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What is going on with Tesseract and some block list? (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Also, *.itch.io is on there. That's a popular site for hosting and selling indie games. Seems like an odd thing to blacklist.

There are some pornographic games on itch.io, and maybe the list publisher has an issue with that, but nexusmods.com and loverslab.com and a number of other major mod sites that host pornographic mods are not on there.

All communities ending in "Moe" are blocked, so that's presumably aimed at stopping sexed-up underage manga stuff.

Politically, a lot of auth-left (tankie) stuff is on there, but so is conservative stuff, communist stuff, libertarian (probably right-libertarian), and anarchist stuff.

4chan is blocked.

The (controversial) archive.today family of sites, which are mostly used to bypass paywalls, is blocked.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    And all of it under a hidden "advanced" setting you only get to by clicking on a question about why content seems to be missing (which you would never know because it does so silently and invisibly)... To enable "Toxic Mode".

    It's one of those things where this could have been done fairly well, by educating users about it... Instead great pains were taken to hide it, make it invisible, and if they were caught have a hidden toggle no one would notice but they could point to as an excuse.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Article explaining why archive.today may have been blocked: https://www.techspot.com/news/111296-wikipedia-may-remove-almost-700000-links-amid-archivetoday.html

    Now I can't speak for the whole fediverse obviously, but I think it's generally accepted that these are positive things:

    1. give the user the ability to block instances, users, communities, etc.
    2. give the user sensible defaults.
    3. be transparent about what your software is doing.
    4. don't go out of your way to fuck with someone else's shit.

    Tesseract's biggest sins aren't against 1 and 2, but 3 and 4. A default blocklist isn't necessarily bad, though its contents are debatable, and it has to be user-editable. But the DDOS script (and what an artless one btw), and the lack of transparency is pretty bad.

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