multiple instances have websites they administer. these admins can install custom user interfaces to make it look/feel different from other instances. one of those custom interfaces is "tesseract".

the lead developer for tesseract had a file obfuscated and hidden that has a list of communities, instances, and more importantly users. this list would hide/remove content from these communities, instances, and users based entirely on the whims of the lead developer. this means if you were reading my comment from one of these instances that uses tesseract, you wouldn't see my comment because I am on the list.

the developer in question is @ptz@dubvee.org you can direct any questions to them about it.

Barbarian@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 10d (3 replies)

Aww, I'm not on the list. Is this a personal failing of mine? Am I just too agreeable?

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 10d (2 replies)

just call out @ptz@dubvee.org and tell him he's a fascist shitlord that deserves to walk 5000 miles across a sea of Legos.

✅ disagreeable

✅ rude

✅ advocating for violence

Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 6 pts · 9d (1 reply)

@ptz@dubvee.org i am a socialist that hate rich people and condemn your daddy Trump, Epstein and all the crew for raping childrens, i already said fuck the rich? Fuck Israel too and Russia
And centrists don't exist, Mr enlightened

TL;DR: add me on that shitty list i don't want your users to see my comments and posts

Do y'all think it will work? Do i have to be more reactionary and maybe add a Kirk meme too?

Dojan@pawb.social · 5 pts · 9d

Maybe something cute about how it's nice that he died doing what he loved; public executions that children should be forced to watch.

Then again, it's been so long since he kirked the bucket, it's kind of nice to just let him remain an unimportant and forgotten thing of the past.

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d

I see your little hunblebrag.

deathbird@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 8d

Never saw the list before. Damn. Someone doesn't like the free marketplace of ideas.

OpenStars@discuss.online · 3 pts · 10d

To add to what others are saying, your instance does not support Tesseract anyway, though if you read your instance sidebar text it points to Photon & Alexandrite frontends as options if you wanted to change the way that Lemmy looks to you (and if you use a browser rather than 3rd-party app).

imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 8d

In short: front end (like, page design) dev added a line in code that would call home for a list of people and instances dev didn't like so they won't appear on the front end to users. Badically a unwanted blacklist of users. Many got there for one reason or another. Some have no clue why.

Reygle@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 10d (1 reply)

ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 11 pts · 10d

Don’t you forget about me

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 10d (4 replies)

I just realized that’s Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale in the background

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 10d

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale in the background, so hot right now.

kn33@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 10d

I feel like I've seen this exact line every time this gets posted on Reddit

lobut@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Damn she's fine ...

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d

You can see how Aaron Barrett built an entire career out of getting dumped by her.

foggy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 10d (7 replies)

The blocked me and everyone like me!

Foggy is blocked on the regex list. So no foggy1 or foggyfroggy or nutnin!

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 10d

Imagine upsetting someone so much they feel the need to write a rule to generically match your name and all names that remind them of you. Sounds like a great love story. Enemies to lovers.

andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d (3 replies)

I wonder what earns a place on the regex list versus the other. Did we only medium piss him off?

theolodis@feddit.org · 1 pts · 9d

The regex list is to make sure any possible alt accounts on other instances are also caught

foggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9d (1 reply)

Given some of the regexes are just like

^example.*$

And others are

^example[0-9]+$

My guess is when they have two in the list that match one regex they shorten the list by making a regex block.

So for some users I'll bet it is to take care of things like

IIIlll vs lllIII showing up and realizing that's regexa Le and hey let's just get any and all lengths of alternating Is and ls.

And then others are for like

DallasCowboys1985 vs DallasCowboys42069 where I'd bet they figured just do all DallasCowboys with numbers trailing.

Sifting through it it seems so e might be targeting one user with multiple similar accounts, but others are just totally ham-fisted dumb approaches like mine. Like I probably made the list and some other user 'foggyXYZ' also did. And now 'foggy-sux-we-hate-him' is blocked too. 👍

andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d

I’m just wondering why I’m on the regex list. I guess leftist and trans is probably enough.

Dojan@pawb.social · 1 pts · 9d

I'm also on the regex list, but oddly I don't have the trailing $, so if I made an account like, oDojan, that'd not be caught. I'm not alone in not having a $, but a lot of people do.

ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 8d

Maybe f0ggy? You can always beat regex if you want it hard enough.

Davel23@fedia.io · 9 pts · 10d (2 replies)

I'm on the list, but I'm not sure if it's on my own merits or because my username is similar to that of a controversial mod of another instance.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d (1 reply)

sounds like you're a terrorist!

Davel23@fedia.io · 5 pts · 10d

I can neither confirm nor deny any terror-related activities that I may or may not have engaged in now or at any time in the past.

EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app · 7 pts · 10d (2 replies)

I'm confused ;_;

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 9d (1 reply)

It’s simple, @ptz@dubvee.org is a candy ass.

EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 9d

Thanks, since reading lemmy.blahaj.zone's post on why they removed it, I understand both what is going on and your post, and it made me laugh

ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 5 pts · 10d (1 reply)

If someone is on the list do they get to bring a +1 to also get in too?

theolodis@feddit.org · 2 pts · 9d

I think that's too late, as Tesseract is now resting in peace. But if you want I can block you and a +1

whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 10d

It's like a badge of honour in any community that a mod/developer/etc can ban you from their community just for having an opinion.

I stand by what I say the people in charge in a majority of these places are snowflakes.