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.
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.