I have no clue what Tesseract is, but we’re several days in and now I’m seeing memes of people not being on some list. What is Tesseract? What is the list? Why do people want to be on it?
Does this have something to do with the OCR software?
I have no clue what Tesseract is, but we’re several days in and now I’m seeing memes of people not being on some list. What is Tesseract? What is the list? Why do people want to be on it?
Does this have something to do with the OCR software?
No, thank goodness.
Tesseract was a free and open source frontend to Lemmy. Basically, the logic of your instance is handled by Lemmy, but you can replace the look of it, or even give your users multiple options, by adding a frontend.
Key here is that it is reasonable to expect a frontend to present the information from the backend correctly and completely. If you want to filter out communities or people, you would do this by joining the right instance, changing the settings in your client, blocking people you don’t like, and subscribing to communities you do like.
And if he really wanted to have a filter in his frontend, it should have been opt-in, not opt-out.
So once db0 (admin of Lemmy.dbzer0.com, who the dev previously clashed with [1]) found and exposed the existence of this filter, which is practically a secret blacklist of every user the dev found annoying.
We’ve been clowning on the dev ever since.
As an addendum, the dev crashed out and seemingly closed his instance (dubvee DOT org), leaving a goodbye rant. All well and good, but he embedded a bit of JavaScript that basically queries lemmy.dbzer0.com 1500 times whenever you open dubvee! Hence why I’m not putting the dubvee URL, and please don’t go there at least for your own safety.
The list is an obfuscated blacklist. Now if he just blocked lots of people from dubvee, we wouldn’t bat an eye. However, he added a practically secret blacklist of users and instances (full transparency: both my instance and my username were both blocked, I’m pretty sure my instance is the “instance-that-will-not-be-named” in his rant). Like it’s open source so you literally can find it, but you had to query his server to get it I think.
The developer claimed that this was to “save” the Fediverse from “toxicity”. And yeah, obviously, there were some pretty toxic users on that list. But honestly…it was really just people who were active and ever posted anything to the left or right of Reagan, although it was dominated by leftists. In particular, a few trans instances were banned.
Because it’s really really funny 😆
[1] So my home instance (Anarchist Nexus) is part of the Anarchist Flotilla with dbzer0, basically we roll together and we share admins. One of the admins on Anarchist Nexus put “Death to Zionists” in their display name. Unfortunately for the turbolibs at Lemmy.world, this was too unfathomably based for them, so they threatened to defederate from Anarchist Nexus. Plus, a lot of politically outspoken users come from the Nexus and dbzer0, i.e. we were some of the exact people the Tesseract dev wanted to “save” the Fediverse from.
Not just that, but he also blacklisted a lot of instances that were not batshit insane1 enough. Lots of users were even included. He went so far to put up individual regex blocks against thousands of users, me included 😂
It’s practically a badge of honour if you’re on that list. It tells you that you’re too chill for hatred.
1 The opposite of sane, such as ‘buying’ a Steam game while it’s not on sale, giving the already rich more money, or opposing LGBTQ+ rights while being found at a gay orgy (only illegal because of the noise) and escaping by pipe. See also: József Szájer. Poor guy, I hope he’ll have it better on the left.)
Also targeted the LGBT+ community for having the audacity to be willing to talk shit right back to the people who want to kill us.
Literally targeted the admin of Blahaj, and blamed them not “policing” their community more. What a joke.
Wow, what a little bitchbaby they were.
Fortunately, they were too unstable to be competent to get their political ends.
We’d be fucked if there were competent fascists. Fortunately, being fascist generally means you’re short on competency and make up for it with strongmanism.
Yeah me too, my instance got put on there and I personally earned a regex 😆
I made the list so proud and not surprised sure I am on a lot of lists.
Double plus good!
I’m so confused, I never posted anything controversial, popular, or interesting. Why did they add me?
they think you are gay propaganda
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Maybe you offended him by using an emoji or talking about the police. (Both real blocklist items)
I haven’t used emojis but now that you mention it it sounds like a good idea 🤠
Probably because you’re a reader.
Well damn. That guy sucks.