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It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It! - George Carlin (lemmy.world)
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[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 21 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I work with computers and I have no idea what I am looking at here. Anyone have some context?

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It's not computers, it's the latest drama here in the Fediverse.

Big frontend called Tessarect did a sneaky.

They made a hidden shadow-ban list of instances, users, and phrases, keeping it secret from users and admins by not including it in the open source code and instead loading it at runtime, and added in there all non-centrist (instances, users, and phrases) they could think of. They also lied about it, by claiming it to be a technical issue, when any user looked for the banned instances from the front-end, instead of calling it what it is, a targeted exclusion.

Essentially, hidden censorship, and sliminess.

To the degree that some people, (like OP here), have taken it as a badge of honor, that they are among the ones banned by name, in that list.

And some other people, are definitely not jealous.

[–] farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

so the same thing piefed did?

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, haven't heard about that drama, what happened?

[–] farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

piefed has hardcoded blocks for instances the dev doesn't like

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 15 points 15 hours ago

thank you kindly!