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.json

and 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.

  • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    This has nothing to do with that. This has to do with someone who develops a piece of software sneakily trying to enforce their own megalomania. Without making that fact sufficiently clear. And to be clear no matter what side of the political Spectrum you stand. This was unequivocally absurd the way it was done and handled once it was found out.

    If you want to be in a status quo cocoon. That is your choice. But it should be your choice and not something forced on you. Quite frankly I feel that these types that want to avoid all politics aren’t very bright. Life is politics politics is life. There is no escaping it until you die. And even then people may still try to use you.

    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      2 days ago

      Quite frankly I feel that these types that want to avoid all politics aren’t very bright.

      I’ve never met a single one that wasn’t an utter, drooling moron.

    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
      2·
      2 days ago

      I’m sorry, I don’t think we’re going to end up agreeing on this. I don’t see that it’s been forced on anyone. Maybe users of that instance, or people who use the software. But the list is there.