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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.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
    52·
    1 个月前

    Update, it seems like the Tesseract Dev and owner of Dubvee.org has responded to this, by shutting off his instance and redirecting the domain to this picture:

    Real mature of him. I would encourage not using Tesseract anymore or if you must, using the Fork db0 provides, and contributing to that instead of the main one.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
        5·
        1 个月前

        I don’t know if they plan on keeping it long term, if they do though, it definitely should have a better name, Something which isn’t associated with the idiot who currently did this. Also in their fork they should remove the user agreement page since it implies this same enforcement.

  • lambisio@feddit.clEnglish
    31·
    1 个月前

    Between Piefed doing the CCP shadow profiling and now Tesseract doing a Truth Social Approved Banlist, it feels like the Fediverse is entering or has fully entered the “techbros and nazis grab interest and seek for ways to enshittify” stage.

    Oh well, at least it means we’ve got some attention.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
      4·
      1 个月前

      ???

      While this is typical liberal behavior, when you say vanguard, I assume you’re talking about MLs, who were targeted by this, along with anarchists. Anarchists and communists are very distinctly not liberal.

  • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
    13·
    1 个月前

    Heinous behavior and would make me never use Tesseract because it’s been compromised beyond compare. I already filter the ones that don’t act in good faith, bot driven, or spread misinformation. That is my right as a user to evaluate an instance and decide if they are worth my time or a domain block to save me the trouble. Learning based on this post that Piefed has done something similar…Makes me glad that I stuck with my Mbin instance (after the demise of lemmynsfw). Like, unhealthy behavior on the part of turbolibs, it’s good that I read this post and will be very carefully about the software/fediverse instances I join.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
    1·
    29 天前

    Update: Admiral patrick removed the repository along with all Tesseract communities in response to the drama. Hopefully this means he’s stepping away from the project for good.