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Tesseract Dev (AdmiralPatrick) RageQuits Lemmy with Final Goodbye Message (and hid a DDOS script on his page) (quokk.au)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This may be a good explainer.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    tl;dr (also didn't really see an explanation I'm the linked comments):

    Tesseract dev hid a blocklist (compressed + base64 encoded iirc) of users and communities that should never be shown, sneakily inserted in an otherwise irrelevant commit.

    There were a lot of communities/people on that list that didn't make a whole lot of sense, but the main issue is that it was a static list you (as the person hosting the front-end) have to opt out of.

    db0 figured this out when he updated tesseract and suddenly no local posts appeared (the db0 instance is on the list).

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