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’m surprised Ada didn’t find this at the same time db0 did for the same reason - whole instance shadow ban, maybe she dropped it before the ban?
As far as I’m aware, the change that would have banned the entire instance was pushed in an update to tesseract, that had not yet been installed to blahaj. Ada mentioned she was waiting for a response from the developer before taking any action. From what I’ve heard she was aware at the same time and she’s in regular contact with other instance admins.
The delay was in response not knowledge as far as I can tell.