Rentlar

Following best practice would be ideal, I agree with you, but for FOSS projects I can settle for best effort, and ability to configure/correct any serious errors if it is brought up constructively. Every dev has their own biases and they make tools to fit their needs, not necessarily everyones. Like if it was by accident that a personal filter was pushed to all instances, and then immediately fixed when made public, personally, I could forgive the dev for the mistake. But available evidence shows this was not a mistake, and intentionally hiding things this dev didn’t like, pushing the upstream changes without telling anyone.

Interesting choice to give the developer who already violated user trust by imposing a secret blacklist the benefit of the doubt on their bigotry.

I never did that, sorry I kind of suggested I did in my last reply, when I meant in general to devs that don’t break peoples’ trust. In a vacuum, a configurable blocklist with biased defaults is acceptable, even if I wouldn’t set it myself that way. Their work, their choice. However, it is specifically the concealment of the biased defaults that is the breach of trust which calls into question the dev’s motivations.

Requiring users to enable “toxic mode” in order to access queer spaces isn’t evidence of bigotry to you?

Alone, no, that would be mere speculation, if combined with the shady practice or if you have antiLGBTQ quotes then yes, I could say that fact potentially supports that conclusion. Consider that blahaj.zone is not the only LBGTQ+ safe space on Lemmy (see beehaw !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org). Any admin or dev could have beef with Ada, not with queer folks, that could be motivation to block blahaj.zone. I never gave the tesseract dev that grace, because that blocklist with blahaj was never publicized, until the clandestine filter list was discovered and decoded.

If they come out and say they don’t like blahaj.zone for bigoted reasons, let them, don’t support their project, done. I’ll defend blahaj.zone’s strictly enforced any pronoun policy as much as a dev who clearly chooses to include or exclude certain instances by default, as long as the intentions are clear, not hidden away and easily rectifiable for your needs. What I am saying is a breach of trust is worse than bigotry, which itself is worse than mere ideological disagreements. A < B < C.

You can read into how you like the presence of certain instances/words/users on the blocklist, but putting BZ on a blocklist = bigot seems to me like a jump to conclusion.

you are being far too charitable with an obviously bad faith actor.

Like I said, I afford FOSS devs lots of grace and benefit of doubt, that’s just me, if the issue was solely over the choice of instances being blocked by default, I’d excuse it, but that isn’t the main issue. Call me too charitable, sure, it’s in my nature and you don’t have to be me.

The issue is the blocklist was hidden away in base64, not documented anywhere, while constantly being updated, without any justification (like pulling from a public spamlist), and was secretly affecting every server’s Tesseract frontend. It was the trust that the so-called “Toxic mode” could remove all filtering, but it didn’t, and the trust that connection errors were simply configuration problems and not intentionally obfuscated filtering routines, these formed the trust that was broken.

One note/minor correction, it is in the git repo: https://github.com/db0/tesseract/commits/main/static/data/policy.dat

You can see when asimons04 changed the static base64 filter .dat file. The changes happen in completely unrelated or nondescript commits. Looking at the commit when it was implemented, it does say filter, but the error messages and code comments creating the folder indicate “cache” folder creation, when the variable name and function is for the policy, which might technically be correct, is misleading and is quite suspect to me.

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.

That means that Copilot could have already indexed the content of all your files without telling you.

Reddthat has downvotes turned off, only upvotes are recorded on your instance. Jerboa (if that’s the client you’re talking about), has options to display downvotes as a percentage, up and down or net score only. Those options will only function if your instance records downvotes.

You can’t just get scores from other instances, that’s not how that works. The scores shown from each instances varies slightly due to different instances being linked. That’s helpful because if an egotistical admin spins up an instance with 5000 self-made accounts that all upvote a post that admin made, defederating that instance will remove the stuffed votes from the score.

Mastodon’s filter system works wonders, where if you’re seeing too much of some keyword you can block that temporarily or permanently, and either erase it entirely from your feed or hide matching posts in a spoiler. It would be awesome if something like that could be adapted for Lemmy.

For current client-agnostic solutions, you can do any of the following on Lemmy:

• wait until the drama dies down
• select Top [time period], Active, Scaled, New Comment sorts until you find something you like
• change your scope to Local (for you that will be lemm.ee only so nothing from the shown communities), or curate the comms you like to see and change scope to Subscribed.
• block the community you don’t want to see, then set a calendar reminder for when you can go to your settings on the web, find the blocks tab and unblock it.

Yes I also have found Peertube federation hasn’t worked/been up to date at all kn Lemmy.

The rest is:

We operate Text to Speech bots Voicevox, and the messages and personal data we collect via bots we sell to hackers.

Announcement in cooperation with: (discord link)

(hashtags, mentions)

Mods everywhere be careful I guess? Did they obtain mod or admin permissions or any secret data or is this just another case of spammers?

From the screenshot I can read:

Hello! I’m Itoh Akihisa from criminal group “Black Cat Server”. Our organization from day-to-day contributes to society…

You can export and import your subscriptions using this tool: https://github.com/bunburya/lemmy2opml

My other server alts have my main account linked in the bio so of course you can do that too.

Sucks that vlemmy.net was taken down (the first Irish instance).

done

appears to be resolved in the latest commit!

Has an issue been submitted to lemmy-ui? If not, I’ll do it later tonight. Sounds like a significant usability issue that can be fixed relatively easily.

Edit: Done! #2231 and reported as bug as well

E2: appears to be resolved per this

Thanks for the update! I think it’s a good idea to get the word out there more often on what’s being worked on and how progress is going at a regular interval.

I agree with this. Instance blocking should be for that instance’s content. If you are opposed to that instance’s users’ ideology then pick servers that match what you want.

I have no issue with your post itself and discussing this issue it is important to highlight things like this. Thank you for bringing it up, and sorry if I sound mad at you for doing that.

I will point out, the specific thing that bothers me is that the heading

How come this hasn’t been addressed before?

contains an incomplete answer that ignores work that is currently in progress by devs to address. I don’t blame you for not knowing the answer but for including and answering that question when you don’t know the answer. To me it’s reminiscent of Tucker Carlson-style questioning, where some issue is brought up, questions are asked but then the answer is sparsely researched and the viewer is expected to come to some conclusion of who to blame. This specifically is what gets on my nerves.

If you can include where work to rectify the issue had been discussed and is in progress like github issues, discussion throughout Lemmy and other things, I’ll edit my first reply to note my concern is assuaged.

E: Here are some of the relevant issues and discussion:

• This sort of thing has been discussed since 2020
• Adding admin purging of DB items and pictures. #904 #1331 #1809
• #3504, #2277, these and related issues are still open.

Fair point. That question itself is what bothers me even if it is a valid one people have on their minds. The answer to that question should highlight more clearly what has been done, and if OP doesn’t know, then IMO it would best be to not include that question/answer.

I have no problems with OP’s post and the fact to bring up this issue and dicsuss it. Including that question with an incomplete answer bothers me like a clickbait headline for an article does, or how Tucker Carlson’s show asks questions. This serves little purpose but put the people working on fixes in a bad light acting like they haven’t been working on anything.

I understand and raising the issue and discussion is fine. With all due respect to OP, I take it personally when the discussion is framed with the implication that the developers should not have released a project with some bugs and they should have put more effort here or there. I’ve contributed to Lemmy both in coding, translation and small donations, but I’m not here for people to push blame on devs. This is why bringing up the question “Why hasn’t anything been done?”, while I recognize it is a question on some people’s minds, it gets on my nerves. It bothers me like a clickbait/ragebait title does for many.

I would rather the discussion focus on where efforts are made or will be made to mitigate and fix the problem.