the issue with PieFed?
I’m also curious and hoping @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com could expand or point to something for background.
I searched and found this. Not sure if it is what db0 referred to.
Ye basically. Piefed was also very opinionated on what to silently drop and avoid showing. It didn’t go as far as tesseract, but it did rub a lot of people the wrong way
It is kind of amusing to me how often these people who run their own instances force other people to accept their own ideology.
Admiral Patrick has ruined all credibility and has proven that he doesn’t add value to the fediverse. He actively detracts from it by shaping instances other than his own into his own image. Without their consent.
I’m not saying this because I’m on that user list (fucking lol) but because it’s just pathetic. Rimu is doing the same thing on Piefed, Kaplan tried to do something similar by pressuring other instances to blacklist Dbzer0… Meanwhile the Flotilla seems to be the only ones willing to be completely transparent about what is going on and actually have their users decide.
And for Admiral Patrick, considering the dipshit seems to love Star Trek so much, let me remind you of what someone far better than you once said who you seem to admire.
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
I’m adding on my own quote.
Fuck you.
I’m not saying this because I’m on that user list (fucking lol)
It’s good company, and I don’t just say that because I’m on that user list. But yeah, fuck asimons04.
Asimons04
Otherwise known as AdmiralPatrick here on lemmy.
Looks like they’ve deleted their repo for tesseract.
Probably for the best given their credibility as a FOSS dev is shot now anyway. But at least nobody else will unwittingly walk into their
curatedenforced bubble.Nah, they just renamed their account https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract
I love the still have the commited developer part in Readme after their development halted message
It looks like they transferred ownership of the repo?
🤷♂️
Fair enough. I noticed that one from the fork you made. I just assumed that’s where Patrick forked it from originally.
More likely they privated their repo. Your fork is way ahead with this devs commits. I’d guess the dev made a fork of the paulo-roger repo when they stopped the development.
Mine is ahead because that repo was at my level when I forked
Well yeah. The guy made a bunch of commits, you forked, they privated the repo. The repo you forked “no longer exists” so parent fork is reported. Nobody renamed their account, nobody transferred the repo.
I’m pretty sure his wasn’t a fork. He hard forked from photon, so there’s nobody he forked from calling it tesseract. This doesn’t make sense
So the last commit on the apparent “original” paulo-roger/tesseract repo states abandonment of the project in 2023. However this commit, like every other in this repo, is authored by asimons04.
$ git log | grep asimons | wc -l 651 $ git log | grep roger | wc -l 0That seems pretty weird to me. I guess if they were added as a contributor at some point they could’ve force-pushed a rewritten history? Still doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Edit: Maybe it’s just paulo-roger who checked out asimons04’s repo after they abandoned it and uploaded it to his profile as a fresh repo instead of forking, and somehow GitHub mistook it for the parent repo after as04 made their repo private/whatever happened?
Ye that’s my suspicion as well. I think I got redirected to a random fork
My theory was something like:
- Repo
A(paulo-roger) abandoned at 2023 - Repo
B(asimons04) forked and worked from there - Repo
C(OP)
Now what happens if repo
Bis removed (privated)? We still have all the commit history form repoB, but no upstream to link to that history. We also have all the commit history form repoA, however the upstream is still public so it gets linked properly.The fork chain is still the same
A -> b -> Cwe just no longer see repoBon github. It doesn’t mean that anything got moved, deleted or overwritten, just hidden.- Repo
Isn’t it still there? (I mean, here: https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract/)
I’m not on it, unfortunately.
Yeah looks like its back up. I’m guessing they made it private and had a change of heart. When I checked earlier, it would 404, and db0’s fork now references the earlier fork in the chain rather than this one.
There wasn’t an earlier fork. Either ap isn’t telling the whole story of what they did with their repo (they also lost all their stars), or github is bugged somehow
Well at least open source coding makes it so this is easier to spot and the community can choose better going forward. The beauty of descentralized social media
Ye nobody would trust a proprietary one previcely for this reason
Devs like this do not belong with open source projects.
Fascist bootlickers you mean?
Neo Nazis
Only the derpiest of wannabes need apply. 🤢
Can you imagine what we’d be dealing with if they were actually competent? 🙆🏼♂️
I agree. People who do this are emotionally compromised and in my opinion can’t be trusted when writing code. There was a different developer who through similar political convictions made his software wipe PCs that were in Russia or Belarus. Maybe that seems more extreme but it comes from the same politically charged and emotionally compromised place.
wipe PCs that were in Russia or Belarus.
What a no-effort adult* tantrum. Were they hoping to somehow strike it lucky and wipe govt rigs? Nevermind the innumerable civie casualties along the way? Fuckin’ chud. 🤮
*being generous, I know.
Unfortunately that piece of shit didn’t even get fired or cast out of the open source community, let alone get sent to prison for that. And yes as an American he could get sent to prison for that because he also effected American military systems in the region.
Why the fuck are trans-friendly instances blocked too?? They just make wholesome memes and once in a while come over to comment “:3”
I blocked a lot of them because I’m not a fan of seeing the same shit page after page. For instance the flood of selfies recently.
But deciding what a user does and doesn’t want on their feed should be the user’s decision, not some sneaky hidden bullshit pulled by the world’s lamest dev.
selfies? you can just block specific communities
Yeah, that’s what I do.
lmao ironic.gif
What the hell?!? Why isn’t Anarchist Nexus on the blacklist? Are we not posting hard enough? 👿 /j
Blahaj.zone is certainly not “extremist”. It’s a pretty innocent instance. Must be some major queerphobia going on here.
Well, they’re radical about their genders. Gender is dangerous. You know, to their social order at least. Also lots of organic chemistry involved, and we all know that shit’s cursed.
When you’re an extremist, everyone in the world looks like a radical.
Hey you speak for your damn self. We’re making ALL the frogs gay!
It’s literally the pot calling the kettle black. Because we (trans people) believe in introspection, gender studies, biology, scientific methods, harm reduction, and can connect all these things, it conflicts with what people who don’t think. It comes down to immovable ignorance and misattributing through that ignorance, and they see us though a freaky fetishist rhetoric cynic lens. We end up being extreme difference alien extremist idealogists, and therefore different and must be a threat to their current worldview. And honestly, yeah. If you’re so stuck in trad bullshit that you stand in the way of progress and then claim “science” but then exact hate and oppression of humanity while aligning with the Nazis, then yeah, we are your enemy in every aspect of the word. We just wanna live our lives and love and be loved by our families and build communities and be happy. But in order to do that, APPARENTLY, some shit’s gotta change. Stop beating your wives, stop abusing your kids, read more, actually listen to people when they tell you something hurts, be more human, have empathy for people. We got told the future is hopeful and bright for everybody. We realized it isn’t that way. We figured out some ways it could be better. We aren’t perfect and are all human, just like everybody else. We literally all want the same thing, unless you’re a freaky hater rapist murderer racist piece of shit human. WHY are there SO MANY of those??? How do we help people? First step is accepting and understanding ourselves, and to do that, sometimes we need to listen to others who are also trying to understand THEMselves. We (everybody) aren’t that smart, and because of that, we have to continually try to be better, to ourselves and to others. And that takes effort and energy and time and patience. It takes examination of our biases, drilling down on “why” and researching history. And once you start doing that, shit gets a lot clearer. Not crystal clear, but definitely clearer. I still don’t understand why people get stuck on hate, but I know it makes me really, really sad when I lose a friend to it. It makes me sad when I talk to somebody I haven’t in a long time, and they hit me with angry, super stupid political rhetoric that illustrates how far down the fascist hole they’ve fallen. It’s always from a point of self confidence, pain, and a sense of overcoming intellectual adversity. But it’s always ignorance and needing belonging, resulting in hurting others.
I’m rambling because I’m tired of it. I’m also just tired in general. A lifetime of it all really wears you out and makes it hard to recover. Less friends, less family, less government, less rights, people talking you down everywhere, the constant considering and strategy. I’m tired. So tired. I do think we’re all gonna make it, but like db0 said, “we aren’t pacifists”, we just… I dunno, trans people are the tanks I guess. Politicians are the dps, everyday people speaking out in support are the support. I don’t want to be a tank, I want to be a normal person. I want to be a game dev and have friends and go visit my family. But I can’t do that anymore, so I must fight for the chance at maybe my younger siblings to have a chance at that future.
And if that makes me an extremist… I don’t think so. But if somebody does, then yeah, fine, I guess we can have beef.
Somebody else in here commented that they couldn’t stand the jokes and memes and stuff. And honestly, fuck that person. It all hurts. Of course it does. But we have to keep going and not give in to the hate. Otherwise… We lose everything. Identity politics, culture war… More like rights to life and love and freedom and equality. Losing civil rights weekly in 2026 is crazy. Defunding scientific progress and research. Everything is politicized against us now. We can’t even get a passport anymore. I can get executed for using the restroom in public. I get side eyed by every dad and verbally assaulted by the drunk ones. My offense? Walking in public on a sidewalk, in the evening, back from the grocery store.
I hope all fascists die in a fire. And now you have a better idea why.
I’m tired. I’m going to bed in hopes that things will be better tomorrow.
My best guess is that one of the dev’s alts got put in the corner for transphobia, and they were butthurt about it.
Hexbear.com 🤦🤣
Classic
missed shrekland 🌝
Oh whoops 😅. I guess we were banned before this commit?
I suspect so. I think it all came down during the big slapfight with piefed where A.N. was the first one to get pointed at for “extremism”
Yeah, we were banned in the initial wave of “unsupported instances” in March here.
Seems like db0 was upgraded from being allowed with a content warning to fully blocked in April with the commit linked in the op.
notice they’re not denying the quoted criticisms
nice try implying that all the trans instances were banned btw, classy
Omg some leftists think that killing nazis is fine and dandy. Ban em all! Average liberal mod.
nice try implying that all the trans instances were banned btw
“All” the trans instances? Which ones come to mind for you other than blahaj?
The quoted criticism sounds reasonable and objective to you?
Yeah I’m not denying anything, I like watching pearl-clutching shitlibs squirm 😆
notice they’re not denying the quoted criticisms
Because the criticisms aren’t relevant to the objections being discussed? The blocks are happening inside the code without the user being aware. Maybe if it was a setting (even enabled by default) to use a “recommended blocklist” then it would make sense to dig in to why something or someone was blocked.
I thought Admiral Patrick “”“left”“” lemmy more than a year ago?
I think a bit of a problem with the fediverse might be that the majority of instance admins are just barely competent enough with development that if they get upset with how other admins run their shit, they end up forking some piece of the project in order to put their thumb on the scale and bend the network to better fit their worldview.
This bullshit is starting to feel like a bit of a pattern.
Nope only did an announcement but nothing else changed
I really hope you don’t get rid of tesseract completely. It’s a very useful tool when moderating and I haven’t found anything with a similar feature set. This dev sucks as a person for doing something this stupid and reactive.
Edit: Apparenly he’s also blocking trans friendly instances too. What a transphobic piece of shit!
I think db0
blahajmade a fork with the list removed, thankfully.I thought it was db0 who made the fork, he said so in the post above.
Oop thank you.
Haha, what a small pathetic man.
He absolutely is. I have no clue why anyone would defend him at this point.
You don’t understand! Freedom of speech is only good when it’s freedom of their speech!
But seriously, this recent shift of project leads deciding what users should and shouldn’t see is concerning. And honestly, I could give them the benefit of the doubt if they added it as some sort of opt-in list. But no.
They will force their narrative down the users’ throats.
I might not always agree with db0, the Anarchist Flotilla, or the “Tankie Triad”. But whatever shakes Lemmy right now, consider me an ally. Whatever these egocentric folks attempt to create, it is everything Lemmy was created to replace.
Also, that’s a lovely list they made of places to follow.
lmfao. What a weirdo. Gotta be top 10 most pathetic things in software dev.
Also holy fuck I would be ready with the cluebat if I wasted my time troubleshooting sabotage.
Didn’t help that the latest update opened some doors to the all-oppressing chinese botnet scrapers and brought the instance to its knees. I was up until 3am firefighting yesterday.
I thought you were running iocane or one of those fake link mazes?
Did it have some way to hit the DB past it? How?
Man remember when it just kinda worked to use robots.txt (ok Baidu always misbehaved but it didn’t always exist). The internet used to be so cool if you were one of the weirdos initiated to the mysteries.
I 'member. Capitalism ruins everything…
We do run iocaine but that only takes care of known spam subnets and scraping agents. You need to know who to target to send in iocaine first. In front of that we have haphash which is a PoW. We don’t use it site-wide though, as we’re ok people scraping well-cached things like our frontpage. We use it on dynamic content like comments which scrapers love to scrape by the millions, each of them causing a DB query which we cannot cache.
It seems that new lemmy added some new url paths which I didn’t know about (I think
/comment/is new, before it was all just/post/) which the botnmets discovered after a few hours and started scraping. On top of that I noticed that some scrapers were using random wildcard domain to go to the main site, so I punted those to iocaine as well.A few days ago I read about reaction, is a daemon that scans network activity and prevents this kind of shit. May be worth to check it out. GL.
top ten most pathetic things
Mayb-
in software Dev
Lol no. Up there, though.
Let’s make such list. How about stallman defending pedophilia? That’s number 1 to me
Oh that’s a good one, I was kind of trying to forget he existed
Name 10 things more pathetic.
Not cringe, not evil, pathetic!
No. I stay the hell away from those people. Was my whole childhood and I’ve mostly repressed those memories.
Well then, conceed the point dear fetishist :p
Never, only that I cannot cite individual examples.
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Must have been cringe.
The commit history of that file (not naming it denylist is telling enough, tbh) is hilarious!
Shadowbanning users in the client, telling users they are subscribed to the wrong communities, it has everything lol
Lol what do they have against archive sites??
It’s against copyright and therefore evil per liberal thought processes. Think about the artists and all that tripe.
Imagine being so liberal you think that news should be gated by paywalls and not freely available for the masses.
It’s not that strange when you consider that a lot of liberals lean pretty far right.
Splitting the Right into two “opposing” colors hasn’t done anyone (worth an iota of compassion) any favors, historically, but that doesn’t seem to stop the masses from going full Team Spirit. 🤮
There’s something about the archive.is owner using it to ddos some blog threatening to dox them
Sure, but blocking archive.org? and web.archive.org? That’s just weird.
Oh yeah that’s weird
Seems rational as an actively preventative solution, NGL. 🤷🏼♂️
Don’t you want to defend the billionaires who are decaying your standard of living? Think of tHE eCoNomY before speaking next time /s
