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      I think it’s less about genuinely caring at this point and more about it being a home-grown meme. Plus it’s perfectly designed to be popular around here because it directly involves individuals and you don’t have to lean on Star Trek, Linux, or even beans for it to get attention. Those three things are good, but people like variety.

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    I think most of the people on the blocklist are not people I want to talk to. But you can fuck off if you’re going to put that shit in a public client. Let people manage what they want to see by themselves.

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    I’m not on the list. But I’m banned from Reddit, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

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      I left reddit before they started extreme ban hammer , and i didn’t make the tesseract list. Wtf am i even doing with my life?

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        Meanwhile I have no idea what everyone is talking about. “Tesseract” huh? Guess I go outside too much…

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        Have you checked the Dubvee ban logs? You might have been banned there years ago with even knowing it. Without even having known that instance existed. If that will make you feel any better. Happened to me. Through some weird automated ban sync process. Now I’ve learned the Dubvee admin is the tesseract dev who did all this, I didn’t even bother checking if I’m on the list. I’m feeling pretty hipster about all this.

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        Being a loser. Git gud bro. (Jk I’m also not on the list and I’m not aware of being banned on reddit but I left before the extreme ban hammer too)

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    Funny thing is, an awful lot of actually dangerous extremists won’t be on that list, because they don’t post the shit they’re doing on the Internet.

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    I still wonder what it is I said/posted that did it. Was it the Luigi pictures? The guillotine images? Or my relentless disdain for all things Microslop?

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      If you’re on .world and you haven’t been hassled over Luigi comments, I’d say your comments have been relatively tame.

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            Why not force them to kill and eat eachother slowly over the course of a year or two? Every time around lunch, just toss a stick in the pit and let them sort it out.

            We would supply food ourselves, of course, but that’s socialism. They should feel at home in a competitive environment.

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    Seriously, I wanted to open a PR to add myself to the list, but the fucker took the repo offline because he couldn’t handle the backlash. Wussy.

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      Goddamn I’m not just banned as a user, I’m banned as a specific userRegex. That makes me 2x more extremist than the average banned user.

      Get on my level you losers.

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      First read as violet extremist and thought the blacklist was about armpit lickers.

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      I don’t get it. Is this some personal vendetta the dev has? Have they really been in this many internet arguments? Where did this list come about and why?

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        Here’s their full explanation: https://lemmy.world/post/49817942

        It’s pretty long and includes some insightful details about implementation (making the blocklist’s usage at the discretion of the instance admin though not transparent of its contents and defaulting it to enabled) but this quote boils down the underlying sentiment pretty well:

        “These are all rough edges of the threadiverse which I am attempting to round off so we might actually be able to retain some level headed people instead of scraping the bottom of the barrel by being a dumping ground for people rejected by civil society."

        When you examine the list, by and large, it’s pretty reasonable. Lots of false news, state propaganda, spammers, etc. But also the entire lemmy.blahaj.zone instance (where many of lemmy’s trans denizens call home). We’re included in what the lead developer describes as “bottom of the barrel” “people rejected by civil society.”

        Though I do fear the backlash. You’ve got a bunch of malicious spammers, hate-mongers and blackhat state actors who now have an open window to cause a lot of harm (harassment & general sowing of discontent) with the convenient smoke screen of upset trans folks who it can be blamed on.

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          We’re included in what the lead developer describes as “bottom of the barrel” “people rejected by civil society.”

          That’s fucked up. And he’s the self-appointed “nice” [secret]police? Yikes.

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          I’ll give a short description of the long post.

          big fuckin baby

          also, I have to call him not just a dumbass but a malicious dumbass.

          “Someone leaked the list. Why am I on it??”

          A: The list was never hidden just not advertised (lest people game it). I also could have encrypted it, but I merely compressed it for efficiency. If you’re on the list, then one of the 10 reasons above applies.

          the file in question was placed obscurely. updated without directly calling out what it was. and published without notifying users.

          seems a lot of effort went into obfuscating the true purpose of the file.

          while on the subject of obfuscation. he claimed he “compressed it for efficiency”.

          he compressed it, then base64 encoded it. why? why compress it to only expand the size of the file by encoding it??

          @ptz@dubvee.org is a dumbass and a shitty dev if he thinks any of the bullshit he said was worth the time it took to say it.

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        some personal vendetta

        Seems like it’s hubris / arrogance - a poorly considered attempt to create some kind of ideal social experience.

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          Been reading up on it a bit, yeah, seems to be the case indeed. Shame it went that way for them.

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        They posted an explanation in the tesseract community, but it boils down to they want the fediverse to succeed and replace reddit, but there is a contingent of toxic users that they feel is hindering that goal so they precompiled a list for new instance admins.

        It’s fully optional and can easily be disabled in the UI

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          It is not fully optional. It was obfuscated and unremovable. That’s why the backlash has been so severe.

          Not to mention, why should a user interface make that decision? That’s up to individual server admins and their userbase.

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            Fully agree on the weirdness that this would somehow be the concern of a frontend. Nah brh. Very strange.

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            The author offers a lengthy explanation in their own words as to precisely why this was done. TLDR: people are free to stop using it, but he’s making these changes because he wants to offer this service on behalf of those who don’t enjoy all the toxicity here.

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              people are not “free to stop using it” if the instance admin is using it.

              honestly I don’t even give a fuck about me being on “the list” anymore. I’m more upset that he decided for hundreds if not thousands of users without consulting them or taking into consideration of their opinions.

              he took the choice away from them, and that’s kind of the problem with tech anymore.

              @ptz@dubvee.org is a scammy piece of shit that got caught and is attempting to do damage control now.

              don’t his users and his users users deserve transparency?

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                Yes they do but the irony present in your reply is palpable.

                Incels upon being told no simply create an alt to evade bans.

                Tesseract bans them anyway.

                WoN’t SoMeOnE pLeAsE tHiNk oF tHe children BaN eVaDeRs?!

                Sadge :-(

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                  I think you missed the point.

                  I won’t bother wasting my time explaining it, I’ll just block you.

                  because I have the choice to do that

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              Lmfao. I didn’t make it more than a few paragraphs because it’s written with the maturity of a 10 year old in a chocolate sausage museum.

              You can really tell they’re up for an honest and open conversation with the community, really trying to improve the Fediverse, with their locking of all comments.

              He’s clearly the toxic one and is projecting his issues onto hundreds of others.

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              Lol. TIL I’m a violent extremist. Me. Boring, professional, suit wearing, family of four having, generic white guy.

              The world this guy lives in must be truly weird.

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                Boring, professional, suit wearing, family of four having, generic white guy.

                That is like the quintessential serial killer description by his neighbors.

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                I mean, to be fair, here is that entire paragraph for context:

                As will be explained further, there are 10 rules that are enforced, the biggest one being a very basic “don’t be a violent extremist”. That’s probably 30% of the list. Another 50% are just alts of Dwazou (persistent, long-term ban evader), and the remaining 20% just garden-variety spammers and toxic people who scare the normies away.

                Based on this, it is much more likely that you are an alt of Dwazou. (Or maybe I am? 🤪 Statistically, between the three of us, you me and the author, ONE of us must be!!)

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          THAT list is able to be disabled, though people are mad about its discoverability and transparency.

          The OTHER list, the smaller instance-level one, reportedly cannot be disabled, seemingly the only recourse for those instances on it are to use his fork of the code.

          This is from db0’s reporting, I have not attempted to confirm personally, but I would be happy to be corrected if need be.

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      Tesseract dev: “I made a list of people who willfully misconstrue things to create drama and play the victim”.

      people on that list: “OHH WOW SO I’M A VIOLENT EXTREMIST NOW???”

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        Are you trying to create drama and play the victim while complaining about other people supposedly creating drama and playing the victim?

        They have a cure for that, it’s called fucking off.

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        did you read the devs reply?, He definitely wasn’t saying this was for annoying people who misconstrue things

        As will be explained further, there are 10 rules that are enforced, the biggest one being a very basic “don’t be a violent extremist”. That’s probably 30% of the list. Another 50% are just alts of Dwazou (persistent, long-term ban evader), and the remaining 20% just garden-variety spammers and toxic people who scare the normies away.

        I’m not an alt of dwazou, or a spammer so guess that just leaves violent extremist.

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            Honestly, incels have a greater need than normies for a space on the internet where they can be as toxic as they like. On account of nobody willing to listen to them irl… 🤣

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                And Twitch (where “sadge” derives from, according to my Google-fu), and Tiktok, and Instagram, and don’t forget Lemmy, and… but the thing is, when you’ve been banned from ALL of those, where else do you go next, other than a free instance with an open sign-up policy? 🤪

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    I’m not on the list and I wouldn’t have cared (usually I prefer not to be on any list) but these posts are making me feel left out.

    Are my left leaning comments too vanilla?

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      You can check it out from your own instance by going to https://t.lemmy.world/ (that might be an older version though? at one point Tesseract development was frozen but then it later resumed).

      Your instance sidebar also mentions several other alternative UIs:

      https://a.lemmy.world/ - Alexandrite UI
      https://photon.lemmy.world/ - Photon UI
      https://m.lemmy.world/ - Voyager mobile UI
      https://old.lemmy.world/ - A familiar UI
      https://blorp.lemmy.world/ - Blorp UI
      
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    I would like to submit my application.

    Fuck the establishment, down with tesseract and its shitty dev, roll some heads for peace.

    xxx swooper

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            I never watched more than a few episodes of Frasier, but I remember a commercial for an episode of it - one I unsuccessfully tried to find online just now. I shall paraphrase:

            Niles(?): “What perfume is that?”

            Unknown woman: “It’s ‘Obsession.’”

            Niles: “No, it’s not, I was just curious, really.”

            I hope you have enjoyed this flawed reenactment.

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        I still haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve seen a synopsis of the movie.

        I am so disappointed.

        But I’m hopeful.

        Because what I really want to see is part two of this movie where a random group of like a hundred people get one and they know it will grant one wish and what wishes they make and what the consequences of a hundred random people across the world having a single wish granted all at the same time or within like the same few weeks.

        Mothers grieving over their dead children who wished to be able to fly, but never thought about landing.

        Competition from 10 or 15 people who wish to be the richest person in the world one after the other and having their wish granted only to be killed a day later by the next person who wishes to be the richest person in the world and having all of their riches transferred to that person.

        People wishing for magic and being haunted by demons.

        People wishing that their lost loved ones would come back to life and having the undead rise.

        There is so much potential in this concept if I just hope somebody has the balls to actually reach out and go for it because it would be such a good movie.

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          I still haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve seen a synopsis of the movie.

          So, I feel like they leaned a bit hard on jump-scares to deliver the horror element. But the Wishing Willow is really just a vehicle for the plot, it’s not important to the plot. The story is about male loneliness and youthful impatience and not being able to see past your own unhappiness to recognize the importance of other people.

          And it’s also about Inde Navarrette hitting it out of the fucking park with her acting.

          Don’t get hung up on the magical realism of the MacGuffin that kicks off the movie’s 2nd Act. If you enjoy a good popcorn horror/thriller and don’t mind liberal use of gross-out material, it’s a stellar film.

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            Adding to this: the lighting work was fantastic. Lots of darkness and silhouettes really added to the creepiness.

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    Yeah, how do I get on that list? Seems like the hot list right now.

    Is there like, a website, or a form? Do I need to fail an IQ test? You know, like cops can’t score greater than 80 on an IQ test.