Tesseract is a web client for Lemmy that was found to be secretly and arbitrarily blocking users, communities and even entire instances. You can see if you're one of the kool kidz by running

curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy | base64 -d | gunzip > policy.json

and grepping your name / instance. Further details can be found in this post.

The poem above is adapted from Bertolt Brecht's The Burning of the Books, which can be read here. If you would rather read it in the original German, go here.

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[–] [S] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Get yar medals here!

For the lucky ones indirectly blocked by Tesseract (instance ban / regex):

For the elite few who pissed them off enough to be banned by full name:

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I know I’m banned but how would I know which one?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Most of the regex bans are for those with user accounts on multiple instances under the same name. Extreme example: https://lemmy.ml/search?type=Users&q=cm0002

    JSON isn’t especially greppable, which is why I often pipe them through gron.

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