I have no clue what Tesseract is, but we're several days in and now I'm seeing memes of people not being on some list. What is Tesseract? What is the list? Why do people want to be on it?

Does this have something to do with the OCR software?

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (11 children)

It's an alternative skin/user interface that fediverse instances can offer users. It turns out to have an internal blocklist of instances, communities, users, and keywords that it will silently hide. Some (e.g. child abuse) are understandable. Others (e.g. specific usernames) are less so.

Some people are upset they are on the list; some that they are not on the list. But most are upset that a list exists in the first place.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Is there a listing of the list? I want to see if I made it.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    The tesseract code repository is no longer public, but someone else made a copy of the blacklist file: https://drive.proton.me/urls/F12YB7W52C#27AP8fGZ2xdp

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Boo. Not on there. I feel left out.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Damn. I'm sad that I didn't make it.

    Did anyone notice that they filtered "fucks kids", "Epstein class", and "zionists murderers"? This dev could be an agent. The list had so much on it that I can't even imagine how watered down that viewing must be.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    We’re not upset that some guy has a block list, or even that he was sharing it.

    We’re upset that he did everything possible to hide that he was pushing his block list on unsuspecting users.

    That’s just straight malware, and when confronted, he resorted to vandalism.

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