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i know you've all heard it before, but i didn't catch up, i was honestly a bit surprised when i was browsing and tesseract on dubvee shut down.

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[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

Its a shame, it was one of the best clients. And admiral Patrick was very helpful to all admins, too ☹️

[-] Tweekerz@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

agreed, i love tesseract

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

as a dev sure. as an admin he had a recent kerfuffle on news, etc, with bans and involvement in some drama around them.

Guy instance banned a bunch of people simply for speaking up in favor of Luigi, before it got clear how many supporters there were. Admin-wise, some questionable decisions. Still he did a lot of good for Lemmy. Shame to lose him.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

oh did not know abt those bans. he got me when I posted intolerance of nazis because I was “dehumanizing” them. but yeah. as a dev good! administration was just too much for him.

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, not so nice for just downvoting a post of his though. Fediverse is better off without that kind of toxic behaviour.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Why would you downvote that post though?

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The post was fine, the premise is wrong about the fediverse. That's why I downvoted and didn't interact further.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What did you interpret the premise to be? I read the post when it was up, and it read to me like OP was saying essentially that too many toxic users and not enough admins willing to stand up to them make the overall experience not fun.

EDIT: Which is accurate in my mind at least when it comes to Lemmy

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

This fediverse experiment was a failure.

The whole notion that the fediverse is a failure. Ptz is entitled to his opinion, but he couldn't be serious that everyone would hold that inflammatory opinion as well. I still stand by my opinion that the fediverse is better off without toxic admins like this.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 1 week ago

He said "this" experiment, not "the fediverse" which I interpreted to mean his instance (or perhaps Lemmy).

That said, I'm honestly curious what do you care about his "toxicty" if he's not an admin of your instance? You don't seriously believe you have a right to dictate what he does with his own hardware do you?

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Better phrasing would be "this experiment within the fediverse". His phrasing still comes across as the fediverse (as an experiment) being a failure to me. I've not seen fediverse used as an adjective before.

It's the same reason I'm not on .ml and your instance (I saw how they ran things over on reddit) and try to limit interactions on the instances that are notorious for their heavy handed moderation. He can do whatever he wants, but so can I within the limits of the sh.itjust.works instance or even spinning up my own. That's the reason I think he got butthurt. He got called out for how he ran things in front of the fediverse, didn't like it, got mad, took his ball and went home and likely banned me and 5 other guys for his bad phrasing at best or his opinion at worst. He's free to do that and I believe that the fedivdrse is better for it.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Eh, I think you're projecting. He literally owned his instance. He was playing with his own ball at his own house and you got "butthurt" because he didn't want to play with you.

It's no secret that a lot of people are attracted to Lemmy because they felt Reddit mods were too overbearing, but some of us like Lemmy because we didn't think Reddit mods were doing enough about the overbearing users.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Tesseract is open source so perhaps not all is entirely lost, but yes situation is quite unfortunate. I'm not sure I can even say surprising though, considering ptz was raising flags nearly a year ago regarding admin tooling and general community behavior.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Dubvee was mass banning users for harmless comments on comms on other instances that had nothing to do with their instance. It all seemed very strange to me, what the point of all that was.

Essentially, if you were a user on his instance he assumed you were there because you wanted his curated version of the fediverse. So his instance block list got treated like his own personal block list.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website -1 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a major perk of that instance to me.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

Mass banning people for harmless comments that have nothing to do with your instance is a major perk for sure. 👍🏻

[-] Kirk@startrek.website -1 points 1 week ago

I'm glad we agree.

[-] iso@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago

Tesseract was functional but not as beautiful as Photon. I think I'll stick with Photon.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Just wish that Photon had the same features as Tesseract. I do think Photon looks better but Tesseract is way more functional. It has Fediseer integration, has MBFC integration, and also has better options for user management.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

i know you've all heard it before

Nope. Seriously, no idea what you're taking about.

[-] Philamand@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

I made a post about it a few days ago

Essentially, the guy who makes Tesseract, an open-source Lemmy frontend, burned out and discontinued it and closed his instance.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This sucks, I hope someone forks it before it breaks. Either that or hopefully most of its nice features get ported/added to Photon. So mods don't have to end up living without them.

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