Looking at that block list, I’ve had the same thought myself. Surely that’s half the activity or more on this platform?
Including my own insightful commentary, I might add.
tesseract
Submitted 3 days ago by tixnou@feddit.cl to [deleted]
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’M RIGHT HERE!
Oh, wait… I’m in the blocked list
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Image won’t load, but the band is pretty good.
bobsnq@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Keep seeing posts about this, can someone give me the tl;dr on what the tesseract stuff is about
RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Someone made a frontend for Lemmy called Tesseract. This person added a default-on non-comitted list of users, communities, and instances that frontend would block regardless of your own instance or account settings (unless you were a mod or admin). This was done under the guise of wanting a “normal” experience for new users. This was never disclosed to users who would use the frontend.
Meanwhile, the blocklist (which is hosted separately and downloaded by the app when used to avoid instances removing the blocklist for their copy of the frontend) reads like a personal-grievance diary. A lot of people are rightfully really upset that this was done and not disclosed. The creator doubled down and is continuing to add people to the list and showing their whole ass to everyone.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 3 days ago
The dev proceeded to ragequit Lemmy, post a manifesto, and add a script that attempts to DDOS another instance into the client as a last “fuck you”.
Good riddance.
mountainRadish@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What is tesseract!? Even Google is confused
MrNesser@lemmy.world 3 days ago
From what i have gleaned some guy built a lemmy app and released it but when he was critisised he shadowbanned people or whole instances.
Please someone give more information i’m sure that isnt quite right
D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The bans were added discretely by the tesseract dev.
It was noticed and pointed out by another dev.
Lots of people checked to see if they were banned. Some were angry…that they weren’t on the list.
The tesseract dev then had a hissy fit and walked off in a huff…again. Apparently he’s walked off before.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Like I genuinely don’t want to give anyone ideas but I will never understand why they went through all that trouble and then didn’t also have it auto-disable for instances that were on the secret blocklist. Like if that had been done, it might have taken YEARS for people to notice. Even if someone had they could have innocently hidden behind “Oh well the dbzer0 people don’t live censorship so I defaulted them to toxic mode so they didn’t have to mess with the settings.”
Like… I would ask why duplicitous people are so dumb in long term thinking but I think that’s just answering my own question.
halfapage@lemmy.world 3 days ago
idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Muahahaha /s
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He built it for his own use and didn’t care that his blocklist applied to everyone.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Right but they even admitted that they had HOPED no one would notice.
aaaa@piefed.world 3 days ago
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