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 would appear asimon04 changed their name to paulo-roger. It appears they are trying to remove some of their repo from public view. But git doesn’t remove data just because it’s orphaned.
Here are some updated links, these might be good for another week before git does GC.
link in title: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/blob/e70e3a3cef739c59288ec78f0bbb4f0e1b4fa194/src/lib/blacklists.ts#L2270
Commit Explaining Specious reasoning: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/commit/2b53f17a5506b7c4b3ad1d5c26af49662f03a478
Old Main before they rolled it back 3 years: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/blob/e70e3a3cef739c59288ec78f0bbb4f0e1b4fa194/
Devs like this do not belong with open source projects.
Fascist bootlickers you mean?
Neo Nazis
Only the derpiest of wannabes need apply. 🤢
Can you imagine what we’d be dealing with if they were actually competent? 🙆🏼♂️
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.
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.
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.
What the hell?!? Why isn’t Anarchist Nexus on the blacklist? Are we not posting hard enough? 👿 /j
Blahaj.zone is certainly not “extremist”. It’s a pretty innocent instance. Must be some major queerphobia going on here.
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.
When you’re an extremist, everyone in the world looks like a radical.
My best guess is that one of the dev’s alts got put in the corner for transphobia, and they were butthurt about it.
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.
Oh whoops 😅. I guess we were banned before this commit?
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”
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.
notice they’re not denying the quoted criticisms
nice try implying that all the trans instances were banned btw, classy
Omg some leftists think that killing nazis is fine and dandy. Ban em all! Average liberal mod.
nice try implying that all the trans instances were banned btw
“All” the trans instances? Which ones come to mind for you other than blahaj?
The quoted criticism sounds reasonable and objective to you?
Yeah I’m not denying anything, I like watching pearl-clutching shitlibs squirm 😆
notice they’re not denying the quoted criticisms
Because the criticisms aren’t relevant to the objections being discussed? The blocks are happening inside the code without the user being aware. Maybe if it was a setting (even enabled by default) to use a “recommended blocklist” then it would make sense to dig in to why something or someone was blocked.
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.
Name 10 things more pathetic.
Not cringe, not evil, pathetic!
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
Never, only that I cannot cite individual examples.
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Must have been cringe.
Let’s make such list. How about stallman defending pedophilia? That’s number 1 to me
Oh that’s a good one, I was kind of trying to forget he existed
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
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.
selfies? you can just block specific communities
Yeah, that’s what I do.
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
Yes, I agree! FOSS and federation do actually work, as we see these right-wing projects tank themselves. It affirms my belief that the Lemmy approach is correct.
addy.io,mozmail.com(Firefox Relay) and evenproton.meinTHROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS. No Simplelogin/Proton pass thoughonly palantir allowed
I wish emails/SMTP was illegal. Hate it when I join webservices that ask me to use another protocol to authenticate my tired face. There’s 0 reasons to 2FA, even Kerberos, outside the protocol one is using.
You could generate a temporary mail address with guerilliamail
I appreciate your suggestion, but my conversation is above your academic title. If you don’t have a CCNA or a bachelor’s degree in CS, I urge you to disengage, or catch up.
What an odd response
Odd in the sense that you prefer to invite farmers to a technology expo, or odd in not wanting to engage with uneducated folks in a highly technical conversation?
Do you think farmers don’t go to technology expos?
what’s wrong with you?
uh okay
every so often you get to hear an opinion that’s offensive not because of any bigotry, but just because it’s assnine.
It’s spelled “asinine” but I do like “assnine” lol
whoops. I’ve been spelling it wrong my entire life then. oh well! 😅🤣
assnine
Added to Dictionary.
Look I find the need to use a 50 year old protocol to authenticate with websites annoying, and I think we shouldn’t do that anymore, but I don’t think it should be outlawed.
But yet cumallover.me (owned by the chud at cock.li) is allowed
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.
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 toduck.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.
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?
Yup, you can just use @protonmail.com and since receiving is enough, @pm.me works too without paying.
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.
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?
If his thing was unique and not a widely-applicable trope, I wouldn’t be surprised. Fun fact, the guy @ Emerald City Comics in Eugene, OR is the comic book guy from The Simpson’s —that, I can attest personally. It’s uncanny, from the look to the voice to the demeanor. It was like walking onto the set. 🤓😵💫
edit: I just tried to look it up, and it’s apparently gone. It’s been ~20yrs since I visited, so that tracks. Maybe Nostalgia Comics is the new face, but I’ve no idea if he still runs/works it.
Just realised I didn’t thank you, so thank you
No prob!
No, not the actor. Just same name
Or lemmy.world support comm or their main lemmyworld(sp) comm
Their paternalistic elitism is exactly what makes them such willing foot soldiers for capital.
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.
Ye the Media Bias Check was cringe but I could ignore it until now.
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.
What a stirring endorsement.
I say, keep it up!
What’s more anarchist than taking their code and liberating it?
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
There is a good reason to have crowdsourced filters for spammers and chuds, but this shit ain’t the way.
As someone who scripts shit for work, it’s so damn frustrating seeing things that could be legitimately useful tools/features if they were done correctly and transparently ending up as this poorly designed shit that is intentionally misleading to end users.
For fucks sake, go ahead and go off with your personal opinions in like, the example template for an “auto-collapse/hide” feature. Just don’t make it a hard coded default.
Damn, missed the hall of fame club.
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 !
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.
Honestly I’m kind of offended, and baffled you aren’t on there either.
Ridiculous, non of my alts are either.
Geneva_convenience is on there. What the fuck.
My self image is shattered
What’s funniest is that I seem to be mentioned by name but not actually added, lol
Edit: I’m not actually mentioned, I misunderstood a terminal search.
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.
I’m not saying this because I’m on that user list (fucking lol)
It’s good company, and I don’t just say that because I’m on that user list. But yeah, fuck asimons04.
Asimons04
Otherwise known as AdmiralPatrick here on lemmy.
Any chance you could post his blacklist? I’d like to know where I should be subscribing . . ?
Thanks for your great work.
working to improve code bases that are headed by sane individuals of course.
export const BLACKLISTED_INSTANCES: string[] = [ "abolish.capital", "altmedia.house", "anarchist.nexus", "chapo.chat", "chatgptjailbreak.tech", "diggita.com", "hexbear.com", "hexbear.net", "ibbit.at", "test.hexbear.net", "www.hexbear.net", "hilariouschaos.com", "lemmy.bestiver.se", "lemmy.blahaj.zone", "lemmy.dbzer0.com", "lemmy.doesnotexist.club", "lemmy.durstig.online", "lemmy.ml", "lemmy.razbot.xyz", "lemmybefree.net", "lemmygrad.ml", "lemmyusa.com", "lemy.lol", "maga.place", "multiverse.soulism.net", "news.abolish.capital", "nnia.space", "noauthority.social", "r.nf", "realbitcoin.cash", "redlemmy.com", "welppp.com" ]Oh this is bullshit!
Quokk.au is both trans and anarchist; why are we not on this Nazi’s ban list? I demand the developer include us.
Someone should message them and tell them to do it
If only it was on Codeberg I would submit a PR myself.
I believe you did not quite meet the acab quota, also few mentions of Bibi sitting on a grenade could boost your points to reach the fed blocklist
No sopuli.xyz? Disappointed.
We’re not gay enough. Release the yuri files! Unleash revolutionary socialism! Effect the trans agenda!
Sopuli is pretty tame is comparison, to be fair.
Blahaj and ML? At least he’s an equal opportunity asshole.
Hexbear on there four times.
I linked it in the main post
