The fork chain makes sense, but why is asimons04 the author of every commit in repo A?

That I cannot answer, maybe he took over as the main dev and moved the work to his repo. Maybe there's some other explanation.

The OG repo seems to be back. Now I'm stumped on my theory.

Ye that's my suspicion as well. I think I got redirected to a random fork

"trolls" = undesirables 90% of the time

What is the issue with PieFed?

I recently found out Admiral Patrick made a response to this situation where he doesn't address any of the concerns related to censoring leftists and just points to the spam he included in the list.

Here's his post:
https://lemmy.world/post/49817942

I'm also curious and hoping @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com could expand or point to something for background.

I searched and found this. Not sure if it is what db0 referred to.

Ye basically. Piefed was also very opinionated on what to silently drop and avoid showing. It didn't go as far as tesseract, but it did rub a lot of people the wrong way

I would appear asimon04 changed their name to paulo-roger. It appears they are trying to remove some of their repo from public view. But git doesn't remove data just because it's orphaned.

Here are some updated links, these might be good for another week before git does GC.

link in title: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/blob/e70e3a3cef739c59288ec78f0bbb4f0e1b4fa194/src/lib/blacklists.ts#L2270

Commit Explaining Specious reasoning: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/commit/2b53f17a5506b7c4b3ad1d5c26af49662f03a478

Old Main before they rolled it back 3 years: https://github.com/paulo-roger/tesseract/blob/e70e3a3cef739c59288ec78f0bbb4f0e1b4fa194/