Comment on Tesseract Dev (AdmiralPatrick) RageQuits Lemmy with Final Goodbye Message
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours agoWe were on a previous version, so that’s why. I think that’s actually what hypercharged this drama. If I had not fell back on my upgrade schedule for a while, I would have realized tesseract was doing blacklists early on, and the backlash was probably be orders of magnitude lower. But because he had time to build this up to this monster, when people discovered it, it was a huge deal.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
The shadowbanning users was added a year ago 23 July last year^[github.com/db0/tesseract/blob/…/blacklists.ts], the switch to api came on 16 November if I’m reading it right^[github.com/…/1aeac6eea393a99e29e5c078e23a0259e2dc…], at least the harcoded list gets commented out 12 November^[github.com/…/9665782066f9153dda5d3b23585bfb770f1e…] so it’s around that time. dbzer0 gets blocked 29 April^[github.com/…/2b53f17a5506b7c4b3ad1d5c26af49662f03…]. I don’t know if you would have seen that warning that got added in 10 March^[github.com/…/773eabbaba903114518ad6ccb084d8397c7a…], but God knows how big the list got between November and March already with him just able to append shit to a JSON whenever he felt like it without having to commit it. Just copy-past done. So I think the fall-out would have already been plenty big lol