I missed all this drama. Is there still a way to see the list? I’m very curious about it.
Someone saved it thankfully, here is the link.
Hey! I’m in that list and I have no clue what any of this is about 🙂
What the hell is Tesseract?
It’s really just a custom ui/frontend that admins can run for their lemmy/(piefed too?) instances.
Well, I quickly read through that list and I’ll say this: considering the insane amount of stuff that gets silently filtered out, whoever views Lemmy through that thing must think it’s pretty quiet 🙂
Yup, and this is just speculation, but I guess it’s supposed to be an anti-spam thing, but it targets a lot of people/communities/instances that post actually good content
It’s not anti spam at this point. No one obfuscates something that much for antispam.
It’s also a weird place for anti-spam, to have it be client side. That should be done on the server, rather than the various clients handling it.
True! Idk, that part is just speculation, hence why I said I guess, not I know. Either way, they did a shitty job that should be shunned.
I’m on the list and I’ve never even posted anything. I do comment a decent amount, though, but I wouldn’t consider any of it to be spam.
Did you ever talk shit about billionaires or crypto? Make any anti-AI posts?
Yeah, I’m pretty unabashedly anti-capitalist, so I’m not surprised I ruffled some feathers. I was just pointing out that the idea that this was just a spam filter taken too far doesn’t really hold up.
I comment exclusively, and I’m on it.
but I guess it’s supposed to be an anti-spam thing
Oh my God, I swear some people will just never get it.
No dude, this isn’t just someone trying to block spam, this is ideologically targeted to silently remove specific viewpoints from people who use the stylesheet without disclosing that they’re doing that.
This obviously has nothing to do with spam. Keep giving people like this the benefit of the doubt, and see where it leads us.
Edit: I just saw your pfp… Were you aware that this blocked the entirety of Blahaj? The de facto trans instance?
Try justifying that as anti-spam.
Oh, whoa, I did not see that. From what I had seen I could have sworn that it had general political blocking. That’s my bad!
Truth nuke
I don’t think it’s anti-spam. It looks pretty much like a personal blocklist, it blocks a lot of users that have political views that the tess dev doesn’t agree with. It blocks political keywords often used by certain ideologies that I guess the dev doesn’t agree with, for example, no ones blocking “neoliberal” as a keyword because of spam.
This looks entirely like a personal blocklist which is completely fine, but secretly adding it to the frontend is v dubious…
It’s a shame I think the dev is a good person from the convos I’ve had with them, but this crosses a bit of a line…
Wow, this dev must be an absolute chud, in which case I’m honored to have triggered them so. Tongue punch my fartbox, loser.
Tongue-punch my fartbox is my new favorite saying
There’s a user regex section for people across multiple instances, so:
“^cheeseburger$”,
I guess that means all my accounts are covered 😄, but why? Who the fuck am I to this fool? What an absolute clown.
“Kate” is also on the list 🫣 am i the only kate on lemmy? i don’t know of any others but i guess we’re all in this together if so
They really don’t want people to hear about the best text editor
Maybe he just doesn’t like cheeseburgers
Has nos chezburgers
I’m on the list too, and that’s what I’m saying. I’m just a dude.
How do you search? I wanna see if I made the list too!
I post leftist, feminist, gay shit all the time and didn’t get blocked. They just shadowbanned my news coms. This is outrageous.
Maybe the snowflake blocked themselves from the spaces where you’re active.
That just means I need to post more gay, leftist, feminist stuff all over the fediverse.
Couldn’t hurt haha
I just want Lemmy to have a better, more wholesome, and welcoming experience for new users, as such I’ve decided to block the things I think we can all agree are bad:
- Calls for violence
- Politics
- Sex
- Nu metal
- People who put egg in potato salad
- Jerry (all of them)
Whoa hang on now… all Jerry’s? I dunno if I can get behind that.
Your ice cream is now just “Ben’s” branded
Sorry, I don’t make the rules, just the way it is.
Honestly, just most, but who’s got the time?
You forgot “perchance”! The worst crime of Lemmy…
- Fans of Asmongold
Add putting ketchup on hotdogs
HERE HERE!
I’m on the list, this account is only 3 months old, no posts, 41 comments.
Who and how the fuck did I piss off, lol
Pretty sure that’s a speedrun category?
I’m so envious.
Any idea what the regexis mean? I landed there which is funny because that means my .world, dbzer0, ml, mbin, piefed, and hexbear accounts would all likely get pegged under the same name, lol.
My understanding of regex is used to capture certain words used together, so it might catch life and choice, or some other combination deemed bad
Oh so that’s cool
Same same. I’m not on the list either. But I do a lot of lurking, maybe that’s why.
Well if the tesseract chud is reading this, they’re a piece of shit, I’m a socialist, etc etc.
It’s a badge of honour. Looks like the cunt hates anything that isn’t a basement dweller in their mother’s house or their own mother’s cunt.
Also someone who blocks literally anything that discusses rights for people and hides behind ‘toxicity’ have so much to hide. Maybe someone should check their hard drive.
“Fuck” is a keyword ban lol. Well, maybe the ‘^’ does something in regex.
^means start of string, so its anything that starts with FuckLmao, the delicate masses must be kept from seeing anyone who starts a sentence with a swearsie
I suppose this means the guy in question prefers velociraptors over people, otherwise I can’t explain why am I on the list.
Finally, the days of anti-ceretopsian slander are at an end! Sign me up!
Feeling offended now, going back through my comment history and thinking “Why did that not get me on there?” Am I too tame?
It’s probably because I spend 60% of my time on here overthinking and eventually deleting my posts before posting them…
And 30% writing the posts that never get posted.
Yeah you’d be overthinking it since the dev wasn’t doing much themselves. The blacklist was not put together coherently and appears to be mostly built by emotion, especially in light of the dev’s “I’m not sorry at all” response.
The dev is a part of a corporate structure they formed where they’re named CFO. They are, in their mind, Fediverse C-suite, and they act accordingly.
Going to need more info about this dev. Where did you find it?
https://fedihosting.foundation/about-us/
Patrick is the CFO listed here: https://fedihosting.foundation/fhf-team/
Edit: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63914623
Their (locked for comments) public response.
Foreward
omfg lol
Locked the post? What a little bitch! Couldn’t take criticism, Admiral Patrick, you little snowflake?
“^hierophante”,
“^HistoryLOL”,
“^hitstun$”,
“^holyclergy$”,
“^HomeInvasion$”,
Oh, so that’s why I can’t find my own posts in Tesseract. I’m surprised they didn’t block my whole community.
Found myself. What’s this all about then?OOOOHHHHH, so this is about Leftist cred. I see. ;) I guess this proves I’m not a misogynist, like the Admins on 196 seem to think.
WOOHOO!
YSK I have a personal black list of users that I never will see again. If you can still see this message you’re fine.
damn i didnt make it to this list either…
You did now. Bye bye.
yay!
Yay, I’m fine
Ohhhh wrong answer! BLOCKED 😜
Yay, im blocked
I can’t see the message. :(
What are we talking about?
The Admiral posted this to his com: https://lemmy.today/post/57096701
Pinned and locked it, too. Apparently nothing was blocked, you only need to enable “toxic mode” to see the banned content.
“Who are you to decide…?”, “What gives you the right to…?”
A: Well, somebody’s fucking got to.
That’s the job of the fucking instance admins, you dimwitted moron.
What a self-aggrandizing piece of shit. He should have left when he said he was going to a year ago.
Self-aggrandising was exactly the term I was thinking of. Absolute clown energy.
Never trust anyone who screams about how hard they’re leaving and immediately come back for more. It’s narcissist behavior, just like believing he should get to silently block leftist and trans instances without explanation. And I don’t consider that little footnote in his self centered rant about how right he is to be anything resembling a justification.
What a self-important moron. “I must be the arbiter of what is good and proper and what goes too far! someone has to!” yeah they call it curating your own fucking block list you fuckwit, doesn’t mean you should be silently “curating” anyone else’s. “But think of the poor normies who are lazy!” then they can go back to reddit. Lemmy will grow, and has been growing, just fine without your “help”. “If you don’t like it, don’t use it!” Aha, finally, something I think the entire fediverse (save for his own little fiefdom) will be likely to agree on.
That entire post is indicative of someone too stupid to read the room and too stubborn to leave it.
I also enjoy that he basically says he’s working on blocking all the dregs of society who cannot exist anywhere else online, as if to imply bans from platforms like reddit are typically just, and he also conveniently ignores that he likely was banned from Reddit in the first place, unless he left because he didn’t like the same shitty culture that leads to banning people with non-fascist viewpoints.
He’s obsessed with this idea of bringing “normal” people here and shielding them from anyone with an opinion about anything that fucking matters. Fuck that. I don’t want the same people who have no issues with ice or trump in this space, nor do I want their supporters here. Let those assholes stay on reddit. He’s acting like he’s politically neutral in this way but from what I can tell that’s definitely not the case just due to the vast majority of users here being on the left, if nothing else.
He’s literally sought to neuter what is actually good about the fediverse. By silencing the people who are not okay with the world as it is…
And you know he gets a smug look on his face every time he adds a “toxic” item to his little blocklist. What a douchebag.
Not only that but he goes out of his way to imply you’ll be dragged into the troll pits if you disable the filter. Considering who’s on that block list, his skin must be tissue-thin.
Exactly what I meant by “too stubborn to leave it”. He clearly cannot have his fee-fees hurt or his positions challenged in any way at any time; and I would gently suggest that such a person should not be participating in social media in general, let alone a contentious corner of it like Lemmy. The fact he persists in trying to beat it into something palatable for the most bland of palates, while thoroughly Sisyphean, is genuinely funny – it’s that he feels the need to sneakily impose this on others, though, that takes it from funny and dumb to infuriating, fractally stupid, and malicious behavior.
To disable them (referred to as enabling Toxic Mode in the settings), it’s as simple as:
Settings -> Advanced -> Click the “I feel like some content is missing. What’s up?” text at the bottom -> Enable Toxic Mode
I didn’t want to add that option, but I conceded nonetheless, and it’s been available the whole fucking time. I’ll admit the fine print buried at the bottom of the advanced settings isn’t the most upfront place to put it, but it is there, and there’s nothing stopping you from turning it on.¹
¹ Admins who deploy Tesseract can opt to disable the availability of toxic mode, but it is available by default.
It even flat out says why that exists:
Tesseract attempts to filter out as much baseline toxicity as possible in order to make the default experience welcoming and round off some of the Fediverse’s rougher edges. This is particularly important for attracting and retaining new users and for facilitating long-term growth of the platform. If you absolutely must, you can enable ‘Toxic
When non-toxic becomes toxic.
I don’t object to the ideaThese include very vanilla users, left, right, center. What is this person’s criteria for “toxic?” but yumpin yimminy the wording…It’s bullshit, I know. The block list even included my tiny 115 subscriber community for independent canadian news. He must have had to dig to find it and then find something wrong with it.
- People who (intentionally?) take others out of context just to attack them
Hah. Not with that list they’ve curated. Not in the slightest.
Another one of those “I know better than you it’s for your own good” types.
He’s right though, no one should use tesseract. Or anything else he has made or will make. Seems too short sighted to see how he has betrayed the trust of his users.
That manifesto of his has supervillain energy.
