Why is Admiral Patrick complaining? Just put all the complainers on the list. Problem solved /s

It doesn't matter to you in the sense that Tesseract is a web browser frontend and if you use Voyager you are not personally affected by the block list in your consumption of content.

It may or may not matter to you in the sense that your posts and comments might be silently shadowbanned and hidden from a lot of the people who do use the Tesseract frontend. And if you are not personally on the list, some people whose content you care about may be.

It also may or may not matter to you as a matter of principle, in the sense that you may care about the issue of silent censorship.

Yeah, this place is full of power tripping mods who ban anyone they find disagreeable with. This tesseract shit isn't anything new. It's just more efficient.

It does raise the question of what's left once you're done scouring out all the shit you don't like.

I occasionally visit in incognito to see what I'm missing. And I'll admit... mostly bad memes and reactionary hot takes. But I'm blocking maybe a dozen channels and twenty odd users. This block list goes into the 3k range.

Well it also decides what is a slur entirely without context.

"But what would the context for the N-word be?"

Well, black people can say it, at least black Americans, but that isn't the only type of "slur."

It also bans "bitch," even if you're just talking about that bitchin' game you just bought (slang for "awesome"), or a female dog (wouldn't want to offend dogs ofc), it presumes misogyny without evaluating context.

It does the same with "pussy." Pussy is a slang term for vagina, and a vulgar one at that, but are "slang terms for vagina" themselves "slurs?" I'd argue not, even being sexist and reducing a woman to only her body parts by calling her "a hole" isn't "a slur" (and it's only ok during sex, and if she is into that sort of thing. More are than you'd think tbh..). BUT what's more "pussy" itself when applied to a weak cowardly person IS NOT saying "you're like a weak cowardly woman," it's short for the oft forgotten word:

Pusillanimous

• Lacking courage; cowardly.
• Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons.
• Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble.

While it does say "manly" in the second definition, it comes from the latin word "pusillus" (very small) which is related to "pusus" (boy), the comparison isn't "manly vs womanly" it's "manly vs child-like (boy)."

So "pussy" itself is IMO "a slur" in no context across either of its entirely separate definitions, though it can be used in a sexist manner just like "dishwasher" can be, so I guess they need to add that too.

It also makes me sound worse lol, if I say "you're acting like a removed," did I just call them a bitch? A pussy? The n-word? Who knows, fill in the blank I guess lol, the censor just lets your imagination decide.

It looks like you are right. It is a confirmed alt.

yeah, when i started using lemmy i started blocking every chungus i disagreed with. then i realized i'm a pretty big chungus myself on a bad day, and there's like a hundred of us who use this regularly. if i block someone who's just having a bad day that's diminishes the experience here, but if i block someone who's always having a bad day (i'm not naming names, but there are a few) it improves the experience.

i think i might have fifty users total blocked (mostly bots and trolls i hope), and i've added maybe ten in the last year. 3k is just stupid.

yeah as a matter of principle it seems very shady. but i couldn't tell if it was affecting me on Voyager. thank you!

In my experience, once you get rid of all the people who are willing to voice a unique opinion, the people who are left are the ones make superficial one-liner puns. One of the great things about Lemmy is it's usually a discussion, not just an upvote race like Reddit is.

/> doesn't tolerate transphobia and hate

/> proceeds to ban the entire blahaj instance

Wat

...aaaaaand, now you're on the list. 🤣🤣🤣

Fuck yeah, I don't want Nazis interacting with me. Also I'm trans and on blahaj.zone, so if I actually get added to the list I'll laugh my ass off at that little piss baby since they'd have to go out of their way to see my comment.

He's now calling you and all the other communities and instances unstable like matches...

https://lemmy.world/post/49887929

My guy is straight up delusional. He really ought to touch grass and come back next year when most people will have forgotten him

Imagine being so ultra-butthurt that people found out (and are upset) you were trying to manipulate them.

Tells me they're only cool with the trans folks who shut the fuck up and don't make him feel any cognitive dissonance over his political fee-fees. Poor wittle baby.

If there are no good reasons to block it, then what was your point?

There's this really nifty feature that, when you discover you've spewed bullshit, you can actually delete the comment! Isn't that so cool?!

Instances should detect when tesseract is the client and return nothing but a fake post explaining why it sucks.

nonono, they're the one that's normal and well adjusted, it's like you didn't even read their post

That calling everyone a fascist is counterproductive because not everyone is as evil as one

I mean, the rest of us can't help it if they're expressing fascist ideologies. We just call it when we see it.

I prefer not to pretend my mistakes didn't happen. Would it be better to put the edit above it? I don't want to erase the context for future readers, and I don't think leaving it up as is, with the edit, would cause any problems. I'm open to ideas

smart people would just shut the fuck up and walk away.

I'm glad he's dumb as a box of shit.

, I’m disturbed by the progressive death of the Threadiverse as our numbers keep falling (55k Monthly Active Users at our peak, down to ~35k lately iirc)Does this number include accounts from those who, like me, interact with the threadiverse from non-threadiverse platforms? I mean, Misskey, Friendica and even Mastodon are able to interact with Lemmy/mbin/kbin/piefed threads and comments, although they wouldn't be considered as threadiverse I guess?!fedimemes@feddit.uk

Maybe it’s just me. If i found out my comment was bullshit I’d just delete it.

Allow me to add something else to your comment: Lemmy slur filter, and similar non-RegEx filters, also suffers from "Scunthorpe problem" (or should I say, "Shorpe problem"), insofar it replaces every occurrence of the , regardless of the surrounding characters. E.g., the name for the purple fruit used for making wine would be unreadable because it happens to share a substring with the four-letter name denoting non-consented intercourse, which was one of the slurs filtered in the Lemmy-UI.!fedimemes@feddit.uk

Don't like someone's opinion? Get into arguments with strangers online about it. Change their minds. Or don't. That's up to you. But structural silencing and obscuring of voices and communities isnt the way.

Except for the fact that your time and attention are the most precious resources of your life, and you don't owe them to anybody, least of all the worst assholes of this place.

What a freaking loser.

People aren't calling each other stupid

Uhh, what? Did you even read the comments on this very post?

Consider the possibility that you're in a bubble made out of titanium when you're here.

Maybe he wants to see no comments at all on lemmy

Sure, but that Tesseract guy is definitely a fascist.

He has a special club. To join, you have to find a pair of dirty boots, then lick them clean.

He sure thwarted my dastardly plan of making SaharaMaleikuhm67 my next account. And I would have gotten away with it if not for that meddling tesseract loser.

If you want a nice polite little internet forum where no one talks politics and anyone who expresses a hostile opinion are suppressed why are you here instead of on reddit?

I suppose you can use the tesseract front end and join his instance. I like well moderated spaces but I don’t appreciate lying to people about it and hiding what’s on the blacklist behind lies about compatibility errors. Can’t trust a guy like that.

There's also the fact that he wrapped up his "Toxic content" list into the security layer of the system that is there to keep a lid on spam and bots. So your choice is either to have an open forum on your instance and deal with spam and bots using your instance as a playground, or having security and blocking a whole mess of people that you don't actually want to block.

And all of this on top of him not bothering to tell anybody who exactly he was blocking with that list or why.

Indeed. Software, especially FOSS software, is all about credit and reputation. And his is now trash. There is literally no one who's going to trust his software going forward. He will have to change his username and start from scratch and hope nobody figures out who he actually is as he tries to rebuild his reputation somewhere else.

What makes you imagine reddit to be a place like that?

He probably will. He's still updating the list. Not like it matters much since most instances are likely going to delete Tesseract or use db0's fork once they get wind of this.

Handling spam should be handled at the instance level and not some fake cosmetic filter. More importantly it's the job of server admins to moderate their servers, not frontend developers to decide unilaterally.

You are not entitled to an audience, people who want to see less of some things are allowed to see less of it.

Yes accountability, etc, is needed. The variant I'm in favor of is stuff like a content addressed protocol where you can "fork" a forum to substitute misbehaving mods (or server admins). But removing layers of moderation can not be a solution. Bluesky's atproto has similar mechanisms but there's not a lot of activity in making forum-shaped sites with it.

That's the joke :)

But I get the feeling that he wants to be right more than anything

But they arent expressing fascist ideologies. Fascism is more than censorship

“More than” would imply it’s still included. So you can’t call someone out for being fascist unless they go through the whole damn playbook?

But those characteristics are not unique to facism

If you find a combination of characteristics that is unique to fascism, then it is fascism, until then its just badly extrapolating incomplete data

Lol, keep pushing that goal post, boot licker. Ok, he's fascist-adjacent. Does that make you feel better?

Would a democratic ruler be adjacent to a fascist because fascist rulers are rulers too?

Is requesting using basic logic moving the goalpost? Do you even know what boot licker means?

At this point I’m just assuming you’re one of Patrick’s alts. I can’t figure out why anyone would want to defend this shitstain of a dev who actively tried to suppress content and speech that didn’t align with his perfect ideal of what the internet should be - you know, fascist shit.

And I’m the least of people who are saying the twat’s a fascist. Not seeing anything in your comment history that says you’re dying on this hill against anyone else. Go annoy someone else with your fucking apologia.