I love how Lemmy’s biggest scandal to-date involves an open-source app for Lemmy.
Can’t get that on reddit.
Because they pulled the rug out from developers…sure…but that’s besides the point.
(Sent with Boost, Lemmy client for Android…because it was my favorite reddit client)
RIP Apollo
Long live Voyager!
Aye!!!
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Oh yeah honestly the rapidity with which this took hold and almost everybody agreed FUCK THAT GUY and started working towards a collective fix actually gives me a lot of faith in fedi. I’m kinda hoping this does open up more conversation about open and customizable sorting and filtering algorithms. I feel like there’s space in fedi for more complex and personalized algorithms like you see on mainstream social media but in a way that’s easy for the end user to pop open, examine, and tweak to their needs, and easy to apply templates that are clear about their intentions and publicly auditable.
Is this the biggest scandal? The lemmygrad.ml, the lemmy.ml related ones seemed way bigger
Im so lost and confused. What is this list and why am i on it?
Edit: lmao, skimming over the keyword list. 🥺?👉👈
Edit2:
Took some back tracking, but here is the story: https://lemmy.world/post/49778353 Here is the list itself: https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
Edit 3: It was the fish, wasnt it?
You know how people used voyager/boost/etc to access reddit? Well the web app is a similar idea (adds features, filter options, etc for customizing your Lemmy experience) except imagine the dev decided to add a secret filter list to the app where they added keywords, users, and subreddits that they didn’t like so you simply wouldn’t see them.
A fair number of instances had implemented the web app (called Tesseract, search Lemmy for that term if you want more details).
The reason it’s good to be on the list is because the list includes a bunch of popular lefty communities including some entire instances like Blahaj. Being listed individually just means you made the dev butthurt at some point so they decided people using their front end shouldn’t get to see your posts.
One detail I’m still not fully clear on is how widespread the effects are. Say an instance uses the tesseract frontend. Does that mean that everyone who accesses lemmy via that instance was having all of this filtering applied? Does it only apply if they were accessing it via the web? If they logged into the same instance via a smartphone app, would it still be applying all of the hidden tesseract filters?
It’s just a web client, logging in from other spaces wouldn’t be impacted. It would be at its own URL like Tesseract.Lemmy.World for Lemmy.world (made up example). It’s implemented at the instance level by instance admins. A lot of instances implement multiple options for their userbase so only users using that option would be impacted.
Oh, so he thinks most of us are violent nutjobs. Well if thinking billionaires and child molesters should be exterminated is wrong I don’t want to be right.
Finally I can check for myself!
…YES I’M ON THE LIST
I don’t even publically say that much ““radical left”” stuff on here
I’m disappointed I’m not lefty enough for the club 😭
Me too. :(
Will they unblock wholesomeyuri and blahaj
🥺👉👈I’m not on the list :(
Woo, fuck yeah, made the list!
Cool I’m on a list I didn’t know about either, but I’m not surprised.
Nice I’m on it
I walk among giants!
Thanks @Sprinks, I had been following this for a few days but couldn’t find the list until you shared it here. I was certain I wasn’t cool enough to have angered this twat edgelord, but here I am in bright and agnsty glory!
I just thought it was usernames. I can’t believe he blocked link shortners and go fundme. I get link shorteners to an extent, but outright blocking them instead of giving a warning?
Apparently I’m not blocky enough for the blocklist.
But I gather I’m in good company.
See there is being on the list , then there is getting a regex. Get that, and it puts you in the elite side of an already elite club
Upon further investigation, I do appear to be a regex elite. In celebration I’m going to go outside and look down my nose at various things.
A royal regexer, not to be confused with the plain URL peasantry.
I got a regex award
My old account got the regex award
Summa Cum Laude
Summa Like Itta Not Alotta
Wait, being on the regex makes me extra special? I wish I knew what I did to earn that honour.
I didn’t get a regex, but I am still happy to even be on the list.
“Some… times… you wanna go…”
Where every body knows your name…
Holy shit, I am on the list! This is amazing! My profile is listed on line 49.
COMRADE!
Mom look at me I’m on the front page!
My regex is even slightly different, bro personally typed my name in. I am, once again, just some guy
What in the iseraeli committed genocide i’m not on the list (╯°□°）╯︵
I’m not on it, and I’m disappointed.
Same. I guess I haven’t rustled enough of the jimmies yet.
I post Jimmies but can’t be bothered to see if I’m on the list.
I’m afraid you’re not on the list. I had it open and checked.
Thank you for checking. I’m probably not on the list because I post too many Jimmies.
If only I’d known I would have posted more Jimmies. :'(
Sounds like we’ve got some work to do.
Both me and my violent website are on the list… I read his 10 ‘rules’, and they read like they were written by a person who doesn’t like to hear or see things outside of his own bubble.
From his own instance description: “The default UI for DubVee is called Tesseract and is developed by the admins of this instance. We no longer offer Lemmy-UI as the devs have decided to add a giant “donation” banner that cannot be disabled and puts words in the mouths of all instances regarding what content is acceptable.” (emphasis mine)
The audacity.
I’m in the club, y’all.
I am curious if I’m on the list but not enough to find it and look. I guess I’ll never know
Just click the link and control-f
Took me 30 seconds
You’re not :(
I’m mildly disappointed
i’m in the regex and i think that means i got all kate’s banned
lol, what did this person do to receive such hate? 😂
^ghosttree([0-9]+)?$¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On top of that, [0-9]+ matches one or more digits and ()? matches the contained token zero or one times, so the whole thing combines to zero or more digits, which is just [0-9]*. They’re even bad at regex.
Fucking up regex is a sacred tradition!
No it’s not
OK, this person nailed it on the first try. But besides them, I know nobody who didn’t fuck them up once or twice.
It’s a general approach to names with numbers at the end, the list is full of those. I’m almost more interested in the more specific patterns like
name(69)+, because was there an alt name6969 he wanted to block but an unrelated name67 he wanted to avoid?I know, and I suspect the name came up more than once. But if I implemented some kind of algorithm to add people to the list based on posting behaviour, I wouldn’t put in the effort to have it implement a regex for “this guy and whatever number they added”.
To me this looks like he wrote the list by hand. Which is even weirder.
I just don’t get why he’s insisting on a regex for this. Surely filtering comments out based on sentiment scoring would yield a better experience.
I’m with you
Got into the top 200 at least.
I’m on the list, I feel so validated. Nazis and zionists, fuck off
lol, apparently, so am I
Dammit! My ‘try to be kind and supportive’-arc has been WAY too succesfull, I’m not on it :( just a blanket ban association for being in the cool kids crowd (blahaj got instanceblocked)
My instance hosts anti-communism and drone-kill footage communities so I guess we got a pass by default.
I feel left out 😭😭😭
Well, clearly you’re not left out enough
I see what did there 😂
“So, Sergio, on your resume under ‘Awards and Honors’ you’ve put ‘on Tesseract blocklist as a regex’… what exactly does that refer to?”
