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PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances. (github.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [A] to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it's been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.

Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There's a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we've been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.

This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is "incompatible with that instance" which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.

Isn't it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don't just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn't it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think...

Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I'll doubt I'll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we'll bring up mlmym again now that someone's maintaining it again.

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[–] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

proton.me is in THROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS lol

Apparently you're also a filthy commie that should be Operation Condor'ed if you prefer to use an email provider that doesn't spy on everything you send and receive

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    [–] 43 points 3 months ago

    Amazing how these projects keep killing themselves by alienating huge portions of their userbase. Hard to survive in a FOSS environment by being extremely reactionary.

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    [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    I'd make sure whoever did this isn't allowed to contribute to your fork

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    [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    Proud to have made the list.

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    When feudposting isnt enough... feudcoding. Really sad to see, hope they get better someday soon.

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

    piefed is a liberal right wing instance lmfao

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

    Liberalism itself is right-wing, and is the only acceptable position on Piefed.social

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

    Liberalism consists of two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on wholesome ideas used to market the ideology, such as individual freedoms and democracy. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.

    As a result, liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. Thus, the talk of freedom and democracy ends up being nothing more than a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.

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    • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    I had no idea the Fediverse was politically charged to the point of pulling shit like this. These kinds of people are like two steps away from making backdoors for the NSA because they think it will make the world a better place

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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    I was so confused, because I was thinking about the OCR thing… https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Admiral Patrick being a crank again. Same guy one-strike permabanned oodles of people for voting wrong on comments about some prick getting shot.

    His instance is proudly named after West Virginia. Y'know, the cantankerous gun-toting hillbillies who fought the rest of Virginia to end slavery and fought the army to unionize miners. But we can't go discussing any extremist solutions to societal problems.

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    [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    Db0, welcome to the tankie troika 🤝

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

    Apparently https://github.com/asimons04 is @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world / @ptz@dubvee.org.

    Relatedly:

    $ curl -I https://dubvee.org/ | grep '^location:'
location: https://static.dubvee.org/goaway.webp
$

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago*

    lmao they blocked "🥺👉👈" and "Perchance"

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Why do all these liberal projects have such authoritarian, dictatorial measures baked into their source code? thinkin-lenin

    Why is it that the "tankies" building Lemmy have not hard coded their software with similar dictatorial, authoritarian measures? three-heads-thinking

    I guess we'll never know.

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How does anyone come to the idea to built a tool to be used in a federated context and hardcode into it which instances are not allowed to be used with it?

    However, this is just one person. Maybe the Dev did not expected anyone else to use it and just but the blacklist into it for personal reasons...

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

    I don't understand the term turbolib. This kind of behavior is very much in the conservative vein. Especially the exclusion of trans friendly instances.

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    • [+] -12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I find it hilarious that .ml users who literally ban anyone not to their left are upset that someone else is censoring them.

    ooh that's gonna get me banned too lol

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

    Well you and the subject of this post are the side supposedly against "all" censorship aren't you? Or was that just a motto when convenient?

    Also we don't give a shit if we get censored by other instances or users, and we censor in return. Agree or disagree I think our logic around censoring/getting censored is mostly consistent here. Go ahead and block us, go ahead and get your instance and client to block us, you won't. Because then you wouldn't be able to fulfill your daily "hurr durr .ml hurr durr tankie" quota.

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

    Because then you wouldn’t be able to fulfill your daily “hurr durr .ml hurr durr tankie” quota.

    oh baby, there's always hurr durr .ml content beyond lemmy.ml, no worries there rofls

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    • [+] -13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger.

    Do you think maga.place and hilariouschoas.com are left of Kissinger?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago

    The leftist instances are generally the older, original ones. The targeting of queer and leftist people by the Tesseract devs is deliberate, and the fact that this is hardcoded to prevent people from even being able to choose if they interact with communists and/or trans users is ideologically coherent, even if evil.

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