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 get the rationale of the dev that it’s too easy to masquerade as another user, but it feels like that could probably be worked around. reveal the real name when poked or something. anyway i tend to go though old convos in the browser so i tend to pick up people’s displaynames.
I just wish I could have both options. Most of the time I don’t care, but sometimes it’s nice to have