Nope. Fuck spez

Isnt the entire point of lemmy designed to be able to go around this problem?

Well, it kind of did: the guy is gone and life goes on without him.

I meant left Reddit, likely to come here.

Well thanks!

tl;dr (also didn't really see an explanation I'm the linked comments):

Tesseract dev hid a blocklist (compressed + base64 encoded iirc) of users and communities that should never be shown, sneakily inserted in an otherwise irrelevant commit.

There were a lot of communities/people on that list that didn't make a whole lot of sense, but the main issue is that it was a static list you (as the person hosting the front-end) have to opt out of.

db0 figured this out when he updated tesseract and suddenly no local posts appeared (the db0 instance is on the list).

Actually it was saying our instance was incompatible

You are severely overreading in an attempt to feel offended. Dude, that "culture" went out of vogue in 2019.

I said patheticness is the metric I'm comparing them in as much as I care to. In a subthread about, quite visibly and specifically, comparing them in terms of patheticness.

I'm not doubting Trump is more of a rapist and more of a genocider. Go look at my history, I'm about as critical of him as I like to. But I'm also not saying the List Guy would be somehow exempt from doing such things also if he had access to the same kind of overreach.

I'm not showing my ass. You are smelling yours, and blaming someone else when you find out it stinks.

He retired an account name. People like him dont just leave, they have to be tossed out on their ass.

Ah, yes, that's correct.