Yeah we'd been discussing this but nobody had a chance to make this thread about it yet. It feels dishonest for the app to have these hidden biases, so I'd rather just kill it.
I've pulled tesseract down now.
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I think the photon UI is pretty good as a replacement
Argh this sucks. The UI is so much better than everything else.
Fork in 3... 2... 1...
Have you tried Blorp?
Just a bit. It's not bad but I don't like the look as much. I really like the comment nesting though. I wish the mod options were better, not that I use them all that much.
Maybe I'll bounce back and forth between photon and blorp and see which one sticks.
What are some of the features that you like? Maybe some of the other front ends can replicate it / add it
It's primarily just the look. Photon's easily the closest both in terms of appearance and features. I honestly haven't given other front ends a serious look for long time, so I'll check them out and hope that team tess runs out of crazy pills soon.
Ah gotcha. If it helps anyone, the relevant pages for theming on photon:
- layout: https://photon.lemmy.ca/settings/app
- color/theme: https://photon.lemmy.ca/theme
For Blorp: https://blorp.lemmy.ca/settings (see appearance)
Of the two, Photon has a bit more customization on the theme colors
Consider using the fork by db0 which removes this stuff: https://github.com/db0/tesseract
But are they going to actually maintain it?
Edit:
This fork was created by a divisions by zer0 admin after we noticed the original developer silently blacklisted all leftist and trans-friendly instances like the massive turbolib they are. We just removed his blacklist and we'll eventually drop this frontend once lemmy 1.0 comes around.
So not a huge commitment, though I'm not sure how close 1.0 is to release.
The highest fucking honor I’ve ever received: being blocked by a wimpy little fascist:
Probably a good idea. Too much shady shit.
E: Am apparently on the blocklist!
I saw you. Nice.
Good lord, I've tried to read the post, but Dev is such an edge lord I'm beginning to suspect Elmo himself vibe coded it.
At least I'm part of the list, being filtered out by this asshole is an honor.
Me too, hooray! We're in good company I think.
Oh shit, I am on the block list. 😂
Me too! Lol, wonder who I pissed off, how... 🤷🏻😂
"Who" is perfectly well known...
Oh wow, me too!
That list is huge. He must have ran a script to capture names based on content he didn't like?
I didn't even know what Tesseract was before this, and I'm on the blacklist.
Me too. I wonder what I said to earn my place there.
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To disable them (referred to as enabling Toxic Mode in the settings), it's as simple as:
Settings -> Advanced -> Click the "I feel like some content is missing. What's up?" text at the bottom -> Enable Toxic Mode
Hahaha
Apparently some things are still blocked, even with this option enabled
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Hell yeah, made the list. You know us Canadians and how abrasive we can be.
One of us, one of us, one of us
I have no objection to stuff like the nsfw blocklist by default, I can even think of justification for a lot of filters. But the way it was done is shady and weird.
This whole thing is crazy for current users. I'd been trying to figure out why Tesseract was behaving so strangely when I hadn't changed anything. Digging through settings and messing around with filters. There was no notice at all. And this only makes sense if you only use Tesseract. I use Voyager on my phone and I was receiving notifications there that weren't appearing in my browser. I'd post comments from my phone and not be able to see them in Tesseract because I guess someone else in the comment chain was on this list. Usability nightmare.
And then you can't disable it without having a big ever-present content warning telling you you're in Toxic Mode. Yeesh. You know who else is a level-headed guy who's been wading through the sewage for 3(+) years? THIS GUY. I know my way around this glorious sewer, my dude.
Yea I think some of this would work better as an automod or reporting tool.
I've played with Reddit's automod, and even well designed automod regex tends to make lots of mistakes, and you need to slowly make adjustments to refine it.
Other parts of it should have been opt in, and ideally in a way that you can import any list. That would also help with the gaming issue, since a bad actor can't look at one list and game it when people can be using any combination of blocklists. Similar to how ublock origin does it.
Look at that, I made the list.
I will take it as a badge of honor.
Second
Photon should be enabled by default as it is the most user friendly one imo.
It's nice, and I know the https://lemdro.id/ instance has it as the default
However since it is a third party frontend, there is a chance that a future Lemmy update will come out without having full Photon support right away. So it's usually safer to keep them separate, and encourage people to try out the frontends to see what they like
Photon's Lemmy V1 compatibility is actually pretty much complete with a lot of technical improvements as well, I'm kinda hoping the Lemmy devs release Lemmy v1 soon as I don't really want to make a lemmy v0.x adapter
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Line 2459, I'm on the list baby!
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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