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.
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
The epstien class got caught via gmail… nothing happened. 😒
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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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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
I’d make sure whoever did this isn’t allowed to contribute to your fork
When feudposting isnt enough… feudcoding. Really sad to see, hope they get better someday soon.
Proud to have made the list.
Db0, welcome to the tankie troika 🤝
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
I was so confused, because I was thinking about the OCR thing… https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
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 $
Why do all these liberal projects have such authoritarian, dictatorial measures baked into their source code?
Why is it that the “tankies” building Lemmy have not hard coded their software with similar dictatorial, authoritarian measures?
I guess we’ll never know.
lmao they blocked “🥺👉👈” and “Perchance”
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…
They did put content warnings and remove it too, so I doubt it’s just for them to use.
Tesseract OCR sucks hard anyways. PaddePaddle ocr is infinitely better
