cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1066667/tesseract-dev-injects-malicious-code-into-browser-to-illegally-ddos-the-dbzer0-instance
As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.
Tesseract is a lemmy frontend a lot of people use. The dev secretly added a blocklist to the software that hides ANYTHING they don’t approve of, which includes: discussing zionism, discussing mod abuse, discussing billionaires, a lot of generic news communities, the Wholesome Yuri community, the dz0 instance, and a LOT more. It also includes over 500 users who didn’t do anything worthy of a ban (at least of that scale).
It’s nakedly a single person trying to force their own agenda. They got called out, and they took it as well as you could expect. Which is to say, they’re crashing out HARD.
Don’t forget he blacklisted any communities about “identity politics” I.e. LGBTQ+ spaces
And any discussion of pedophiles, or the epstein class. Seriously, you can keep looking through that list and it’ll keep getting worse and worse, but I had to click “reply” at SOME point.
And ACAB, beans, the word perchance, and 👉👈.
Truly, the worst of the worst.