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.
Yeah, actually, this is a huge problem I have with the larger Fediverse. Not just one instance.
The dev still approached it the wrong way though. It’s no excuse.
Hitler is dead. Of course Reddit sucks.
But I don’t think we should explicitly advocate for the death of living people.
EDIT: My point; exactly.
I want criminals put on trial, I want them mobbed and disgraced and utterly humiliated.
I don’t want them killed.
And thats controversial on Lemmy? Literally everyone in this thread disagrees?
This is exactly what I’m talking about. If no one here sees that as extremist, I don’t know what to tell you.
Where is there any political group or faction today that doesn’t advocate for and celebrate violence? I honestly don’t see any. It’s just a question of against who and what justification is used.
And the people in charge? They are slowly killing us, the whole world. But oh do not advocate for violence while we fund and support these wars.
Yeah… That is not how the vast majority of the population thinks. Even if it seems that way online.
I can’t believe I’m debating “well every political faction advocates for murder, explicitly, so why shouldn’t we?” I don’t even know where to begin, there.
Do you not think a vote for Trump is not just advocating for violence, but a real action supporting violence? What about the liberals who support Israel’s genocide? Is that not advocating for violence? Those who deny climate change? Antivaxxers who refuse to mask up or obstruct medical policy? Those who who celebrate the Ukrainian strikes into Russia and deny diplomatic solutions?
If it helps, I do agree with you, that alone is no justification. The only justification for murder is to save an innocent life. For example if violence was the only practically viable solution to topple a murderous regime, and would actually be able to succeed. If there are other non violent ways, you have to take those. But they made sure there are none.
Don’t attribute wholesale to malice what can be perfectly explained by either stupidity or self-interest. Besides, I don’t think that the average American is concerned overmuch with US external affairs - unless it affects the price of gas.
So brave very adult.
Cops, landlords, and (x)illionaires have withheld their humanity to “make a living” and so the same sentiment should be expressed towards them.
I want my Fediverse like Reddit, where you get banned for saying Hitler should have been killed but white supremacism is allowed.
On lemmy we get comments saying people with camera glasses (or whatever you call them) should be physically assaulted instead.
Like, the bar for calling for violence on lemmy is horrifically low.
It’s not that low. Just don’t be a disgusting billionaire fascist apologist, or wear state surveillance cameras on your face, and we’ll get along just fine. Next you’ll be complaining about flock cameras being vandalised? Allowing secret surveillance of citizens is a hallmark of authoritarianism that all of us as human beings have a duty to resist.