Tesseract is a web client for Lemmy that was found to be secretly and arbitrarily blocking users, communities and even entire instances. You can see if you’re one of the kool kidz by running
curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy | base64 -d | gunzip > policy.jsonand grepping your name / instance. Further details can be found in this post.
The poem above is adapted from Bertolt Brecht’s The Burning of the Books, which can be read here. If you would rather read it in the original German, go here.
So much noise about this event. I guess that not often something similar happens here.
I think part of it is how the malefactor broke the trust of the open source community.
Another part of course is how they refuse to acknowledge that anything they did was wrong.
Nah, inter-instance drama about who defederated from whom and who blocked what and which instance is hosting which problematic account is pretty common. If you can be sanguine about it, it’s pretty fun. This one is particularly egregious, which is why it’s getting such wide play.
Meh, I can think of at least 2-3 others just in the last six months to a year.
This event at least is real rather than made up.