How? Are you suggesting that people will now show criminal evidence online just to prove that they got a cease and desist? That would be beyond stupid, and I don't think there's anything in the article that suggests it. There are other ways to prove it, such as asking Flock's legal team (if they say they did, it's because they did), or verifying if the letter has a consistent format and return address with other cease and desist letters that the legal team sent.

Someone kill -9'd that Dracula

If I were you, I'd tape the glasses in the places where the cameras and microphones would be if they were Meta glasses. That way, people who look at the glasses would think that even if you actually had cameras and microphones in your glasses, you taped them. I'm not sure if this would work, but I think it's worth a try...

Orange isn't White after all. thank god.

I agree. Thank god we are all different <3

Oooooh, that makes so much more sense! I thought he was talking about Lemmy app developers when he wrote "Lemmy developers", because I forgot that Lemmy itself is maintained by developers... 🤦 Thanks!

Wait, I just learned that the original Tesseract dev, paulo-roger, left the project many years ago. Here's the reason he gave:

I'm tired of dealing with the arrogant, tone-deaf Lemmy developers and their utter disdain for moderators and anyone else working within the ecosystem. To that end, development of and support for Tesseract for Lemmy has ceased.

Hmm, I wonder who paulo-roger was talking about 💀💀
(I've mistook who paulo-roger was talking about... Thanks, TotallynotJessica!)

True. However, there are still many ways to do it. If anyone reading this is curious, here are a few ways:

• Find a way to run Linux commands in Windows (WSL, VirtualBox, ...);
• Rewrite the command for PowerShell;
• Do it manually (visit https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy, either right click and do "Save As..." or copy all the text, use an online Base64 file decoder, use a tool like 7-Zip to extract the GZip, and change the extension to txt so you can read the file with Notepad).

Yeah, and the dev explicitly chose to go with that assumption. Or maybe they just don't like Metroid either way lol

Oh, and if you want to get banned, you must:

• Go to the comms the dev does;
• Say something they might consider "too extremist" (either to the left or to the right, from what I gathered) or "too group thinking".

I don't see much benefit in doing this, but have fun.

EDIT: I forgot to say that you should also avoid any of the keywords in the blacklist, otherwise your post/comment might not show up at all in the dev's feed.

I believe the dev isn't actively looking for things to ban. They probably just ban things whenever they find them at their feed. TotallyNotJessica admits she doesn't post much outside of blåhaj zone, so it's not unlikely that she never appeared on their feed.

Don't worry, TotallyNotJessica. It's possible you don't interact in the same communities the dev does, and I think that's the reason you aren't in the blacklist.

(Removed unnecessary P.S. comment)

For the nerds, another post (the one OP links to) stated that you can check the list by yourselves from the source by running the following command in the terminal:

curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy policy \
| base64 -d | gunzip > policy.json

(Reminder to NOT RUN any commands on your terminal you don't understand)