Comment on Deja Vu

picklerick@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tesseract is/was an alternative frontend for Lemmy sites. Its developer — asimons04 — hid malware in it. It would secretly download an obfuscated ban list with instances, communities, and people that asimons04 wanted to personally discriminate agaibst and silently shadowban them from any site that used Tesseract.

  The bans were heavily anti-fash leftists and queer folks, including yours truly.

  This was discovered through some community sleuthing in the last several days. Asimons04 has since deleted their repos and accounts and disappeared. @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com has forked Tesseract since it had some nice features and seems to be working on thoughtfully removing the malware.

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fucking balls on him. Acting like he is doing everyone a favor. He can ban who he wants from his instance, that’s how federation is supposed to work. What he did was add a secret shadowban list at a software level just to bypass the modlog and force it on everyone.

    His behavior and response are ridiculous. We shouldn’t even be federating with anything using tesseract. The guy and his repo should become a pariah.

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  • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lol what a sad, petty, loser you’d have to be to go through the effort of creating a whole front end to block communities/people you don’t like. It’s beyond pathetic.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m having a hard time believing he created the frontend for the purpose of blocking. But still, pretty petty.

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  • Stinkywizzleteats@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    what an honor to get on that list! if you can find the code that blocked you, you should frame it.

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am line 137. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🎉

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      • Aviandelight@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Omg I gave up after line 500. Just why??? This list is like an incel’s fantasy Death Note. Just sad really.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Holy shit, that’s a good number. I’m 2397. I feel like it took me too long to get noticed…

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      • soratoyuki@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh damn I’m in there too. I barely even have a comment history lmao.

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      • 58008@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not on the list, but I happened to scroll randomly onto this fella when checking:

        Line 1208: fartographer

        😆

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      • trigg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        🤣 thanks for linking! Wow this list is so petty!

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      • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Woohoo! I thought for sure I’d be on there, but not yet. 😂

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      • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Play 1-3-7 in the Lotto. He’ll really love you then. 😂

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    • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not on the list. Maybe they thought I was a placeholder.

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    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah hell yeah! I made the list!

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  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    an obfuscated ban list with instances, communities, and people that asimons04 wanted to personally discriminate against and it would silently shadowban them from any site that used Tesseract.

    Link to list:

    copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json

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  • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Haha his stupid rant has -110 last I checked. 😂

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  • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    After reading his rant and the block list Im curious what content is left after all the blocks

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    • eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it was targeted at leftists and outspoken trans people, so it seems that the content left over would be mainstream western liberal content.

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fuck? Why aren’t I on the list? Am I not obnoxious and anti-fascist enough?

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    • eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      because you’re on piefed.

      piefed started out with blocking leftists like tesseract did and if you can’t see the unspoken subtext that piefed is based upon, then you’re likely a-okay – politically speaking – w the tesseract/startrek.website people.

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      • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have lemmy.world account too and I am a leftist.

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  • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lol is the rant deleted? 😂

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. But they decided to get one last unhinged word in.

      Classic example of fascist aggression followed by narcissistic false victimhood as soon as they are called out.

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      • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What a psycho. 🙄 He needs serious help.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hadn’t heard of Tesseract until now. Looks hellishly messy, the interface is nasty.

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  An admin of an instance dubvee CaptainPatric published a frontend for Lemmy - a different interface to look through - called Tesseract. Many instances provided it as an option for their users.

  Something around a year ago they suffered a burnout from fediverse (idk how) and seemingly cut their presence here.

  Just recently, db0 instance admin got a funny result from updating their server software. They couldn’t see their own instance’s posts through that frontend, it was reporting an error. Going around it with a magnifying glass, they learnt, that an update to Tesseract silently shipped a new filtering engine with a list by dev. It downloads said list as the frontend starts, so you (1) won’t see it on github and (2) they have all power over what you see or not. Content matched with that list by instance, author or regex keyword doesn’t show up, like it isn’t there at all.

  It appears, not only spam or fash dens were there, but a lot of active instances incl. db0 and lemmy.ml (that you are on) were on the list, as well as many individuals. In a long post CP argued, that they wanted their frontend not only to spice up the interface, but also to provide a better normie-friendly look at a fediverse, to make more people stay (unlike them), without anything upsetting, or “toxic” as they say, meaning anything slightly political or verbally violent too. And as some users wondered what’s left of fediverse with that opinionated filter applied and what it says about that person’s leanings

  others took being in the list as a medal of honor, and started memeing about that, and talking about dev’s shadowy practices. The overwhelming majority was not having it, excluding maybe Rimu, a Piefed dev, who soberly corrected that there was actually a misleadingly named switch to turn filtering off - and iirc they had some sort of a drama themselves recently, so it may come off natural to them.

  Either way, this piece of software was forked by multiple users to exclude shadowban list. Memes roll, people are jelly they aren’t in the elite club, and we get another story about small power causing god-like delusions in a person. Unanswered though stays the question of why the fediverse, seemingly the size of town, has a capacity for drama.

  I’m not sure I got everything right, but other people’s writeups appear under almost any post concerning that matter, so you can see if they cover it better than I.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here is a post explaining it: sh.itjust.works/post/63897215

  It just happened. Tesserect is a front end to Lemmy (like old.red-dit) that was actually nicely built, but apparently taken over because it was abandoned. Since you’re new, being on different instances is a little opaque to me as a non-techy, but here’s my experiences

  • I think the largest instance is doing the same thing.
  • Your instance is known to be full of aggressive trolls and are the lead developers of Lemmy. Most of us take user by user, so you don’t have to change instance. But if you get a lot of people hating on you for seemingly no reason, that’s probably why (or they’re trolls, we have them here). Lemmy was developed by the admins of your instance
  • I’ve only heard good things about piefed, but haven’t made the switch myself to try it, since I’m a mod on lemmy. It would be a pain to switch back and forth.

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  • picklerick@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    thnx! what do you mean about my instance though? i signed up here because when i came from reddit i was told this was the one for leftists?

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess you have to describe what you personally call a leftist. Then I can tell you if it fits.

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  • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait, aggressive trolls are the lead developers of Lemmy?

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmmm, they were I guess you could say. I haven’t heard anything lately, so either they’ve chilled or use alts.

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