Dbzero seems to use Tesseract, which is how they discovered the problem originally, and have since forked it to remove filtering.

Let me in!

"This fucker is definitely going to try to escape my ban."

And the weird censorship stuff goes against Lemmy's and the Fediverse's ideology and principles as a whole. Like, why are you even here then? That type of thing is why many people left Reddit for Lemmy, to escape the censorship. Ironically, I left Reddit over API changes and not being able to use my favorite Reddit app (RiF), and now the same thing is almost happening all over again.. Except now the API changes straight up shadow ban people instead of blocking app access outright. It's just a different side of the same coin, really. Just stay on Reddit if you want to do this to people.

For someone to pull the same BS again in a place that is supposed to promote inclusiveness for LGBT and many other types of "left-wing" people is wild to me. Many people just want a place they can feel comfortable. Not a good look when things like "epstein" are filtered out. Yikes. The Fediverse needs to remain a free and open place for all.

I'm taking this as an achievement lol cause maybe I'm doing something right if someone is willing to go as far as to hardcode me into their petty little blocklist (that was manually typed out) just to silence me over insignificant things. It's kinda funny someone is this uptight and would even go to these lengths at all. I'm not that interesting, I promise you.

Edit: Fixed bad typos

Edit: nevermind, I see now. This thread helped.