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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

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.

ITT: ’

grieving the relief of the angels burden by joybun, released 09 January 2026

it's been so long
just where has all the time gone
we've taken almost seven whole years, or thereabouts, since i last saw her
and i don't really think about her anymore
i can barely even remember her voice, or her face
or her love, or her hate
in the first couple years
how i wept, how i wept
and i wrote, many songs
so many songs, so many albums
so i could tell the story
give justice to the memory but memories fade away over time, just like feelings after all of these years of holding on to them
i threw them away, all of the songs that i wrote about her death
but how many more does it take
til i have no verses left?
i tried to forget
then it happened again
and again
and again
i used to check in on all of the people i loved
just in case a tragedy struck
then one day i stopped and three of their lives were taken
it was such a vivid pattern, crystal and clear
so i abandoned myself to nourish the rest
for how many more will it take
til there’s nobody left
oh my heart
it bleeds love
this burden is heavy
i should put myself above
and so i took flight
i flew on away from divine obligation
i disposed of my sacred foundation
and now i am left without purpose at all
i am hollow, empty
void of all but the vaguest notion of a joy that one day supposedly makes its return
inside of the hole that was once filled with duty
there is nothing but grief and despair
i yearn for the light of my halo now thrown away
but in vain
for now i have learned that the light had shined so bright it left me blind
to my story
i’m so sorry
that i can't keep
the angel’s duty
but i couldn't see myself
then it left
and when the weight finally lifted
i couldn't breathe
i thought it would be easier
just to forget
and so i promptly forgot
everything
even myself

WHITE DEVIL DESTRUCTION by DISPOSSESSED, released 05 July 2019

WHITE DEVIL DESTRUCTION

White devil destruction

Car bomb Foundations shatter

Ocean floor
Twisted metal
Prove their warlords mortal

Warriors
Kill their gods
Hollow and false
Commit your souls

https://violettendencies.netlify.app/

Punk • Riot Grrrl • Metal
Bunurong-Frankston / Naarm-Melbourne

Born from the raw energy of Melbourne’s underground scene, Violet Tendencies performs a fierce blend of punk rock with riot grrrl attitude and intense metal breakdowns.

Based Boonwurrung and Woiworung land between Frankston and Melbourne, we’re here to shake things up with unapologetic sound, hard-hitting lyrics, and a live show that leaves you breathless.

No compromises.
No apologies.
Just pure, unfiltered energy.

https://violettendencies.netlify.app/

Punk • Riot Grrrl • Metal
Bunurong-Frankston / Naarm-Melbourne

Born from the raw energy of Melbourne’s underground scene, Violet Tendencies performs a fierce blend of punk rock with riot grrrl attitude and intense metal breakdowns.

Based Boonwurrung and Woiworung land between Frankston and Melbourne, we’re here to shake things up with unapologetic sound, hard-hitting lyrics, and a live show that leaves you breathless.

No compromises.
No apologies.
Just pure, unfiltered energy.