i needed to make an argument against Shinigami Eyes in one talk, so i installed it in a separate browser and logged into tech dot lgbt since it annoyingly only supports mastodon
so, Amber from transfem dot social is marked as red but a TLA user who runs a pedo instance is green
so the conclusion i can make is that the extension is endorsing these people
edit: THE WHOLE FUCKING TLA IS GREEN
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(kemona_halftau)
@link whwhat
@link yeah, it’s ran by TIRFs and truscums. Anyone who is transmasc, enby, intersex, supports transmascs, enbies or intersex people, or just doesn’t agree with radfems is red
radfems and truscums are green
it might actually light up all TLA users because the TLA is green in Google search
what the hell is TLA
i’ll explain to you in DMs
ok, so in short
TLA and also Xenofemme are 4tran (4chan transgenders) instances, which are known best for harassing transmascs, in one instance they harrased Kio out of the Internet
he was hosting a bunch of public services, his Fedi instances alone were having in total more than 1000 users
he is remembered very fondly in queer fedi
that event, and also the fact that at least TLA admins tolerate open pedos on their instance, warranted them a fediblock from a lot of server owners
refer to this post of mine
RE: https://meowing.men/fediverse/post/32e3793f-cdc8-42d8-86ef-adb0fe708dd2
i do not enjoy the fact that i started a meta discourse
BUT i think i won the argument which made me check out the extension in the first place
so far i just made one of the critters in that talk to facilitate that this unit doesn’t want to join fedi
making the fediverse unadvertisable award x2
@link bestie I had 4h of sleep, I can't comprehend this sentence /lh /noButActualWhatAreYouTryingToSay
yeah, i am reading that again and it’s kinda incomprehensive
so, i presented my argument mentioned in the first post, and one of the participants, who refers to themselves as “this unit”, said that this type of shit is why this unit doesn’t want to join fedi
@link @miawinter this problem isn't exclusive to fedi
I see the exact same shit on twitter, reddit, bsky, etc.
@link tbh, my theory is theory is that their bloom filter is filling up & becoming less accurate
though it definitely has issues with brigading
it uses what's called a "filter", specifically a "bloom filter"
it's a probabilistic data structure which can tell you whether some element is definitely not in a set or maybe in a set
essentially, as it gets more full it becomes less accurate
what it roughly does is it hashes the input then uses the bits in the hash to check/set bits in an array
so like let's say it's an array of 4 bits. if you have one thing that hashes in a way that sets bits 1 & 2 and another that sets bits 3 & 4, then if you try to check if something that uses bits 2 & 3 are in the filter, it will return true even though you never added it