There’s a popular frontend for Lemmy called “Tesseract”. About a week ago the dev pushed an apparently malicious update with a block list which contains lots of leftist (as in even slightly left leaning) communities and users.
OP searched for and found his username in that block list.
The file OP searched in is “policy.json”, which doesn’t exist in the source code. The command pulls the content of the url decodes it from base64, unzips it and puts the content in policy.json. Which means the source code obfuscates the file by default.
Apparently they just blocked whoever didn’t agree with the devs, it’s mainly leftists but there are some rightist too, they blocked the word “Enlightened centrist” so the devs are for sure enlightened centrists and blocked whoever isn’t
Like apparently it’s not “leftist” per se (or trans or furry etc.) so much as extremist rhetoric, or even instances turning a blind eye towards same, for the sake of mainstream normies coming here from Reddit.
It would be like blocking pretentious people, then vegetarians decrying unfair/biased treatment.
Note that many leftists are not blocked, like I strongly doubt that slrpnk.net would be, it’s primarily the more “militant” varieties.
what the heck is this?
I leave for a few days and the memes have changed from beans to… this.?
There’s a popular frontend for Lemmy called “Tesseract”. About a week ago the dev pushed an apparently malicious update with a block list which contains lots of leftist (as in even slightly left leaning) communities and users.
OP searched for and found his username in that block list.
The file OP searched in is “policy.json”, which doesn’t exist in the source code. The command pulls the content of the url decodes it from base64, unzips it and puts the content in policy.json. Which means the source code obfuscates the file by default.
(the only file called “policy” I could find in the source code is a .dat file which has the encoded data).
Apparently they just blocked whoever didn’t agree with the devs, it’s mainly leftists but there are some rightist too, they blocked the word “Enlightened centrist” so the devs are for sure enlightened centrists and blocked whoever isn’t
lol and they just closed sourced it.
are they breaking licensing laws now?
@[email protected] if you’re going to shit on the community, at least have the decency to stand by your work.
The author explains himself here: https://lemmy.world/post/49817942.
Like apparently it’s not “leftist” per se (or trans or furry etc.) so much as extremist rhetoric, or even instances turning a blind eye towards same, for the sake of mainstream normies coming here from Reddit.
It would be like blocking pretentious people, then vegetarians decrying unfair/biased treatment.
Note that many leftists are not blocked, like I strongly doubt that slrpnk.net would be, it’s primarily the more “militant” varieties.
Dude is a grade A pussy. He can have his opinions and make his decisions but to close his eyes and cover his ears and go “lalala” is hilarious.
Next up I think is jeans (again), or are we all the way back to not pooping?