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submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 13 hours ago

😭 I'm too lib to be banned. I just dont post enough prolly. I didn't even know what tesseract was until today. I think I've heard of it but I almost always use the Thunder app. And I know Hexbear isn't censored for me. However, I did wonder if my instance admin was because I saw him on the list but haven't heard from him in a while.. @seahorse@midwest.social u good? We dont have to worry about tesseract, right?

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Hi, I didn't know what this was til now

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago

cool, cool. I thought we were good but it doesn't hurt to check.

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