I debated posting this, but it’s a lazy, rainy Saturday and this is the hot topic, why not?
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards? AdmiralPatrick
- What sanction did they impose? Community ban. Additionally, three of my communities were on the tesseract ban list.
I was the one of the first downvotes on the latest post here: https://lemmy.today/post/57202811 which probably instigated the ban.
Aaaand I was linking to the Admiral’s rant all over lemmy, which may have been part of it.
Now, this kinda sucks because I liked tesseract up until I couldn’t mod my own communities anymore, finding out later that they were on the ban list. Of course when a locked post comes up trying to make sense of the community blocks, calling them unstable and unmoderated, I’m gonna downvote that shit.
My username wasn’t even on the original ban list, just those communities.
There’s nothing toxic or unmoderated about anything I run. Not to mention that one of those communities has barely over 100 subscribers and exists just to post a few daily news articles from independent, Canadian sources.
I know nothing about the ban list makes any sense, but blocking three small news communities with posts that rarely get more than two comments and twenty upvotes is crazy. He would have had to search and dig and dig just to find them.
It’s extra nuts considering my brandnewsentence community gets wayyyy more feisty comments than the rest put together, and it’s not blocked.
So there’s your drama, it’s a poor consolation prize for the loss of a pretty good front end. I’m looking forward to the fork and any updates on the ban list.


No idea what this is all about, so I read whomever’s “elephant in the room” post on the tesseracts sub, and good god it sounds like someone in the throes of a mental health problem.
PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.
TLDR: they were secretly censoring the Fediverse and silencing human rights activists via a Lemmy client frontend
indeed. and everyone dogpiling to make the situation worse.
Patrick fucked around and found out the hard way why being a self-righteous, pompous douche doesn’t bode well for the success of his projects.
Oh no, a fascist is seeing that everyone despises them for their actions they tried to hide :(