I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it's been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.
Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There's a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we've been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.
This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.
When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is "incompatible with that instance" which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.
Isn't it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don't just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn't it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think...
Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I'll doubt I'll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we'll bring up mlmym again now that someone's maintaining it again.
...in this case, you simply need to expand your definition of "everyone".
Roughly everyone in the US is conditioned to see our tiny slice of the political spectrum this way, as you're describing. Democrats left, Republicans right, the precise middle between them being...what? "Moderate"?
US politics sits within several broader contexts - it is not some magical thing with the power to redefine global and historical political thought. We simply grew up thinking it's mostly all there was and probably the ~best out of other worse sets of ideas.
And all of us suffer for that, you help us all suffer for that, by simply accepting (defending!) the self-defeating idea that Democrats are as far left as one should go. While Republicans just sprint further right, without penalty. And complicit orgs like the New York Times "report" like everything is mostly normal, instead of a goddamn historic, violent assertion of all the worst fucking things that basically NO ONE agrees with, going on today.
Okay. Democrats are left-wing. How?
I’m not in the US, so your entire diatribe goes out the window.
The left is moving further left than the right is moving right. Much further, much faster.
You are so wrong it's amazing. Sounds malicious, even deceitful, frankly. Think we're all done huh?
How are the right moving further right?
By dropping due process in a hundred ways, by openly murdering people they want to deport, by dismantling election safeguards, by destroying the Department of Education, by installing a fucking quack as the head of our health department and attacking vaccination, by the executive branch refusing to answer to the other branches of government in all the legal ways it is required to, by weakening protections against predatory financial schemes, by discarding truth and nakedly lying as a constant mode of operation, by dismantling the separation of church and state, by rolling back civil rights and Roe v Wade, by facilitating ever-greater mergers and monopolization, by demonizing and attacking protected 1A speech as "left wing terror", by SELLING FUCKING SCAM COINS FOR PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Look, I am simply tired of typing - this is nowhere NEAR the list of evidence for the sharp slide right.
You are either so clueless you should never comment on American politics, or you're acting in bad faith. Either way, go fuck yourself.
By attacking and crippling fucking Sesame Street, AKA the entire LIBRARY of magnificent culture, available and permanently useful to the poorest folks, especially children, provided by PBS.
By literally violently capturing the head of state from another country that posed zero risks to the one that went aggro. By making it super fucking clear that the only goal there is imperialist extraction.
By reversing the obviously improving relations with Cuba, in a disgustingly violent way, by simply depriving the literal island of the resources required to uphold a functioning society.
By cutting off foreign aid like a fucking guillotine, with ZERO prep given for the sudden "guess you can just go die, then, we are done helping".
Ran outta words I felt like typing again, maybe I'll say more.