UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.
EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it’s perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren’t him
Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one
To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn’t a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It’s hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it’s a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.
I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk’s comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they’re leaking out into other communities with ill intent.
If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.
Sorry but this is out of scope for this community. Also y’all can’t behave. Reminder that the burden of proof is on the accuser. You can’t prove a negative (i.e. “prove such-and-such isn’t Universal Monk”)
Just a reminder to this individual.
You have to make dozens of clone accounts to make it appear as though your opinion is agreed with.
We don’t. Nice cope.
It’s that no-lifer, UniversalMonk. How do people not know this? That dude threatened me in PM. It’s what got him banned among other things.
seems like he has shown up in this thread, and apparently some other accounts are defending him, its probally all him to.
I wouldn’t at all be surprised. Dude is fucking obnoxious.
I’m allowed to defend myself. Feel free to check OP’s post history and length of time he’s been on Lemmy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ProudAntifa@lemmings.world?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts
I’ll help ya out: He’s been on here less that one day, and the only post he has made is this one, and the only comments he’s made are in this thread.
Think about that a sec.
Now go check my post history and how long I’ve been here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts
Once every couple of months or so there is someone posting a thread saying I am every bad guy on Lemmy and that I am the destroyer of worlds.
If I were some evil attention-seeking troll like people claim, the smartest move would be to ignore me and starve me of attention. Instead, folks keep making threads and building this whole myth around me. Makes me feel famous though, which is kind of fun.
Thanks, friend!
Who is also his accounts? Point to them, please. Evidence is required for claims.
EDIT: If anyone who demands evidence is also guilty of the crime, the entire idea of a justice system is corrupt for you.
/s
I don’t really take time to memorize people like this unless theres an ongoing push to hold them accountable outside the internet.
Looking at his post history he seems to post a mix of ragebait and actual socialist rhetoric so would I be wrong for calling him a tankie?
He’s just a troll. There’s been plenty of evidence who he is. The admins of his instance won’t do shit about it because they pretend there’s nothing connecting him.
Lemmy.Today won’t? Checks out, those losers are still federated to Hexbear and ML. Definite Tankie.
Technically we’re federated with everyone. That’s actually why I joined this instance - so that I could block them instead of having the admins in control via defederation.
Meanwhile Hexbear is still raiding us for not being Tankie. Somehow we’re both Tankies but not far left enough to be Tankies.
Tankies are all far right
Tankies are weirdos but they aren’t far right. They’re dipshits but not far right.
They said we somehow are to the right of them for not praising stalin and saying killing anarchists was bad.
It’s amazing, we’re tankies to .world but Tankies think we’re liberals.
Exactly.
What am I posting that you feel is ragebait?
You put nudes of my mom out on the internet.
I think she looks great in them, and during our photoshoot, I told her how awesome you are. So nothing to be mad about. Be proud!
He can’t answer because he doesn’t have an answer that isn’t ragebait itself.
Damn he really sat down and wrote all that
Him, grok, it’s hard to tell. But it’s his actions that speak the loudest.
I’m pretty sure Grok can spell, “hiring.”
Intentionally mispelling things to ‘prove’ that you’re human is a common enough meme that it would be in the AI training material of any LLM that is destined to be an Internet troll bot.
I bet this person has dozens of friends whom they hang out with on a regular basis, a successful career, active sex life with a loving partner and proud parents.
This person is definitely not some self isolating weirdo that beats off to anime 4-8 times a day on a light week.
Hey hey now don’t insult people that beat off to anime 8 times a day like that
I mean, the глупый isn’t wrong about the tactics.
Perhaps our comrade here got a bit too drunk and violated opsec and is now on his way to meet a Ukrainian drone like the rest of his recently deceased countrymen.
Fuck this person to the moon and back. Absolutely dog shit human.
Is there an easy way to mass-block all these names in Voyager, or will I have to just copy and paste them one by one?
I believe the situation to be self evident
idk, man, do you got any evidence this is UM other than “trust me, bro”?
I’m an Admin on lemmy.today and the accusation that DJM is UM (and others) occasionally comes up. Both I and @mrmanager@lemmy.today have looked into it and neither of us have ever been able to find any kind of proof.
I’ve engaged with several Lemmy users who supposedly had proof but they were unable to provide anything better than what OP has up above. It’s always loose conjecture and “trust me, bro”.
Yes the DJM account is annoying but that’s not enough to get banned from our instance.
I kinda figured. it seems to me that a lot of the accusations we see in YPTB and elsewhere is people just saying bad actors are UM, and a lot of people just agreeing without any skepticism at all because they don’t like UM. which is fine, they don’t have to, but it seems like a lot of the tings UM is accused of are just from this negative feedback loop of rumors. at this point it wouldn’t surprise me to see somebody claim he eats babies.
And the OP is mad at the admin showing it’s not UM and not breaking any rules either. Now they wanna leave Lemmy.
And the admin also called out OP for likely being the one to having alt names, because OP’s account is only a few hours old and the comments in this thread are the only comments he has made. I’ve never even interacted with OP and he’s not banned from any of my communties, so I’m not even sure how my name came up anyway! lol
This is a big kicker for me. I have an identical name on a separate instance only for when .today gets attacked. This isn’t that fucking serious! Who goes out of their way to manipulate votes? Like I treat the numbers as feedback as compared to an indictment.
I oddly got accused of it by some taco butt plug braincel, but found the entire idea laughable. Which much like relationship cheaters, makes me think they were actually doing it and projecting.
These numbers aren’t real or important, why do some people take them so seriously?
I’m baffled at how many people seem to take this all seriously. I ain’t got time or the brain cells to switch between 300 accounts, alt usernames, instances, etc. Just cuss me out here. Not only that, these people they are accusing of me being, don’t even post the same shit I do, so why would I create alternate names just to post stuff that opposed my views?
So wait, am I every socialist on here now? Or every anarchist? Or every republican? Or every democrat? Or every libertarian? Do people not realize that those are not the same things? Am I all of those now?!
Isn’t “astroturfing” supposed to mean having the same message? All the names they are listing post all kinds of different shit. So what would the point?
I have actually chuckled outloud by some of the comments here. People really need to go outside more. lol
Someone just linked me my mod file, and I apparently pissed off someone very active here cause I am perma banned from so many communities I never interact with.
It seems like this is early adoption, but current Reddit.
They flagged me for serial down voting, but votes are public and I very rarely down vote anyone.
If I gave enough of a shit I’d investigate & make a post here, but I got better things to do with my time. Other than today, cause I did babysit a popular post I made this morning for a few hours
Honestly might be an alt of someone who hates you, projection is their entire thing of such people.
In the old days, at least people were annoyed because of things I actually did by not voting for their hero. This thread is a whole 'nother level of weird though. I’ve read every comment, and I still haven’t figured out what it is people think I’m doing or what my goal would be. What are they mad about again? I see they are mad, but I don’t know why. I’m 300 people or something now? I’ve never even interacted with OP and his account is only 17 hours old. What in the world?! lol
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world pinging for their claim so they may see the evidence isn’t on their side
First of all- BULLSHIT. I have brought evidence to you and you chose to dismiss it.
And I told you- you could have talked to JordanLund, he’s got the proof. You chose not to. You’re protecting him.
That last sentence is why I’m a big fan! Let idiots get ratio’d. But I also wonder why our very laissez faire instance gets ddos’d so often.
Yeah, whatever man - I had a huge “attack” one day, and wouldn’t you know, about 4-5 of the usernames listed here were involved in that. Odd that. Also, their traffic patterns were hugely suspect.
I spent hours into investigating that “perhaps these are real users” and nope, they fell right into my honeypot routes. UM and CM0002 are bots, full stop.
They also aren’t Tucsonans, which is why I didn’t approve their signup.
I don’t think many admins actually know how to properly audit for bots - and honestly, that problem is harder when you’re a global instance.
It’s part of why I don’t think global instances will work for the fediverse, too vulnerable to bot manipulation. We need proof of humanity - and that scales better with local nodes.
TrustMeBro™
Lack of evidence is now proof he’s guilty. Wasn’t at the scene of the crime? Guilty!
Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.
I know you can’t because of them being on other servers that aren’t playing ball but that kinda feels like the point.
You’re just the bartender, but once this conversation is over I’m done with Lemmy. Not your instance, all of Lemmy. He’s following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.
Fuck you.
I insulted this idiot once or twice, and they didn’t follow me around. I’m curious how hard you went in the paint.
Edit: someone linked my mod file and apparently that idiot perma banned me from a dozen communities I have never interacted with. So my point is moot.
All DonaldJMusk accounts are banned on Piefed.social.
you’re a brand new account making accusations, but not providing any proof to back those up, and suddenly after less than a day you’ve had enough of Lemmy and are leaving?
sounds like you just wanted to stir the pot for the attention.
But how else would the UM haters find new ways to stir shit without the one day old user who offered nothing? Proof is evil!
Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.
When I say “DJM” I am referring to DonaldJMusk.
He’s following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.
You obviously have another account because the one you’re commenting from is only 6 hours old, has just 1 post (this one) and only 17 comments (all in here). I checked because I wanted to see one of these accounts harassing you and look into it. Unfortunately there’s nothing for me to see so there’s nothing I can do.
My suggestion would be to report the user accounts that are causing you grief to the admins of the accounts home instance and then block them. Takes like 15 seconds to do both of those actions.
Fuck you.
Sadly my wife isn’t into sharing, otherwise I might be interested. 😘
Hey admin! I’m curious. I started an argument with someone and they mentioned my mod file. I’m still super new here and don’t quite understand what that means. Can you explain it and/or tell me how terrible of a person I am based solely on that file?
Modlog, here is yours. https://sopuli.xyz/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=16720769
Thanks homie!
And big lol at all the “serial down voting” bans. I thought voting was public, and I do not down vote often.
I must’ve seriously pissed off a prolific mod.
This is strange, it says I’m banned from my own instance. I’m so very confused.
Lol.
It’s all the shit I talked to them!
This is a good trip down memory lane.
Amazing how you proved a day old account made to make this point wrong, and they freak out. I’m sure that’s not suspicious.
Weird thing to crash over people saying you could be wrong. That’s always an option.
- Day old account
- Op makes post that has loose evidence
- OP makes claim and gives no proof of that claim
- OP is told their evidence doesn’t make sense by two different admins independently
- OP then leaves because of it
- People then come in believing the thing made up and attack users who give them proof otherwise, like OP.
Bravo. And they say we’re the bots. Or Tankies. But Hexbear said we’re bad guys for not being Tankie enough. What a wild 48 hours it’s been for us. Somehow too far left but not left enough. Somehow asking for proof is a lie.
Admin of tucson.social here - when UM signed up at tucson.social he made some crucial mistakes that made him easy to identify as a bot. Unfortunately, since this affects my security posture, I’m not keen on publicly posting what it is as he still makes the same mistakes.
However, let me add this - there are multiple places we should be validating are accessed from the same IP in a registration flow - all to many bot farms centralize certain aspects of their operations and use the same IP every time for only certain parts of a given flow.
I’ll also add that many admins are either stupid about site security, or actively complicit in the bot problem.
I’m not on tucson.social and I’m not a bot. I don’t remember ever signing up for that instance. If I did, maybe it was way back when I was bouncing around trying to find a good instance, but this has been my main account for a long time.
Calling me a bot doesn’t help your case. The only way that would make sense is if I were some sleeper robot packed with a human’s memories, unaware of my own programming. Then again, that’s straight out of a sci-fi novel I read once. So no, I’m real, and my memories are real. Wait, I think they are! Holy shit, what if I’m not real and I am just imagining I am real!
that doesn’t really shine the light on anything. like the OP, you’re basically just saying “trust me, bro”, and appealing to your own authority. which is pretty suspect when the OP is obviously a brand new sockpuppet account having been made for the express purpose of creating this thread to stir up shit.
“Trust me bro, I just don’t wanna give proof.”
“Trust me bro, I have unicorns. We don’t need proof, I just have them.”
They never do.
Is this a crazy tankie or a crazy Nazi?
Hedge your bets and call them a crazy misanthropic authoritarian.
Has nothing to do with me. I’m not the mod of any of those communities, and I have never had anything to do with OP or the communities that OP is talking about. Plus this doesn’t even seem to be a modding complaint.
Sorry to break it to you all, I’m not every single person on Lemmy that you disagree with. All this conspiracy stuff because I voted for the socialist party in 2024. You guys really need to let that go. Harris didn’t lose because I voted for the socialist party.
I stand by how I voted in 2024, and I’ll vote socialist again in the next election. Heck, I’m so famous on there since you all can’t stop talking about me, maybe I’ll run for president in 2028! Thanks, friends!
It’s wild how they give zero proof each time but the lie gets bigger each time.
I’ve been posting since before the last election and you’d think they’d have better proof than “cuz I think so!” by now. Not only that, but in every one of the threads that come up about me, there are always a couple of guys who say something like, “I have proof. I’ve been making a case for a while now. I’m about to release the proof about UniversalMonk! DM me so we can work together.”
I wanna see! How the hell do we live in a world where the freakin’ Epstein files get released before the Universal Monk files?! Release the UM files, guys!
Notice how they never do but the one admin who claims he does refuses to show anything. I’m sure that’s nothing.
Yeah, funny how that works. I still haven’t seen any valid reason of why I am getting so many weird accusations or why people are so mad at me. Oh other than of course, I don’t worship the Sacred Duopoly which is destroying democracy. Still I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Society put Debs in freakin’ jail for it. My Lemmy jail is nothing compared to what he had to go through.
I’ll be pro-union and pro-third party till the day I die, no matter now upset people on Lemmy are about it. No regrets! Bring on the naysayers. The haters here certainly think of me much more than I think of them.
I wonder how many threads have been made about me? I feel quite famous on here. Maybe I’ll run for President in 2028! lol
when you keep asking for proof or sources and its shown to you, but you keep saying where it, it just make a disengenious troll. stop pretending your even the “left” these are talking points of conservatives, be honest you are one of them pretending to be “progressive”
Where was it shown it was him? Please give evidence. Still haven’t seen any from you.
“Thanks, friend”
Don’t forget the “!” cuz you gotta say it with enthusiasm and a smile. Be happy!! Also you’re very welcome. If have any more big theories about me, be sure to post here so we can see.
Thanks, friend!
Sometimes when I feel like a failure or I’m not applying myself enough in life, then I read shit like this and realize I’m doing just fine .
Considering we’re not anything like the users who spin bots to harass people, we’re probably doing pretty okay. I’m weird but I’m not that weird.
I’m weird for wishing I was smart enough to spin up a bot. Because if I were as smart and diabolical as the people here thought I was, then I’d be doing shit for money. Not to annoy Lemmy!
hes saying he DOESNT do that so your making fun of him while you cant even read aparently
You are just a bot of UM. Your McTruth has no Truthiness here, demon!
It’s kind of funny that he thinks people don’t know that he’s a reactionary wet fart. Anyone who watches the stupid side of the threadiverse with any kind of regularity can see the pattern.
He thinks he’s being subtle, but Lemmy smells out right-wing bullshit better than most places on the Web. Nobody likes what he’s selling.
He’s after a captive audience because we know better. He thinks his ideas, or maybe just his chaos, is more acceptable when said by somebody that isn’t him but NOBODY is buying his anti-Luigi comments.
Yeah, this place isn’t Reddit; there’s not a culture of ironic fascism to hide behind on Lemmy/ Piefed.
It’s part of why I like it here.
🧐
The type of person who joined lemmy because they were tired of propoganda is not about to fall for that same proproganda, especially to this mf who think he is being subtle
Obligatory fuck UniversalMonk and his stupid AI character in each of his accounts’ pfp. Dude is easily the worst parts of the fediverse wrapped up in a shit bow. Just block lemmy.today its a fascist instance. Same with the lemmyusa.today one or whatever.
Well said. They know it’s UM, and they actively chose to allows it fuck that instance.
Says the guy who has an AI character in his pfp. lol
Idk where mine is from I jacked it the right way, through an image search. Yours literally features the same guy in all your pfp. Its the guy in your current pfp, you got him right now. Yet they are different images. So either you are editing pictures of yourself or you are really fond of this dude.
Yours literally features the same guy in all your pfp.
The reason he’s in all my real profiles, is because I don’t hide the fact that my name is on different instances. I don’t create alt names. I never have.
So either you are editing pictures of yourself or you are really fond of this dude.
Both, actually! My profile pic is a character in many of my books–I write for a living. He’s basically me and the picture is too, but with way better ai lighting. I’m real-life shirtless all over reddit, so feel free to accuse me of thirst trapping for attention. But I digress.
Some trolls take my name and try to make fake accounts with it, but they get banned fast. My name is known enough that those fakes stand out. That’s what makes this whole thread funny.
I’ve never hidden who I am. And I’m not banned from Lemmy–you’re replying to me right now. See? This account, along with my anarchist.nexus one, has been my main home for a long time.
The idea that I’m running “hundreds of sock puppets” doesn’t hold up. What would be the point? These supposed accounts don’t even agree with each other. There’s no shared message, no agenda, no pattern. What would anyone gain by creating a swarm of fake accounts that argue with each other? It makes no sense. You yourself just pointed out that I keep the same crappy profile on my usernames.
OP’s account is less than one day old, and this his only post, and the only comments he’s made are in this thread. OP also admitted to creating a troll account with someone’s same username to troll someone who he thought was me: His quote: I will admit the PapaSkwat@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.com was me counter-trolling but I am not finding Lemmy worth the fight.
Now I have no idea why he thinks the PapaSkwat dude is me, because I checked that dudes posts, and I don’t even see anything controversial. So no clue what that’s all about. But right there is he admitting to doing what he is trying to accuse me of doing. lol
Everything about the accusations in this thread collapses under basic logic.
You hate me. I get it. That’s fine and it makes me feel important! But at least hate me for the shit I do; not what some other random posters are doing. lol
Thanks, friend! (yes, despite the hate, I consider you my friend. We’re all gonna make it.)
Logical arguments? A robot obeys logic, ergo you’re a bot now. No proof, just a bot now. All those things you didn’t do are now proof.
I know. I keep forgetting I’m a bot. Dammit!
First, I was a russian spy. Then I was a chinese spy for a while. There was that fun guy who swore up and down he could prove I was a North Korean plant was fun (I miss him!). And now I’m a bot.
Oh, and now me and CM0002, who talks plenty of shit about me, are the same guy. To be honest tho, that’s a fun theory. And one of my favs. He’d be so pissed to see people saying that about him! lmao
I’m really confused by all the things I am now though.
Could someone please make a list of all the things I am and all the different countries I work for? And my 300 alt names? Pay scale would be nice too, so I can use to negotiate pay. Thank you!
Except an admin confirmed UM isn’t doing this.
Did they actually confirm it wasn’t UM, or did they say there wasn’t enough evidence to confirm it was UM?
No proof it was UM doing this via any IP addresses. The admin from lemmy.today posted here in reply to someone.
No proof doesn’t mean proof he isn’t. And what they call no proof is bullshit. There’s plenty of proof.
Not finding Bigfoot is proof Bigfoot is real.
Tf? Dude…. lol! The reach you’ll shoot for to think you have a point is astounding!
Still waiting for proof.
Absence of proof is not proof of absense.
And this admin, do they administer all of these instances? Or just one of them?
Or rather, this admin, do they have a WAF? Are they analyzing the traffic that comes in? Are the sure they’re checking every point of interaction for consistency? If no, then they didn’t really “Check”.
lemmy.today admin, so the one who a chunk of the bots are under.
Better, but he could just be using a device with a VPN. I have enough old ass computers in my house to do the same thing.
Could be. But also somehow UM is smart enough to avoid everything but also dumb enough to be caught.
No, they didn’t.
Yes, they did.
Okay, show where they proved it.
https://lemmy.today/comment/20873694 https://lemmy.today/comment/20873891
But I’m sure you’ll not believe this like everything else that you disagree with like a Republican.
Again, not finding evidence he is- isn’t proof he isn’t. They NEVER once said he’s not- they said they didn’t find proof.
And they didn’t find any because they didn’t even fucking bother to look- because they’re someone that HAD proof and they never talked to him. So go ahead and fuck all the way off with this bullshit.
And….
LMFAO! I’m a republican because I think you’re full of shit? My god, how are you not embarrassed by your own smug bullshit?
And your evidence is?
Which one is smug? It’s not me, it’s the one who’s lmfao anytime they are asked for proof.
This admin will state that UM is a bot. And wouldn’t ya know it some of the other signup attempts used the alt names. Weird that.
I don’t think many admins know infosec practices very well to be frank.
So we have 2 admins who have proof he’s not and 1 who has no proof (documents, photos, just anecdotal).
Nooope, I have IP data, email logs, and other things. However, much of the data had fallen off my WAF retention period. Oddly convenient how you just assume I don’t have these things rather than keeping them close because I don’t want the bots to figure out how I’m catching them.
When you conveniently leave out that providing proof reduces an admins ability to re-use certain detection methods, it makes me pretty convinced you’re complicit.
When you conveniently leave out that providing proof reduces an admins ability to re-use certain detection methods
How the heck would anyone but you know that your proof would reveal your detection method? That’s not a given.
And what’s the point of collecting proof if the only way you have to convince others is “trust me bro, I’ve got the evidence, but you can’t see it, my dog ate it.”
And then when asked for proof you jump to implicate the person asking for proof? That’s terrible form. We have an instance rule against bad-jacketing users:
- Don’t be shitty to each other. i.e. […] or bad-jacketing is bannable.
Well, You’re more than welcome to reach out on more secure comms, such as matrix to get the proof! It’s strange how that’s basically standard for most of the other respectable instances, but not here.
Weird how he’s just not gonna give it away. I’m sure any day now they’ll have proof he’s a robot and also a Tankie and also a fascist and also a shill and also…
Give the documents then? And am I a bot now too?
Haven’t you heard? You and I are the same bot. And we control a top secret government-sanctioned group of bots who create bots who create more bots. Because Lemmy has millions and millions of users and can topple entire governments. Keep up, man! 🤣
God I wish I was paid to shit post, would make dealing with morons easier like my retail gig.
Give the documents then? And am I a bot now too?
Interesting how you continue to leave out the security implications of posting this publicly.
Odd that.
I know not if you are a bot, you aren’t on my instance, nor would it be likely you could get through my process.
I do know that you are awfully defensive of sockpuppet like behavior though.
The sock puppet behavior of… One user being harassed by users and defending them? The sock puppet behavior of… Wanting screenshots?
Hey @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com is it possible to take screenshots that would prove something without being a security leak?
Like somehow you claim he signed up with the same email. Or same address, or anything. But no proof because it’s a security risk.
Yeah I have Bigfoot in my basement. No you can’t see him. No I can’t give you photographs. Just take my word for it. Why yes others have said it without proof before but I’m different.
You have ZERO admins with proof he’s not.
lemmy.today and lemmy.db0, but sure.
Show the proof then.
It’s in the thread but I guess you’re blind to anyone who proves you wrong.
https://lemmy.today/comment/20873694 https://lemmy.today/comment/20873891
Hey don’t forget the admin that says I’m a bot now. DM me and I’ll give ya my phone number so we can chat. I wanna know if my voice sounds like a bot too!
I appreciate the offer but it might be better for the admin who swears you’re a bot. Phone calls are always a moment of anxiety for me.
The bigger problem here is that lemmy.today is being used as a gateway for astroturfing. That’s the issue that needs fixing here.
yea it is, after the tankies triad were defederedated from most instances, i suspect some of those users are making new accounts in the other instances to troll.
Isn’t the point of the federation to enable defederating rogue instances, or am I wrong on that?
Hot take: this is why automatic federation is a bad idea. Even if your malicious instance gets defederated, you can just spin up a new one!
I imagine eventually automatic federation will stop being a thing for a lot of instances.
Yes. That was precisely what I was getting at there lol.
Well fair enough
I never liked the idea of blocking. Shoving my fingers in my ears and singing “la la la” allows these antics to continue unchallenged. Besides, they’re not all on one instance.
I picked Lemmy.today because it allows me to block instances instead of the admins deciding which to defed from. But I do acknowledge that it allows a lot of freaks in.
Aussie.zone lets you block instances too. And it’s not facist.
also been able to on dbzer0, I had thought it was a universal feature
settings > blocks > block instance (scroll down)
You will notice that users from those so-called “blocked” instances can still:
- respond to your comments
- vote on your content
- send you DMs
- which are allowed to trigger notifications
- post in your communities
- etc.
What it blocks:
- you from seeing communities housed on those instances (even if posted from people on other instances)
In short it should have been named a “community mute” rather than an “instance block”. The best way to block an entire instance frankly is to switch from Lemmy to PieFed. Otherwise there is only a tiny minority of apps (Sync and Connect iirc) that will offer that - the rest merely connect you to the same misnamed instance block (but actually no and rather community muting) feature inbuilt into Lemmy, unless you start to get into things like hacking your feed with a browser plugin to filter users from instances that you want blocked.
Are the admins of lemmy.today shown to be fascist? I haven’t heard anything about that. I guess if you consider them allowing Monk to do this, they’re at least allowing it
Hi, Admin from lemmy.today here. I’m certainly not a fascist and I wouldn’t be associated with any instance or participate on an Admin Team that is.
Speaking of Admin Teams I think every member of ours (including me) has separately investigated the accusation that DJM and UM are the same person and to date none of us have come up with anything. We have engaged with several Lemmy users from other instances who claimed to have proof but none of them provided anything other than conjecture and accusation.
If you, or anyone else, actually has some proof feel free to message any member of the lemmy.today admin team.
Good luck getting the people who don’t like giving evidence to change their minds to evidence or give you any. They still haven’t given any despite insisting they have it.
My real life is so boring compared to user’s made-up stories about me. lol
I sorta wanna be the top secret CIA/Mossad/Russia/China spy that so many here accuse me of being. Yet somehow, someway, I had to shovel snow off my sidewalk today because of this freak snowstorm. I’m a freakin’ superspy, surely The Agency can pay for someone to do that for me! What the heck?
All information wants to be free.
Maybe someday they’ll show it to the public. But alas, it’s theirs to hide.
not neccesarily, but some of the communities are problematic, like politics and some other political type instances, its not like super tankie, but they do like to form a opinion that they dont like changing in some of them, and have banned people, especially when it comes to gaza/israel, they misinterpret people way too much, basically labeling them antisemitic if they dont agree with you.
But it’s admins openly tolerate racism from its users and refuse to take any meaningful action, beyond maybe occasionally deleting one of the users racists posts if you bug them enough times and call them out on it.
Fuck Eyekaytee and the aussie.zone admins.
I wonder what Russia would be like if the majority of them actually gave a fuck about their current living standards instead of just being fucking loser trolls obsessed with America
Least xenophobic liberal, folks.
Reminds me of a post I read from a Russian tourist that visited Warsaw who was pissed off that the city was so nice and clean, whereas most of Russia is an unkempt shitheap.
Mind you he was not mad that Russia was a shitheap, he was mad that _Poland was not _
Yeah I remember that, it’s fucking crazy what the propaganda can do and shape someone’s world view like that. I just was reading that totally aghast that their mind could go to the completely opposite of what it should
Can you share a link? I don’t remember where it was and I’d like to read it again.
