Update: Admiral patrick removed the repository along with all Tesseract communities in response to the drama. Hopefully this means he’s stepping away from the project for good.

I don’t know if they plan on keeping it long term, if they do though, it definitely should have a better name, Something which isn’t associated with the idiot who currently did this. Also in their fork they should remove the user agreement page since it implies this same enforcement.

Good call, I don’t see anything good coming from them in the future either. It’s definitely concerning that this person is a mod on piefed.social, makes me feel like people need to stay away from that instance and its communities. Also I wonder if Ada should be made aware of this person, considering their prolific history of acting in bad faith.

Pretty sure it’s deliberate, that person is a well known troll and contrarian.

Correction, *would help. You need to actually have it in order for it to help you.

We also defederated feddit.org for apologizing for and promoting Zionist liberal apologia.

Update, it seems like the Tesseract Dev and owner of Dubvee.org has responded to this, by shutting off his instance and redirecting the domain to this picture:

Real mature of him. I would encourage not using Tesseract anymore or if you must, using the Fork db0 provides, and contributing to that instead of the main one.

What I mean is, there is no reason for a frontend to do what Lemmy already does in the transparent way it does it. I used Tesseract for its community moderation tools and I think other’s do as well.

It just doesn’t make sense to do censorship in the UI tool exclusively when Lemmy has those options already, it would be like hiding someone from the UI while not blocking their account in the backend. Moderation tooling should be tied into the real features that we already have in the backend or it’s not really doing anything.

Lemmy though has its own instance moderation tools so it’s also just unnecessary. The entire reason he did this is the hope that instance admins won’t notice it and that even if they do they might not be able to control it without recompiling.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, there is no reason a frontend developer should be making decisions about censorship on other people’s instances, no matter how reasonable it seems. That’s what they are trying to do. It’s why they hardcoded it and also why they changed the message to say “not compatible”. This is a major overstep from a developer to try to block or censor content on instances that are not their own, and is a breach of trust.
When you write code that runs on other people’s machines you need to hold yourself, or otherwise be held to a higher standard than if you’re just writing shit for yourself or for fun. Crap like this doesn’t meet that standard.

Ah I understand what you were saying now, I wasn’t sure exactly and it reminded me of the “Agender Pronouns” thing, glad you didn’t mean it that way though.

There are other problems I’ve had with Hexbear, I’ve actually been threatened and harassed by several users on that platform, I’ve also gotten some bad vibes in a few communities there that didn’t really make me feel welcome, as a GNC person or as an Agender person. It’s hard to describe, it just didn’t quite feel right.

But yeah I do hope the user flairs get added to Lemmy at some point, it would be nice to have some of the helpful features from Reddit, like User flairs, and either post flairs or post tags (post tags are probably better since they can federate as hashtags).

Yeah the big issue with Hexbear’s way of doing it is that it’s kind of forced and can cause discomfort to people who don’t want to out themselves yet. I wasn’t aware they have undecided or any as options, I’ve never tried to sign up there and have little desire to considering among other things how isolated it is. Even so I don’t think their way of doing it is very good since it heavily limits the options people can use, and locks people out of using display names, which are extremely useful. I think a better solution would just be to increase the length of usernames and display names to accommodate users who might want to use pronouns.

Also just want to point out, it does annoy me a bit when people say Agender pronouns, since Agender people don’t have a universal set of pronouns. We all have very widely varied preferences and experiences among us. I don’t blame you for that by the way, it’s a common misconception about Agender and Nonbinary people.

I’m not a fan of forced pronoun badges as an Agender person. Allowing people to have pronoun badges is good but only if it is optional. When it isn’t it creates a dilemma where a person has to choose between outing themself, or lying if they don’t want to out themselves.

As it is though, their implementation of it simply uses (or rather commandeers) the display-name feature Lemmy has, so in a way we already do have an optional implementation of it for people who want it. It’s just not mandated. The way they did it was to replace display names with Pronoun tags and have them be mandatory.