I appreciate your suggestion, but my conversation is above your academic title. If you don't have a CCNA or a bachelor's degree in CS, I urge you to disengage, or catch up.

Yeah, it's a shame. I used this frontend too.

I had stopped using it, but I found the Bias checks useful, but then I looked more into https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ and how the classify certain sites (like Times of Israel somewhat is left-center-leaning lol) and gave up on it. This blocklist of instances is ridiculous.

Blahaj and ML? At least he’s an equal opportunity asshole.

Yeah I checked with private window and it works but weirdly. Seems just bugged and we can't make reports to a clearly hostile dev so...

Ye the Media Bias Check was cringe but I could ignore it until now.

If only it was on Codeberg I would submit a PR myself.

Well, they're radical about their genders. Gender is dangerous. You know, to their social order at least. Also lots of organic chemistry involved, and we all know that shit's cursed.

top ten most pathetic things

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in software Dev

Lol no. Up there, though.

Hexbear on there four times.

Name 10 things more pathetic.

Not cringe, not evil, pathetic!

Not the criteria being used here, obviously.

Also, we have a statement of intent. There is a statement of intent here in a pr. You cannot assume good faith of shit libs. You cannot assume good faith of people who say they're doing things for bad reasons.

I mean you can but its disingenuous and shitty and I'm blocking your instance because its so violently stupid.

No. I stay the hell away from those people. Was my whole childhood and I've mostly repressed those memories.

Well then, conceed the point dear fetishist :p

Never, only that I cannot cite individual examples.

There is nothing wrong about adding default filters to the software(whenever they are acceptable by others or not). The problem is that this should be done via a separate data file from which code extracts strings and not be hardcoded, as it is against the programming etiquette. Also, this file with filter data shouldn't be hidden or obscured, so that others can modify it as they want.

Yeah, we were banned in the initial wave of "unsupported instances" in March here.

Seems like db0 was upgraded from being allowed with a content warning to fully blocked in April with the commit linked in the op.

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.

As of that commit (April 29) the instance blacklist didn't even include lemmy.ml !

... but i see a month later they added us in this commit, while removing a large list of specific users and communities which they were also previously hiding content from.

There is a good reason to have crowdsourced filters for spammers and chuds, but this shit ain't the way.

Etiquette aside, this is just functionally bad. It took db0 months to notice because the frontend didn't get updated until an instance upgrade. Seems like that would be pretty common and vary widely between instances, making updating the list a slow, unreliable process. Even if they wanted to censor sites themselves, it would've made more sense to have the list itself remotely hosted so it could be updated without waiting for full instance upgrades some months later.

Well well well

export let CONTENT_WARNING_INSTANCES = [
    {
        domain: "lemmy.dbzer0.com",
        reason: `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.`
    },
   
]

identity politics

GODDAMMIT I HAVE TO FIGHT THE WOKE WITH MY CODE!!!!!

Fuck me...

ugggggghhhhhh

Our 'liberals' aren't liberal.

That comment you highlighted just reads like a jordanlund modlog defending genocide by way of banning someone who says 'genociders should die instead, actually'.

They can't help themselves from being elitists.

Its like they're hardwired, they're so incredibly insecure that they front this moral superiority god complex, and anything that challenges the actual logic of that morality is fundamentally evil... because they can't be wrong.

These people are confused... they're reactionary conservatives, they're wannabe politicos/consultants... literal thought police, frame keepers of the overton window.

What an odd response

Devs like this do not belong with open source projects.

I don't know if this dev is fascist I have not studied the question. Do you have some other information besides this list?
Indeed, I'm not calling the dev a tankie, but rather some of the instances of the blacklist that I know of, as a possible explanation for being blacklisted. I don't know all of them well enough to tell.

Odd in the sense that you prefer to invite farmers to a technology expo, or odd in not wanting to engage with uneducated folks in a highly technical conversation?

Do you think farmers don't go to technology expos?

Some absolutely do.
How many of them do you trust to engage in honest 2FA & SBC security discussions?

what’s wrong with you?

It's the other way around, who asked for your unhinged downranking?

Damn, missed the hall of fame club.

i downvoted the fucking stupid comments, it’s a coincidence three are yours.

e: whoop, four now lol

And how does your downranking help in anyway secure threadiverse frontend connections?

how would voting up accomplish the same thing? you’re asking a nonsense question.

You don't understand! Freedom of speech is only good when it's freedom of their speech!

But seriously, this recent shift of project leads deciding what users should and shouldn't see is concerning. And honestly, I could give them the benefit of the doubt if they added it as some sort of opt-in list. But no.

They will force their narrative down the users' throats.

I might not always agree with db0, the Anarchist Flotilla, or the "Tankie Triad". But whatever shakes Lemmy right now, consider me an ally. Whatever these egocentric folks attempt to create, it is everything Lemmy was created to replace.

Also, that's a lovely list they made of places to follow.

Glad you could be honest about you will not help achieve. Disengage.

god i hope this is a bot. have a nice day fella.

There's a technical, often legal, aspect to blacklists. Unmanaged and unmoderated instances can be hijacked and be an actual threat with bots and so on.

But there's another aspect, like someone's favorite shitposter got banned for gatekeeping neopronouns, and now the entire Blahaj instance is blacklisted.

The categories are just entirely different orders of magnitude.

Fascist bootlickers you mean?

uh okay

The dev of Tessaract is obviously a fascist,

Can you say why you think this? Is it this code?

    {
        domain: "lemmy.dbzer0.com",
        reason: `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.`
    },

Omg some leftists think that killing nazis is fine and dandy. Ban em all! Average liberal mod.

Sopuli is pretty tame is comparison, to be fair.

He's not anal, he's using AI all over the place and not acknowledging it.

Why do you think so?

I consider it a badge of honor that we were the OG "identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems" instance before it was cool.

this stuff should never ever be hardcoded.

Nobody manually arranges things in alphabetical order. It's much more likely an LLM was used, I would have thought.

Nah, that's reaching.

There's a linting rule that does pretty much exactly this.