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im new and sitll just wrapping my head around the lemmy concepts asis and this seems like incredible lore I missed so if someone would be so kind to fill me in it would be much appreciated
but I can always get behind javascript hate!
Tesseract is/was an alternative frontend for Lemmy sites. Its developer — asimons04 — hid malware in it. It would secretly download an obfuscated ban list with instances, communities, and people that asimons04 wanted to personally discriminate against and it would silently shadowban them from any site that used Tesseract.
The bans were heavily anti-fash leftists and queer folks, including yours truly.
This was discovered through some community sleuthing in the last several days. Asimons04 has since
deleted their repos and accounts and disappearedmoved repos to break forking and posted an unhinged rant to dubvee.@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com has forked Tesseract since it had some nice features and they seem to be working on thoughtfully removing the malware.
Those finding their name on the list are treating it as a badge of honor, since it shows that asimons04 was a conniving fascist bigot.
The rabbit hole begins here.
https://lemmy.world/post/49778353The fucking balls on him. Acting like he is doing everyone a favor. He can ban who he wants from his instance, that’s how federation is supposed to work. What he did was add a secret shadowban list at a software level just to bypass the modlog and force it on everyone.
His behavior and response are ridiculous. We shouldn’t even be federating with anything using tesseract. The guy and his repo should become a pariah.
Not to mention he tries to pretend it’s about making the place peaceful and less toxic but bans communities like WholesomeYuri and small news comms.