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[–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Yup, and this is just speculation, but I guess it’s supposed to be an anti-spam thing, but it targets a lot of people/communities/instances that post actually good content

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’s not anti spam at this point. No one obfuscates something that much for antispam.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'm on the list and I've never even posted anything. I do comment a decent amount, though, but I wouldn't consider any of it to be spam.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    but I guess it’s supposed to be an anti-spam thing

    Oh my God, I swear some people will just never get it.

    No dude, this isn't just someone trying to block spam, this is ideologically targeted to silently remove specific viewpoints from people who use the stylesheet without disclosing that they're doing that.

    This obviously has nothing to do with spam. Keep giving people like this the benefit of the doubt, and see where it leads us.

    Edit: I just saw your pfp... Were you aware that this blocked the entirety of Blahaj? The de facto trans instance?

    Try justifying that as anti-spam.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, whoa, I did not see that. From what I had seen I could have sworn that it had general political blocking. That’s my bad!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I don’t think it’s anti-spam. It looks pretty much like a personal blocklist, it blocks a lot of users that have political views that the tess dev doesn’t agree with. It blocks political keywords often used by certain ideologies that I guess the dev doesn’t agree with, for example, no ones blocking “neoliberal” as a keyword because of spam.

    This looks entirely like a personal blocklist which is completely fine, but secretly adding it to the frontend is v dubious…

    It’s a shame I think the dev is a good person from the convos I’ve had with them, but this crosses a bit of a line…

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