If I post trans memes monthly and study das kapital every day, will I make it to the list next year? I don’t want to un-disappoint my parents!
Just call for guillotine usage. Worked for me.
Ayo, my lemmy.zip account made it in. Guess I wasn’t trying hard enough on this one. :D
I really did! :D
So you should add me to your blocklist on your, what now seems to be closed source, UI @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world otherwise the “normies” might be exposed to my toxicity and violence. Chop chop, get to it!
Oh, but maybe tell the users that you have built in such a feature and let them decide on their own, it is generally considered toxic and dipshittery of the highest order to hide such things even from the admins and try to obfuscate it in the commits.
They’re the first virus on Lemmy
Ayyy I made the list 🥳. Honestly it feels like almost the whole-ass threadiverse is on the list 😆
I’m not on the list :(
Get out.
just @ AdmiralPatrick@dubvee.org and make your appeal to be on the list. Be sure to do it reeeeaaaallly politely and maybe he’ll let you join 💗
Whoa whoa whoa non-listie…
Is that really how you want to be addressing someone on the list?
Lmfao you’re truly taking this for a ride and I’m here for it
You’ll get there someday kid 👍 zooms off on cool-ass motorcycle
I work with computers and I have no idea what I am looking at here. Anyone have some context?
It’s not computers, it’s the latest drama here in the Fediverse.
Big frontend called Tessarect did a sneaky.
They made a hidden shadow-ban list of instances, users, and phrases, keeping it secret from users and admins by not including it in the open source code and instead loading it at runtime, and added in there all non-centrist (instances, users, and phrases) they could think of. They also lied about it, by claiming it to be a technical issue, when any user looked for the banned instances from the front-end, instead of calling it what it is, a targeted exclusion.
Essentially, hidden censorship, and sliminess.
To the degree that some people, (like OP here), have taken it as a badge of honor, that they are among the ones banned by name, in that list.
And some other people, are definitely not jealous.
thank you kindly!
so the same thing piefed did?
Huh, haven’t heard about that drama, what happened?
piefed has hardcoded blocks for instances the dev doesn’t like
Which are only blocked if the admin specifically asks for them to be.
In other words not hard-coded at all.
PieFed is quite opinionated, and the instance picker even more so, but the “hard-coded” arguments have long since been debunked (though last I checked, without being acknowledged by those who initially spread the story).
Also the flagship instance PieFed.social does block a lot, but that’s as different as an instance is from software. Btw Lemmy.ml rather famously blocks a lot of content as well.
Whatever software you use, pick good instance admins that you feel reflect your values (or even self-host your own), and you’ll enjoy your experience on the Threadiverse much better than being at odds with them.
I follow along a lot in the chats and run the software. They did move everything to configuration a long time ago.
A lot of people don’t belong in the list but I think you’ve earned your place.
Telling everyone you don’t get it without telling everyone you don’t get it.
I don’t get much I’m pretty slow.
So big on the weird part of the internet they had to update they software
Cuz I’m a bad ass motherfuckin’ DJ
This is why I walk and talk this way!Brag more, will you?
I wondered why I was getting less interaction recently 🤣.
what the heck is this?
I leave for a few days and the memes have changed from beans to… this.?
There’s a popular frontend for Lemmy called “Tesseract”. About a week ago the dev pushed an apparently malicious update with a block list which contains lots of leftist (as in even slightly left leaning) communities and users.
OP searched for and found his username in that block list.
The file OP searched in is “policy.json”, which doesn’t exist in the source code. The command pulls the content of the url decodes it from base64, unzips it and puts the content in policy.json. Which means the source code obfuscates the file by default.
(the only file called “policy” I could find in the source code is a .dat file which has the encoded data).
The author explains himself here: https://lemmy.world/post/49817942.
Like apparently it’s not “leftist” per se (or trans or furry etc.) so much as extremist rhetoric, or even instances turning a blind eye towards same, for the sake of mainstream normies coming here from Reddit.
It would be like blocking pretentious people, then vegetarians decrying unfair/biased treatment.
Note that many leftists are not blocked, like I strongly doubt that slrpnk.net would be, it’s primarily the more “militant” varieties.
lol and they just closed sourced it.
are they breaking licensing laws now?
@ptz@dubvee.org if you’re going to shit on the community, at least have the decency to stand by your work.
lots of leftist
Apparently they just blocked whoever didn’t agree with the devs, it’s mainly leftists but there are some rightist too, they blocked the word “Enlightened centrist” so the devs are for sure enlightened centrists and blocked whoever isn’t
Next up I think is jeans (again), or are we all the way back to not pooping?
Omfg stop showing off! I’m getting jealous, I’m almost certainly not in there, and I’m feeling left out!
(/j)
That’s not the issue. Admins running the UI and other users didn’t know this was in it.
literally 1984 i literally cant even omg
truly impressive how some people are always the victim even on open platforms they literally can own for free
Well yeah, people are changing frontends and warned others that Tesseract has that kind of blocklist and they don’t support it. If people that used the tool didn’t find out until now, it’s mostly a communication issue from the dev. And to the user that knows none the wiser, opinions that they would’ve accessed if not for using Tesseract are essentialy not available. The option to turn it off is essentially hidden, and the user can’t find out that information is being blocked (as seen by the reaction it caused in the threadiverse). It’s censorship by omission of information. Even if they had good intentions, the way they went about it failed to communicate what the blocklist was about, and that information was being blocked in the first place.
It’s also just kind of a silly thing to implement in a client. That’s the perspective the memes are coming from. Usually, blocklists should be left to the instance administrators or users. The client should only easily allow such a list to be available.
I’m sorry you were blocked but this behavior isn’t likely to change that
I don’t really know if I was blocked nor do I really care. I’m just explaning why people were upset/making memes about it. It’s shocking once one finds out about the blocklist, but kind of funny in retrospect.
it does not shock me at all that someone would make an effort to fix lemmys biggest problem
Yeah, if only someone could make a hidden block list so people like you can’t interact with anyone. :(
I think we all appreciate @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com effort to address administrative and developer abuse, lemmy’s biggest problem.
Is the decoded list published somewhere? For someone too lazy to do it themselves
What’s up my homies!
cat abuseeee!!
grep can take a list of files to search in, saves you a process call and some syscalls.
Or they just love using the pipe operator cause it makes them feel like a real programmer. I honestly am so used to piping to grep I forget you can pass it file paths.
Yo, me too. But not MonkderDritte, so it’s relatively recent.
