Im so lost and confused. What is this list and why am i on it?
Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago!
Submitted 1 month ago by gigastasio@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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Sprinks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
You know how people used voyager/boost/etc to access reddit? Well the web app is a similar idea (adds features, filter options, etc for customizing your Lemmy experience) except imagine the dev decided to add a secret filter list to the app where they added keywords, users, and subreddits that they didn’t like so you simply wouldn’t see them.
A fair number of instances had implemented a the web app (called Tesseract, search Lemmy for that term if you want more details).
The reason it’s good to be on the list is because the list includes a bunch of popular lefty communities including some entire instances like Blahaj. Being listed individually just means you made the dev butthurt at some point so they decided people using their front end shouldn’t get to see your posts.
raspirate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One detail I’m still not fully clear on is how widespread the effects are. Say an instance uses the tesseract frontend. Does that mean that everyone who accesses lemmy via that instance was having all of this filtering applied? Does it only apply if they were accessing it via the web? If they logged into the same instance via a smartphone app, would it still be applying all of the hidden tesseract filters?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 month ago
I’m disappointed I’m not lefty enough for the club 😭
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Me too. :(
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Oh, so he thinks most of us are violent nutjobs. Well if thinking billionaires and child molesters should be exterminated is wrong I don’t want to be right.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Will they unblock wholesomeyuri and blahaj 🥺👉👈
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Woo, fuck yeah, made the list!
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Cool I’m on a list I didn’t know about either, but I’m not surprised.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nice I’m on it
Magnum@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I’m not on the list :(
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Apparently I’m not blocky enough for the blocklist.
portifornia@piefed.social 1 month ago
I walk among giants!
Thanks @Sprinks, I had been following this for a few days but couldn’t find the list until you shared it here. I was certain I wasn’t cool enough to have angered this twat edgelord, but here I am in bright and agnsty glory!
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I just thought it was usernames. I can’t believe he blocked link shortners and go fundme. I get link shorteners to an extent, but outright blocking them instead of giving a warning?
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But I gather I’m in good company.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
See there is being on the list , then there is getting a regex. That puts you in the elite side of an already elite club
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Upon further investigation, I do appear to be a regex elite. In celebration I’m going to go outside and look down my nose at various things.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wait, being on the regex makes me extra special? I wish I knew what I did to earn that honour.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I didn’t get a regex, but I am still happy to even be on the list.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Some… times… you wanna go…”
Maiq@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Where every body knows your name…
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
COMRADE!
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Mom look at me I’m on the front page!
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Holy shit, I am on the list! This is amazing!
ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
I'm not on it, and I'm disappointed.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same. I guess I haven’t rustled enough of the jimmies yet.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
thal3s@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Sounds like we’ve got some work to do.
robocall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BC_viper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Odemption@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
What in the iseraeli committed genocide i’m not on the list (╯°□°）╯︵
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I am curious if I’m on the list but not enough to find it and look. I guess I’ll never know
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just click the link and control-f
Took me 30 seconds
homes@piefed.world 1 month ago
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 month ago
lol, what did this person do to receive such hate? 😂
^ghosttree([0-9]+)?$Hoimo@ani.social 1 month ago
It’s a general approach to names with numbers at the end, the list is full of those. I’m almost more interested in the more specific patterns like
name(69)+, because was there an alt name6969 he wanted to block but an unrelated name67 he wanted to avoid?SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 month ago
I know, and I suspect the name came up more than once. But if I implemented some kind of algorithm to add people to the list based on posting behaviour, I wouldn’t put in the effort to have it implement a regex for “this guy and whatever number they added”.
To me this looks like he wrote the list by hand. Which is even weirder.
ghosttree57@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
On top of that, [0-9]+ matches one or more digits and ()? matches the previous token zero or one times, so the whole thing combines to zero or more digits, which is just [0-9]*. They’re even bad at regex.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 month ago
Fucking up regex is a sacred tradition!
rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I feel left out 😭😭😭
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, clearly you’re not left out enough
rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I see what did there 😂
Doorbook@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I am also in the list, was active early genocide and anti-Zionist and then stopped coming around for a long while… is this a good thing or bad thing?
Sergio@piefed.social 1 month ago
“So, Sergio, on your resume under ‘Awards and Honors’ you’ve put ’on Tesseract blocklist as a regex’… what exactly does that refer to?”
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wonder if the dev even knows his shittery has been exposed. Everybody talking about it is probably on the naughty list so he may be blissfully unaware.
Sergio@piefed.social 1 month ago
see here: https://lemmy.world/post/49817942
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“And might I add that not one person complained until db0 went internet Karen with his hissy fit”
Lol he went full scooter doo villain for a moment there
“And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!” 🤌
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is why I don’t trust anyone who slaps a rank or title in front of their username. It’s not 100% reliable but you get a lot of self-aggrandizing douche-canoes calling themselves Admiral this or Lord that until they forget the bit and really think they’re something special. It is a rule with exceptions though.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
“I don’t tolerate transphobia, that’s why I banned blahaj” is pretty goddamn funny.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 month ago
they’ve responded about it a couple times at least, so they do know.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
At this point I feel like everyone is on here. I finally found myself.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nice, a lot of people have to embark on a whole journey of incremental self-discovery to get there. Angry list-maker guy did you a favor.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m on there with you
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not on the list which makes me think I’m doing something wrong.
Atropos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nice, welcome to the cool club!
qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel validated. Nazis and zionists, fuck off
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Dammit! My ‘try to be kind and supportive’-arc has been WAY too succesfull, I’m not on it :( just a blanket ban association for being in the cool kids crows (blahaj got instanceblocked)
ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 1 month ago
Congrats! My alt is on their.
boelder@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Both me and my violent website are on the list… I read his 10 ‘rules’, and they read like they were written by a person who doesn’t like to hear or see things outside of his own bubble.
From his own instance description: “The default UI for DubVee is called Tesseract and is developed by the admins of this instance. We no longer offer Lemmy-UI as the devs have decided to add a giant “donation” banner that cannot be disabled and puts words in the mouths of all instances regarding what content is acceptable.” (emphasis mine)
The audacity.
pmk@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Where can I find the list? I’ve been poking around in the source and found some filtering code but I can’t find the full list.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 month ago
So did anyone figure out who was added to the list and why? I saw an account with total of 12 comments and no posts on it. The comments didn’t say anything remotely political. It bans both “Conservative” and “Communist” communities. It just looks like it was trying to ban politics as a whole and maybe used some silly bot detection algorithm to flag users?
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Wow just rubbing it in. How do I at people? Admiral Patrick@lemmyworld, do your job and put me on that list!
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Aw. Didn’t get my name on there, but my communities sure are there.
“Moe” is in the regex. Buddy really don’t like weebs, huh.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’m jealous of all y’all
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ugh! LUCKY!
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Congrats! I’m surprised that I’m not on it. 😂
kibblebits@quokk.au 1 month ago
What’s this?
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 month ago
i’m in the regex and i think that means i got all kate’s banned
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
See, actually, since there are technically multiple lists (this is the large one) and all of them are in files, it would be more correct to say “in the files”.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I love how Lemmy’s biggest scandal to-date involves an open-source app for Lemmy.
Can’t get that on reddit.
Because they pulled the rug out from developers…sure…but that’s besides the point.
thal3s@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
RIP Apollo
Long live Voyager!
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Aye!!!
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh yeah honestly the rapidity with which this took hold and almost everybody agreed FUCK THAT GUY and started working towards a collective fix actually gives me a lot of faith in fedi. I’m kinda hoping this does open up more conversation about open and customizable sorting and filtering algorithms. I feel like there’s space in fedi for more complex and personalized algorithms like you see on mainstream social media but in a way that’s easy for the end user to pop open, examine, and tweak to their needs.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Is this the biggest scandal? The lemmygrad.ml, the lemmy.ml related ones seemed way bigger