Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals corruption. For some people, it takes shockingly little power to go full mask off. This guy will probably go on to make some HOA legendary.
Disagree. It takes the reins off the easily corruptible. Once there are no or severely limited consequences for actions we get to see who people really are. Also it’s highly probable that the easily corruptible are drawn to power.
“Disagree. Agree. Agree again. Agree with the tacit point being made.” -you for some reason
That’s not what I said. “Revealing corruption” is not the same as granting ability to corruptible people.
Your sarcasm is inverse to your comprehension.
Completely ootl of this tesseract thing. Could someone fill me in? It’s a Lemmy app?
Is it a good idea to get into it? Usable? FUBAR after some fiasco?
Copy-pasting a comment I already made:
Some guy makes a semi-popular front-end for lemmy. He then sneaks in a blocklist that goes unnoticed for almost a year. It gets discovered when he blocks entire instances from using the front-end by an admin trying to troubleshoot why the front-end won’t work on his instance. Drama unfolds but shit really hits the fan when it gets discovered that the major portion of the blocklist isn’t even hardcoded, it gets pulled from the devs own server. The dude made a centralized secret blocklist that he can update however he wants and people won’t even know they’re on it. He is blocking comments containing keywords, whole communities, users he doesn’t like, it’s wild. He can effectively shadowban across the entire platform (well everyone using his front-end) with no oversight, no accountability.
People didn’t even know they were shadowbanned by him, no reason is given, no path to get off the list is mentioned. So now people are pouring over the list hoping to be one of the cool ones that got blocked (I was in the OG blocklist back when it was part of the code 😎) and are really fucking pissed off. So he throws out some long letters telling people he isn’t mad at all and the last one apparently contains a piece of code to make anyone who views part of a DDOS attack on db0, the instance whos admin first made this list publicly known.
Thanks!
Is it drama because the front end is really good and the dev turned out so tilted or just the drama?
I think the front-end had some features, particularly mod features, people liked but I haven’t used it so I don’t know. I think the outrage is mainly that someone wanted to alter the user experience across many instances without getting noticed. So people that were using it didn’t see posts or comments no matter what instance they were logging in from, without ever getting notified that there was a filter in play. As someone who has a couple accounts on different instances specifically in order to choose what I currently want to see, this would have been infuriating to me.
Plus users had to figure out for themselves that their experience was getting altered and then find a very hidden checkbox in the settings that was just labeled “toxic mode” in order to disable that list. And people didn’t even know they were on that list. I was on it since at least end of april without ever knowing about it.
It was a frontend for Lemmy. The developer hard-coded blocks for instances, communities, and individual users that they didn’t like into their software without informing administrators running the software, and giving them no option to unblock any of those entities. https://lemmy.world/post/49778353
Side note, I have a personal belief that if you don’t occasionally get a couple of downvotes, then you’re too agreeable, and you likely don’t think for yourself enough.
You have to be comfortable in your own skin and think for yourself and say what you actually think in a public forum. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Simultaneously, if you get tons of downvotes almost every time you post, you’re an asshole and you need to reevaluate yourself.
If you occasionally get downvoted into oblivion because you didn’t express your thoughts clearly or because your thought actually is kind of fucked up, then you should keep that post visible and evaluate and learn from it.
Sometimes 60 million people are wrong, sure, but also, sometimes you’ve not fully thought out your position
But if everyone likes everything that you have to say, then how much of what you’re saying are your own original thoughts?
And if you’re not sharing at least partially original thoughts, then what are you actually contributing to the forum?
Edit: I wish I could find the person who downvoted this comment. I feel like they did that just to give it extra credibility, and I really appreciate that. That’s pretty freakin’ funny.
I wish I could find the person who downvoted this comment
Good news. You can do that.
I had no idea!
Ironically, Tesseract is how I came to know votes aren’t hidden as it was the first thing that came around to let non-instance admins view them. Lemvotes is way faster tho.
Well I just down voted you to show that I both agree and can think for myself. Am I doing this right?
If you were the first person to do it, you might have been, but being the third or fourth person just means you’re following a trend. Think for yourself, bro.
Ok I just swiped right. :*
tfw I’m on an instance without downvotes!
Agree 100% especially the leaving up stuff that wasn’t communicated clearly, or in some cases someone read something into it and everyone else just assumed you ‘really meant’ what they read into it instead of what you wrote. Best to leave it there to chuckle at how people tend to infer all kinds of stuff based on their personal experiences that you probably weren’t even aware of.
It’s so much better if you hide the votes entirely. Then suddenly I don’t feel bad about getting 50 replies that say I’m wrong, because who knows, maybe 500 non-repliers thought I was right? I don’t know, because I can’t see! Haha!
I’m just happy to be included.
How big is that file now?
Wait, is it still changing from the 3761-line, 111654-byte file (SHA-1
400A59DA592B56D1AF50524C32C081497CFDA2D4) I downloaded last week? The dev is basically the only user of the blacklist-enforcing version now.The Codeberg archive has 3771 lines. Don’t wanna check the GitHub version 🙈
he’s deleted his (known) user accounts and the git is gone again. hopefully it sticks this time.
he also locked up any communities he mods and renamed them as “[Closed]”. Well, most of them at least
Oh, he closed the decade-based music communities?
Okay, I’m going to fix this right fucking now!
maximum overbased
Yes! .today needs more communities.
God damn what a little bitch.
LOL. What a coward.
Kirk@startrek.website is still there, I thought that was one of his sock puppets too
Yep, it is and i think they have more star trek themed alt accounts. Theres a few im suspicious of, but dont want to call them out because im not 100% sure.
I just deleted my account on the instance and blocked the whole thing. The admin is complicit and is actively suppressing threads and comments talking about it
I think I’m going to have to do the same. Which kind of sucks, not very star trek of the admin to suppress communication
idk it’s actually pretty section 31 to say “no really it’s for your own good that we didn’t tell you actually.”
What even is the point of trying to damage control at this point? It’s not gonna change anything lol. If I were him I’d just stay away from the internet for a few months. Bro should go socialize or something, touch grass, masturbate, idk anything else than keeping on digging their own hole deeper
Okay, now I know how I got onto the list. What an idiot.
I’m getting an error when I click that link.
Sorry, I don’t recall exactly how to reference a user. Apparently most Lemmy clients think that’s a community for some reason.
I think that is what mine is doing. XD
I’m a bit sad I didn’t save his unhinged rants where he made it clear he was trying to hide it. His alt has been going around screaming about how it was optional. He deleted the comm when someone quoted it back to him.
Fucking malware, we should just defederate. Incredibly hostile dev and admin, the content on startrek.website just isn’t worth it.
I got banned from startrek.website for saying the word “cunt” and I honestly haven’t even noticed anything missing since Ten Forward is more popular than every community on that whole instance combined.
Is this one of them?
https://dubvee.org/c/tesseract
Posted it earlier because I was doing some reading on the subject.
He had a few crazy rants in the last day. The one I’m talking about had this bit in it:
Because I’ve been pretty blunt about all of this, I’ll keep it going. There’s no good way to do what I wanted without either sounding like a dick, calling people out, or otherwise causing mass ire. There’s just not. Basically I was just banking on people not noticing until they’ve already had some kind of feeling that “Lemmy just feels more friendly lately” and putting two and two together when realizing why.
Really tired of him acting like he is doing us a favor. No one asked him to start a secret ban list. What an asshat.
I will give him credit, thanks to him lemmy has felt friendlier these past few days. It’s nice to know that we can all agree on something.
Reading his posts just reminds you of the milquetoast banality of evil
What a controlling dork, lol.
I almost feel sorry for him at this point.
Almost.
Yeah much better for his own growth if he stuck around and holds his hands up to criticism
This destroys open collegial community trust.
Don’t tell him, Pike!
PIKE
