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.
“If I use a different definition than what everyone else uses I can bend it to my beliefs”
This is why you tankies aren’t liked by a lot of people.
Authleft are tankies, it’s VERY simple.
The definition I gave is the one that makes the most practical sense, and is a better identification for a group we both know exists. It’s why anarchists and liberals are often also called tankies from time to time, and it’s situational, it relates directly to support for existing socialist states. Further, tankies are liked by billions. China is seen very positively around the world, especially by its own people. Even in the US, the Black Panther Party is one of the most beloved political parties in history. Tankies are rising in popularity, not decreasing.
You say that “authleft” is simple for describing tankies, but how does that account for the anarchists and liberals that people call tankie? Is your point that all of them are secretly “authleft?” Further, what is authleft, just support for socialism with a state? If so, then the vast majority of the left is unquestionably “tankie,” leaving only the anarchists as non-tankie leftists. Further, it again erases the anarchists and liberals called tankie!
Your definition is wrong and clearly being used to shift the meaning of a long-defined word. Which is some classic tankie shit.
If you’re actually stupid enough to be serious asking this then oof, lol.
How is the definition I gave wrong? You keep stating this but offer no actual explanation. Further, again, you dodge my question regarding anarchists and liberals called “tankies” for supporting socialist states, and just call me stupid for doing so. Why can’t you answer? I can’t imagine this attitude is useful for your real life organizing efforts, assuming you do actually organize.