Tesseract is/was an alternative frontend for Lemmy sites. Its developer — asimons04 — hid malware in it. It would secretly download an obfuscated ban list with instances, communities, and people that asimons04 wanted to personally discriminate against and it would silently shadowban them from any site that used Tesseract.
The bans were heavily anti-fash leftists and queer folks, including yours truly.
an obfuscated ban list with instances, communities, and people that asimons04 wanted to personally discriminate against and it would silently shadowban them from any site that used Tesseract.
The fucking balls on him. Acting like he is doing everyone a favor. He can ban who he wants from his instance, that’s how federation is supposed to work. What he did was add a secret shadowban list at a software level just to bypass the modlog and force it on everyone.
His behavior and response are ridiculous. We shouldn’t even be federating with anything using tesseract. The guy and his repo should become a pariah.
Not to mention he tries to pretend it’s about making the place peaceful and less toxic but bans communities like WholesomeYuri and small news comms.
lol what a sad, petty, loser you’d have to be to go through the effort of creating a whole front end to block communities/people you don’t like. It’s beyond pathetic.
I defy that tosspot to point to the place on the doll where i “nutbag violent crazy” hurt him (I’m on the list)
I guarantee its in the place where somewhere along the line I told him i didn’t give a shit about his personal opinion. And building a goddamn hidden stasi list based on your fee fees and trying to shove it out globally is not fucking rational
Tesseract is/was an alternative frontend for Lemmy sites. Its developer — asimons04 — hid malware in it. It would secretly download an obfuscated ban list with instances, communities, and people that asimons04 wanted to personally discriminate against and it would silently shadowban them from any site that used Tesseract.
The bans were heavily anti-fash leftists and queer folks, including yours truly.
This was discovered through some community sleuthing in the last several days. Asimons04 has since
deleted their repos and accounts and disappearedmoved repos to break forking and posted an unhinged rant to dubvee.@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com has forked Tesseract since it had some nice features and they seem to be working on thoughtfully removing the malware.
Those finding their name on the list are treating it as a badge of honor, since it shows that asimons04 was a conniving fascist bigot.
The rabbit hole begins here.
https://lemmy.world/post/49778353
After reading his rant and the block list Im curious what content is left after all the blocks
Link to list:
https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
The fucking balls on him. Acting like he is doing everyone a favor. He can ban who he wants from his instance, that’s how federation is supposed to work. What he did was add a secret shadowban list at a software level just to bypass the modlog and force it on everyone.
His behavior and response are ridiculous. We shouldn’t even be federating with anything using tesseract. The guy and his repo should become a pariah.
Not to mention he tries to pretend it’s about making the place peaceful and less toxic but bans communities like WholesomeYuri and small news comms.
lol what a sad, petty, loser you’d have to be to go through the effort of creating a whole front end to block communities/people you don’t like. It’s beyond pathetic.
I’m having a hard time believing he created the frontend for the purpose of blocking. But still, pretty petty.
I defy that tosspot to point to the place on the doll where i “nutbag violent crazy” hurt him (I’m on the list)
I guarantee its in the place where somewhere along the line I told him i didn’t give a shit about his personal opinion. And building a goddamn hidden stasi list based on your fee fees and trying to shove it out globally is not fucking rational
what an honor to get on that list! if you can find the code that blocked you, you should frame it.
I am line 137. ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🎉
Oh damn I’m in there too. I barely even have a comment history lmao.
Omg I gave up after line 500. Just why??? This list is like an incel’s fantasy Death Note. Just sad really.
I just did a search on the page for my name. No hits. 😭
Holy shit, that’s a good number. I’m 2397. I feel like it took me too long to get noticed…
You got noticed at least 💔
Woohoo! I thought for sure I’d be on there, but not yet. 😂
Your day will come, young Padawan.
I’m not on the list. Maybe they thought I was a placeholder.
Ah hell yeah! I made the list!
I hadn’t heard of Tesseract until now. Looks hellishly messy, the interface is nasty.