https://github.com/asimons04/Anewbis, omg, "without the cringey anime catgirl." "replace stupid catgirl"

idk the dev is asshole

Yep. I'm waiting for a formal response from the dev before deciding what to do. Most likely we'll be removing our tesseract front end though.

This is beyond the pale. I would not trust this developer with anything going forward. Thankfully this does seem to be the only notable project on his github.

This is an interface. This is the human readable layer that exists to show the state of the underlying instance software you're interacting with. Lemmy or piefed instances are the ones that are supposed to do the filtering. An interface adding this kind of blacklist filtering is underhanded and deceptive; sneaking in something malicious through a backdoor.

I am here on blahaj because I agree to let Ada and the rest of the blahaj team implement and manage domain filtering in an appropriate way. I trust their judgement and consent to have my experience shaped by their choices. I have no such trust, nor do I consent to have some random UI designer do the same without even disclosing that they're doing it.

Remove this forever, and blacklist any software that asimons04 has or will ever work on.

I'm only aware of this blacklist because of the recent change, but it has existed since 2024. We should remove this and any other interface that implements similar filtering, regardless of what those filters are designed to remove.

i was only lost in that tumblr hole like 2 months. how am i coming back to learn the tesseract dev doesnt just suck, but is also the weirdo who forked anubis over the catgirl because he cant experiance joy? AND the piefed dev sucks!? all in one crosspost chain. Fuck! back to my lemmy account i guess.

Some things:

First, Blåhaj Lemmy is pretty friendly from my experience, so I struggle to see how it would be an extremist instance. Also another instance in the block list, Ibbit, if anything, seems to be aligned with the political vision the dev's block list implies, so I don't see why it's included either.

Second, a problem I have with Piefed too, I don't like the idea of a central power deciding what is good and what is not to the individuals or even for administration. Lemmy has an instance-blocking feature on the individual user's settings, so let him/her be mature and choose who he/she walks with. And if administration thinks a given instance isn't good for the experience intended in their own instance, that's for them to decide and for the users to decide if the administration's choice was good or not, not for an easy-to-miss setting to.

Third and similarly, for the other domains blocked, use Ublock Origin/Violentmonkey to hide posts with them, ask Dessalines to add a per-user domain block feature similar to Mastodon and Mbin's, or whatever. Again decision should be in the hands of the users and administration.

It is my opinion that frontend software like this has no business making a stance like this, and I would not trust this developer going forward. I already dislike when developers of frontend apps do this even when it seems reasonable, when it's reactive and unreasonable it just reinforces that they should not be developers of something that runs on other people's machines.

Seems like there was also signs of user filtering that has been removed in the main branch, with older commits showing commented out sections blocking a hard coded list of users for apparently being "Garden-variety crackpots" among other reasons in the comments...

Wow, they block a lot, and they have comments in the code about what they find wrong with each particular instance, forget this software

It's interesting that blahaj lemmy is explicitly included in their pre-populated list of instances on the sign up page. Although that was added 2 years ago and blahaj was just added to the blocklist in may.

Edit: after poking around the db0 thread it looks like this guy at one time had separate lists of communities and even individual users that were blacklisted by the front end.

I don't think moderation should be up to developers, instead it should be up to instance/community admins and the individual users who can always block etc.

I hope the dev that forked it continues with developing it as then there is fuck all the original dev can do and that'll grate him every dam time he sees it. :)

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, hell