does it color your opinion any knowing that your instance had a similar start?
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halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 days agoYeah I’m sure he convinced him as elf it was for a good reason, and the idea isn’t inherently bad.
The primary issue is the clear intention to hide it. If there was a notice when you first accessed tesseract that asked if you wanted to enable “Toxic Mode” as he called it, or if there was some sort of indication when posts were removed by the filter, many of the complaints would no longer apply. The fact it was enabled by default, and hidden buried into advanced settings under a question meant to be ignored, located and phrased like the bullshit useless Windows Settings helper stuff, just means he never intended it to really be found. If you have to hide it because you know people don’t want it… You’re not on the right side of the issue.
The fact he also included a DDOS script in the good ye notice is just proof everyone else was right. He’s a piece of shit, regardless anything else. Only a true cuntwaffle does that.
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stoy@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Exactly, if he had made it public, perhaps even with a collaborative list, and with easy opt-in and out controls, it would have turned into a feature, rather than a mess.
I mean, look at uBlock or adblock plus, both support filter lists and it has turned into a massive selling point.
But he was too narrow minded to even consider that.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 days ago
The biggest thing that exposes narcissists quickly. They can’t even consider the possibility that their opinion might not be objectively correct.