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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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m having a hard time believing he created the frontend for the purpose of blocking. But still, pretty petty.
Stinkywizzleteats@piefed.social 2 months ago
what an honor to get on that list! if you can find the code that blocked you, you should frame it.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am line 137. ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🎉
Aviandelight@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Omg I gave up after line 500. Just why??? This list is like an incel’s fantasy Death Note. Just sad really.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just did a search on the page for my name. No hits. 😭
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do a search on the page itself. And yes, it is beyond dork behavior. Sad, actually.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Holy shit, that’s a good number. I’m 2397. I feel like it took me too long to get noticed…
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 months ago
You got noticed at least 💔
MBech@feddit.dk 2 months ago
It may not have been in order, but if it was, I am fucking honored. I’m line 91
soratoyuki@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Oh damn I’m in there too. I barely even have a comment history lmao.
58008@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not on the list, but I happened to scroll randomly onto this fella when checking:
Line 1208: fartographer
😆
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Woohoo! I thought for sure I’d be on there, but not yet. 😂
Dojan@pawb.social 2 months ago
Your day will come, young Padawan.
trigg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
🤣 thanks for linking! Wow this list is so petty!
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Play 1-3-7 in the Lotto. He’ll really love you then. 😂
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m not on the list. Maybe they thought I was a placeholder.
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ah hell yeah! I made the list!
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 months 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:
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haha his stupid rant has -110 last I checked. 😂
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
After reading his rant and the block list Im curious what content is left after all the blocks
eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
it was targeted at leftists and outspoken trans people, so it seems that the content left over would be mainstream western liberal content.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
The fuck? Why aren’t I on the list? Am I not obnoxious and anti-fascist enough?
eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 months 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.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
I have lemmy.world account too and I am a leftist.
eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
We all are.
The distinguishing characteristic seem to be how well we understand leftism and the things we choose to support/patronize are probably the clearest indicators of how well we understand it.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol is the rant deleted? 😂
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What a psycho. 🙄 He needs serious help.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 months ago
I hadn’t heard of Tesseract until now. Looks hellishly messy, the interface is nasty.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 months 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.