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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day agoTesseract 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.
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.
After reading his rant and the block list Im curious what content is left after all the blocks
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:
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.
I’m having a hard time believing he created the frontend for the purpose of blocking. But still, pretty petty.
what an honor to get on that list! if you can find the code that blocked you, you should frame it.
I am line 137. ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🎉
Play 1-3-7 in the Lotto. He’ll really love you then. 😂
I’m not on the list, but I happened to scroll randomly onto this fella when checking:
Line 1208: fartographer
😆
Oh damn I’m in there too. I barely even have a comment history lmao.
Holy shit, that’s a good number. I’m 2397. I feel like it took me too long to get noticed…
It may not have been in order, but if it was, I am fucking honored. I’m line 91
You got noticed at least 💔
Omg I gave up after line 500. Just why??? This list is like an incel’s fantasy Death Note. Just sad really.
Do a search on the page itself. And yes, it is beyond dork behavior. Sad, actually.
I just did a search on the page for my name. No hits. 😭
Woohoo! I thought for sure I’d be on there, but not yet. 😂
Your day will come, young Padawan.
I’m not on the list. Maybe they thought I was a placeholder.
Ah hell yeah! I made the list!
I hadn’t heard of Tesseract until now. Looks hellishly messy, the interface is nasty.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Haha his stupid rant has -110 last I checked. 😂