I guess the dev is too transphobic to handle the rule
Edit: For context, @[email protected] discovered that the developer of Tesseract had discretely banned numerous instances and disguised it as a server error. This included more heavily leftist instances, but also blahaj.zone. More recently, it was discovered that they had also been suppressing individual users, phrases, and communities that criticize power tripping on fedi.
Needless to say, I implore non blahaj.zone users to drop the Tesseract client (support for the client has already been dropped for blahaj). So called "liberals" like this who call out "extremism on both sides" are an insult to the values they claim to be upholding.
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the dev of Voyager has the option to do the funniest thing ever next April fools
I made the top 20! This is where I'll take a bow and go to bed. Goodnight, friends.
First I was like "oh, guess I'm not active enough to be noticed", but there's people on the list who barely posted anything.
Guess I just didn't manage to say something that would have annoyed this person. Like talking about burger units and shit. 🤷🏻♀️ I'm just a weird anarchy hippie nerd trans girl, don't ban me. Oh crap I said it out loud
I'm not there. My game is faltering.
Should have been aggressive enough that the shitlibs are scared of you instead of holding you in the patronizing contempt they reserve for the disenfranchised.
Let me see if I get it.
Someone maakes a Lemmy client, which function is just to interact with fediverse side if lemmy, then the developers just silently blocks everything they don't like, probably because it's too woke or something like that.
Why even development a client to begin with??
I’m a normie how do I search the blacklist for my username?
Lmao he even banned this
Only an evil person could want to ban subs.
Right?
🥺
👉👈
Apparently "🥺?👉👈" is either very "extremist" or "group thinking" for that dev, lol
As a proud extremist, the only reason I'm not included is because I don't do the extremist hand signal. 🥺👉👈 Amateur mistake I know.
Yes, the extremist group thinking of 'i would really appreciate some headpats andmaybealittlebonustreat, ahem but mostly headpats, yes, mhm.'
hah it's the first time I'm seeing an emoji regex
You know... yeah.
I don't think I've ever seen that before either.
🖕😉 🖕
(Directed at him, not you!)
Going to take the fact I'm not in the list as proof that I'm not hornyposting enough and could go further
So real. Need to start complaining about paywalled articles more.
or saying "turd"
ur a turd
:O
no u
See, that's why you're on the list
>:3
"wholesome yuri"
Or say perchance
Perchance peeerchaaance PERCHANCE!
I'm honored to be on it, and surprised you aren't
The actual adminowner of my instance took time out of their very very busy day to present me personally with a medal for my inclusion. I shall wear it with Pride
Me, seeing my name on this list:
I was in the OG blocklist as "garden-variety crackpot" https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/blob/2b53f17a5506b7c4b3ad1d5c26af49662f03a478/src/lib/blacklists.ts#L2711-L2725 . Although I'd like to object to the "garden-variety" part, my crackpottery is artisanal.
Don't forget this also works in reverse! The blocklist is also a contact list of cool people ;)
Mostly, but not necessarily, I noticed some people I definitely wouldn't call cool on there
Fair, there's always some bad apples.
Hahaha yayyyy I made it onto the blocklist in the userregexes list. I assume this means all my alt accounts with the same name on different instances were blocked.
Man, I must be a menace
Such a total menace! /j
While sad I'm not on it, I saw every user I have a positive tag set for on there. At least I'm making some good choices.
Same, does that makes us cool by proxy?
Hell yeah we do
No, that was the entire point. I'm not a cool person because I'm not on that list
I guess I'm not cool either 😔
You are cool.
You are just also broadly respectable, and a pleasant person.
I'm a brash asshole when someone pisses me off, lol, ran out of fucks to give sometime during COVID.
I do try to be a bad girl sometimes, but I guess I am more inclined towards kindness than I give myself credit for.
Really, truly, keep the kindness.
I am aware that now me is a cynical bastard compared to younger me... and I do not like that.
Whatever happens to any of us, the whole world in this ... grand collapse, that is about to accelerate...
... love is the only thing that can build, after all the hate and greed has destroyed.
We really need kind people though
TIL I’m too cool for school.
I'll take this in stride and wear it as a badge of honor!
Oh no my queer as hell ass is not on the list. Perchance I have not been doing enough ACAB
The blocklist is so wild. It really appears to be someone who has put a lot of work into removing any exposure to anyone who cares about literally anything. What a sad little piece of shit.
I couldn't find the list until someone shared it
https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
Holy crap. That list is huge. Is there anyone left to interact with? It's not like there's THAT many of us.
What do you mean ? There are dozens of us that are not on the list.
I'm one!!
Hehe I'n on the McCarthyist list
I dunno what "userRegexes" is, but I'm there. I'm hoping it means I'm banned!
It means that your account and any other accounts Tesseract finds with the same name as yours (the "samus12345" part) are banned.
Wait, so if I create a Lemmy account as @[email protected], that would automatically be blocked as being assumed to be an alt of @[email protected]?
Exactly, regex is basically the same as pattern matching in programming.
Yeah, and the dev explicitly chose to go with that assumption. Or maybe they just don't like Metroid either way lol
I do use that name when making accounts on other instances, so it was a good assumption!
"regex" is short for "Regular Expression", a type of program for matching characters in text. I haven't read the actual code that uses the
userRegexeslist, but I think you're safe to assume that it means the tesseract client was filtering your comments and/or posts.I'm on the list! Woo!
I had to fetch the damn original list from their server, then (on my frigging Windows work PC) BASE64 decode it and gunzip it (something stupidly simple on Linux, less so on Windows).
On the upside I did get the warm feeling of finding my nick on the list.
Hey, a copyparty server in the wild! Neat!
For the nerds, another post (the one OP links to) stated that you can check the list by yourselves from the source by running the following command in the terminal:
(Reminder to NOT RUN any commands on your terminal you don't understand)
It's a way much bigger PITA to do it in Windows than in Linux.
True. However, there are still many ways to do it. If anyone reading this is curious, here are a few ways:
txtso you can read the file with Notepad).Yeah, I used almost exactly the last method you described.
Oh hey, my lemmy.zip account made the blocklist. Mum, look, mum, I'm ^quasi^ famous! :D
Damn, none of my accounts are on the list. Even the ones banned from .ml
Thanks! I couldn't find the list either. I'm there.
Aww, I’m not on there. But I’m not really surprised, I don’t talk much.
Not surprising considering their instance banned activism
"identity politics"
Dude, just say "woke" or "DEI" or whatever it is other conservatives call "not being a bigot."
Not you, OP. The guy who wrote the policy.
How dare people have opinions!!
Wait, is that an opinion? Fuck. Time to ban myself.
The funny thing, with all regex / wordlist bans, is that it will catch waay more than it is intended to. The old Scunthorpe problem. I wonder how it must feel to browse this with random words triggering the filter.
From a quick glance, this guy does not like politics, NSFW stuff, making fun of mod abuse, anime, internet speech / "reddit-isms"... this must be a very empty place then
I guess this person really likes their mother's basement and doesn't like interacting with anyone other than their hands. Or potentially their mother's hands.
Roll Tide!
'Making fun of mod abuse'
Lmfao
Yeah, WTF would you use a regex? I guess they want to filter out that user if they have another account with a slightly different name?
I'm just sad they didn't try to hit violet with one lol
Oh wait, yes, there is no
.*violet.*in there. Weird.Kinda sad I didn't make their shadowban list.
Same. If it makes you feel any better, we're probably on some government watch list somewhere :3
yes, russian govr knows about transfem.social for example, and probably about blahaj.zone too
Thats why Im on blahaj.piefed, its all sneakylike
nya,
PS. if someone who know me see how i much scream about where i live - im seeking attention, to possibly find local ppl who are similar to me(and its works yay!!! i slowly building connections)
Apply cold water to burned areas. /j
nyaaaa, i was going todo that, im overheatiing now is hot as fck, despire turned on fan
The american democratic party blamed russia for their loss in 2016, and then tried to do a neuveau red scare instead of learning anything about appealing to voters during an election.
It broke a lot of people's brains now american political weirdos go rabbid whenever they hear anyone mention russia. Sorry you had to deal with that.
Russia was responsible in part for Trump winning in 2016. The Mueller report confirmed this. Trump himself just released information the other day that also confirmed this, and Russian interference in 20 and 24.
Everyone who knew about this in 2016 and was in a position to act on that information didn't consider it actionable.
Except Mueller and other investigations showed that Russia did try to influence elections to help trump, did work with the campaign and it actually had impact. That's why so many kettle for indicted. He only refused to investigate whether trump new anything about that, but after pardons and other things he did I think the answer is very clear.
yuuuuuuh, i dont think putin interested in america, but in countries around, successfuly "occupiing" govrenments, the kazakhstan, georgia, belarus politics are fucked, but armenia still stays somewhat okay right now, i remember see a lot agressive very agressive propanganda in very yummy forms about elections in armenia////////
absolutely, when their government stops supporting the downfall of democracy globally, we will go back to treating them the way we did in the Yeltsin era.
UPD more hell
etc
UPD, i will block n report u for picture with "ukrain is winning, trust me bro"
It's a .ml account, usually safe to block anyway. That instance is full on tankie.
yup i had recently blocked lemmy.world, n lemmy.ml, today i was need unlock for ONE user, and shocked how my feed become trash
I hope our names are touching on the watchlist
Same. I feel attacked like I don't say enough cool shit to piss off a snowflake.
samsies, I will take this as a signal from life that I need to double down and be more obnoxious
Same brother
Lmao we all checked the list to see if we were members of an exclusive club. I guess I need to post more extremist rhetoric...in Minecraft
Just post stupid shit like "Is being able to choose your own skin trans agenda?" or something like "Minecraft, the imperialist's wet dream." Or some stupid woke 1 stuff.
Good news, they namedropped you in their explanation comment:
Why are people like this? This person once helped me out (kinda) for a comment rendering thing for my own client (I was unfamiliar with nested comments and how they worked with the API). It's so sad and frustrating to see people you had non zero respect for do something so shitty like this. Like... especially for a group of people SO FUCKING CORNERED ACROSS THE WORLD. What's the thought process behind this? So so shitty.
I seriously can't find a thought process behind this. This is such a weird thing to do.
I think they have a grudge against Ada for being too friendly with leftist instances, and/or find the vibe too unsightly in some way. Maybe we're too weird in ways he doesn't like, or maybe we're too anarchist adjacent (a lot of people on this side of lemmy are anarchists, as queer people have every reason to dislike and distrust most governments right now). Regardless, we're too controversial of a vibe for their view a "non-toxic" fediverse.
The idea of a non-toxic fediverse is so silly. Yeah there should be a variety of experiences within it, but the whole thing about federation is that it enables us to find places that align with us.
I'm still on .world because they haven't pissed me off enough to bother changing and they were the main ones defederated from exploding heads when I signed up. I'd probably go blahaj if I were to change these days. But like, the ability to change and to go to an instance that aligns with your beliefs in who it's on speaking terms with is the point.
Banning blahaj and db0 won't make the fediverse respectable, and it's something an instance or user should do, not a moderation tool
There is no thought process. That's the problem.
I gave up trying to understand bigotry. It's just senseless.
The ability for humans to do bad is equal to their ability to do good. And we all do both. The best you can hope for is that they do at least slightly more good than bad over their lifetime.
Nice! I'm on it, too!
Now, how do I trigger a GDPR and force them to remove my name, just to annoy the dev?
Holy shit my username made the regex list. I have never been more proud of anything I've ever achieved online with my shitty fucking posts
EDIT:
They're really not trying to be subtle here now are they
They didn't think people would see it, and tbf nobody discovered it before now.
They're probably hoping it'll blow over and that people will forget and forgive them for it. We can't let that happen or they'll do the same thing again, or worse.
Anywhere this behavior isn't shunned will be overtaken by it
I won't forgive them despite them flattering me
Who actually reads source code?? I only read municipal code for fun, not software.
When they have a technical issue that needs troubleshooting I guess
I looked and I'm not on the list 😭 (I haven't been active enough)
Making it to the secret Tesseract blacklist may be my biggest accomplishment in life so far
I'm on the list. 💅 I guess I'm too salty about the biosphere collapse.
Congrats! I'm a bit envious
I’m guessing my anger about jackboot thugs abducting and terrorizing minorities got me on there.
Yay!!
Oh come on!
What did you do to get in that list?
Update, grep is case sensitive. I'm still not on the list, but it's strange that a single user is both mentioned by instance and a general regex.
@[email protected] what did you do to deserve such an honor?
... is your terminal okay?
I really don't know. It's termux on android, and I haven't used it that much before, so it's default settings I guess. But it beat getting up and finding my laptop.
bro wtf I use termux and it doesn't look like an EXPAND DONG meme
Probably a visibility font because I and l and 1 can look very similar.
most terminal fonts are very careful to distinguish them. commonly i uses an extra half-serif up top and l a tail, making it look a bit like a backwards j.
I'm banned 😎
So jelly!
I'm disappointed. I need to become more spicy.
Ditto
woah... I'm on the list. But I try to avoid politics online so I don't understand why?
Is it my promotion of ![email protected] ?
Or ![email protected] ?
Or ![email protected] ?
oh wait it's gotta be ![email protected] ...
I think they just see you as too weird/unsightly.
Oh... thank you. That's such a nice explanation. Seriously, I was feeling a bit down earlier today and this snapped me out of it. I'ma screencap this and look at it next time I'm sad.
There is no greater honor than being seen as a freak by people with sticks up their ass.
i'm not on the list 😔 am i not based enough?
I guess you'll have to join me in the cringe corner 😔
what if the cringe corner was a closet and we held hands in it 🥺 👉 👈
I'm gonna guess it was the Juggalos lmao
If they banned ![email protected] I'd kinda understand. But they banned EVERYTHING I said, and I'm an active part of several niche subs...
Aw, I wanted to make the list for promoting sumo
Maybe you oughta post more pictures of people in mawashi. When I first started posting on ![email protected], I tried clipping all the pics so they only showed "above the waist" so they wouldn't offend anyone. Then I figured wtf it's a sport and a traditional garment, anyone who gets offended by sumo wrestlers would prolly get offended by classical sculptures.
Gotta overcorrect and crop everything but the mawashi.
Or better yet, tint the Mawashi so it's the same color as the wearer's skin.
I want to know if I'm on it and work 15 hours today between 2 jobs. Could someone check for me?
Wait, I just learned that the original Tesseract dev, paulo-roger, left the project many years ago. Here's the reason he gave:
Hmm, I wonder who paulo-roger was talking about 💀💀(I've mistook who paulo-roger was talking about... Thanks, TotallynotJessica!)
I just can't believe I'm finally part of a cool kids club
I’m kinda pissed I didn’t make the list I’m toxic as hell :(((
We should all just end our messages with perchance so anyone using tesseract can’t see them.
Perchance is blocked keyword?
It is indeed. Perchance.
That's hilarious! Just all "This particular word annoys me."
I didn't make the list. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I'm too lazy to check but I am also disappointed
My paranoia's paying off. I'm noticed enough to be blocked by a random asshole.
It's not paranoia when somebody was, in fact, watching you.
Not me. Am I not worthy?!
didn't they ban all of blahaj? so we can feel accomplished
They banned blahaj on the blacklist in the code, but tesseract also loads a secret ban list from his server that includes individual user accounts and regex for hiding those with accounts on multiple instances.
The reality is anyone could have checked and found this the whole time. But if its easy to check, no one does. Bystander effect an'at.
It was definitely not meant to be found, even if they claim otherwise.
And the funniest part about that...
Is that it was essentially discovered by accident, almost immediatelty.
So... its also an incompetently executed attempt at subversion.
The libs are apparently not sending their best.
Maybe this is their best
Yes!
I'm not on the list😔 do i have to :3 more?
Definitely. This post was partially an effort to get senpai to notice me
:3 intensifies
Just declare your eternal loyalty to the proletariat and chant "death to the oligarchs"
Or something idk why I'm on there, I'm actually not super open about my leftism on here because my beliefs involve nuance
I am not there T^T
More evidence that liberalism is just diet conservatism.
Judging by their push for things like Civil Society Surveillance and making Money and those who have most of it be a higher Power than a state controlled by democratically elected representatives (i.e. to turn Democracy into Oligarchy), I would say it's actually Fascism-adjacent.
Wait, aren't you a blahaj user? Doesn't that mean they didn't need to block you because they already blocked that whole server you rode in on?
Or did I misunderstand your comment...
The dev has such a grudge that not only will they block instances, but doubly ban specific users. Like a "eff this person in particular." They apparently blacklist linktr.ee links? And "🥺?👉👈". Like there's actual bots and spam but posts with "Hi, I'm an AI engineer based in Japan" are blacklisted.
the "AI engineer base in Japan" thing is so fuckin' weird. has there been an account repeatedly posting that?
I didn't get picked up. Maybe I'm a liberal 😨
Ikr? I'm so frigging pissed that they never encountered me on [email protected] or [email protected]. I guess I didn't put enough time into arguing with shithead libs who care more about bashing the left than those who actually destroyed their beloved "democracy"
This is call for us to enter a "dark woke" arc.
... i hereby dedicate my spot on the list to Prodigy.
90s techno noises, etc.
I'm definitely the bitch you hated, filth infatuated
I think us bitches are getting just a wee bit tired of being smacked up by idiot bigot cry bullies.
How Tesseract dev felt before getting found out.
Just watched this movie for the first time on Tuesday. I highly recommend it. (The Lawnmower Man.)
man i love that early 90's cg. poor job looks vacuum-packed.
I thought it was funny that Jobe got addicted to short form content. Larry was even like "ya know, there's something to be said for slower absorbsion, like reading a good book."
This came out a year after Terminator 2. They have no excuse.
i think "a tenth of the budget" is a pretty good excuse honestly
Good point! But it does show that there's a big variety of "90s CGI".
that trend continued, i'd say. ever seen shark boy and lava girl?
I think it's hilarious how they tried to put Stephen King's name on that thing and he had to sue to get it taken off. The only connection to King's story is one scene. Everything else is different!
Well I loved it!
I need to re-watch it. It's been a looooong time.
Do a little grass, I think it helps the mowing experience.
I'm banned and honestly I get that, but what the hell did the WholesomeYuri sub ever do to this guy?
Yuri is gay. I think this guy hates gay people.
It must be so boring being a phobe
Is it because I once said I hope Gina Rinehart's entire family spontaneously combusts? Because I stand by that.
Can't even say you want billionaires to die without libs getting all butthurt, smh. Do they not realize that the rich are responsible for making me scared of getting disappeared by the Gestapo? I'm afraid for my life thanks to them supporting Trump, but these pieces of shit want to tone police my fears into non existence. Them banning a handful of maga instances doesn't change the fact that they're helping those very people.
Since it's opensource, is there any way I can add myself to the list?
Turns out the open source code was downloading a list of patterns from a hard-coded server path on load. So that file can't be edited by you. But you could write a patch to change the path to a different file you edited to block yourself!
Idk. @[email protected] wanted to commit her instance to the list, but it wasn't on codeberg so she couldn't.
You should open a PR to add yourself!
I didn't make the list, but the instance I admin did, so I guess the liberals fear Me.
do u see he did make whole list of russian media(tyyy for dnsblocklist is actually hard to find cleanish one),
also fck see how he forked anubis and replaced adorable jackelgirl to some ugly generative trash
I'm sorry, I can't go through every link on here, but there's enough problems coming out of the government of russia to merit that one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=russian+interference+in+elections&go=Go&ns0=1
"actual news like RT" hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Lol. Lmao even.
Oh damn, even you didn't make it, either? Bizarre.
I just think the dev never spends time here. This place is 75% queer shitposts, 20% wholesome personal stuff, and like 2% anything related to controversial politics. It's not that people here aren't radical, it's that we mostly have fun here.
I am kinda surprised I am not on there. But then again, the users that would want me on the list would be way more mad about me not being on it, so it's kinda win-win for me.
Yisss I made it!
slides on knees across garage floor
skins knees
Don't worry, TotallyNotJessica. It's possible you don't interact in the same communities the dev does, and I think that's the reason you aren't in the blacklist.
(Removed unnecessary P.S. comment)
It's weird.
Violet08 is banned while femcelmemes is not. Blahaj is banned while TotallyNotJessica is not.
Do they have inverted criteria for communities and users? What are the criterias? Will someone please tell me how do I get on this list!?
Oh, and if you want to get banned, you must:
I don't see much benefit in doing this, but have fun.
EDIT: I forgot to say that you should also avoid any of the keywords in the blacklist, otherwise your post/comment might not show up at all in the dev's feed.
I mean, they wouldn't have to ban TotallyNotJessica or femcel memes if blahaj as a whole is banned, they'd both be caught in the instance ban.
I believe the dev isn't actively looking for things to ban. They probably just ban things whenever they find them at their feed. TotallyNotJessica admits she doesn't post much outside of blåhaj zone, so it's not unlikely that she never appeared on their feed.
That is what I assumed too. I don't really venture outside of blahaj.zone often, especially not recently. I did use to argue with libs a lot on certain lemmy.world comms in the past; my very first posts on lemmy were political mud slinging, but I guess it wasn't enough.
I'm in the user regexes for some reason.
*Checks username*
Weren't you supposed to be omniscient?
That's just my name. But if I have a guess, the dev thinks I'm an extremist. (I'm not, I have statistics on my side, also I don't want to do what I want out of spite but the betterment of society.)
I made the list! I'm just finding this out now, I'm not familar with tesseract though or how it exactly works, does that mean the reason I cant use oldsh.itjust.works old reddit style layout because of this? I've been having issues with loading posts using oldsh.itjust.works, so maybe this is why!
I'm happy to see this blowing up. Hopefully more people become aware of this developer's disgusting behavior, and either don't use Tesseract at all, or contribute to db0's fork to help keep it afloat. Since he's been talking about getting rid of it completely after Lemmy 1.0
I'm happy with the consolation prize, my communities made it to the list. Here I thought they were too small for anyone to give a damn.
The dev is ugly, many people are saying it. Fugly, even
And they smell like rotten fish
I bet he wears the same yucky underwear every day.
wait where can I find that list? am I in it?..
EDIT: okay alright y'all can stop responding now...
Info about downloading the secret block list is in this thread in blahaj announcements.
I did check and you are not in it, but several other blahaj regulars are.
It explains how in the linked post, although I'm technically minded enough to not want to give them another hit.
So if someone has a mirror, that would be cool. pastebin still a thing?
It has 3755 lines. I downloaded a copy this morning. The secret ban list is downloaded by tesseract at runtime so the dev can malwareban anyone at anytime. That's also where we get the copy.
I don't know how pastebin works tho.
You paste here and post the link.
https://pastebin.com/
Due to pastebin's auto filters it refuses to post. The file does ban many with strong opinions, and transgender people, it also bans vile trash, some of which has URLs of which cannot be posted to a public pastebin. Sorry.
https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
Aww, thanks for trying anyway.
Hey, would you be able to see if I'm on it? I won't be able to try for a few hours and will 1000000% forget to do it later. You'd have my eternal gratitude lmao
You're not on the list.
Kinda disappointed ngl
computer says no
It explains how in the linked post, although I'm not technically minded enough to understand how to do it. I just know I'm not in it, so considering you're a fellow blahaj.zone creature who doesn't get too involved in politics elsewhere, you probably aren't either.
Someone uploaded it here
https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
https://bin.disroot.org/?74d13a8db046d859#2tEwviTK1THmM7da1VRNdTTX6hmLgPU5wuethGLfjQhW
Oh snap! Boring little old me made the list lol
What sort of opinions would get someone onto the cool people list?
Now that there is something a little bit relevant any Lemmy client recommendations? I've been using Jerboa for a year and it feels as if it were stuck on a same beta version without any progress since then.
To be fair, it's a pretty exclusive list
Im not on the list which is unsurprising as i never comment xD its scary
If anyone wants to know if they're on the list: https://bin.disroot.org/?74d13a8db046d859#2tEwviTK1THmM7da1VRNdTTX6hmLgPU5wuethGLfjQhW
what am i missing, who tf is tesseract 😭
nvm found it. it was yet another frontend. is grok vibecoded that shit?
No. Its unfortunately a fan favorite and popular UI for Lemmy.
I didn't even wanna be on it anyways >:(
I did not get this at first. The only thing i found by searching online was an ocr program, which do nt think was in any way related to lemmy. Only after this post i found out that tesseract is also a same named lemmy client.
Tesseract is a web UI for Lemmy. It was one of the options for interfaces on blahaj zone until recently.
This UI designer decided to sneak malware into his UI to keep you from seeing instances, websites, and users he personally disagrees with.
I'm surprised Ada didn't find this at the same time db0 did for the same reason - whole instance shadow ban, maybe she dropped it before the ban?
As far as I'm aware, the change that would have banned the entire instance was pushed in an update to tesseract, that had not yet been installed to blahaj. Ada mentioned she was waiting for a response from the developer before taking any action. From what I've heard she was aware at the same time and she's in regular contact with other instance admins.
The delay was in response not knowledge as far as I can tell.
I can't run the script for fetching usernames. Is it a Linux thing? I thought Curl was powershell
Anyways here's what it is at the moment
https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
LOL IT'S ME I'M THERE HAHAHA
Congrats!
some things I though were funny:
community regex: "^Yuri|^WholesomeYuri"
filtered domains: "*.itch.io", "bit.ly", "forms.google.com"
keywords: "🥺?👉👈", "enlightened centrist", "italian plumber", "Perchance"
Damn I'm not even on the list. Wack.
IIRC Powershell has an alias called
curlthat is very incompatible with real curl. Windows does include the real curl ascurl.exeCurl is a foss utility that's kinda everywhere
You can try with unix tools for windows. But I can tell you, you're on the list
Thank you. Now I feel like
You're welcome :)
https://bin.disroot.org/?74d13a8db046d859#2tEwviTK1THmM7da1VRNdTTX6hmLgPU5wuethGLfjQhW
Huh, I’m on it and I mean, I guess I complain about liberals and the right a bit but that’s wild.
It just looks like personal blocklist considering some users appear on the blocklist more than once (though regular blocklist doesn't allow duplicate)
It's a personal blocklist forced on everyone who uses Tesseract without their consent.
Reminds me of when Wil Wheaton got mad at trans women around the time when Twitter people started sharing their blocklists. For whatever reason his personal blocklist became one of the most popular shared ones, especially amongst celebrities. He managed to get most of trans Twitter blocked by people who had no beef with us. No apologies from him of course.
Where can I read more about this?
I think we could stand do the most popular instance as well. I'm pretty sure people are shadowbanned there as well.
Feel free to crosspost this wherever. I'm not active outside of blåhaj, so I'm not sure where would be best.
Mods of blahaj wouldn't think twice to ban this dev for being annoyed by lgbtq+ community. No wonder that this dev just did the same.
Bro it's a frontend. It's sole job is to consume data and make shit pretty.
You are telling me this like I am that dev or, at least, know him. But there is a difference between protecting someone's actions and explaining them or guessing what was the motivation. This dev has successfully dealt some damage as was intended, that is all. At least, it was just a shady censorship filter and not some real malware.
No - I'm telling you because you're saying that a community would do something, so this dev in his app has the right to do the same thing?
Maybe no right, but certainly an ability. Because, how else would you revenge the mods/admins on the internet rather than throw some malware to them? (rhetorical question)
Then loop back to my original comment.
Hey buddy, from me to you:
Go fuck yourself.
Your account is 2 weeks old.
What the fuck would you know about moderators, on any comm, any instance?
You can do pretty much the same, toxic person.
It doesn't take much time to figure out the rules here once you get used around and browse communities/modlog a few months deep. And it became clear to me, that there exist a lot of red flag moderators, whom it is reasonable to avoid engaging with. And also there exist other situation: when mod is relatevely OK, but the community itself is awful.
So, counter-question: you are seriously telling me that mods of blahaj instance don't ban(especially permanently) on spot for any criticism/phobia towards LGBTQ+ community?
I'm seriously telling you to go fuck yourself, for you to say what you've said here, you'd frankly have to be pretty stupid, and arrogant.
Again, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
A hidden banlist on an open source frontend fron an open source discussion forum is not comparable to an openly stated and discussed policy or ruleset.
Again, you have to be stupid, and arrogant, to think otherwise.
Please go fall ass first on a rake.
1 year old account and still haven't learned to be a normal person and not a toxic b*tch. Good luck having the same attitude IRL and not get a solid feedback.
I think we found the dev.
Ah yes, the public and clearly communicated modlog vs secret banlist that gives errors db0 devs kept looking for.
Its okay to not know stuff, but try to figure stuff out before you speak?
That is the whole point. Clearly visible, easily editible filter list about which it is clearly stated in documentation was the right thing to do. But, it wasn't an effective solution, since most admins would have changed this list almost immediately resulting in very small efficiency of this filter, compared to what was initially intended. And since this dev explicitly wanted to affect maximum amount of people for maximum amount of time, this solution was better. Many people naively think that others would play by the rules delivering their revenge/justice or whatever, but this is not how it usually happens.
I don't think anybody's confused about why it was done that way, just like nobody is scratching their heads over why a scam email has forged headers.
Trolls are gonna troll 🤷 you do make an impressive word salad.
For anybody else. The banlist tesseract had is not on the github, it's downloaded at build, called for and hidden on purpose.
Maybe you’re correct but what you fail to take into account is that Blahaj wouldn’t be underhand and secretive - plus the vast majority (maybe even all) of the instance users would agree with such a move.
Regexing an enormous blocklist in a front end whilst keeping it hidden from users is completely different.
Blahaj, by the nature of its composition, heavily mods to stop the place from turning into a toxic clusterfuck.
Somewhere lower in this thread I explained(my opinion) why this dev has used this tactic of expressing points of view instead of simply presenting a modifiable, clearly visible and documented filter with a default option, that represents views of this dev. I don't say that this dev is right, but I can understand the logic and motivation that were used to do so. And, yes, I can also be wrong. I don't deny it.
I have no problem with the blocklist as is, just it’s clandestine implementation on unknowing others that I took umbrage with.