Submitted 1 month ago by Tweekerz@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world
i know you’ve all heard it before, but i didn’t catch up, i was honestly a bit surprised when i was browsing and tesseract on dubvee shut down.
Dubvee was mass banning users for harmless comments on comms on other instances that had nothing to do with their instance. It all seemed very strange to me, what the point of all that was.
Essentially, if you were a user on his instance he assumed you were there because you wanted his curated version of the fediverse. So his instance block list got treated like his own personal block list.
If that is stated somewhere openly before signing up, I honestly see nothing wrong with it. I wouldn’t sign up there, but if there are any tangible rules associated with what is banned and what is not, and you can check those, fine.
If its erratic banning and random rules not written down, then eh, bad stuff.
They’re certainly not the only instance that engages in such classy activities
Sounds like a major perk of that instance to me.
Mass banning people for harmless comments that have nothing to do with your instance is a major perk for sure. 👍🏻
Tesseract is open source so perhaps not all is entirely lost, but yes situation is quite unfortunate. I’m not sure I can even say surprising though, considering ptz was raising flags nearly a year ago regarding admin tooling and general community behavior.
i know you’ve all heard it before
Nope. Seriously, no idea what you’re taking about.
I made a post about it a few days ago
Essentially, the guy who makes Tesseract, an open-source Lemmy frontend, burned out and discontinued it and closed his instance.
Thanks!
Tesseract was functional but not as beautiful as Photon. I think I’ll stick with Photon.
Tesseract was the only client that had an in-community search input, compared to all the other clients that require re-entering the community name. That shows how functional it was to me.
I’m looking for third-party instances right now (that’s how I ended up on this post), found one so far (but outdated) : lemmy.max-p.me
Just wish that Photon had the same features as Tesseract. I do think Photon looks better but Tesseract is way more functional. It has Fediseer integration, has MBFC integration, and also has better options for user management.
This sucks, I hope someone forks it before it breaks. Either that or hopefully most of its nice features get ported/added to Photon. So mods don’t have to end up living without them.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Its a shame, it was one of the best clients. And admiral Patrick was very helpful to all admins, too ☹️
Tweekerz@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
agreed, i love tesseract
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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Yeah, not so nice for just downvoting a post of his though. Fediverse is better off without that kind of toxic behaviour.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Why would you downvote that post though?
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah I remember that in the YPTB room yesterday. Normally I’d be harsh on this stuff but it’s the end of the instance anyway, we’d be wasting our breaths. Also, I was talking about how helpful he was to other admins, idk if he is a PTB in his own spaces :p
flandish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
as a dev sure. as an admin he had a recent kerfuffle on news, etc, with bans and involvement in some drama around them.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Guy instance banned a bunch of people simply for speaking up in favor of Luigi, before it got clear how many supporters there were. Admin-wise, some questionable decisions. Still he did a lot of good for Lemmy. Shame to lose him.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Specifically I was talking about how helpful he was to other admins, he made out lives a lot easier. Can’t comment on dubvee moderation