Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

regex "^Article is paywalled.?$", "ACAB", ... "anarchistic", "biz@agoda.com", "billionaire [cock|dick]", "boot ?lick(ing|ers?)", ... "censoring me", "chatgip+ity+", "child-?rap(ing|ist)", "comrade", "conformist turd", "corpo ?(turd|slut|tech)", "death to", "dvdfab.cn", "enlightened centrist", "(epstein|epstien|pedo|pedophile)

Sooo, they are pro-pedos, pro-billionares, pro-paywalled articles, anti-communism and anti-conservatism and get offended by "enlightened centrist"

Yup, they pretend to be centrist or smth
Disgusting

I don't think you should defend him. Integrating spam defense is a cover to censor his ideological opponents. The best lie is the one wrapped in truth. You shouldn't frame any of what he did as being for good reasons. He hid it from the rest of us, made it look like an error message, and took steps to stop people from patching it out.

That's no what someone with good intentions does. That's what someone who knows it's wrong but tries to hide it does. Including spam domains in it can be seen as a way of hiding the rotten stuff and it gives trolls like him something to point at when it gets criticized "It's a spam blocklist, you must be a freeze peach troll if you're against that".

This is giving him too much charitability:

A lot of that domain list is real spam defence. It filters conservatism as well as communism. “It targets the left” doesn’t survive the data and I’m not going to pretend it does.

I thought piefed's main developer crusade was pathetic enough. This is something else.

this is one of the most unhinged things I've seem on an open source project 😐

Thanks for your work uncovering this. Imposing this broad and undisclosed censorship upon the user is unacceptable, so we have stopped hosting Tesseract on our instance.

Like I would have zero problems with developers that do this, if they could come out clearly and document/announce: "I don't like these accounts or words, if you do then this is what you do to change it or shut it off."

Stuff like Lemmy's word list, Piefed's default blocklist, you can turn off or change the words. Even if I think the daily vote quota is a stupid default on setting, if you're a Piefed admin and don't like that, set the limit to 10000, 99999999 or whatever. I usually have tons and tons of sympathy for FOSS devs, take their side and give the benefit of doubt in grey areas. They work for free and share it for free so I don't expect perfection or how I would want things to be.

Undocumented shit like this, intentionally hidden is way past the line, and I have no patience for it whatsoever. You never know when this could be somehow used as an attack vector.

Godfuckingdamnit. I was wondering why the system kept blocking our instance even after I removed it from the blacklist. I suspected some sort of lookup but I was out of time and couldn't find it with a quick search. This is so much worse than I expected.

Where does it dowload it exactly? I found the line loading policy.dat, but I can't find any calls to tesseract.dubvee.org.

Wow this "policy" has 3700 lines in total. It must take a lot of time to create and maintain it. How does someone even find the time for that?

I tried to access some blocked users and communities via tesseract.dubvee.org and it simply shows a generic "Not Found" error. So this is impossible to figure out for the average user. Even for developers it would be hard to figure out if the JSON file was hidden a bit better.

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml, explain yourself:

$ curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy | base64 -d | gunzip \
>    | gron | grep -iP '(davel|cowbee|yogthos)'
json.userRegexes[466] = "^davel$";
json.userRegexes[2187] = "^yogthos$";
$

lol the guy shuttered his instance and only links to

This is his at least second dramatic exit from lemmy https://lemmy.zip/post/43721937

Mum, I'm on the list!

I saw a funny weirdo saying that this person is just blocking "extremists". How in the fuck doing this shit is not extreme extremist radical liberalism??????? They like the status quo so much that they don't want to see people complain about it LMAO

Looking at what is blocked, it just looks like someone very much aligned with the government came up with the list.

there you go, the "you can't criticize your government" people hard at work. they know they are wrong.

"It targets the left" doesn't survive the data

I mean, sure but, isn't that like pointing out you've banned vegans to your BBQ ribs restaurant along with (insert group here)

As of around 7 hours ago, there's a closed issue on the repo's tracker from someone upset they were on the secret list, and the maintainer closed the issue stating that they'd make an official statement once everyone cooled off. Also that the issue tracker wasn't the right place for that discussion.

This indicates that they are aware of the threads about this stuff here on Lemmy.

Please don't dogpile the issue tracker, and give an opportunity for cooler heads to prevail. Trust that if they're a piece of shit it won't take long for them to confirm it (again) loud and clear. Not saying this isn't a whole big bunch of bullshit, just that they should at least get a small opportunity to respond with their side.

If you hand someone a shovel and they use it to dig their hole deeper instead of filling it in, it's even more fun to watch them fall in.

As an instance admin crew we want to voice our protest over our entire instance not being on the list. We feel we had failed our users.

One of them managed to get on the individuals list tho, for posting one single thing; "To predict the future we must look at the past. How Rome slave economy could be a 1:1 parallel to artificial worker economy.".

Guess that means that in a small way, I am now immortalalized in a git repository.

Let them shoot themselves on the foot, they are only providing more evidence that their ideology is the one that needs to control the narrative or else it shatters at the first sign of critical thought

Lol the keywords list is hilarious, imagine publishing a list of things that rustle your jimmies.

Oh my god it's actually way worse they're using incredibly broad regular expressions to blacklist users. There's a whole section for it.

If you just happen to have the same text in your username as a previously blacklisted user, you're blacklisted automatically too. For example:

"^Fleure", 

If your username is Fleure_1998 or FleuresArePretty you're going to be blacklisted.

Isn't there a less draconian way to manage alt-account spam? This is casting the net over the whole ocean and eventually if that user regex list gets big and broad enough it'll be near impossible to not be shadowbanned by default.

ALSO WHY IS YURI BLOCKED HELLO?????

Sad to see I'm not on the list

"These rapscallions are hindering my ability to express myself."

of my hundred fediverse IDs, I somehow didn't get a single mention in the user list. a few folks I recognize did, and fewer of those probably deserved it.

edit:

check that. I found a few.

Based on the skew of what's on the blacklist, it'd have been more efficient for Tesseract to run off a whitelist only for FHF corporate approved.

That’s an epic level of gaslighting. Hell yeah.

Bonerfried dude’s rock situation.

My blocklist is mostly furry and yiff communities

What is a "user regex"?

List of funny thing:

• "0811( |-)?4555588" anynone know that number?
• "billionare [cock|dick]" wrong regex brace
• "comrade"
• "guill?otine" !historymemes@piefed.social will cry
• "Hi, I'm an AI engineer based in Japan"
• "italian plumber" what has mario done to you?
• "Perchance" this even capitalized
• "^GirlsFrontline" afraid of some boob?
• "^Yuri|^WholesomeYuri" afraid of lesbian?
• me not on list :(

Hey! I'm on that list! Awesome!

Am I on the list

Kind of disappointed I'm not on the list.

Can I ask to be added to this list for posterity reasons?

I'm just glad to be included, I feel so special.

This all sucks, but also, please stop using LLMs to write long (or any) texts. It ends up sounding silly.

Sounds reasonable to filter out the weirdest parts of Lemmy...