Post #4381406
2026-07-27 07:38 UTC
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@Allero@lemmy.today 2026-07-27 07:57
Developer of Tesseract front-end for Lemmy hid a blacklist in the code without an announcement. This blacklist contained various Lemmy instances (particularly leftist/anarchist ones, and also blahaj.zone, known for protecting LGBTQ+ rights, and particularly a place trans lemmings unite) and users. This was quickly uncovered by db0, since their instance had Tesseract front-end available and they got in the blocklist, making the front-end unavailable for them. They quickly forked Tesseracts and ringed the bell. Following was blocked users bragging about getting in the block list like a badge of honor, and others being sad they didn’t make it into one. This was pretty much a hot topic around these places for about three days straight. Some also apparently bombed Tesseract dev’s inbox with things ranging from “why?” to “go fuck yourself”, which seems to trigger the dev to leave the space entirely. This comes not long after a similar attempt was made by PieFed developer (referred by Rimu who owes a beer), causing a similar stir, and also them introducing vote quotas to further alter the PieFed (Lemmy-compatible software used to communicate to PieFed and Lemmy users) landscape to amplify certain messages.