Post #4041699

That’s some really evil shit: https://lemmy.world/post/49794261 So Tesseract (an alternative Lemmy client) downloads a blocking/filtering list from its servers, something that most people likely weren’t aware. This “feature” was introduced November last year (version 1.5.0) and is described as “Tesseract attempts to filter out as much baseline toxicity as possible” in the settings option allowing it to be disabled. The list currently contains 544 (!) individual users and 2282 (!!) regular expressions applied to user names. Among the expressions censored in user names are: Democrat, Republican, Israel, ElonMusk, trump, amerika and billionaire. There is also the regular expression usa?(.*)?terrorist which seems to be intended for the phrase “USA are a terrorist state.” The list also contains 97 censored communities and 32 regular expressions applied to community names. Finally, there are 352 (!) “forbidden” domains and 296 filtered phrases including proletariat, epstein class, Jesse Welles and “Hi, I’m an AI engineer based in Japan”. The author also disliked 👉👈 emoji. Judging by the project’s issues some people only just found out that they are being censored and are wondering why. #tesseract #lemmy