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.
I was so confused, because I was thinking about the OCR thing… https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Identity politics a.k.a. not centering white male imperial core voices, in the right wing parlance. These people are just nazis. Source: i am the most lazy of the hitler studies experts im not getting one
proton.me is in THROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS lol
Apparently you’re also a filthy commie that should be Operation Condor’ed if you prefer to use an email provider that doesn’t spy on everything you send and receive
The epstien class got caught via gmail… nothing happened. 😒
that’s insane, they don’t even allow more than one free account
When feudposting isnt enough… feudcoding. Really sad to see, hope they get better someday soon.
That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it?
Tbf my dumb web browser game does this.
It checks if the system language (those “en-us” like strings) is set to Ukrainian or Hebrew. If it is, it’ll set the url to something else, effectively redirecting the user.
I don’t want zionists and state sanctioned neo-nazis playing my shitty game. Liberals would probably call my arrogance, which I am being arrogant, but frankly I don’t think people who go around murdering civilians deserve to play my game!
I’d ban the United States, but I do live there. Besides it’s mostly a political statement, and it’s dead easy to bypass.
I will remove Ukraine when the war ends though, regardless of the outcome. (Unless I already removed them. I don’t quite remember.)
…Maybe I should add TERF island to the ban list lol.
Proud to have made the list.
I’d make sure whoever did this isn’t allowed to contribute to your fork
Amazing how these projects keep killing themselves by alienating huge portions of their userbase. Hard to survive in a FOSS environment by being extremely reactionary.
I don’t understand the term turbolib. This kind of behavior is very much in the conservative vein. Especially the exclusion of trans friendly instances.
Liberalism and conservativism are both derived from the same general source, conservativism is just the more openly reactionary form of liberalism.
Tesseract OCR sucks hard anyways. PaddePaddle ocr is infinitely better
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.
Do you think maga.place and hilariouschoas.com are left of Kissinger?
Do you think “includes” means “only?”
which includes
of course it does. all they have is censorship and calling you names.
Piefed blocks any non-leftist sources, among other authoritarian censorship measures.
what? piefed blocks all leftist sources last i checked.
piefed is a liberal right wing instance lmfao
Right wing? Any source that leans right wing is banned lol
Liberalism itself is right-wing, and is the only acceptable position on Piefed.social
Liberalism is classified as left-wing in most contexts.
Back when it was compared with feudalism, sure. As it stands liberalism is supportive of the status quo, it’s socialism that’s left.
Liberalism consists of two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on wholesome ideas used to market the ideology, such as individual freedoms and democracy. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.
As a result, liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. Thus, the talk of freedom and democracy ends up being nothing more than a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.
In most contexts Liberalism is left wing.
Only amongst people who don’t understand it. Though I admit many self-identified leftwing people, especially in the US, think “I’m a liberal” means “i’m a good person.”
It objectively is not as I’ve explained to you in detail. If you think that liberalism is left wing then you don’t understand what any of these words actually mean.
The thread you are in
Piefed blocks leftist sources too, piefed’s ideological goal is essentially DNC establishment supremacy.
How does anyone come to the idea to built a tool to be used in a federated context and hardcode into it which instances are not allowed to be used with it?
However, this is just one person. Maybe the Dev did not expected anyone else to use it and just but the blacklist into it for personal reasons…
They did put content warnings and remove it too, so I doubt it’s just for them to use.
Hmm, a lot of normal ones got swept in with the tanker and/or agitprop instances.
Too bad.
Gosh I wonder if there’s a reason for that.
The leftist instances are generally the older, original ones. The targeting of queer and leftist people by the Tesseract devs is deliberate, and the fact that this is hardcoded to prevent people from even being able to choose if they interact with communists and/or trans users is ideologically coherent, even if evil.
I do not understand how you people still don’t get it
