Honestly if someone is literally asking to get put on a list of toxic users I see no reason they shouldn’t be accomodated, it will be doing a favor to those of us who appreciate having the feature.
The situation would be the same if he also could block you for other users and instances without telling them.
Personally blocking a user on your account is fine
Personally blocking a user from your admin is fine
Both those things use Lemmy tools and the modlog. Banning people with a secret shadowban malware list and distributing this malware to other instances is unethical.
I’m fairly certain this user is Admiral Patrick’s alt. He is in every thread not only defending but straight up lying.
I highly urge everyone to go take a look at the list. There’s lgbt communities and instances, small news orgs and even a word ban so your comment doesn’t show if it has “Epstein class” in it for example.
The app only showed you half the ban list, it hid the LGBTQ bans, users and comment stuff from what I understand.
I don’t consider an optional ui used by optional instances with an optional and clearly labeled feature that enables an optional GUI toggle that allows users to control a filter that does not actually ban anyone to be “malware”
if you are capable, reflecting on this moment where you visibly outed yourself on this alt may be wise. you put your worst foot forward by being a sarcastic prick.
Bro like every major account on this site is on that list, and most of them are chill and not toxic at all, just leftists.
Why would you trust the word of a developer that hid this list in a file that is downloaded after install, rather than the official blocklist in the git repo? Are you really that gullible?
Seems like there wouldn’t be this big hubbub if the dev hadn’t been a sneaky asshat who decided to control the views of anyone using their front-end without notification they were going to change.
Honestly if someone is literally asking to get put on a list of toxic users I see no reason they shouldn’t be accomodated, it will be doing a favor to those of us who appreciate having the feature.
Oops! You accepted the premise of someone who shipped a hidden filter list in FOSS. Someone acting dishonestly shouldn’t be taken at face value.
you dont know me
I do know you, and that’s why you’re getting blocked. Bye!
hey wait thought blocklists were evil
The situation would be the same if he also could block you for other users and instances without telling them.
Personally blocking a user on your account is fine Personally blocking a user from your admin is fine
Both those things use Lemmy tools and the modlog. Banning people with a secret shadowban malware list and distributing this malware to other instances is unethical.
I’m fairly certain this user is Admiral Patrick’s alt. He is in every thread not only defending but straight up lying.
I highly urge everyone to go take a look at the list. There’s lgbt communities and instances, small news orgs and even a word ban so your comment doesn’t show if it has “Epstein class” in it for example.
The app only showed you half the ban list, it hid the LGBTQ bans, users and comment stuff from what I understand.
I don’t consider an optional ui used by optional instances with an optional and clearly labeled feature that enables an optional GUI toggle that allows users to control a filter that does not actually ban anyone to be “malware”
Clear as mud. You knew adding the entire Blahaj instance on a “toxicity” filter would cause an uproar, that’s why you went out of your way to hide it.
nah it was very clear and posted to a public repo but if you want to see yourself as a victim I can’t stop you
Flattening criticism of your dishonesty to “block lists are evil” is an oversimplification and you definitely know it.
if you are capable, reflecting on this moment where you visibly outed yourself on this alt may be wise. you put your worst foot forward by being a sarcastic prick.
The exception that proves the rule?
As a policy I try to not get to know dishonest people that well 🤷♂️
ok
Way to just accept the framing of the censor without any amount of critical thinking what so ever.
If you didn’t know, that is an alt of the tesseract dev
OH hah
[citation needed]
Bro like every major account on this site is on that list, and most of them are chill and not toxic at all, just leftists.
Why would you trust the word of a developer that hid this list in a file that is downloaded after install, rather than the official blocklist in the git repo? Are you really that gullible?
why can’t you just let people use their own computers how they choose
Why don’t you ask the developer enforcing a secret blacklist? What a stupid fucking comment, holy shit.
EDIT: Oh, you are the dev. Fuck off, loser.
hey please dont call me a loser
Lol don’t put me on a shadow ban list if you don’t want to be called a loser
no deal
Well that’s loser behaviour. So fuck off, loser.
golly I wonder how you ended up on a blocklist lol
Why couldn’t the developer that made the blacklist?
He is the developer, that is one of his alt accounts
Jesus, how many alts does this guy have? ptz, Admiral Patrick, Kirk, anyone else?
I think he only has one more, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name
Does that not also break various instance rules about astroturfing/alt accounts?
I do think it’s dishonest that he’s been making all these comments about tesseract from that account. That’s why I’ve started alerting people to it
I’m honestly not sure what the bar is for astroturfing, I’m only familiar with it in the “paid” actor sense
I’m the developer I’m evil you cant stop me from blocking you muahah
they did
[Citation Needed Jackass]
Seems like there wouldn’t be this big hubbub if the dev hadn’t been a sneaky asshat who decided to control the views of anyone using their front-end without notification they were going to change.
The full list with detailed explanations is available publicly in the GitHub repo.
The “toxic mode” toggle is visible in the tesseract GUI along with another explanation of what it does
Tesseract is not a default Lemmy UI, an instance admin has to manually add it in order for it to be accessible.
Tesseract’s toxic mode filter does not ban anyone
Instance admins are not forced to use Tesseract
Users are not forced to use an instance that provides Tesseract as an option
Users are not forced to enable the toxic mode filter on instances that have the toggle enabled
We are all free to block whomever we please on our own accounts
Admins are free to ban whomever they please from their instances that they own
We do not get to decide who gets banned from other peoples instances
We do not get to decide what other people read
Other people do not owe you or I an explanation of why they do the things they do in their free time
We do not get to control what other people create in their free time
“Why can’t you just let me choose for you, what are you, a freedom hater? My freedom to choose for you is better than your freedom to decide.”