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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it’s been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.

Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.

This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.

Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn’t it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think…

Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I’ll doubt I’ll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we’ll bring up mlmym again now that someone’s maintaining it again.

  • Hamartia
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    2 days ago

    In itself, it is characteristic of liberalism to consider that everything that is radical is a risk to freedoms control, and therefore that the far right and the far left, the “two extremes” that “go too far”, must be fairly excluded:)

    Extreme centrism isn’t about liberty for all. It’s about covertly manipulating people so that they reflexively shun beliefs or lifestyles that may lead them to be noncompliant to the establishment’s orthodoxy. Liberty is only reserved for the powerful and the high achieving administrators within their conformist delimited meritocracy.

    They are at their core far right in their belief in hierarchy and contempt for human rights. They just believe in throwing society into a pot of cold water and slowly heating it up. This they see extracts more value and reduces the risks of push back.

    The traditional far right throw society straight into the fire. Extreme centrists reject them for being gauche and showing their hand not for any material divergence of belief.