Request to remove Tesseract Front-End

I think the photon UI is pretty good as a replacement

Argh this sucks. The UI is so much better than everything else.

Consider using the fork by db0 which removes this stuff: https://github.com/db0/tesseract

Aw, I didn't make it. I'm not trying hard enough.

I saw you. Nice.

Me too, hooray! We're in good company I think.

Me too! Lol, wonder who I pissed off, how... 🤷🏻😂

Oh wow, me too!

That list is huge. He must have ran a script to capture names based on content he didn't like?

Me too. I wonder what I said to earn my place there.

I didn't even know what Tesseract was

I still don't know.

My searching tells me Tesseract is open source OCR software, but that doesn't make sense in the context I'm seeing in these threads.

Apparently some things are still blocked, even with this option enabled

This whole thing is crazy for current users. I'd been trying to figure out why Tesseract was behaving so strangely when I hadn't changed anything. Digging through settings and messing around with filters. There was no notice at all. And this only makes sense if you only use Tesseract. I use Voyager on my phone and I was receiving notifications there that weren't appearing in my browser. I'd post comments from my phone and not be able to see them in Tesseract because I guess someone else in the comment chain was on this list. Usability nightmare.

And then you can't disable it without having a big ever-present content warning telling you you're in Toxic Mode. Yeesh. You know who else is a level-headed guy who's been wading through the sewage for 3(+) years? THIS GUY. I know my way around this glorious sewer, my dude.

Yea I think some of this would work better as an automod or reporting tool.

I've played with Reddit's automod, and even well designed automod regex tends to make lots of mistakes, and you need to slowly make adjustments to refine it.

Other parts of it should have been opt in, and ideally in a way that you can import any list. That would also help with the gaming issue, since a bad actor can't look at one list and game it when people can be using any combination of blocklists. Similar to how ublock origin does it.

One of us, one of us, one of us

It's nice, and I know the https://lemdro.id/ instance has it as the default

However since it is a third party frontend, there is a chance that a future Lemmy update will come out without having full Photon support right away. So it's usually safer to keep them separate, and encourage people to try out the frontends to see what they like

I agree with what you're saying, and some of this is also against our drafted new guidelines. While people have suggestions on the wording and implementation, those guideline proposals have been received positively

However this implementation doesn't really solve the problem effectively.

• your comment would also have been hidden, along with any comment that wants to discuss the issue or make the same point you are making (or a completely unrelated topic, see Scunthorpe problem)

• mods and admins are less likely to notice the obviously bad actors. So instead of those accounts getting banned and purged, they might still be posting harmful content or coded language that the filters don't pick up on and can't keep up with

Some words SHOULD get blanket banned, but we already have the admin level keyword blocklist for that.

Otherwise I think that a frontend is the wrong place for this functionality, and It should be handled by a proper automod or reporting tool/plugin

I have no tolerance for violence and hate. None. If you want to see and/or spout that shit, again, use another client. If you’re as sick of seeing that shit everywhere as I am, well, maybe give this a try because that’s the vibe I’m going for.

I agree with this in principle. But I have no doubt I ended up on the blacklist for calling out his own daily violence against vulnerable individuals. I've never advocated for a violent solution to the many problems we discuss.

He also ... said a lot of stuff. Wow. The further I get into that post, the less meaningful it seem. Buddy's falling apart, and externalizes the blame on us.

Boooo!