I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it's been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.
Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There's a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we've been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.
This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.
When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is "incompatible with that instance" which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.
Isn't it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don't just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn't it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think...
Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I'll doubt I'll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we'll bring up mlmym again now that someone's maintaining it again.
What a crazy coincidence. I was just checking out this GitHub today. It has a project called Anewbis which is
She's not even a catgirl. Anubis is a friggin' jackal or, if you must, at minimum has a dog for a head. She's a puppergirl.
Blasphemy! Someone fork the fork, call it AnUwUbis, and readd the catgirl.
Catboy? Thoughts anyone? Thoughts? Cat boy?
Or dog boy to fit the anubis theme.
For some reason I want to recommend Jack_draw to, well, draw it.
Sooooooo just renamed Anubis? Daring today, aren't we?
Some people have no whimsy
There's a commercial license you can use to replace the image
I mean. If you want to use it in a serious project, that anime-looking girl is completely out of place.
People say that but it wasn't a deal breaker for the United Nations.
Or kernel.org
The United Nations can say what they want, but I wouldn't want it on a serious company website
Are you Swiss German by any chance?
I'm Italian and I have taste 😂
That's why the author offers a commercial license with custom image and serious name.
Yea, it's still a shame I can't use it for nonprofit work.
Imagine a serious website you spent month on the content, just to be sabotaged by the catgirl bouncer.
Edit: undeleted. I just didn't want to sound like I blame the creator(s) in a way.
Maybe ask the author for what to do? I'm sure they are receptive to arguments.
Fair point. Just something rubs me the wrong way thinking about it. Even if the creators agreed it wouldn't be fair to get special treatment. To me that's not what foss is about.
No idea if that makes sense.
OR apply that guy's patch to get the same shit for free
(nobody tell corporate)
Ah yeah let's just fuck over the open source dev cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sarcasm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Even if taken literally, the second part would still then be my "sincere view" and therefore "the correct opinion", no?
nice