RIP Apollo

Long live Voyager!

Oh yeah honestly the rapidity with which this took hold and almost everybody agreed FUCK THAT GUY and started working towards a collective fix actually gives me a lot of faith in fedi. I'm kinda hoping this does open up more conversation about open and customizable sorting and filtering algorithms. I feel like there's space in fedi for more complex and personalized algorithms like you see on mainstream social media but in a way that's easy for the end user to pop open, examine, and tweak to their needs, and easy to apply templates that are clear about their intentions and publicly auditable.

Is this the biggest scandal? The lemmygrad.ml, the lemmy.ml related ones seemed way bigger

You know how people used voyager/boost/etc to access reddit? Well the web app is a similar idea (adds features, filter options, etc for customizing your Lemmy experience) except imagine the dev decided to add a secret filter list to the app where they added keywords, users, and subreddits that they didn’t like so you simply wouldn’t see them.

A fair number of instances had implemented the web app (called Tesseract, search Lemmy for that term if you want more details).

The reason it’s good to be on the list is because the list includes a bunch of popular lefty communities including some entire instances like Blahaj. Being listed individually just means you made the dev butthurt at some point so they decided people using their front end shouldn’t get to see your posts.

Finally I can check for myself!

...YES I'M ON THE LIST

I don't even publically say that much ""radical left"" stuff on here

I'm disappointed I'm not lefty enough for the club 😭

Oh, so he thinks most of us are violent nutjobs. Well if thinking billionaires and child molesters should be exterminated is wrong I don't want to be right.

Will they unblock wholesomeyuri and blahaj
🥺👉👈

Woo, fuck yeah, made the list!

Cool I’m on a list I didn’t know about either, but I’m not surprised.

Nice I'm on it

I'm not on the list :(

Apparently I'm not blocky enough for the blocklist.

I just thought it was usernames. I can't believe he blocked link shortners and go fundme. I get link shorteners to an extent, but outright blocking them instead of giving a warning?

I walk among giants!

Thanks @Sprinks, I had been following this for a few days but couldn't find the list until you shared it here. I was certain I wasn't cool enough to have angered this twat edgelord, but here I am in bright and agnsty glory!

See there is being on the list , then there is getting a regex. Get that, and it puts you in the elite side of an already elite club

“Some… times… you wanna go…”

COMRADE!

Holy shit, I am on the list! This is amazing! My profile is listed on line 49.

Mom look at me I’m on the front page!

My regex is even slightly different, bro personally typed my name in. I am, once again, just some guy

Got into the top 200 at least.

I am curious if I'm on the list but not enough to find it and look. I guess I'll never know

It's a general approach to names with numbers at the end, the list is full of those. I'm almost more interested in the more specific patterns like name(69)+, because was there an alt name6969 he wanted to block but an unrelated name67 he wanted to avoid?

On top of that, [0-9]+ matches one or more digits and ()? matches the contained token zero or one times, so the whole thing combines to zero or more digits, which is just [0-9]*. They're even bad at regex.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same. I guess I haven't rustled enough of the jimmies yet.

Nice, a lot of people have to embark on a whole journey of incremental self-discovery to get there. Angry list-maker guy did you a favor.

Well, clearly you're not left out enough

see here: https://lemmy.world/post/49817942

they've responded about it a couple times at least, so they do know.

I don’t even know what I did lol.

My instance hosts anti-communism and drone-kill footage communities so I guess we got a pass by default.

Here you go.

You're not on it :(

He also used some broad range of keywords like perchance to put people on that list.

Could it be based on some subscriptions or maybe voting history on some posts?

I'm there, maybe this is some sort of an ARG and we get some flair beside pur usernames as a trophy?

Participating in trans spaces too, I think that's why I'm on it