Get used to it.
Anyone with a Claude Code account can spew out a Lemmy (or any other service) client and make antisocial changes and dump it in the App Store. ✨
Everyone’s wrong sometimes that’s just the stale croutons in this human ceasar salad they call “life”. It takes a special kind of grit to be such a massive dog-rocket when your wrong tho
Being wrong in good faith is okay. He definitely was not acting in good faith.
As a lemming, this whole drama is categorical censorial bullshit, but also peak comedy because the fuckwad got caught and publicly called on the carpet
As a software engineer, this is stupid implementation, because you can trivially make this a configurable blocklist of strings and regex. It never needed to even be an argument. Which of course means that it was never about the implementation.
As an open source enthusiast, take the software engineer response, but add: and he’s intentionally pushing his (visibly fucked up and warped) worldview and values onto users, and he tried to obfuscate it to be sneaky. That falls in the realm of malware imo - as in, intentionally mutating the functionality of a project with a specific intent of impact on users, and then attempting to hide the evidence. And then he got called out on it, and got super butthurt, and rage quit the whole goddamn platform.
TL;DR: Good fucking riddance.
He even tried to wash it off with “but there is a setting to disable it, just navigate 32 sub menus and click toxic mode” and never addressed the fact that his software would hide the shit behind a “technicall issue” excuse
Hello there, fellow Culture enjoyer.
The absolute cherry on top for me was the trigger: a good old-fashioned post upgrade debug session. Your TL;DR ++
I identify as a General Systems Vehicle, and I appreciate your support <3
“I’ll write a whiny multipage diatribe to rage quit and insert a script to DDOS the instance that hurt my feelings. That’s the behaviour of a well adjusted adult that’s doing the right thing.”
Dont forget locking the post so no one can comment and call you out
Definitely the actions of a person who should be unquestioningly trusted to be the sole arbiter of determining what is fine and dandy and what goes too far on Lemmy. Totally not indicative of every legitimate concern that every single person opposing this brought up being accurate, surely not!
My favorite reply from him when I called him out in a different thread: “why can’t you just let people use their own computers how they choose”
I’m guessing he has never heard the wisdom of not throwing stones in a glass house. The cognitive dissonance is hilarious, though.
That dude is an unbearable cunt as a mod as well. I am absolutely not surprised for the fact that he is an unbearable cunt as a developer.
IIRC he banned people in all communities he moderated if he found someone that you broke a rule in only 1 community, idk what rules though
hmmm, i wonder who left the one downvote
Doesn’t even need to be intentional. Voyager’s mouse gestures make leaving an accidental downvote while scrolling way too easy for example.
Any modo that can check 😁 ?
You can check, its all transparent. I just don’t remember how lol. If you search around you should be able to find it.
Isn’t startrek.website the tesseract guy’s own private instance?
One of the downvotes actually is from him, lol!
Isn’t startrek.website the tesseract guy’s own private instance?
His own: Not that I’m aware of but I could be wrong. Private: No, there are a couple of thousand registered users.
Again, another post celebrating that I’m on the blocklist and Charlie Kirk isn’t.
He’s not saying anything about it though. 🤔
Really proud of him for toning down the rhetoric. Guy hasn’t said a racist thing since he last went viral.
Fr, he’s never been more tolerable
Yeah. Believe it or not, when I saw him last, he was leaning left.
And wearing his heart on his sleeve. And his collar. And his chest. And the ground.
I bet he was gushing to say something, but now? quiet.
I get like that too sometimes… you get really excited and amped up over something, but then afterwards you just feel drained and dead tired.
when Im that tired, sometimes I like taking a nap in the dirt.
Yes, but not on top of it, where it’s loud and hot, more like snuggled some feet below, where it’s refreshing and quiet.
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Easiest block of the day
Is lemmy turning into reddit or something? I just see bits and pieces of this drama, don’t really care enough to deep dive in it… but found out I’m on the “list”.
no, someone tried to turn it into Reddit using their frontend to try and act like an admin on instances they’re not an admin on, acting like an entitled reddit powermod/admin doling out shadowbans; and the fediverse collectively told him to fuck himself.
Most people, I’d think, would consider thousands of other people yelling all at once telling you you’ve done a tremendously dumb thing, to be a fine moment for self-reflection. AdmiralPatrick is not one of those people.
The most dumbfounding thing to me is that the list isn’t even base64 encoded. Its just sitting in the repo plain-text. I can’t decided if its laziness, a lack of data integrity standards, lack of imagination, or if he wanted all this drama one day.
(Tesseract Guy, self-portrait c.2026)
Rorschach was a principled man of strong morals I feel bad for everyone misunderstanding him.
He’s a great comic book character, but a lousy role model for “they’ll beg me to save them, and I’ll whisper ‘no’” narcissists, unfortunately.
Just here to point out that GodlessCommie, the sole active mod of Late Stage Capitalism is one of these losers, making the sub his own personal crybaby safe space.
Frankly, my own block list is huge. Mostly keywords, very few users. I would recommend it to everyone. Any social media is unbearable without blocking shit out. Everyone should personalise blocklists to their tastes.
But you can’t make this decision for people. This is why I also don’t like that some instances defederate a lot of other instances they don’t like (and no one tells newbies). There’s a niche for pre-populated block lists that are available and curated and transparent (like for ad-blockers).
I personally don’t block anything that isn’t already blocked by my instance.
I got here in june, I was on the list and that was the first I’d heard of that guy. What’s his name again?
AdmiralPatrick
I’m not defending the existence of the blocklist… but if you’re really that upset about it then I would suggest asking for a refund.
Best I can do is an upvote.
We did. That’s why there was a whole public meltdown including a number of alt accounts.
You another alt?
Did we really, though? Even the OP says they don’t actually care about the blocklist and are just piling on for the lulz.
Don’t put words in my mouth. I said, quote, that I wasn’t upset, after you made a comment implying I was and that I should seek out a refund – I don’t use the Tesseract frontend, and never have. That doesn’t mean I “don’t actually care” about someone trying to play Reddit admin and sneakily impose their will onto the rest of the fediverse.
If you want to make a stupid argument, that’s fine; but make it on your own, don’t rope me into it.
I wasn’t trying to misquote you, but you did imply that entertainment is your primary motivation.
Quote:
upset? heavens no, this is terrific free entertainment, this is hilarious to watch.
To me, this sounds like someone who is pouring gas on a fire just to watch it burn.
Well, today you learned that I can care about something stupid someone else did, and be entertained by how poorly they handled it, all at the same time. I’m glad I could help clarify things for you.
See, to me, you sound like an alt of AdmiralPatrick, or possibly one of his few remaining friends, and seem to be here exclusively to make passive aggressive comments at his detractors and/or run defense for him. I wonder why that would be…
upset? heavens no, this is terrific free entertainment, this is hilarious to watch.
Look where this user is based and how many comments they’re making defending AdmiralPatrick…
yeah I’ve sorta noticed
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Oh. That’s kind of weird.
last I checked, we’re still allowed to be entertained by weird things on the internet. if you aren’t, I recommend a bit more whimsy in your life.
I have no authority over you. So it’s not really a question of me “allowing” you anything.
Weird is your bad take combined with your account instance. Tone deaf af.
I just think the reaction from fediverse users has been too harsh when you consider that Tesseract was free and open source software.
If your free software is borderline malware (which it is because it’s intentionally depriving users access to certain information with a deliberate attempt hide that fact from the users) I think people have a right to be harsh.
If it is malware then harshness is justified, but I’d be willing to debate over the strict definition of malware and whether it technically applies here.
But I don’t think most of the harshness we’ve seen is actually borne of that kind of outrage. Even the OP of this meme says they are not upset and are having a wonderful time.
I never said it’s strictly malware, I said borderline malware. It can’t be strictly malware because most definitions of malware focus on the malware taking (some or full) control of the system or extracting valuable information, things that generally pose as a direct threat of damage to the end user or system.
But restricting user access to information without the user knowing information is being restricted and taking deliberate steps to hide this is being done in the first place is all malicious behavior. If you asked from a layman if this should be considered malware behavior or not most people would consider this malware behavior, hence borderline malware.
And I don’t see how it not being “strictly malware” would change anything. People are outraged by what it is doing and how it is doing it, not by whether it fits the strict definition of malware.
lol, this is another of his alts.
