I have no clue what Tesseract is, but we’re several days in and now I’m seeing memes of people not being on some list. What is Tesseract? What is the list? Why do people want to be on it?

Does this have something to do with the OCR software?

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    81·
    28 days ago

    It’s an alternative skin/user interface that fediverse instances can offer users. It turns out to have an internal blocklist of instances, communities, users, and keywords that it will silently hide. Some (e.g. child abuse) are understandable. Others (e.g. specific usernames) are less so.

    Some people are upset they are on the list; some that they are not on the list. But most are upset that a list exists in the first place.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      28 days ago

      We’re not upset that some guy has a block list, or even that he was sharing it.

      We’re upset that he did everything possible to hide that he was pushing his block list on unsuspecting users.

      That’s just straight malware, and when confronted, he resorted to vandalism.

    • AlfalFaFail@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      28 days ago

      I’m loving that people want to be on this guy’s list. He sounds like a bit of a chud.