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Doesn’t piefed do this too?
Just in a different bend?
Nope. All of the piefed stuff is clearly visible, labelled and optional.
took me a while to realize that tesseract is also the name of a lemmy frontend. because there's also tesseract-ocr which is used for optical character recognition. (i started using tesseract-ocr yesterday to scan all my meme images for text to make them easily searchable).
I just logged in this afternoon and saw all this going on with Tesseract. Does anyone have a link to an article or summary of what is going on? I heard of this program until lemmy got a bunch of posts about it. lol
sidenote, that mod on the You Should Know sublemmy is a transphobic cunt
Ew gross
Thank you!
This controversy over tesseract finally got me to do a bit more reading to understand how federation actually works and what a frontend does. Now I understand why everyone is so pissed.
The email metaphor has been the most useful to me in understanding how this works. Someone tell me if I've got this right. Basically, you have your lemmy account, which belongs to the instance you created it on, like how a gmail account belongs to Google. You can use whatever frontend you like to view your feed, just like you could use Outlook to view your Gmail account. Tesseract is a frontend, kinda like Outlook in the metaphor. In theory, a frontend should deliver to you everything that would appear on your lemmy instance no matter where you access it from, but now the tesseract frontend is basically making content filtering decisions about what users, topics, and instances you have access to. It would be like if your Outlook app suddenly decided "ew, you shouldn't be using your Gmail to talk to any of those yahoo mail people, and also it's now forbidden to use Outlook to discuss seahorses."
So all the posts, users, and instances are still there, it's just that the dev of your frontend decided that you shouldn't interact with those users or discuss those topics anymore. Worse still, they surreptitiously tried to hide all of this new filtering among other features that are needed for spam and whatnot, leading people to think something was actually broken.
Do I have that right?
You win the internet for today!
This explanation should really be somewhere easier to find. Especially when you’re wondering if it will go down on your permanent record.
I'm just glad I actually got it right. I was mostly typing up that comment just to make sure that my understanding was correct. I wasn't even thinking at the time that it would be helpful to others as well. I guess I've been kind of assuming that everyone else on lemmy already understood how all of this stuff works. Happy to help!
This explains so much. Thank you for the synopsis.
Looks like it's now been removed from GitHub too... That chode went from 9 to 8 repos.
Is that to prevent more forks/code inspection, you think? I can’t imagine it’s from shame.
And it's back for some reason. I forked it just because why not - it had zero fork, quite strange!
What a sad loser. May his days be short. 👍
This comment is likely a bit too close to the line for this instance. Blahaj is governed by guidelines rather than rules, and that sounded quite like a comment intended to cause harm. By all means criticize and condemn people for their actions, but this isn't the place to post veiled wishes for harm. Its not the vibe of this instance.
You'd probably be fine saying that on lemmy world, but comments like that rather iffy here.
I have no way to put anything into action nor any desire to do so in earnest... but thanks for letting me know, I'll keep it in mind. 👍
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