Based on mod log wonder if they have something like world that hides certain actions. A lot of people got banned from their comm after it was locked by an account that isn't one of the 3 mods

As db0 mentioned, the defedederation happened after they banned an account claiming to be the dev from that instance

Luigi has not been convicted of a crime.

Startrek.website was the first instance I chose years ago coming from Reddit.

I abandoned it because I noticed mods (or admins?) deleting seemingly random stuff and opinions without much explanation. Took me a while to catch it because I remembered seeing this one post and then later in the day it was just gone, no reference to anything in the modlog.

Obviously just anecdotal evidence and my own subjective experience, but I had Startrek.website on my personal blocklist ever since. I see now that wasn't transferred when I made this account on Piefed, ah well, here we go again.

The drama just never ends does it...

In short an entitled frontend developer decided to try censoring a large portion of Lemmy in the app he made. He attempted to hide it but got caught when he blocked our instance and @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com our admin investigated and discovered it. The second he went public about it people were outraged about it, as they should be. What he did is a major overstep on his part to try to dictate moderation on servers he has no control over.

Tesseract was a piece of trojan horse malware that purported to be an alternate Lemmy interface. It added a different UI and some features to the web interface of instances that were well liked. However, its true purpose was to secretly add a block list to instances that run it. It blocked instances, and URLs that the developer personally disliked, without telling anyone that it was doing it.

This drama started when the developer added dbz0 and blahaj to the blocklist, and the dbz0 admins noticed it and blew the whistle.

This caused Lemmy users to actually read the source code, and they found much more, like a second doubly secret blacklist that tesseract download from the developer's server at runtime. That list blocked many prominent Lemmy users individually, so naturally many of them took that as a badge of honor and posted about being on the list.

The developer has continued his public crash out. He's done many things, like defending his actions using alt accounts, deleting the github to stop nob-malware forks, and posting lengthy supervillian type monologues about why he did it. The most recent one, he claimed to be leaving the fediverse, and posted it to his own website with a script to make any readers DDOS the dbz0 instance as revenge for breaking the story.

He's now using his own instance to defederate dbz0 as a continuation of his crashout to get revenge or something. He said he's left but no probably not.

That's about where this whole situation stands. Hope this helps.

It takes time to write things chill.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/63880645

The dev in question is part of the admin team for the startrek.website instance, an instance that has historically made some very... questionable decisions.

He doesn't just want to curate his own community. He wants to censor stuff for everyone else, even on servers which he has no authority to do so. That's why he tried to hide the changes, including obfuscating the instance block function to say the server isn't compatible.

Pushing his ideology onto others who hadn't agreed to it. Fahrenheit 451, lemmy style.

If their parting message is to be believed it's because they are the last bastion of sanity.

Can't link to the original because they added a script that ddos'd an instance they don't like...you know...like a well adjusted saviour would do.

That's the irony, a lot of people noted that if he had only been upfront about it, he'd probably have gotten some level of adoption. Instead he burned his bridges with the entire fediverse.

He did have his own instance with his own blocklist running. Nobody realised quite how extensive the list was at the time. Didn't have many users though, probably because the place was a barren wasteland after being filtered through all his blocks. That wasn't good enough for him.

That's nuckin futs. Thanks for the breakdown.

That is unhinged behaviour and that sounds explicitly malicious and WE should defederate from hostile instances that target our infrastructure.

I'm sure DDOSes are a crime in the jurisdiction they are in and in whatever value system they respect.

fascists always love to use deception, because hatred is well liked by most people.

i dont think he will get adoption if he i unilaterally blocking people, a better way if had gave everyone an option to block instances people themselves as a feature.

seems like startek.website is a trap, to get people to the instance, and started censoring to isolate people, does it have anything to do with TREK at all.?

he will likely make another one once the news blows over.

he seems like the main ADMIN for it.

Can't wait for captainSpongebob@dubuee.org to make an appearance. /s

He ironically claimed it was to allow other people to be seen/heard "through the noise", and to "save the fediverse" so I'd say it's more than likely.

All of which is fine to do from an administered back end... Like dubvee for example (the instance he ran). But I guess that wasn't good enough, and he felt his will needed to be enforced on other instances also.

I read this as "defend yourself from capitalist / French / Nazi oppression" and it was fucking hilarious. Sorry to sidetrack.

Because if they knew it'd become as popular as the instance they were running. So no one would be using it.

He already rage quit the fediverse once like a year ago.

i get banned from communities without ever participating in them, so i wouldn't know. lol

Civilized society can't exist with people that oppose civilized society, such as Nazis.

As such, the rules of civilized punishment in civilized society should not apply to people that fundamentally oppose civilized society.

When people fundamentally opposing civilized society are protected by civilized society then they become part of civilized society, thus validating their beliefs and leading to the decay of civilized society.

No violence absolutism is Nazism.

"Hurting people"

What kind of people? 👀

I think it's clear that he needs the fediverse more than it needs him.

Fascists

Always amazing when someone says "I'm leaving, I can't stand this place" and just stays. I wonder why they do it. Hoping someone says don't go?

Do you think the US is a fascist/imperial state? Is your solution to the problems with our world to vote the fascists out?

Now that would be a day! XD

Probably attention or an attempt at virtue signaling.

Right wingers often project, makes sense.

Works for me

he seems addicted to having his ego stroked.

2 days later while you've been active, where's the evidence?

It's rather a bit dead these days, but during the days of the API shutdown, and for a little bit after, it was basically meant to be the Lemmy alternative to the Reddit Star Trek communities.

Unfortunately, it never really got enough traction to do very much at all.

Condoning violence is never acceptable

Tell that to the 210-something States of the World that have constitutional, legal, standing armies.