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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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[–] 20 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I didn't even know what Tesseract was before this, and I'm on the blacklist.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

    I didn't even know what Tesseract was

    I still don't know.

    My searching tells me Tesseract is open source OCR software, but that doesn't make sense in the context I'm seeing in these threads.

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

    This page might help, it explains what alternative UIs are and which ones are available. Some of them can also be used in the mobile web browser.

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

    (It says tesseract is available on lemmy.ca, but that is out of date now)

    This issue with Tesseract affects anyone that was using it. So it is possible that someone did not see a comment or post you made, without knowing why they could not see it. Past that, it likely hasn't affected you since you said you don't use it :)

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

    It sounds like I might not have known if I was using it or not, depending on how I accessed Lemmy.

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

    It's extremely unlikely that you were using it without knowing. Though if you were you'd know now because reloading the page would load Lemmy-UI instead of Tesseract. They don't look at all alike.

    edit:

    https://photon.lemmy.ca/ looks very similar to tesseract, if you want to see the difference.

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

    It's a semi-popular Lemmy web frontend that a lot of Lemmy sites use instead of Lemmy itself. It seems like the original repo by asimons04 has been taken down, but here's a random fork of it for example.

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

    So if i use mobile exclusively via voyager app. Does that mean im not implicated in this mess?

    I have no idea what any of this means, technically. I understand and agree that some shadow ban black list blocking users is bad, and i dont want that, but i dont even know what people are being blocked from

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