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.
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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!
Lmao they blocked thelemmy.club for a few weeks for seemingly no reason. Unhinged stuff.
What’s wrong with piefed dev? Genuine question. Edit: found it, https://lemmy.ml/post/47306551
Why the fuck are trans-friendly instances blocked too?? They just make wholesome memes and once in a while come over to comment “:3”
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.
Not to be confused with https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.
Well shit, it was my favourite interface.
That said, not too surprised the dev turned out to be leaning that way.
Devs like this do not belong with open source projects.
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.
Fascist bootlickers you mean?
Neo Nazis
Tesseract bitches will never know the great Dead by Daylight O.C. they missed
You don’t understand! Freedom of speech is only good when it’s freedom of their speech!
But seriously, this recent shift of project leads deciding what users should and shouldn’t see is concerning. And honestly, I could give them the benefit of the doubt if they added it as some sort of opt-in list. But no.
They will force their narrative down the users’ throats.
I might not always agree with db0, the Anarchist Flotilla, or the Tankie Triad. But whatever shakes Lemmy right now, consider me an ally. Whatever these egocentric folks attempt to create, it is everything Lemmy was created to replace.
Also, that’s a lovely list they made of places to follow.
The commit history of that file (not naming it denylist is telling enough, tbh) is hilarious!
Shadowbanning users in the client, telling users they are subscribed to the wrong communities, it has everything lol
Lol what do they have against archive sites??
It’s against copyright and therefore evil per liberal thought processes. Think about the artists and all that tripe.
Imagine being so liberal you think that news should be gated by paywalls and not freely available for the masses.
It’s not that strange when you consider that a lot of liberals lean pretty far right.
There’s something about the archive.is owner using it to ddos some blog threatening to dox them
Sure, but blocking archive.org? and web.archive.org? That’s just weird.
Oh yeah that’s weird
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.
The system works then
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.
As of that commit (April 29) the instance blacklist didn’t even include lemmy.ml !
… but i see a month later they added us in this commit, while removing a large list of specific users and communities which they were also previously hiding content from.
Well well well
export let CONTENT_WARNING_INSTANCES = [ { domain: "lemmy.dbzer0.com", reason: `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.` }, ]identity politics
GODDAMMIT I HAVE TO FIGHT THE WOKE WITH MY CODE!!!
I consider it a badge of honor that we were the OG “identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems” instance before it was cool.
Solidarity brother
Damn, missed the hall of fame club.
I fucking made world melt down for a week and I’m not on there.
The injustice!
Sucks to suck.
It really does.
I guess I’ll retVrn to posting PETA protests till someone starts a slap fight.
wow, i expected you’d make the cut, but i guess you just weren’t posting hard enough.
meanwhile @CARCOSA@hexbear.net is not only on the list but was honored with a personal regex and a comment line!
Honestly surprised, considering how much reactionaries hate me. Still, shout out to @CARCOSA@hexbear.net !
There is a good reason to have crowdsourced filters for spammers and chuds, but this shit ain’t the way.
I had stopped using it, but I found the Bias checks useful, but then I looked more into https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ and how the classify certain sites (like Times of Israel somewhat is left-center-leaning lol) and gave up on it. This blocklist of instances is ridiculous.
Like Snopes, they had a decent start but ran aground when they allowed their liberalism to creep in more and more as pushback against reactionaries. When chuds got upset for being called out as the conservatives they are (instead of getting called “moderates” or “centrists”), they aggressively tried to discredit the site. MBFC doubled-down on stuff like the New York Times being “leftwing” because obviously if the far right says something is far left, then it must be far left because why else would they hate it?
“Do you really think conservatives would do that? Just lie about their beliefs while accusing their opponents of hiding theirs? Surely that would be irrational and in bad faith!” thinks the libs over at Media Bias.
Ye the Media Bias Check was cringe but I could ignore it until now.
Fuck me…
ugggggghhhhhh
Our ‘liberals’ aren’t liberal.
That comment you highlighted just reads like a jordanlund modlog defending genocide by way of banning someone who says ‘genociders should die instead, actually’.
They can’t help themselves from being elitists.
Its like they’re hardwired, they’re so incredibly insecure that they front this moral superiority god complex, and anything that challenges the actual logic of that morality is fundamentally evil… because they can’t be wrong.
These people are confused… they’re reactionary conservatives, they’re wannabe politicos/consultants… literal thought police, frame keepers of the overton window.
I don’t really know who Jordan Lund is or what he’s about, my first thought was Jordan Peterson who I think is a pretty unhinged UofT professor, someone cut together this rant about “rat desire” from that guy, it’s quite funny with or without context. I just looked up if that was the same Jordan, and the only rat related Lund is a Zoe Lund, https://www.zoelund.com/lund/rats/rats.html
Anyway I keep seeing their names pop up and I have no real context for what they are about, and looking at Google results it’s just some whitewashed stuff about J Lund doing Shakespeare.
So what is up with that guy?
Think of your stereotypical power-tripping Reddit mod, in both behaviour and appearance. That’s Jordan. He is a moderator of several lemmy.world communities and never faces any consequences for being a PTB since he has the backing of LW’s admin team.
cough
Pretty sure he is the LW ‘admin team’
cough
He at the very least has full access to the LW bot that can do most of the functions of an admin.
Everything is coming together thank you
… go search through the power tripping bastards comm.
Or lemmy.world support comm or their main lemmyworld(sp) comm
Ah I thought he was a normie not a fediverse person
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526185/
Literally this guy? I know his face
Yeah that’s not… the same guy, no.
I am genuienly amused that you are this curious about him. Sorry I was a bit grumpy earlier.
Because I care about you…
... be warned, he literally is the perfect visual stereotype of a neckbeard
https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/race-northwest-united-states-jordan-lund-portland/
Hilary stan, actively worked against Bernie when it could have helped him, then decided Bernie was neat after there was no realistic chance he could be Presidenr.
Cares more about his neighborhood being quiet than the lives of black people, thinks protests should only be held in areas designated and pre planned by the authorities.
Is seemingly unaware that … the reason Portland doesn’t have much black population these days is because I5 got built directly through the neighborhood they lived in, and everywhere else in Portland was redlined, so they had to leave, they weren’t welcome anymore.
But that doesn’t matter to him, because he works in tech, and that’s all ancient history.
What he notices… is anti-male bias. Surely its simply because he kept incorrectly calling his trillby a fedora, for a while.
On that note… If I can websearch this in 2 seconds… whatever, mods remove this if this is too much:
https://www.stackforce.co/talent/6a5dfa305b4c16902e24eed9
Yeah he ran a betting website for a while…
Then went to work for Adobe Marketo, for a decade.
You know… advertisements. Social Media. How to convince people they should subscribe to something, maybe even how to moderate something like a Reddit community, maybe. Who knows!
Now he’s retired and owns a book store, aw, how Portland.
In summary, he’s got 10+ years of corporate social media management under his belt, is painfully white, thus ridden with misplaced white guilt, and a Hilary Clinton style Zionist.
There. Because you asked.
be warned, he literally is the perfect visual stereotype of a neckbeard
He’s the WoW guy from South Park?
No, not the actor. Just same name
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
top ten most pathetic things
Mayb-
in software Dev
Lol no. Up there, though.
Let’s make such list. How about stallman defending pedophilia? That’s number 1 to me
Name 10 things more pathetic.
Not cringe, not evil, pathetic!
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Must have been cringe.
No. I stay the hell away from those people. Was my whole childhood and I’ve mostly repressed those memories.
Well then, conceed the point dear fetishist :p
