Ah ok, it's this list, and apparently I'm on it 🥲

https://file.garden/amIRhTctI0qld2r5/policy.json

And it is about this app?

https://lemmyapps.com/tesseract

I have a short explainer here, with links.
https://lemmy.world/comment/24932006

If you are on the list, it’s a sign that you probably aren’t a horrible person. Keep up the good work, comrade.

And I’m not.

Gotta up my game.

It's not this app, I think it's a Moderation tool for servers and admins though I might be wrong.

Edit: apparently I did the one switcheroo and you are right, it is the Lemmy frontend you linked.

looks at list

I'm not, and lemmy.today isn't either, but litter.catbox.moe is listed, and that seems like a bad idea.

Catbox.moe is a popular free place to host files shared by users here, things like video clips, as it has permissive policy on things like filesize compared to the image-rs setup on a lot of Lemmy instances. Litter is for files where the poster only needs them to have a short lifespan, lets catbox.moe delete them and free up space (and also has a somewhat-larger filesize cap).

Maybe if someone just didn't like catbox.moe at all --- which I don't agree with, but okay, at least I get that some people are going to object to some content on a filehosting server where anyone can post whatever they want. But blacklisting litter.catbox.moe but not blacklisting catbox.moe seems bizarre. In terms of content policy, the two are the same.

Thanks for your explainer. Gotta love how fragile small communities are.

Look mom Im famous! :-D

User interface

Does anyone know if this is a widely used app? All the stats I see on github or lemmyapps make it look very small.

it is tesseract

I’m kinda sad that I’m not on the list. I guess I need to up my anti-fash game.

It’s a web frontend that has been deployed to a large number of instances.

Also, *.itch.io is on there. That's a popular site for hosting and selling indie games. Seems like an odd thing to blacklist.

There are some pornographic games on itch.io, and maybe the list publisher has an issue with that, but nexusmods.com and loverslab.com and a number of other major mod sites that host pornographic mods are not on there.

All communities ending in "Moe" are blocked, so that's presumably aimed at stopping sexed-up underage manga stuff.

Politically, a lot of auth-left (tankie) stuff is on there, but so is conservative stuff, communist stuff, libertarian (probably right-libertarian), and anarchist stuff.

4chan is blocked.

The (controversial) archive.today family of sites, which are mostly used to bypass paywalls, is blocked.

I'm doing my part!

Makes sense to me. You don't want your content to disappear after a week.

My whole instance is on the list 😁

Well, my old ID from a now-closed instance is there. I'm apparently in with the cool kids for once.

What is Tesseract? The only thing I can find online is for Tesseract OCR. I assume it's some sort of Lemmy frontend?

You are wrong, it is that app!

yes, it was a pretty good frontend before the project died.

Lmao beyond the instance/user bans, I just noticed the shitty community regex bans include GirlsFrontline for some reason. Looking at it, it's seemingly pretty much empty too.

And now it's being very rapidly undeployed

Very proud of being on that list thank you very much

Fascists are quite easily offended. The little snowflake fucks

Nope. It's literally the front end. That's why everyone is so pissed off. It's hidden secret policing. It's like fucking outlook deciding you shouldn't get emails from your Queer friends any more so it /dev/nulls them without even telling you they ever existed.

They saw something free and human and decided it needed to be caged and twisted to their personal preferences

Haha he actually posted each user that he has a problem with. Peak dork.

FYI it looks like today's edition of this saga is mostly at https://lemmy.world/post/49851193

To be fair, Tesseract users apparently never had to deal with any of my bullshit, so I guess it’s not a total loss for them.

Something weird is going on with that link too. I can't see any comments, even when I try to show all comments.

It’s SO STUPID!

Here are the stats from our last census

https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults#_3-1-08-when-using-the-instance-through-a-web-browser-which-interfaces-do-you-use

Blorp was brand new at the time, and it has likely moved up in popularity since then

Well I guess I need to up my game, not on the list lol

I really wish I knew what I posted to make the list, seems a good litmus test for my future posting...

And all of it under a hidden "advanced" setting you only get to by clicking on a question about why content seems to be missing (which you would never know because it does so silently and invisibly)... To enable "Toxic Mode".

It's one of those things where this could have been done fairly well, by educating users about it... Instead great pains were taken to hide it, make it invisible, and if they were caught have a hidden toggle no one would notice but they could point to as an excuse.

How am I not on it? I literally mod !twnw@fedia.io and it's just about taxing the rich and billionaires. Guess I need to be more active there.

litter is on the block list because uploads are wiped after 3 days, so it's a prevention step against rapid link rot. The rest of catbox isn't blocked.

It's one of the few parts that isn't weird af, imo.

Wear that badge of honor with pride! Apparently I'm not interesting enough

Article explaining why archive.today may have been blocked: https://www.techspot.com/news/111296-wikipedia-may-remove-almost-700000-links-amid-archivetoday.html

Now I can't speak for the whole fediverse obviously, but I think it's generally accepted that these are positive things:

1. give the user the ability to block instances, users, communities, etc.
2. give the user sensible defaults.
3. be transparent about what your software is doing.
4. don't go out of your way to fuck with someone else's shit.

Tesseract's biggest sins aren't against 1 and 2, but 3 and 4. A default blocklist isn't necessarily bad, though its contents are debatable, and it has to be user-editable. But the DDOS script (and what an artless one btw), and the lack of transparency is pretty bad.