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Request to remove Tesseract Front-End (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca
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Developer is targeting individuals with a blacklist he maintians, enabled by default. Dev can do what he wants, but I'd like my home instance to consider removing it as a front end.

YSK post: https://lemmy.world/post/49813386

Dev post about it: https://lemmy.today/post/57096701

Blacklist: https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json

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[–] [M] 135 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

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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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Argh this sucks. The UI is so much better than everything else.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Have you tried Blorp?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    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.

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

    What are some of the features that you like? Maybe some of the other front ends can replicate it / add it

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    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 a long time, so I'll check them out and hope that team tess runs out of crazy pills soon.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Consider using the fork by db0 which removes this stuff: https://github.com/db0/tesseract

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago*

    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.

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