The main thing this has taught me is that I am too bland.
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I didn't make the ban list, do I even matter?
Federation has always been a double edged sword. It makes total absolute censorship impossible, but also enables niche censorship like this.
Something special about this case is it's not an instance censoring but the frontend itself. No one likes when basic infrastructure starts blocking things from you without even telling you.
Like this is literally what instances are for. If he just made a Tesseract instance with his block list and set that as the default for his "normie" target audience, I doubt anyone would have batted an eye.
Subterfuge*
Being an anarchist, earns you lots of subterfuges from saboteurs, inadvertent & intentional.
What is going on and how can I help? (Some innuendo.)
But seriously what is this tesseract thing that's popping up in my feed?
What's this Dev's username? I want to DM them "trans rights are human rights" until I make the list.
AdmiralPatrick, but he just posted a big long manifesto about how lemmy is evil for mocking him so he is quitting forever. You can still spam his DMs, 100% he is still checking it and lurking on alts but it seems like this whole mess is coming to an end. lol
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