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Just don't hard code your personal grievances into your software. How fucking hard can that be? The diehard tankie communists of Lemmy managed to do that. All of those values could've been loaded from a config file. But instead he writes "I hate these users in particular" into his git history and gets upset when those users call him out for doing it.
All these fediverse libs exist in the highest form of liberal paternalism.
That's what it was doing, basically. It was quietly making API calls to retrieve its secret censor list from a server its dev had. It went undetected until someone (db0?) went poking around and mimicked those API calls to get a copy of what exactly it was retrieving.
Nope it was doing both. There were multiple types of block lists in the source code and then there was and additional API call to get even more up to date user block lists. Since the API call was to a block list he personally maintained it's just hard coding with more steps.
I mean technically.they hardcoded a slur filter (ofc there's nothing wrong with a grievance against slurs but just saying)
The slur filter hasn't been hard-coded in years. They made it so admins define a list of slur regexes through the UI instead.
True, I'm just being annoying, it hardly matters anyway
Sadly doesn't stop some users saying that's even worse than this or anything piefed does
It's not hardcoded anymore