Are you on the list? Do you want a badge?

No, I’m serious.

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Or just steal this .gif!

Pretty fucking funny imo.

This has to be just for the creators use right? Like accidentally committed, or a project where they had no intention of others actually using it? Any other explanation is insane.

making a list of undesirables to disenfranchise is a rather alarmingly faschy thing to do >.>; just sayin’…

i’ve been mulling it over and it creeps me out more and more. all too easily, a misplaced sense of self-importance in a principal administrative figure can spoil like milk forgotten in a hot car. I’ve seen this sort of thing happen PERSONALLY.

Someone I had known became the big fish in their small pond. They began systematically ejecting and excommunicating anyone who didn’t agree with them. Eventually the only people left in their circle were exclusively yes-men who did not DARE to challenge or question anything–lest they were to dispose of said yes-men too. Yes-men incentivized to say ‘yes’ to, and thereby condone, and then encourage, increasingly outrageous and deranged impulses.

The first domino has fallen over and struck the second, which is now tilting past any point of equilibrium. For a while longer, everything will be fine; the people who ingratiate themselves will be selectively immune from the same criticisms that get others blanket-‘disappeared’… so hey, one might enjoy using that frontend for now…

…but I implore mindfulness and wariness. Very seldom do I see someone cross the first line without crossing the rest of them eventually. It’s not impossible, but it’s far from common. Anyone still using that frontend, if they start seeing “a certain kind of person” being bolstered exceptionally at the expense of everyone else, it’s time to bail.

While it’s not my place to dictate what the tesseract dev does, I do recall reading that they specifically were feeling dissatisfied with the work, and disappointed by the way their users were acting, and had been considering abandoning the project. While I can’t speak for this developer, obviously, I can’t help but imagine myself in their position… and on that basis I for one believe I would have sooner relinquished the project and walked away entirely rather than see myself turn it into a tool of targeted harassment and marginalization With A Cheerful Coat Of Paint.

…

it’s just setting off my alarm bells real bad. This looks too much like other abusive shit i’ve been through over the decades.

but eh. maybe i’m just paranoid… grain of salt, mileage may vary, et cetera.

I don’t understand any of this but I would like to know how to find out if I am on the list.

I like how this dev used regex to match any similar names, not just the specific name they’re trying to block. People out there catching strays, getting blocked when they’ve done nothing but have a similar name to someome this dev doesn’t like.

“^Darkassassin([0-9]+)?$”,

Did they block me? Someone else, but I’m similar?

I’ve never used another number with this name, just the full ‘Darkasassin07’

Screw anyone called ‘Darkasassin’ I guess 🤷🏻

Can we go with “denylist” instead?

Awe, I didn’t make the list 😢

I’ll wear it as a badge of honor

Feeling offended now, going back through my comment history and thinking “Why did that not get me on there?” Am I too tame?

It’s probably because I spend 60% of my time on here overthinking and eventually deleting my posts before posting them…

And 30% writing the posts that never get posted.

I’m not sure if they don’t like me because I’m trans, or if they just hate wood scientists.

I just want Lemmy to have a better, more wholesome, and welcoming experience for new users, as such I’ve decided to block the things I think we can all agree are bad:

• Calls for violence
• Politics
• Sex
• Nu metal
• People who put egg in potato salad
• Jerry (all of them)

Made it!

Made it!

Finally, some recognition.

Didn’t make it but 2 other wizards did.