Edit: For context, @[email protected] discovered that the developer of Tesseract had discretely banned numerous instances and disguised it as a server error. This included more heavily leftist instances, but also blahaj.zone. More recently, it was discovered that they had also been suppressing individual users, phrases, and communities that criticize power tripping on fedi.
Needless to say, I implore non blahaj.zone users to drop the Tesseract client (support for the client has already been dropped for blahaj). So called “liberals” like this who call out “extremism on both sides” are an insult to the values they claim to be upholding.
Maybe you’re correct but what you fail to take into account is that Blahaj wouldn’t be underhand and secretive - plus the vast majority (maybe even all) of the instance users would agree with such a move.
Regexing an enormous blocklist in a front end whilst keeping it hidden from users is completely different.
Blahaj, by the nature of its composition, heavily mods to stop the place from turning into a toxic clusterfuck.
Somewhere lower in this thread I explained(my opinion) why this dev has used this tactic of expressing points of view instead of simply presenting a modifiable, clearly visible and documented filter with a default option, that represents views of this dev. I don’t say that this dev is right, but I can understand the logic and motivation that were used to do so. And, yes, I can also be wrong. I don’t deny it.
I have no problem with the blocklist as is, just it’s clandestine implementation on unknowing others that I took umbrage with.