Devs like this do not belong with open source projects.

What the hell?!? Why isn't Anarchist Nexus on the blacklist? Are we not posting hard enough? 👿 /j

lmfao. What a weirdo. Gotta be top 10 most pathetic things in software dev.

Also holy fuck I would be ready with the cluebat if I wasted my time troubleshooting sabotage.

You don't understand! Freedom of speech is only good when it's freedom of their speech!

But seriously, this recent shift of project leads deciding what users should and shouldn't see is concerning. And honestly, I could give them the benefit of the doubt if they added it as some sort of opt-in list. But no.

They will force their narrative down the users' throats.

I might not always agree with db0, the Anarchist Flotilla, or the "Tankie Triad". But whatever shakes Lemmy right now, consider me an ally. Whatever these egocentric folks attempt to create, it is everything Lemmy was created to replace.

Also, that's a lovely list they made of places to follow.

The commit history of that file (not naming it denylist is telling enough, tbh) is hilarious!

Shadowbanning users in the client, telling users they are subscribed to the wrong communities, it has everything lol

Why the fuck are trans-friendly instances blocked too?? They just make wholesome memes and once in a while come over to comment ":3"

Amazing how these projects keep killing themselves by alienating huge portions of their userbase. Hard to survive in a FOSS environment by being extremely reactionary.

addy.io, mozmail.com (Firefox Relay) and even proton.me in THROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS. No Simplelogin/Proton pass though

I had stopped using it, but I found the Bias checks useful, but then I looked more into https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ and how the classify certain sites (like Times of Israel somewhat is left-center-leaning lol) and gave up on it. This blocklist of instances is ridiculous.

Fuck me...

ugggggghhhhhh

Our 'liberals' aren't liberal.

That comment you highlighted just reads like a jordanlund modlog defending genocide by way of banning someone who says 'genociders should die instead, actually'.

They can't help themselves from being elitists.

Its like they're hardwired, they're so incredibly insecure that they front this moral superiority god complex, and anything that challenges the actual logic of that morality is fundamentally evil... because they can't be wrong.

These people are confused... they're reactionary conservatives, they're wannabe politicos/consultants... literal thought police, frame keepers of the overton window.

There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.

As of that commit (April 29) the instance blacklist didn't even include lemmy.ml !

... but i see a month later they added us in this commit, while removing a large list of specific users and communities which they were also previously hiding content from.

This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.

What a stirring endorsement.

I say, keep it up!

What's more anarchist than taking their code and liberating it?

It is kind of amusing to me how often these people who run their own instances force other people to accept their own ideology.

Admiral Patrick has ruined all credibility and has proven that he doesn't add value to the fediverse. He actively detracts from it by shaping instances other than his own into his own image. Without their consent.

I'm not saying this because I'm on that user list (fucking lol) but because it's just pathetic. Rimu is doing the same thing on Piefed, Kaplan tried to do something similar by pressuring other instances to blacklist Dbzer0... Meanwhile the Flotilla seems to be the only ones willing to be completely transparent about what is going on and actually have their users decide.

And for Admiral Patrick, considering the dipshit seems to love Star Trek so much, let me remind you of what someone far better than you once said who you seem to admire.

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

I'm adding on my own quote.

Fuck you.

Nice work. That guy can go fuck himself.

Any chance you could post his blacklist? I'd like to know where I should be subscribing . . ?

Thanks for your great work.

I really hope you don't get rid of tesseract completely. It's a very useful tool when moderating and I haven't found anything with a similar feature set. This dev sucks as a person for doing something this stupid and reactive.

Edit: Apparenly he's also blocking trans friendly instances too. What a transphobic piece of shit!

What a pathetic thing to do

Congrats @hexbear for being #1 on this guy's list.