I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it's been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.
Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. 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.
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.
When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is "incompatible with that instance" which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.
Isn't it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don't just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn't it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think...
Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I'll doubt I'll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we'll bring up mlmym again now that someone's maintaining it again.
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.
Their paternalistic elitism is exactly what makes them such willing foot soldiers for capital.
I don't really know who Jordan Lund is or what he's about, my first thought was Jordan Peterson who I think is a pretty unhinged UofT professor, someone cut together this rant about "rat desire" from that guy, it's quite funny with or without context. I just looked up if that was the same Jordan, and the only rat related Lund is a Zoe Lund, https://www.zoelund.com/lund/rats/rats.html
Anyway I keep seeing their names pop up and I have no real context for what they are about, and looking at Google results it's just some whitewashed stuff about J Lund doing Shakespeare.
So what is up with that guy?
Think of your stereotypical power-tripping Reddit mod, in both behaviour and appearance. That's Jordan. He is a moderator of several lemmy.world communities and never faces any consequences for being a PTB since he has the backing of LW's admin team.
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Pretty sure he is the LW 'admin team'
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He at the very least has full access to the LW bot that can do most of the functions of an admin.
Everything is coming together thank you
... go search through the power tripping bastards comm.
Ah I thought he was a normie not a fediverse person
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526185/
Literally this guy? I know his face
Yeah that's not... the same guy, no.
I am genuienly amused that you are this curious about him. Sorry I was a bit grumpy earlier.
Because I care about you...
... be warned, he literally is the perfect visual stereotype of a neckbeard
https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/race-northwest-united-states-jordan-lund-portland/
Hilary stan, actively worked against Bernie when it could have helped him, then decided Bernie was neat after there was no realistic chance he could be Presidenr.
Cares more about his neighborhood being quiet than the lives of black people, thinks protests should only be held in areas designated and pre planned by the authorities.
Is seemingly unaware that ... the reason Portland doesn't have much black population these days is because I5 got built directly through the neighborhood they lived in, and everywhere else in Portland was redlined, so they had to leave, they weren't welcome anymore.
But that doesn't matter to him, because he works in tech, and that's all ancient history.
What he notices... is anti-male bias. Surely its simply because he kept incorrectly calling his trillby a fedora, for a while.
On that note... If I can websearch this in 2 seconds... whatever, mods remove this if this is too much:
https://www.stackforce.co/talent/6a5dfa305b4c16902e24eed9
Yeah he ran a betting website for a while...
Then went to work for Adobe Marketo, for a decade.
You know... advertisements. Social Media. How to convince people they should subscribe to something, maybe even how to moderate something like a Reddit community, maybe. Who knows!
Now he's retired and owns a book store, aw, how Portland.
In summary, he's got 10+ years of corporate social media management under his belt, is painfully white, thus ridden with misplaced white guilt, and a Hilary Clinton style Zionist.
There. Because you asked.
He's the WoW guy from South Park?
If his thing was unique and not a widely-applicable trope, I wouldn't be surprised. Fun fact, the guy @ Emerald City Comics in Eugene, OR is the comic book guy from The Simpson's —that, I can attest personally. It's uncanny, from the look to the voice to the demeanor. It was like walking onto the set. 🤓😵💫
edit: I just tried to look it up, and it's apparently gone. It's been ~20yrs since I visited, so that tracks. Maybe Nostalgia Comics is the new face, but I've no idea if he still runs/works it.
Just realised I didn't thank you, so thank you
No prob!
No, not the actor. Just same name
Or lemmy.world support comm or their main lemmyworld(sp) comm