cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

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.

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[–] 57 points 1 month ago

Amazing how these projects keep killing themselves by alienating huge portions of their userbase. Hard to survive in a FOSS environment by being extremely reactionary.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    proton.me is in THROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS lol

    Apparently you're also a filthy commie that should be Operation Condor'ed if you prefer to use an email provider that doesn't spy on everything you send and receive

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  • [+] 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)
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    [–] 34 points 1 month ago

    I'd make sure whoever did this isn't allowed to contribute to your fork

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  • [–] [B] 32 points 1 month ago

    Identity politics a.k.a. not centering white male imperial core voices, in the right wing parlance. These people are just nazis. Source: i am the most lazy of the hitler studies experts im not getting one

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    When feudposting isnt enough... feudcoding. Really sad to see, hope they get better someday soon.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    Db0, welcome to the tankie troika 🤝

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago

    Proud to have made the list.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    I had no idea the Fediverse was politically charged to the point of pulling shit like this. These kinds of people are like two steps away from making backdoors for the NSA because they think it will make the world a better place

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    I was so confused, because I was thinking about the OCR thing… https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    That they don't just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it?

    Tbf my dumb web browser game does this.

    It checks if the system language (those "en-us" like strings) is set to Ukrainian or Hebrew. If it is, it'll set the url to something else, effectively redirecting the user.

    I don't want zionists and state sanctioned neo-nazis playing my shitty game. Liberals would probably call my arrogance, which I am being arrogant, but frankly I don't think people who go around murdering civilians deserve to play my game!

    I'd ban the United States, but I do live there. Besides it's mostly a political statement, and it's dead easy to bypass.

    I will remove Ukraine when the war ends though, regardless of the outcome. (Unless I already removed them. I don't quite remember.)

    ....Maybe I should add TERF island to the ban list lol.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Apparently https://github.com/asimons04 is @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world / @ptz@dubvee.org.

    Relatedly:

    $ curl -I https://dubvee.org/ | grep '^location:'
    location: https://static.dubvee.org/goaway.webp
    $
    

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Admiral Patrick being a crank again. Same guy one-strike permabanned oodles of people for voting wrong on comments about some prick getting shot.

    His instance is proudly named after West Virginia. Y'know, the cantankerous gun-toting hillbillies who fought the rest of Virginia to end slavery and fought the army to unionize miners. But we can't go discussing any extremist solutions to societal problems.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Why do all these liberal projects have such authoritarian, dictatorial measures baked into their source code? thinkin-lenin

    Why is it that the "tankies" building Lemmy have not hard coded their software with similar dictatorial, authoritarian measures? three-heads-thinking

    I guess we'll never know.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    lmao they blocked "🥺👉👈" and "Perchance"

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

    How does anyone come to the idea to built a tool to be used in a federated context and hardcode into it which instances are not allowed to be used with it?

    However, this is just one person. Maybe the Dev did not expected anyone else to use it and just but the blacklist into it for personal reasons...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Tesseract OCR sucks hard anyways. PaddePaddle ocr is infinitely better

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't understand the term turbolib. This kind of behavior is very much in the conservative vein. Especially the exclusion of trans friendly instances.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I find it hilarious that .ml users who literally ban anyone not to their left are upset that someone else is censoring them.

    ooh that's gonna get me banned too lol

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Well you and the subject of this post are the side supposedly against "all" censorship aren't you? Or was that just a motto when convenient?

    Also we don't give a shit if we get censored by other instances or users, and we censor in return. Agree or disagree I think our logic around censoring/getting censored is mostly consistent here. Go ahead and block us, go ahead and get your instance and client to block us, you won't. Because then you wouldn't be able to fulfill your daily "hurr durr .ml hurr durr tankie" quota.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Because then you wouldn’t be able to fulfill your daily “hurr durr .ml hurr durr tankie” quota.

    oh baby, there's always hurr durr .ml content beyond lemmy.ml, no worries there rofls

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