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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.

  • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    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.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      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?

      • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        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

        It is not inherently transphobic, unless, again, you think anything bad happening to people who happen to be trans is inherently transphobic.

        but drawing attention to it is ‘malicious’.

        It’s really incredible how you think it’s okay to mislabel people as anti-Left and anti-Trans even when they aren’t.

        No need to provide an actual reason for the silent blocking, it’s actually just bad faith to notice that’s going on.

        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?

        What reason is there to ‘beef’ with Blahaj that isn’t centered in right wing or transphobic policies, or both?

        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.

        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          6 hours ago

          It’s really incredible how you think it’s okay to mislabel people as anti-Left and anti-Trans even when they aren’t.

          Lmao, how are you mad about what you think is an unsubstantiated claim and going around saying this? Show your work. ‘You can’t prove this is transphobic to my standards’ is not proof someone is not transphobic. Unless that’s the conclusion you want to reach to begin with.

          Answer why Mia is responsible for someone else’s conclusions.

          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.

          Lmao, imagine telling a trans person they’re tokenizing themself by recognizing a duck that’s walking and quacking like a duck. Absolute cringe shit.

          • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            Lmao, how are you mad about what you think is an unsubstantiated claim and going around saying this? Show your work. ‘You can’t prove this is transphobic to my standards’ is not proof someone is not transphobic. Unless that’s the conclusion you want to reach to begin with.

            I have interacted with Rimu enough to know he’s absolutely not anti-Leftist or anti-trans. But the fact that you think asking someone to prove a negative is sound reasoning says a lot.

            Answer why Mia is responsible for someone else’s conclusions.

            No one said she was. Stop making things up.

            Lmao, imagine telling a trans person they’re tokenizing themself by recognizing a duck that’s walking and quacking like a duck. Absolute cringe shit.

            You’re unironically saying that you cannot possibly imagine any reason why someone might beef with a trans person besides being anti-trans or right-wing. That’s a huge yikes from me.

            Trans people are people. They can beef with other people for a multitude of reasons that have nothing to do with being trans.