cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299
I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it’s been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.
Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.
This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.
When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.
Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn’t it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think…
Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I’ll doubt I’ll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we’ll bring up mlmym again now that someone’s maintaining it again.
Why? I didn’t make any such claim.
I literally quoted you claiming you had debunked the claim the block was transphobic. All you did was show a MAGA instance had also been blocked. Explain.
An anti-Leftist and anti-trans blocklist would not include a pro-Trump instance.
A blocklist designed for a number of other reasons could.
If the evidence for the claim that it’s an anti-Left, anti-Trans blocklist is to look at the code and ignore the parts that don’t fit that narrative, we can safely dismiss that claim.
You don’t have to be a pedant. You can have all of a set inside another set. The title can clearly be read to mean that and the post seems pretty clear to me.
Sure, but just because you can doesn’t mean you do, and it makes the strong positive claim extremely flimsy.
Sure, but just because you can only have a blocklist of only leftist sites doesn’t mean that makes any sense at all
Who only has a blocklist of only leftist sites?
I see zero justification in the git commit for the addition of blahaj, and you have failed to offer any explanation other than ‘not transphobia’ on the basis that a MAGA instance is also on the list.
So? You not knowing the reason doesn’t make it anti-Left or anti-Trans.
Right, because I’m not out here making strong positive claims about the devs motivations. I’m specifically criticizing those who are.
Specifically Mia, who baselessly accused Rimu of this same thing fairly recently.
It’s so interesting that until someone writes ‘I’m doing this because I’m a transphobe’ in the commit file, then it’s wrong to suggest it was transphobic. Not at all suspect to silently hide the largest trans instance with zero comment! I’m sure it’s a secret, very good reason that isn’t transphobia that they just won’t reveal for some reason!
Again, Mia has a history of maliciously mislabeling people who are very clearly not as anti-Left and anti-trans.
Unless you’re actually saying that beefing with someone for any reason is transphobic as long as that person happens to be trans.
It’s really incredible how silently preventing other instances that use this front end from accessing the largest trans-centric instance on the fediverse (to my knowledge) isn’t transphobic, but drawing attention to it is ‘malicious’. No need to provide an actual reason for the silent blocking, it’s actually just bad faith to notice that’s going on.
What reason is there to ‘beef’ with Blahaj that isn’t centered in right wing or transphobic policies, or both?
It is not inherently transphobic, unless, again, you think anything bad happening to people who happen to be trans is inherently transphobic.
It’s really incredible how you think it’s okay to mislabel people as anti-Left and anti-Trans even when they aren’t.
I never said there was no need to provide a reason ot that it’s bad faith to notice it happening. Why are you making things up?
Is that all trans people/leftists are to you? They have no existence or relevance or opinions or actions that aren’t explicitly about being trans/leftist? Yikes.