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Fediverse has the best drama.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    It's the 4D analogue of the cube (a shape whose every "face" is a cube)

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  • [–] 39 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It is a list of all the cool people in lemmy

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  • [–] 154 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (24 children)

    Just some Lemmy web front end that rolls with some instances for which the admin injected a block list for accounts that are unapologetically pro-trans and/or leftist. People, myself included, are on that block list. There is much more to it but that's the jist.

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  • [–] [S] 89 points 3 days ago* (25 children)

    So just the usual stupidity then. Cool. Wish people could just act normal. Diversity is a natural thing and to deny it is insanity.

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  • [–] 72 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    You're probably blocked now for saying that.

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 3 days ago (1 child)
  • Isn't the whole of blahaj blocked anyway? The dev who implemented this is an asshole of the first order. Implementing a broad block list without the knowledge of the users is one thing, but the statement they gave afterwards, my god, what a knob.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The block list is cringe lol. It reads like something a snowflake libertarian or centrist would make to isolate themselves from reality so they can live out their lives in delusion. 🙉 🙈 🙊

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Exactly, it is delusional to assume you need some smoking gun to assume intent. There are others here using that line of logic to assume no bad intent. The logic is quite clear in the screed that the tesseract admiral put out there to defend themselves.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It’s also not in the spirit of what Lemmy is. Admins of instances are the ones that should have a say in their rules and tools. If you want to add a “Toxic Mode,” make it something the admin is not automatically opted into. Also, it’s pretty cowardly to not state the why behind any of this when it was created, and no community discussion. All the Tesseract dev has done is alienate themselves from the entire Lemmy community, except for the weird isolationist ones that just magically happen to have views that often align with conservatives and fascists.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago*

    This is what I feel is the biggest issue, the deception.

    The fact that there’s a blacklist is almost inconsequential to the fact that it’s not explicitly stated, that it’s default applied AND the error message when you run into it implies it’s not from a blacklist.

    Lies by omission are still lies no matter how much Patrick is crying about it always being there. If you’re not upfront about it, for something as incendiary as a shadowban list, especially for a community like lemmy, you’re a piece of shit and deserve to be ostracized.

    If he had made it all transparent, we’d still make fun of him but at least he would be honest about it and give people the choice to decide for themselves.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    well, now I'm insulted that I wasn't on that list.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

    I know, me too! At least there is comfort in knowing he can’t shut us all up.

    PRO-CHOICE 🩷 PRO-TRANS 🩷 ANTI-MAGA ❌ ANTI-ISRAEL ❌

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago*

    I’m sad I didn’t make the cut, but last I checked, I was the only active user on my instance lol. Like a one-man sloop in an ocean of clippers.

    Sure, I could shut it down and just register elsewhere, but I keep it around as my service to an open web free from fascist and corporate control.

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    [–] 10 points 2 days ago

    apparently its an enemy list of a POS lemmy facist.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    This guide page goes into what an alternative UI is, and some of the popular ones that are available. It is a little out of date, lemmy.ca also dropped tesseract we are no longer hosting Tesseract for lemmy.ca

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

    The controversy around tesseract is better explained elsewhere, but it boils down to a questionable blocklist that the dev was injecting into the tool, without it being made apparent to the users or admins

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