I mean, I can't deny that the comments you post are well thought out, and are amazing at encouraging participation and engagement within the fediverse.

Wait I feel like you're saying something without actually saying that thing.

it's a frontend. like an app client, but used in a browser.

I'm still not clear <snip>

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

I'd give you a pat on the back. Thank you for your continuing contributions!

Wait, how many alts do you have? XD

It's a curl command, run it in a bash terminal. It makes a file with the list

None. Which makes this even stranger. Not only am I on the list, this guy for whatever reason anticipated that I might make alts with different numbers after my name.

I don’t get it.

I ain’t woke I sleep.

Name fits!

This meme is a work of art. I love this comm so much lol

I'm not on there either but I also don't post a lot. I wonder if I would be if I did.

I wouldn't let him anywhere near an open-source project again, or even anything involving the Fediverse for that matter. His actions go against everything that FOSS/Fediverse/Lemmy stands for if you think about it. You can't be putting obfuscated code (which is nearly exactly how malware delivers its payloads to avoid detection via base64 encoding and offloaded via a C2 server) and reasonably expect people to trust you again. Nope! All it could take is for him to swap out the policy file for something malicious, and nobody would have caught it in time.

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

XD

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

Definitely by making accounts with the same username and differing numbers afterwards

I feel like I'm not in some super cool private group of people.

Let me in!

Any instance can run any number of UI frontends. E.g. Lemmy.world offers a choice of several of them. Afaiu one can also run a frontend on their own computer or server and connect to an instance.

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