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.
Congrats @hexbear for being #1 on this guy's list.
Looks like the admin is anal enough to sort these alphabetically, so it's actually abolish.capital
I've made it! I'd like to thank all the liberals who made this possible, without you I'd never be a real tankie!
lmfao @ 2k """"Russian disinformation"""" websites and built-in 'Media Bias Factcheck.' What a fucking dork. We're going to start the revolution not to abolish capital, but because we're coming for this dweeb's toothbrush specifically.
He's not anal, he's using AI all over the place and not acknowledging it.
Why do you think so?
Nobody manually arranges things in alphabetical order. It's much more likely an LLM was used, I would have thought.
I ordered things alphabetically before AI because it made it easier for other people to read the list. It's a built-in command in a lot of languages too.
Fair enough, I'm just pissed at the guy I guess.
They're seemingly pissed at you too. You're on their super-secret filtered users list.
"Bitch eating a cracker"
I am too. This is insanely stupid, I depend on Tesseract to keep trolls at bay and this guy is abusing his power as a dev to try to get in the way of that. I really hope we don't lose Tesseract because of this shit. I need it.
"trolls" = undesirables 90% of the time
There's a linting rule that does pretty much exactly this.
Nah, that's reaching.
Why assume good faith with this guy when everything else he does is bad faith? But sure, i agree it's not proof of anything. Just a possibility.
You don't need an LLM to alphabetise lines. In Emacs you can just select a number of lines and run
M-x sort-linesand it'll do it for you.That's kind of like saying that people who use em dashes are writing stuff with AI, it's a pretty big reach.