I don’t really know where to post this but this community felt relevant, apologies if this is not welcome here, feel free to moderate, ping, and redirect me if I should share it elsewhere (especially because I’m not a good fact checker, but I felt like it would be interesting to have a level headed discussion about this drama).
I originally posted to !tesseract@dubvee.org, but a moderator there banned me and deleted the post, I’m guesing the Tesseract dev feels harassed by the whole situation, and do not want to hear about it any more. The community is now locked.
My original post read as follows:
"Was curious about The List™ and took a look at what it contained. There’s interesting stuff that tells us more about the intentions of whoever made it.
I’m not making this list to pile one the current drama, I don’t plan on being added to The List™. I just thought that, when something like this arises, one thing the Tesseract dev could have done is explain why some individual keywords are included, this would have been more transparent. Because when you look closer, there’s some absurd stuff in there, which can lead to confusion as to why some are filtered out.
I can’t be bothered to go through content posted by each individual user and community that are filtered out, so I skipped those.
Community names
- ~25+ occurrences words referring almost exclusively to leftist political activism including but not limited to criticising american supremacy, the israeli-led genocide, racism, white supremacy, capitalism, paedophilia…
- 4 occurences of anime related content
- 3 occurences of right wing related content (Libertarianism, Conservativism, and a conspiracy theory)
- usgreenlandwar
- “Collapse” (discusses the environmental (and more) collapse of our civilization)
- any word referring to the green party of UK (their main platforms: anticapitalism, ecology, progressivism)
- “death to” (understandable, but depends on context)
- 4chan (and similar imageboard names) + greentext formats
- “billionnaire”
- “anonymous”
- 1 specific username and variants of their spam accounts / communities
- “Police” or “Cops”
Keywords
- ~30+ occurences of usernames, website urls, company names, sentences, to filter out spam / scam
- ~30+ occurrences of various sentences almost exclusively used by leftist circles, including but not limited to criticising american supremacy, the israeli-led genocide, racism, white supremacy, capitalism, paedophilia…
- 🥺?👉👈
- “What would (france|the french) do” (probably to prevent referring to the guillotine or the french revolution, still funny)
- “chatgip+ity+” used when someone criticises OpenAI’s LLM
- “censoring me” (maybe because conspiracy theorists often claim to be censored)
- 4 Occurrences of sentences mentioning when an article is paywalled
- “pedophile” (can’t talk about it?)
- “rap(e|ing)s? (kids?|child)” (can’t describe the actions of the above?)
- “Perchance” (random LLM related website)
- 1 dead instance link, which was used by a computer science student that hasn’t posted in 3 months
- “neoliberal” (can’t even name a specific political and economic ideology?)
- “death to” (that one is understandable)
- “pray for nuke” (same as above)
- “remove from reality” (same as above but euphemism)
- “Kirk(e|'|’)d” (used to refer to the murder of Charlie Kirk)
- whenever any post is crossposted from a list of already filtered out instances
- whenever any user from a list of already filtered out instances posts or comments
Website URLs
I started this whole summary ~2,5 hours ago based on my search history. There about 300+ direct url entries and I can’t be bothered to check every single one of them (I’ve been looking up their domain name on google, then directly entered their url in a separate browser, and searched the domain on lemmy). I went through about half of them before thinking I had better things to do, here’s the pattern(s) I noticed so far:
- 4chan
- Any Blogspot blogs
- Any website hosted on Infinityfree
- Lemmy instances the Tesseract dev considers to be extremist (some are part of the free anarchist flotilla (btw quick fun fact, FAF is short for fascist in french, it’s ironic for us french lemmy users))
- Any gumroad page
- Any itchio page
- Bunch of url shorteners
- Bunch of piracy related sites
- Bunch of cryptocurrency related sites
- Some are obvious scam / spam / typo squatting sites NOT shared on lemmy
- Left-wing related websites outweight Right-wing related websites 4 to 1
- A lot of links are just random companies over the world without them ever being shared on lemmy, or being scams, or spamming the web about their services
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- there’s a heavy bias against indian companies
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- very few of them were probably filtered out because of their company name, for example a printing company from chicago has “freaks” in their name
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- There’s a french rodent control company that was filtered out, this one is interesting because its domain name is also the initials of the main left-wing french politician, but it could also have been filtered out because it obviously uses negative keywords related to their field. I feel like this perfectly highlights the flaws of this lists logic.
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- edit: that one was actually shared twice on lemmy by a user asking relevant questions, my guess is the dev added them preemptively to prevent spam
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- Some are links to website shared on lemmy, of those:
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- a lot were obvious scams / spams
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- some were ai related websites
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- few were just devs asking ONCE for feedback on their project
Anyway if anyone is motivated enough to take a deeper look and share their findings, or correct me if I missed/mislabeled something, feel free to tag me!"
Pretty funny that this guy could just have used the standard features of the Fediverse to build a server for “non-toxic” people that just didn’t federate or engage with all the evil woke ones, and yet a part of him must have known that it would have been about as popular as the stand of an Abstention Society at a Fresher’s Fair. So, stealth censorship layer, I guess? I’m sure a corner of the fediverse where everyone is just civil, never talks about politics, and also conspires to secretly to mess with each other’s feed could be nice though.
Oh they did do that, but either stopped wanting to run one or didn’t like that no one wanted to be on their personally curated instance so shut it down last year and appears to have just put that curative process onto their UI.
The optional UI used by the optional instance with an optional feature that can easily be disabled in the GUI is “censorship”? Gee I wonder why he wanted someone like you blocked!
Maybe if you jump on the harassment bandwagon he’ll go away and you can win (just kidding I know you will find some other reason to be the victim)
This is how talking with the dev about the “optional” censorship goes:
They made it “optional” and then buried the documentation deep so it was difficult to find. They even admitted as much.
What someone else does in their own free time affects you in any meaningful way. You are not the victim here.
Lmao
That doesn’t address literally anything at all. When did I even say I was a victim?
Riddle me this: were they too fucking stupid or too fucking technically inept for this to auto-disable on dbzer0 (and other blocked instances) so no one would have ever found it? Like even just a little bit of forethought could have allowed them to do what they wanted (which DID impact people lmao) and people would have been none the wiser.
when you attempted to morally justify your participation in this harassment campaign. Being blocked is not an attack, yet you are using the fact that people are on a blocklist to justify harassing someone. Its reprehensible.
Harassment campaign is now when people call you out for your actions.
No wonder .world loves ya
Also that’s a wild read of our interactions lmao
ok
I think people are telling you and your alts that you need to touch grass and think about what you’ve done
We know it’s you, you dimwit 😄
um excuse me this is doxxing sir
Lolololololololololololololololololololololololol
Lol, lmao even