I'm just glad I actually got it right. I was mostly typing up that comment just to make sure that my understanding was correct. I wasn't even thinking at the time that it would be helpful to others as well. I guess I've been kind of assuming that everyone else on lemmy already understood how all of this stuff works. Happy to help!

It really roils me because you seem to be one of the most level-headed people in the Fediverse. I love running across your comments in random threads because you always have something of value to add, and you write well, to boot.

As you said yourself, it's not the blocklist that's the issue it's that it's not documented, seems somewhat intentionally hidden (including the apps claim that blocked sites are "incompatible"), and so the people deploying it aren't even aware it's there and don't have the option to disable or change it to suit their needs. It's very, very sketchy behavior on the part of the developer.

Ah dang. Did they get my nick at all? 🤞

Bet they do record numbers as a mod on reddit. This absolutely stinks of someone trying to find a way to supermod on an open frame network

https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45726226

This is a big thread on it, but just a heads up, it's definitely on the more technical side of the Fediverse workings, so if you need an explainer on some basic concepts, don't be afraid to ask here as a follow-up to help you understand a bit better (although @raspirate@lemmy.world has a really good basic explainer here for those who aren't super familiar with how all this works yet.)

A piece of interface software has been coded to dictate your lemmy experience and shockingly it curates towards the right.

I’ve been a part of online communities for a long time. The ones I value most in retrospect were relatively small, niche and disconnected from grand global everything-platforms.

The fediverse is a step towards an internet of a million weird micro communities, finding ways to talk to each other.

We don't have to stay small, we just have to kick out the bad and not put up with it.

I don't think this is even something centrist, centrism is all about blandness, a la "whatever doesn't offend people that aren't batshit insane".

Maybe "centrist radicalism" is a better word, in that someone tries to gather everything crazy.

As an anarchist/council communist, it is my belief that whether you are communist, socialist, christian democrat, liberal or not, as long as you oppose fascism and whatever's more right wing, you're my ally.

Sure, with some I'll agree much more, and coordinate more. But either way, either someone's a fascist or is not. Those that aren't, oppose fascism, and therefore must be called upon to grow labour's democracy, as fascism is a danger to everyone, fascists themselves included.

I prefer the Nazis honestly. At least they don't pretend not to be pieces of shit.

But random UI designers know best.

If he actually cared about making the fediverse less toxic, there are ways to do that. Working with instance admins to create up to date filter lists would be valuable, effective, and something no one would take issue with.

Or even being up front about it would have been fine. There is no mention of the blacklist on the main page of the github. If tesseract were a sanitized, curated fediverse client that described itself that way, it wouldn't be an issue. Clear disclosure and consent count for a lot.

Instead he literally built a trojan horse for the fediverse. Unjustifiable.

🤨

I'll keep using the default Lemmy UI no matter how many times it breaks lmao

EDIT: OMFG it's like it knew I said something, I got errored out for a moment I'm fucking dead 💀💀💀💀💀

I think someone at db0 forked it. If someone does so and actually keeps it up to date and maintained I could see it getting added, but I can understand why the admins would want to hold off for now.

Youshouldknow has been running discovery posts but it blacklists left wing, and trans friendly instances and communities, certain users, keywords (including stupid shit like "censoring me" and "Yuri" but not "hentai" or "furries" wat) and the dev took their entire instance offline to hide when the shit hit the fan

Not sure you're aware, but you are on the secret tesseract block list. Good job keep up the great work!

EDIT: Upon reflection, I do wonder if this was at least partially vibe coded, because LLMs don't have forethought and can't plan ahead for contingencies like that. Because it also seems like a no-brainer that it would lead to configuration failures if deployed on one of the sites that is blocked.

The dev was quite vocal about being against LLM usage. Most notably, I remember their April Fool's Day post about an update that adds a bunch of AI features. The post was obviously just a big joke, full of disparaging comments about LLMs. With that said, that was April (maybe even 2025, I can't remember). It's possible that their opinion had changed in the time since. But I doubt it, personally.

EDIT: It was 2025.

Canonical link: https://dubvee.org/post/3069664

Mirror: https://lemmy.world/post/27634335

Someone posted your fork in another thread. I self host alexandrite but I'll spin that up this weekend and give it a go. Thanks!

How does one look?

I AM SIGNIFICANT!

liberalism was the "progressive" ideology when it superseded feudalism that process is over. Today liberalism is the regressive ideology getting superseded by socialism. Liberalism is the ideology of the private ownership of the means of production, instead of royal (feudalism) or public (socialism).

And it's back for some reason. I forked it just because why not - it had zero fork, quite strange!

No idea but if seems like it's not his first cry for help... https://europe.pub/post/2431345

Fun fact: your name made the list, too:

        "^RockBottom",
        "^rockerface$",
        "^rockSlayer$",
        "^RockyDale([0-9]+)?$",
        "^RockyGlen([0-9]+)?$",

Unfortunately I don't see Tess-like community grouping feature in Alexandrite, and it doesn't even have a setting for the default comment sorting method.

I don't really like Tess' UI design that much - I'm comfy with Lemmy's default. It's advanced features that I'm gonna miss. Alexandrite seems to be just as bare-boned as Lemmy's UI.

But I found info on Lemmy 1.0 that will be released eventually and has most features that I want so I probably just gotta wait a little until that day comes.

Piefed is opinionated software because Rimu puts his biases and preferences in to the final product. But Piefed makes them optional and puts the toggles in the place you would expect them so that admins can opt in or out of those decisions in a considered way.

Several questionable features like "reputation" (basically karma) were added in PieFed on a opt-out basis creating lots of drama. Rimu (the main developer of the project) reacted poorly to this. Then he also got into another drama related to one of .world admins and got attention of the tankies. He ended up creating a built-in banlist of people who offended him, to his instance - except that it doubles as the flagship PieFed instance so it was widely seen as a bad move.

The most recent drama was related to the 'vote limit' based on a observation that a small percent of people on threadiverse cast most votes on posts. He (somehow) thought it meant these people control what everyone sees so he ended up adding a limit on how many posts and comments each user can vote. It doesn't affect most users but some very active users were really upset over it.

There are posts on c/fediverse@lemmy.world on all these events if you want to know more about them.

I have no way to put anything into action nor any desire to do so in earnest... but thanks for letting me know, I'll keep it in mind. 👍

I love that you provided the code like that. Truly a community conscious thing to do :)

sidenote, that mod on the You Should Know sublemmy is a transphobic cunt

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45822143

Thank you!