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I think it's the sheer size of the list that makes it comical. It's hard to feel personally targeted when the dude had half of Lemmy blocked.

Isn't that a good thing? Your comments essentially become hidden to bigots and downvote army.

As dual_sport_dork said, you really shouldn't worry about it, and you're probably better off not having anything to do with Admiral Patrick, but if you really wanted to pursue it, you could PM Admiral Patrick and (very nicely) ask him how you ended up on the list and ask him to remove you. (Right now, he's probably getting flooded with messages that are likely to generally piss him off (more so than usual), so it's definitely worth being extra nice if you want that to have any chance of success.)

You really don't need to worry about it. Said list exists only within the tiny padded cell that is the Tesseract client. If you are not using it, and no one you are interacting with is using it, it doesn't affect anything or anyone. That's part of what makes this so hilarious.

Now that the cat is out of the bag I suspect that Tesseract is being used by a vanishingly small number of people.

Apparently several people have gotten themselves added since the initial reveal of the list by deliberately razzing Mr. Patrick via private message, among other things. I imagine he is also running automated scraping tools to seek out people for his self-styled version of "non-normie" behavior (i.e. keywords) to block as well.

Me too. I argue with zionists! Why don’t they notice me 🥺

You just have to be a massive bell end, like I am.

I sometimes turn on the mainstream news on TV and I go "what the actual fuck is this".

Doesn't happen often since it's so disgusting but sometimes when I'm at hotels or such.

Same, the accounts I have in their regex are under an old alias I decided to move on from, and unfortunately this one isn't in there at all. I need to step up my game on this account to get it banned too.

You even made the regex list.

Hey, it's me! Your friend at the bottom of the barrel!

Well, we've all got to hang around somewhere.

Me too, apparently.

An alternative frontend for Lemmy. Its developer has a track history of being rather unhinged, and has recently become even more unhinged. He apparently feels that it is his job to police the content on all of Lemmy according to his own whims, and was recently caught secretly inserting a long and complex list of content filters and user blocks into his client as well as pushing purposefully misleading error messages within his app to obfuscate this behavior. The explicit bans of specific users has attracted the most attention and amusement from the community writ large, in particular from the people who are banned. Note of course that this list happens to contain yours truly, for truly unfathomable reasons.

He previously ran a Lemmy instance (dubvee.org) which was infamous for preemptively banning huge swathes of users from other instances who had never even participated in or even visited his instance. This was shut down or rather more likely made private some time last year after a high profile crash-out by the developer/operator.