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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.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    2·
    19 days ago

    Lmao they blocked thelemmy.club for a few weeks for seemingly no reason. Unhinged stuff.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      20 days ago

      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.

      • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        61·
        19 days ago

        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.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          61·
          19 days ago

          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.

  • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    161·
    19 days ago

    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.

        • cavitationfetishist2@quokk.auEnglish
          5·
          20 days ago

          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.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          19 days ago

          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.

        • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          2·
          20 days ago

          My best guess is that one of the dev’s alts got put in the corner for transphobia, and they were butthurt about it.

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
          2·
          20 days ago

          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”

        • taco@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1·
          20 days ago

          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.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
      06·
      20 days ago

      notice they’re not denying the quoted criticisms

      nice try implying that all the trans instances were banned btw, classy

  • Javi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    18 days ago

    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 curated enforced bubble.

      • Javi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        18 days ago

        Fair enough. I noticed that one from the fork you made. I just assumed that’s where Patrick forked it from originally.

      • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
        2·
        18 days ago

        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.

          • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
            2·
            18 days ago

            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.

            • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
              2·
              18 days ago

              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

              • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                2·
                17 days ago

                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
0

                That 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?

                • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
                  2·
                  17 days ago

                  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 B is removed (privated)? We still have all the commit history form repo B, but no upstream to link to that history. We also have all the commit history form repo A, however the upstream is still public so it gets linked properly.

                  The fork chain is still the same A -> b -> C we just no longer see repo B on github. It doesn’t mean that anything got moved, deleted or overwritten, just hidden.

      • Javi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        18 days ago

        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.

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
          3·
          18 days ago

          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

  • metalsd@eviltoast.org
    11·
    19 days ago

    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

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    111·
    20 days ago

    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.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
      7·
      20 days ago

      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.

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        20 days ago

        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.

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
          6·
          20 days ago

          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.

          • adr1an@programming.dev
            1·
            19 days ago

            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.

  • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    19 days ago

    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.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    9·
    20 days ago

    Why the fuck are trans-friendly instances blocked too?? They just make wholesome memes and once in a while come over to comment “:3”

    • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
      61·
      20 days ago

      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.

  • Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    19 days ago

    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!

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        Hey, don’t make me give up my airmail.cc address! I don’t know of anywhere else that lets you make a persistent address so easily at a domain that’s still accepted by stuff.

        Seriously if you know of anywhere else I’m all ears. The small chuckle I got out of the airmail.cc email domain ain’t worth the association.

        • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          18 days ago

          I also have an airmail.cc box and it’s basically IP and/or domain blocked on lots of places. I think some mail was even quietly dropped. Sounds like it’s too easy to sign up and since that’s not the “industry standard” (thanks alphabet and microsoft) it’s often blocked even by self-hostables.

          Try riseup.net and autistici.org. Or maybe on of these dozens of servers (although little of them with a good privacy notice, unfortunately needed under capitalism). Or maybe sign up for a pubnix and use that thing’s email, although the only one I found with a proper privacy policy was envs.net and I was banned for trying to prove a point.

          Alternative: open up Tor Browser, get your super banned super forbidden email address (like maildrop.cc), then open a new tab, smash that F12 key, press the little phone/tablet icon on the right, then change the first selector to “iPhone SE”, change "UA: " to Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Mobile/15E148 DuckDuckGo/7 Safari/604, then go to duck.com/email (the .onion is broken due to bad csp lol), put your very illegal box there and get a very legal one back. You may ask, why Tor Browser. I say, to make DuckDuckGo shut up more easily about your brand new alias. You can just keep doing this, infinite legit email glitch. Just nobody tell anyone, sshhhhhhhhhh.

    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      20 days ago

      I’m not well-versed in how email domains work, so I may be missing something here. Why block just @proton.me? Seems like if they were blocking all the free tier addresses then they’d block @protonmail.com, too?

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    7·
    20 days ago

    Amazing how these projects keep killing themselves by alienating huge portions of their userbase. Hard to survive in a FOSS environment by being extremely reactionary.