Tesseract is a web client for Lemmy that was found to be secretly and arbitrarily blocking users, communities and even entire instances. You can see if you’re one of the kool kidz by running
curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy | base64 -d | gunzip > policy.json
and grepping your name / instance. Further details can be found in this post.
The poem above is adapted from Bertolt Brecht’s The Burning of the Books, which can be read here. If you would rather read it in the original German, go here.
After seeing I made the list, I really want to know why. I wish it came with listed reasons. My best guess is because I, a US American who understands metaphor, have commented endorsing usage of the phrase “death to America”. Or maybe it’s just for being socialist, idk
You’re on Blahaj. That’s enough reason for Tesseract. Your entire instance is blocked.
My user URL was explicitly blocked, though