As a lemming, this whole drama is categorical censorial bullshit, but also peak comedy because the fuckwad got caught and publicly called on the carpet
As a software engineer, this is stupid implementation, because you can trivially make this a configurable blocklist of strings and regex. It never needed to even be an argument. Which of course means that it was never about the implementation.
As an open source enthusiast, take the software engineer response, but add: and he’s intentionally pushing his (visibly fucked up and warped) worldview and values onto users, and he tried to obfuscate it to be sneaky. That falls in the realm of malware imo - as in, intentionally mutating the functionality of a project with a specific intent of impact on users, and then attempting to hide the evidence. And then he got called out on it, and got super butthurt, and rage quit the whole goddamn platform.
TL;DR: Good fucking riddance.
He even tried to wash it off with “but there is a setting to disable it, just navigate 32 sub menus and click toxic mode” and never addressed the fact that his software would hide the shit behind a “technicall issue” excuse
Did anyone bother to check if that “toxic mode” even existed, or existed prior to the jackass getting caught?
It only worked for one of the lists, not the other
Tbh, doesn’t matter.
Dude clearly designed it to be included in his releases in a difficult to detect fashion. That’s “malicious developer” behavior.
In the context of OSS, you design <thing> to do <function>, and you set things up to allow users and implementers to customize it as they see fit and necessary. Intentionally hiding opt-out mechanism - let alone shipping with shit you want or need to opt out of is very much a big tech bullshit tactic, and OSS devs who do that are objectively caustic OSS devs. Dude tried to foist his views and sensibilities onto everyone who used his shit in a very, very sneaky fashion
It’s correct and appropriate that he got blackballed from the community.
Maybe he was trying to get a job at Microsoft and showing off his relevant skills.
Should’ve done it on reddit then, he would’ve got so many more people shitting on him
See this kinda thing is exactly why I’m still here. Some guy tried to use his software’s popularity to manipulate and censor Lemmy, and it had the exact opposite effect in the end. His software got immediately forked, most instances(that I know of) stopped using/supporting it and the whole thing is getting memed to death so now the entire usernase knows about it and can specifically avoid this guy and all the software he maintains.
When this kind of thing happens on a platform like reddit or some other closed system, we can often suspect and sometimes experimentally prove that some kind of censorship or manipulation is happening, but it is way more difficult to detect and there’s little the users can do about it.
Not here.
Here the users have the power, the knowledge, and the motivation to not only find problems like this, but to take collective action against them. You all have just proved it, once again.
Great meme!
Plus I get to trot this out in every thread about it!
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hmmm, i wonder who left the one downvote
Doesn’t even need to be intentional. Voyager’s mouse gestures make leaving an accidental downvote while scrolling way too easy for example.
Gotta increase your swipe distances (I assume, I exclusively use mobile)
Tbh I accidentally downvote posts here on there with my fat thumbs on mobile. May not be malicious.
Again, another post celebrating that I’m on the blocklist and Charlie Kirk isn’t.
He’s not saying anything about it though. 🤔
Really proud of him for toning down the rhetoric. Guy hasn’t said a racist thing since he last went viral.
Fr, he’s never been more tolerable
Yeah. Believe it or not, when I saw him last, he was leaning left.
And wearing his heart on his sleeve. And his collar. And his chest. And the ground.
That’s more his neck.
He’s done a lot to improve the world since starting that event.
I bet he was gushing to say something, but now? quiet.
I get like that too sometimes… you get really excited and amped up over something, but then afterwards you just feel drained and dead tired.
when Im that tired, sometimes I like taking a nap in the dirt.
Yes, but not on top of it, where it’s loud and hot, more like snuggled some feet below, where it’s refreshing and quiet.
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Honest question, has he tried to defend the DDOS attack? Can’t imagine how one would justify that
I haven’t seen him acknowledge it yet
he’s still around? which alt is he using right now?
I’m watching two users that have been defending him while skirting around the actual problems. Right now, I’m not fully sure if they are alts of his. They aren’t active at the same time, as in one stopped commenting a few hours ago and then the other started commenting, which I find suspicious.
They’ve been called out as possible alts in this post and another tesseract post in this community. Neither have responded to the accusations though, which I also find suspicious lol
And he’s still made recent comments on his Kirk account
I’ve just started using Patrick as an insult
If this person is using alts and still commenting then they really, really need to touch grass. Thats gona be a fairly unhealthy psychological behaviour.
Patrick if you read this please actually give yourself 48 hours offline. Disconnect and go have a cuppa with a friend or family member (or both). You don’t need to talk to then about any of this, the rest of the world doesn’t know or care anyway. :)
Don’t worry about this cesspit, we’ll all be here being our lovely toxic selves when you come back.
oy vey-- I can be a real pill. but at least I can admit when I’m wrong. A lady/gentleman apologizes and exits stage left. One doesn’t simply ragequit with a side of DDoS!
in all my years of slashdotting, Stumbling, Farking, Digging, redditry, and Lemming, I’ve never known anyone to go down this hard nor this bitter. WHAT A CUNT!
This beloved character’s namesake deserved better
WHAT A STUPID ASSHOLE
And to top it all off, startrek.website is going to defederate from db0 for TOTALLY REAL REASONS that aren’t just being a salty little bitch. They just can’t show you proof, cuz it’s doxxing.
is it really website about trek, or is it twisted version of trek? like how LOTR has been twisted by a certain individual who is obsessed with it.
What does startrek website have to do with this though?
I’m fairly sure that’s his personal instance.
There’s not much in the way of sane reasons to go from inactive to suddenly having an admin call out censorship being the ‘last straw’ causing the defed and refusing to show proof because “doxxing”.
I thought its dubvee org? Startrek website was/is a legit instance, a shitty one but legit.
Oh, egads! My Fediverse is ruined!
But what if… I were to censor it, and disguise it as a server error?
Ohoho, delightfully devilish, Patrick
No one could possibly figure out what’s really going on, everyone knows error messages are confusing and intimidating and everyone just ignores them!
I envy tesseract dev. Really. I have barely any determination and feeling of self worth; he had enough to cosplay head of house unmourned. Sadly for him, Lemmy knew how to kill a “god”.
i’ve personally slain bigger than patrick. [like, i’m sure we don’t want to get a thread of “what’s the biggest thing you’ve ever destroyed, please tell the story” because it would be utterly toxic and in the real way, not the patrick way} i’m sure most of us here have. “god”? please, let’s not feed his nor any other dev’s ego.
It was reference to game called “Morrowind” where main antagonist utters the phrase “I am a god. How can you kill a god?”. Felt it fit with how self-aggradazing was our dear dev.
Took a chance with that reference, lemmy being full of nerds and all that xD
Was listening to this while writing original comment lol
ah shit. i tried arena and it was not for me, daggerfall was not for me, skipped morrowind, loved oblivion and skyrim, but when i went back for morrowind games had developed too much and i didn’t finish it because of all the jank. loved what little of the story i got though. i got as far as custom spells.
Understandable. I am quite tolerant for old game mechanics myself, and actually enjoyed both Arena and Daggerfall. Played Morrowind, and had a disk format just before facing the big bad…
And forgot to make backup of this one game.
I could not make myself go through swinging sword at larva with missing_woosh.ogg in the background again to start anew xD
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Hi patrick
Isn’t doubling down on stupid takes a big masculinity flex in 2026?
All the alpha males seem to do it.
is that a new thing, it makes them look stupider for doubling down.
Not really, insecure people have been doing that for millennia.
It’s been a consistent play of Trump since even his campaign in 2015-2016. He says something stupid or does something stupid. His defenders say he didn’t mean it like that and try to offer nuance or context, and then Trump clarifies that no, the plain meaning of what he said was exactly what he intended.
But yeah, after Hokit disparaged Michelle Obama at White House UFC fight, I had a moment of clarity that the new masculine flex is to discharge your strength to do something awful, something cruel or tasteless or obviously amoral, to demonstrate either that you are beyond the reach of consequences or because you don’t care about the consequences. Another recent example is when Trump interfered with the World Cup and cancelled the red card and one-game penalty of Folarin Balogun.
I doubt that it’s just manosphere-types emulating Donald Trump, but because this is a thing he specifically does time and again, it’s recognizable when other people do it.
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Everyone’s wrong sometimes that’s just the stale croutons in this human ceasar salad they call “life”. It takes a special kind of grit to be such a massive dog-rocket when your wrong tho
puts “dog-rocket” in purse for later use
Be careful where you use that it may bring unwanted attention
Being wrong in good faith is okay. He definitely was not acting in good faith.
As I gain a better understanding of how federated social media works, I just find it even more confusing. This dude appointed himself batman of lemmy, but he’s just a single dev of a single frontend. Don’t most instances have multiple frontends? Even if a secret block list was the key to getting lemmy to finally go mainstream (it’s not), implementing it at a frontend level is simultaneously both way too wide and way too small of a net. If tesseract was the only way anyone could access lemmy, maybe a secret block list could actually change the winds, but it’s such a small slice of the fediverse. It’s like if batman was only beating up jaywalkers and was like “You’re welcome, Gotham. The city is saved.”
What was the point of any of it? Someone was inevitably going to discover it was happening. There were so many people on the block list. Was he just going to personally defend against the ranks of people he found annoying forever? Keep adding more and more regex as the list grows to multiple thousands of users?They’re still on the platform, dude. It’s just one filter on one frontend. What the hell are you trying to accomplish?
This dude appointed himself batman of lemmy, but he’s just a single dev of a single frontend. Don’t most instances have multiple frontends? Even if a secret block list was the key to getting lemmy to finally go mainstream (it’s not), implementing it at a frontend level is simultaneously both way too wide and way too small of a net.
You nailed it! The impact was minimal. Its so many stupid hoops to get to his frontend. The root issue was keeping it a secret. And that’s why everyone was clowning on him, with many users (myself included) wishing we were on that list.
Apparently that broke Admiral cucktits because his secret list of gay lefties didn’t make him as cool as Batman. It made him like… Ketchup man or some 4th rate villain with a stupid gimmick, who thinks he’s “protecting” Gotham by rubbing ketchup on all the street corners to stop robbers or some dumb shit.
the ketchup imagery is absolutely sending me 😂
Is lemmy turning into reddit or something? I just see bits and pieces of this drama, don’t really care enough to deep dive in it… but found out I’m on the “list”.
no, someone tried to turn it into Reddit using their frontend to try and act like an admin on instances they’re not an admin on, acting like an entitled reddit powermod/admin doling out shadowbans; and the fediverse collectively told him to fuck himself.
Most people, I’d think, would consider thousands of other people yelling all at once telling you you’ve done a tremendously dumb thing, to be a fine moment for self-reflection. AdmiralPatrick is not one of those people.
Frankly, my own block list is huge. Mostly keywords, very few users. I would recommend it to everyone. Any social media is unbearable without blocking shit out. Everyone should personalise blocklists to their tastes.
But you can’t make this decision for people. This is why I also don’t like that some instances defederate a lot of other instances they don’t like (and no one tells newbies). There’s a niche for pre-populated block lists that are available and curated and transparent (like for ad-blockers).
I personally don’t block anything that isn’t already blocked by my instance.
The bots agree with me so it must be everyone else that is wrong. /s
I forget where but remember hearing a story once. If I hosted a banger of a party and everyone passes out at my house. I wake up the next morning to see a giant shit log in the kitchen sink and Joe says Jerry did it. I might be willing to hear Jerry out. But if I got 10 people say yeah Jerry is the one who took a shit in your sink. Well I’m going to be making Jerry clean my fucking sink.
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The most dumbfounding thing to me is that the list isn’t even base64 encoded. Its just sitting in the repo plain-text. I can’t decided if its laziness, a lack of data integrity standards, lack of imagination, or if he wanted all this drama one day.
