Editing to delete all of this. I am getting real threats again, and I am not willing to have a complete mental collapse over fucking Lemmy for a 2nd time. Fuck this place. And especially fuck all of the transpose assholes bent on making my life hell. I am deleting my accounts permanently, but will leave the content up. Don’t worry, you won’t need to kill or doxx me, I intend to take care of the former myself.
it reflects extremely poorly on lemmy/threadiverse in general that this type of behaviour is tolerated at all let alone encouraged
The community isn’t configured to screen it out, pretty much by design.
There’s not a great technical solution for screening out this kind of malicious conduct
by design
fair point but it’s not mainly a software problem. there’s no reason that e.g. an article on vpn use in response to the UK online safety act shouldn’t be posted/reposted to technology@instance.uk, privacy@instance.ml, worldnews@instance.elsewhere etc
what is disappointing about this cm0002 stuff is what i’ve seen of the general community response to the high effort attempt to flood the timeline with low effort posts. the supportive comments and upvotes suggest that people like it, and that is baffling to me
the supportive comments and upvotes suggest that people like it, and that is baffling to me
There’s a naked skepticism towards any kind of moderation. And after a string of sites full of ugly administrators and sadistic moderators, who can blame them?
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- Definitely not every post of theirs is upvoted (see links below). Do you have one that you feel like the voting for was probably fraudulent or something?
- He is vocally against lemmy.ml and reposts their content sometimes to encourage people to move off that server. What’s your take on that? Does he repost anything outside of that one example that you know of?
- Do people ban this person? Literally all he does is post, as far as I can tell… like I looked over the user pages 1 2 3 4 5 and it’s just kind of normal stuff to me.
- It’s a little weird that he has so many accounts. @cm0002@lemmy.zip why do you have so many accounts? It is a little weird and makes it more difficult for people who want to block you, I get that part of what OP is saying, just all the rest of it like you’re doing some kind of wild out-of-pocket thing by posting the stuff you post seems all the way out of left field to me.
It’s an old tactic to reserve your name on every server.
that sounds exhausting
Saying every post was admittedly hyperbolic. Saying “many” would have been more appropriate I agree. I am well aware of the vendetta against ml. The point here is that even if someone attempts to ban or block them, the effort is immediately bypassed.
You literally wrote “every single post” in bold face lol
Yeah, I am pissed off and annoyed. I edited the post body.
The way your post was making it out to seem, “forces an instance to federate out” sounded like he was doing something so egregious that he was forcing instances to be defederated, sheesh. On the bright side, you’ve Barbara Streissanded his good work.
Nah, with every account you create and use to interact with another instance, the instance that you made that account on takes on the burden of all of the data associated with it including images etc. Making alts is a dick move. If you make your own instance and are happy with it, then navigate to and post to a large community on a large instance, your instance is going to get flooded with pictr and general db stuff. Don’t make alts.
None of my accounts have been banned from any instance or comm to the best of my knowledge, with the exception of .ml which they do because they don’t like me calling them out
Evading other users blocking me is not my intention and is just an unfortunate side effect. On the flip side, its not like it take any effort for one to block a user
A user, yes. But having to do it constantly as you continue to re-create accounts on every instance you can find is another matter.
I did notice the sudden influx of new accounts under the cm0002 name, I wasn’t entirely sure it’s actually the same guy or somebody impersonating him. I don’t see why he’d need that many, and most of the accounts are very new despite him having been around for a long time.
Oh, that’s a good point. @OP that is one reason for making it not work the way you describe, it makes it super-easy to destroy any user just by making new alts with their same name and then having them be obnoxious. IDK what the fix is really, it is a real problem that people can make alts to do ban evasion.
@cm0002@lemmy.world I should ask also, are all the described alts actually you?
Most are, but I have had an impersonation problem in the past, so there are a few imposter accounts mixed in there. This is another reason to have these accounts, prevention of it happening again.
Thats actually what I guessed was happening. Sometimes I make accounts on services I don’t use just to “reserve” the username.
I have reasons, I’ll just copy paste a previous response:
For other people blocking me, I don’t really care if they do or don’t, it’s just unfortunate unintended side effects for the actual reasons:
Shopping for a new home instance
Exploring the Threadiverse from different perspectives (the “hot” feed you see can vary quite a bit depending on the instance you’re on lol)
Learning that the bot intended to better interconnect instance comms may not be doing as good of a job
Interconnecting wayward or much smaller instances, a couple of them are missing even the big comms, one I was on the other day I needed to manual have it federate with every comm I posted to
For the creation of comms on fitting instances or just among a regular rotation of general instances so I’m not making a whole bunch on any one instance
Trolling .ml (or Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team. :::)
I’m just finally looking at those links that you list. Based on just the first couple of “quotes”, they’re not direct quotes but your interpretation of what they’re saying. I get it that you hate lemmy.ml and the Lemmy devs, but this is pretty poor behavior to claim that those are direct quotes.
“Uyghur atrocity propaganda equate birth control with genocide.” Is his literal words for the first one, some are memes and you almost have to interpret into a quote. How do you directly quote a meme?
Besides, here’s one that just happened earlier today, no quotes no interpretation other than saying what happened (banning people who call out Russian propaganda): https://lemmy.zip/post/53268068
And those are only highlights, the megathread has many MANY examples
Please explain how:
“It’s kinda funny because the evangelicals like Zenz peddling the Uyghur atrocity propaganda equate birth control with genocide. Plus many of them think that birth control also contributes to ‘the white genocide’”
that Dessalines wrote becomes:
“Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control!”?
How can you claim that that is a direct quote in your supposed dossier of Lemmy dev statements post that you keep spamming? It seems that many (most? all? I haven’t reviewed all of them yet) of your other “quotes” are similar in nature - your own radically distorted interpretation of what they said.
I would be careful if I were you, because you could be opening yourself up to be sued for libel in some jurisdictions. You could easily correct this by making it clear in your posts that those are not direct quotes from the devs but your own paraphrases and reinterpretations.
How can you claim that that is a direct quote in your supposed dossier of Lemmy dev statements post that you keep spamming? It seems that many (most? all? I haven’t reviewed all of them yet) of your other “quotes” are similar in nature - your own radically distorted interpretation of what they said.
That’s what they want. They want you to never actually click a link, they want you to take their word for it.
Some of the stuff that’s actually said it atrocious and disgusting. Some of it is hyperbole and out of context to make them look bad.
Meanwhile if we just post their actual wording and actual beliefs, people would side more against them.
If we mixed in hyperbole and bullshit with the real, it gives them ammo. It makes people second guess. It just muddies the water.
But they’re on a tirade against weirdos online who think Russia is cool for various inconsistent reasons that contradict each other. So why not lie and repost memes manually? That’s clearly a better time if someone’s life.
Right. I feel that any argument one may have gets severely weakened by using distorted examples. If nothing else, any possible good examples get drowned out and discredited by bad examples that are easily verified to be bad.
Ans that’s why I’m all for documenting bullshit of anyone, any organization, any company, anything, as long as it’s documented verified shit.
Otherwise it just gives them ammo to ignore the reality and say if 40% if false, then 100% must be.
That’s what they want. They want you to never actually click a link, they want you to take their word for it.
They also really hate when you say this when they do their spamming of their mega thread.
I wasn’t aware Piefed had this feature. Good to know.
Yup, also have 30 blocks for this username
Ive blocked them a ton of times myself. Summit (android client) lets me filter for username string.
It’s the same thing with sunshine, pugjesus, and dude. I can’t fucking stand it. I don’t want to see the same 4 people posting because they’re on a manic upswing/addicted to the platform. I try to block their accounts but it seems like they have already spun up 4 more to submit from a different spot. It’s awful and devalues lemmy (for me). I would be better off never seeing their posts again.
I think people like PugJesus are great because they bring here the content we need?
Yes, but in addition to the history memes and other good and unique content, PugJesus also isn’t a tankie, and sometimes even argues vocally with tankies. cm0002 is the same.
I suspect that’s what’s actually behind this: Some kind “Mean Girls” effort to damage someone’s reputation because they are giving wrongthink to the community. Maybe I’m paranoid. At face value, though, the whole thing of “HOW DARE YOU PUT MEMES IN MY MEME COMMUNITY EVERY DAY ARGBLGRBGLRBG I’M SO ANGRY NOW” makes so little sense that I think it’s safe to assume that something else is the reason.
I think having a specific beef with tankies and going out of your way to aggravate them instead of just putting them on block says quite a lot about a person living in the second rise of fascism
I don’t think he’s going out of his way to aggravate them. I think he’s encouraging other people to not interact with them and calling attention to some of their bad behavior. I do think that makes sense. Some people care a lot about the truth, and it’ll really aggravate them to have people being hostile and dishonest all over their social network, posting propaganda, attacking or banning anyone who disagrees with them, just generally being cocks. They’ll want to “fix” it or at least draw attention to it as a problem. That makes sense to me.
Maybe it is a little extra to even care about these weird text-only networks to that extent… but I do get it. It makes sense to me. He’s not just doing it for no reason. And yes, that is important in or out of fascism. Having at least one little electronic network where people can talk about these things and not have to be banned or attacked if they say the wrong thing does seem like an important thing, maybe more so the more that truth is under attack on the outside.
I don’t think he’s going out of his way to aggravate them
He’s made multiple communities about them and then links to the communities/posts, then also does it in other communities.
And how many communities and posts has he made about fascists? A few posts, no communities.
How many about terminally online weirdos who think LARPing as revolutionaries and simping for Stalin? It’s about 50% of his posts when he’s not making memes about Rome like a Xitter user.
He spends more trolling Tankies and being a redditor about online debates than he does doing anything about fascism.
But you ask his favorite political party to do more to stop fascism, he’ll ban you from every community he mods, even if you weren’t saying it in any of them.
He hates leftists more than he hates the fascists in office that impact his life then terminally online Tankies who LARP as revolutionaries.
He also scans his username often on Lemmy, so I’m sure before the end of the week he’ll demand you reply to him as he bans you. Or he’ll stalk public discord and matrix servers and then say they’re obsessed with him.
Lol you’re overthinking it. I just don’t want a single user dominating my feed, that’s really all.
And you confused not wanting one user to dominate your feed with “this fuckwqd” “this shitty behavior” “shitty, bad faith action” “Then every single post from every one of these account is very heavily upvoted. Oh, that isn’t suspicious at all” “also an Ai simp” “Maybe some kind of probation could help?” “reflects extremely poorly on lemmy/threadiverse in general that this type of behaviour is tolerated at all let alone encouraged” and so on and so on.
You guys need to chill the fuck out lmao. He’s posting stuff. That’s what Lemmy is for. I get the complaint about doing it from different accounts if he’s going to be a heavy poster of this perfectly normal content he is posting, I can agree with that part of it. But you guys can’t be going fucking mental like he’s trying to summon Cthulu in the basement and must be stopped at all costs, and then all of a sudden turn around like “calm down bro you’re overthinking it’s just not that serious” when people are trying to figure out what caused this towering issue about it.
I mean, that’s cool. I just prefer my feed to feel more organic from a broader user base. Different strokes for different folks. That’s what is cool about lemmy - you don’t need to have the same cookie cutter experience. Block who you want and consume submissions from people you enjoy. More power to ya if you’re into it. All good brother.
I feel like you need to be directing this calming energy at this guy. I’m perfectly calm, I was making jokes.
this guy
Nah. Not a guy.
Got 'em 😉😘
So flooding communities with low effort reposted content is what we need?
I don’t have a problem with people posting a lot, but people making over a dozen accounts as frequently as every 2 days pisses me off.
How do you feel about that Sludge fella, though?
overrated
I like that they’re putting more stuff out on the fediverse and pulling some focus away from .ml.
I just wish I had the time to do the same. We really need more people adding a wider mix of content.
It’s a script/bot, that’s how they have time.
It’s not, I have stated many times in the past. The only automation is a push notification I get about a new post
If you have to tell users across your many accounts you’re not a bot, it’s you and not them.
It’s an age old argument from long before I had left .world and had a bunch of alts. Even before I started crossposting .ml. A lot of power posters end up being accused of being a bot by a certain minority of users lmao
A certain minority? Genuinely curious who it was. I don’t know how to ask without seeming like a sealion or something else “debate bro”.
Just that there’s a group of users who are anti-power posters for sure who really hate seeing the same users posting for some reason. I have someone who blocks me because I apparently post…phoronix…a tad too much for their liking lmao
Yeah, me too, I hate when people post things lol
Like every time I see a history picture in the feed I’m like ARGHH FUCK THIS GAH GLU BO and I start chewing the furniture
Are you being obtuse on purpose? You can’t see how creating additional accounts could be annoying?
Here’s an example. I subscribe to !technology@lemmy.zip, and cm0002 has posted (or reposted and I have the originating community filtered out, possibly) from three different servers in the past two days.
I get that federation means you can switch accounts easily but it can be kind of annoying.
Is that what PugJesus is doing? I thought he had one account on lemmy.world and then made one on piefed.social and posts more or less the same stuff from both which is generally pretty benign at least in my worldview.
I do kind of get what you’re saying, sure. Overall I think the problem of people making new accounts to get around ban evasion is a serious problem. I even checked out https://sh.itjust.works/ to see what you’re talking about, and yeah I get it, there’s a bunch of meme posts from cm0002 high up in the feed and I get how that could be annoying if that’s not your thing. I guess I don’t subscribe to the meme communities, so maybe that’s why I’m just befuddled by the idea that someone could be this bent out of shape about those particular users.
That’s what’s confusing to me about it: There are users on Lemmy who go out of their way to be obnoxious and make it difficult for people to block them, or post content that’s malicious in some way. I don’t see anyone on your list as being like that. They’re just posting stuff. IDK, you can also try out scaled sort which aims to give a more balanced feed without the “big name” communities dominating so much.
I guess I do agree with you, actually, about it being a problem overall people making new accounts and making it difficult for people who just don’t want to see their stuff. That’s why I asked cm0002 why he’s made so many accounts, I kind of get that aspect of it, you shouldn’t have to answer anyone’s questions if you just don’t want to see someone’s content. I just don’t get where this vitriol comes from about it. Like in the link I showed, he’s posting memes in a meme community and then people are upvoting them, and so they show up. I don’t get where the “ARGH HE’S RUINING LEMMY MAKE HIM STOP MAKE HIM STOP” part is coming from in that equation.
I guess I don’t subscribe to the meme communities
Same. But I do subscribe to a lot of technical communities where the cm0002 collective reposts, and that can get annoying.
I just don’t get where this vitriol comes from about it.
It’s actually really easy to understand. You said so yourself: ban evasion is annoying.
But, like, we are in a “rant” community. The original poster seems annoyed.
You don’t have to understand it at all. This isn’t yptb.
Yeah, me too, I hate when people post things lol
Like every time I see a history picture in the feed I’m like ARGHH FUCK THIS GAH GLU BO and I start chewing the furniture
Why come to a rant community and be sarcastic and condescending? The ranting is why they’re here.
You said so yourself: ban evasion is annoying.
Is cm0002 banned somewhere? Are they using new accounts to evade those bans in places they’ve been banned?
But, like, we are in a “rant” community. The original poster seems annoyed.
You don’t have to understand it at all. This isn’t yptb.
I do feel like if your “rant” is very specifically directed at some other specific person, and also seems factually untrue in a few different respects, then it’s worth asking some questions. Just because it’s a rant doesn’t mean it’s exempt from people having a reaction.
Why come to a rant community and be sarcastic and condescending?
Because it’s my way of making a point. In some societies, when someone aims criticism and vitriol at another human being, other people are allowed to defend that person or ask questions and see if it’s justified.
Because it’s my way of making a point.
Like a jerk? Gross! I don’t need that. No one needs that. See how you got downvoted for being condescending? No, you don’t. I love a guy who’s “just asking questions” in a shitty way.
“But they’re just posting!” Obtuse and rude. Neat!
“Vitriol.” Lmao
Edit: I knew eventually this would get downvoted more than upvoted! The assholes always come out of the woodwork on social media, it’s simply a matter of time.
Like every time I see a person not acting like a jerk I’m like ARGHH FUCK THIS GAH GLU BO and I start downvoting the comments
“Hey this guy’s a big piece of shit. I can’t even tell you what a piece of shit, I’m so angry, he’s total garbage, he’s the absolute worst and fuck him, we need to get rid of him.”
“What? I’ve never found this specific person you’re going after to be a piece of shit. Why do you say that? (specific questions and sarcasm)”
“Woooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww”
You seem lovely lol
(I’m going to take your response to mean he’s not actually banned anywhere)
Edit: I knew eventually this would get downvoted more than upvoted! The assholes always come out of the woodwork on social media, it’s simply a matter of time.
“It’s not simply a matter of more eyes eventually reading and disagreeing! It’s just a bunch of assholes brigading!!1!”
That’s actually pretty cute. Do you really feel this way? My options are agree with you, or be an asshole? Mark me down as an asshole, then.
See how you got downvoted for being condescending?
No, you don’t. Cos we’re all just assholes, in here.
E: ducking autocorrupt
No that’s the other fed
yeah I have a history with this guy who I thought was a bot but he responded back. apparently he just acts like a bot. Like his purpose in life is to post and he posts with wierd agendas rather than just because he is sharing things he likes. Sometimes people ask how many people you block and I always have to say how many of the blocks are like the same persons alts. as someone said he would just move to cm003 so for now im glad he is staying in a pattern so that I can just block right away.
@jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone @rant@lemmy.sdf.org
While I do remember seeing that user handle several times across the “New Comments” feed, I went through all my previous notifications and I couldn’t find any interaction from/to they. So, I particularly had no problems with this person, just like I also never had problems with Hexbear users, despite seeing a whole Lemmy complaining about them.
Go touch some grass. I honestly appreciate what cm0002 is doing.
Appreciate what thought? An odd crusade against the devs of lemmy?
Odd? Do you actually know what scumbags like @dessalines@lemmy.ml are doing? And cm0002 does good work in exposing them, which is the only thing we can do for now.
Please enlighten me
Please enlighten me
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Reposing the good content from extremist tankie communities so you don’t have to be exposed to their toxicity.
Sorry, I deleted my comment bcs I read the whole explanation what this post is about in other comments (had it sorted differently & I didn’t notice it immediately).
Thx!
I think the broader solution is approval-based instance federation. I know that’s a little anti-fed, but this type of attack has no other solution I can think of, and banning a username just means the attacker rotates those, (too).
There’s steps in between. Rate limiting unverified server federations, etc. No need to inhibit discovery for casual users
Yeah they are also an Ai simp and just constantly stealing other people’s content.
just constantly stealing other people’s content
That’s what bothers me.
The constant reposts have made it more difficult to find the original content. At the very least put where it’s from in the body or something so I can look there
All of my crossposts should show in the cross post menu, OC is additionally tagged with the username
Like this:
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
Ok, that’s fair. I really appreciated this explanation!
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Fear of retaliation in the form of withheld support from dessalines or “slow walked” at the very least.
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Has Dessalines actually done that? Its open source, so if .ml got an update, anyone could just take it back.
Edit: so that’s a no, just random fearmongering about Tankies.
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
Could users request to be added to your block list? Which you could copy over when creating new accounts.
Maybe a dumb one here but came to mind :)
The Lemmy blocking system is very half baked, possibly intentionally, and doesn’t work in this manner. Blocks on my side only prevent me from seeing them, but they will still see (and be able to interact with, which is the big problem with it) my posts/comments
Otherwise I would totally do this lol
Wait, are people just getting mad at you because you crosspost from .ml instances? You are doing the Flying Sphaguetti Monster’s work.
Yea pretty much, .ml defenders or ideology aligned people for sure
There’s also a group on Lemmy who hate power posters and only want to see people that post handcrafted artisan posts and not articles or memes. Which is baffling because Lemmy/PieFed/Reddit are all of social media type known as link aggregators LMAO
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username@whatever completely evades all blocks and bans on Lemmy. This isn’t arguable. Anyone can spin up an instance, use the same username and if they are so inclined use a botnet to upvote everything into the millions.
This comment shows that you don’t know how things work here.
Man it’s crazy how many people have no ability to self-reflect here
You can’t see why blocking a person could be useful? Yikes.
This is an excellent way to find people who don’t contribute though! A honeypot for jerks.
And it would be so fucking annoying if you just created more accounts so I had to run into your ass again
Keep the downvotes coming! I see you, I wish you’d comment so it’s easier to block the useless people. Cowards gonna be cowards though
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Which is why it’s so easy to ban people for being bad at attempting to evade/circumvent a ban. Obviously it’s harder to catch someone who’s smarter about it. You just try your best though.
The bare minimum is doing something about the lazy evasion attempts. though.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??
Honestly I haven’t ever had a complaint against them, I don’t really pay attention to names and appreciate their effort to grow coms outside of ml.
I do notice the constant complaining though, that’s annoying!
How would permablocking a certain username help? He’ll just change it. Not sure if IP bans are on the table, but those can be circumvented fairly trivially as well.
I can see how shadowbanning would help in such a case, but I’d rather not see such things on the platform at all if possible.
How would permablocking a certain username help?
It’s actually a pretty bad idea. Trolls would use it as a weapon. Argue with them and they’ll make an alt with your username then do stuff to get you (rather, your username) permabanned from Lemmy.
