He obfuscated the blocklist, and had it pull the latest list from his own server at run time (so forks and local configuration would be less likely to work)
He absolutely cared to push his blocklist to everyone
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHe built it for his own use and didn’t care that his blocklist applied to everyone.
aaaa@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Right but they even admitted that they had HOPED no one would notice.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’m curious about it’s overall usage statistics, but I guess the best metric - downloads of said banlist - is in their hands. I’ve seen people saying they’ve used it at some point, but I don’t think there were a lot of people. I’d go as far as to suspect that more people saw and reacted to recent news and memes about this frontend than used it at any point in time, total. My perspective as a mostly smartphone user is screwed though.
lyrial@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Mods and administration tended to use it because of the way it it easily presents information and the workflow is much better than the standard web UI. For instance, before lemvotes.org came around, it lets one who isn’t an admin see who voted on what. Sadly, aside from the recently revealed scumminess from the dev, it is a much better UI in about every way than the default web UI for Lemmy.
bstix@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
uh, but then those mods and admins wouldn’t be able to mod all the users on the list, right? Cause they wouldn’t even load the posts?
All the users who are allegedly the worst scum of the fediverse were made unmoddable by the list that’s supposed to protect the normies from seeing those users?
lastweakness@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like Photon, I hope it doesn’t have a list like this
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Photon’s dev reacted somewhere saying it’s not their business.