‘Those people were awesome as long as they agreed with me’
Seleni
joined 3 years ago
That’s fair.
But I also don’t think they did anything whatsoever to ‘let people know’ about the blocklist like they claimed. In fact, it seems to me from how much they tried to hide it that they never intended to share that they had one, at all.
As far as the death threats… meh, who knows? From all their comments, and their attempting to defend themselves in the third person using alt accounts, they seem to be quite a drama queen with only a loose connection to reality. They interpreted lots of rather rational comments back in the beginning of all this saying ‘dude, you can’t just force people to use your blocklist’ as vicious attacks against their person and character, so I can see them interpreting more aggressive ‘how dare you tell me what to do’ comments as actual threats against their person.
On the other hand, negative self-centered people tend to attract negative, self-centered people, and I can imagine that some of those might take… poorly to finding out they’d ended up on his blocklist for disagreeing with him. Especially if they had thought they were on the same side.
That still doesn’t excuse the DDOS.
And given how well he hid it, it’s obvious that he never intended that anyone see that list but him. That’s most of the ‘how dare he block so-and-so’ that I’ve seen; people mocking him for blocking them, yes, but they almost always tied it back to the fact that he was censoring the feeds of others without any kind of notification or opt-out for his users.
Saying ‘here’s my blocklist; if you don’t like it, you can toggle it off, or find another frontend’ is curating, and that’s okay. But deciding what others get to see because ‘you know best’ and hiding that list of people and instances you blocked so no-one can find out what they’re not being allowed to see is censorship, and it’s not okay.
It’s called Selective Listening and people with an entrenched worldview that defines their whole personality are sadly quite good at it.
There was some drama recently relating to him deciding to make pifed.social block content creators from engaging too much. Probably related to that.
I wouldn’t say all of them. My parents’ last cats… well, one got chased all over the house by a squirrel, and once lost a fight with a mouse. The other made friends with the birds that landed on the roof.
The blocklist that idiot made wasn’t just secret, it was hidden under several layers of obfuscations, so that no-one could see any sign of it but the dev.
Not only that, but it didn’t generate a ‘this person/instance has been blocked by the dev’ message for the list; it just made it so the ones on the blocklist didn’t exist at all when viewing the fediverse through tesseract.
That dev was trying to curate the feed of everyone using tesseract to his preferences, which appear to be ‘don’t show anything to the left of Regan, and also don’t show anyone who’s hurt my feelings in discussions’.
Sadly yes. I think he lost himself in his stage persona.
Doesn’t mean she doesn’t have standards.
Huh? It is a new movie. It’s a sequel to Spaceballs.
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Pretty sure a DDOS is an actual crime…