I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it's been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.
Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There's a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we've been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.
This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.
When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is "incompatible with that instance" which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.
Isn't it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don't just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn't it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think...
Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I'll doubt I'll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we'll bring up mlmym again now that someone's maintaining it again.
Hey, don't make me give up my airmail.cc address! I don't know of anywhere else that lets you make a persistent address so easily at a domain that's still accepted by stuff.
Seriously if you know of anywhere else I'm all ears. The small chuckle I got out of the airmail.cc email domain ain't worth the association.
I also have an airmail.cc box and it's basically IP and/or domain blocked on lots of places. I think some mail was even quietly dropped. Sounds like it's too easy to sign up and since that's not the "industry standard" (thanks alphabet and microsoft) it's often blocked even by self-hostables.
Try riseup.net and autistici.org. Or maybe on of these dozens of servers (although little of them with a good privacy notice, unfortunately needed under capitalism). Or maybe sign up for a pubnix and use that thing's email, although the only one I found with a proper privacy policy was envs.net and I was banned for trying to prove a point.
Alternative: open up Tor Browser, get your super banned super forbidden email address (like maildrop.cc), then open a new tab, smash that F12 key, press the little phone/tablet icon on the right, then change the first selector to "iPhone SE", change "UA: " to
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Mobile/15E148 DuckDuckGo/7 Safari/604, then go toduck.com/email(the .onion is broken due to bad csp lol), put your very illegal box there and get a very legal one back. You may ask, why Tor Browser. I say, to make DuckDuckGo shut up more easily about your brand new alias. You can just keep doing this, infinite legit email glitch. Just nobody tell anyone, sshhhhhhhhhh.