Edit: For context, @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com discovered that the developer of Tesseract had discretely banned numerous instances and disguised it as a server error. This included more heavily leftist instances, but also blahaj.zone. More recently, it was discovered that they had also been suppressing individual users, phrases, and communities that criticize power tripping on fedi.
Needless to say, I implore non blahaj.zone users to drop the Tesseract client (support for the client has already been dropped for blahaj). So called “liberals” like this who call out “extremism on both sides” are an insult to the values they claim to be upholding.
The blocklist is so wild. It really appears to be someone who has put a lot of work into removing any exposure to anyone who cares about literally anything. What a sad little piece of shit.
I couldn’t find the list until someone shared it
https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
I’m on the list! Woo!
Hehe I’n on the McCarthyist list
I had to fetch the damn original list from their server, then (on my frigging Windows work PC) BASE64 decode it and gunzip it (something stupidly simple on Linux, less so on Windows).
On the upside I did get the warm feeling of finding my nick on the list.
Holy crap. That list is huge. Is there anyone left to interact with? It’s not like there’s THAT many of us.
What do you mean ? There are dozens of us that are not on the list.
I’m one!!
Hey, a copyparty server in the wild! Neat!
Aww, I’m not on there. But I’m not really surprised, I don’t talk much.
I dunno what “userRegexes” is, but I’m there. I’m hoping it means I’m banned!
“regex” is short for “Regular Expression”, a type of program for matching characters in text. I haven’t read the actual code that uses the
userRegexeslist, but I think you’re safe to assume that it means the tesseract client was filtering your comments and/or posts.It means that your account and any other accounts Tesseract finds with the same name as yours (the “samus12345” part) are banned.
Wait, so if I create a Lemmy account as @samus12345@foobar.com, that would automatically be blocked as being assumed to be an alt of @samus12345@sh.itjust.works?
Yeah, and the dev explicitly chose to go with that assumption. Or maybe they just don’t like Metroid either way lol
I do use that name when making accounts on other instances, so it was a good assumption!
Exactly, regex is basically the same as pattern matching in programming.
For the nerds, another post (the one OP links to) stated that you can check the list by yourselves from the source by running the following command in the terminal:
curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy policy \ | base64 -d | gunzip > policy.json(Reminder to NOT RUN any commands on your terminal you don’t understand)
It’s a way much bigger PITA to do it in Windows than in Linux.
True. However, there are still many ways to do it. If anyone reading this is curious, here are a few ways:
txtso you can read the file with Notepad).Yeah, I used almost exactly the last method you described.
Thanks! I couldn’t find the list either. I’m there.
Oh hey, my lemmy.zip account made the blocklist. Mum, look, mum, I’m quasi famous! :D
Damn, none of my accounts are on the list. Even the ones banned from .ml
Not surprising considering their instance banned activism
“identity politics”
Dude, just say “woke” or “DEI” or whatever it is other conservatives call “not being a bigot.”
Not you, OP. The guy who wrote the policy.
How dare people have opinions!!
Wait, is that an opinion? Fuck. Time to ban myself.