Bye
You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.
Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance’s top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the world, and while I won’t give you the personal satisfaction of having won, you’ve definitely proven me wrong about the fediverse being something that even can be saved from itself.
Even people around here I’d interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves. That completely shattered any and all illusions I had that this place has a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage, rage baiting, propaganda, harassment, rumor mongering, trolls, conspiracies, purity testing, and violent rhetoric.
Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I’m done with this place.
I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren’t me actually want a place that’s not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.
Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users, and lead harassment, brigading, and DARVO campaigns against those who dare call out their bullshit or decide to disassociate themselves and their work from them.
Lemmy.World was so close to doing the right thing after instance-that-will-not-be named’s admins were calling for the death of LW’s admins while spreading rumours and labeling others in such a way that painted them as targets for murder. All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they ‘caught’ and should be killed.
.world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.
“We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it.” they probably said.
Bullshit.
I’m one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse. If I can stand up for what’s right and deal with the blowback, so can you.
Fuck lemmy world’s admin team for condoning that behavior and letting the human skidmark db0 DARVO his way out of the situation while brigading with his army of malcontents whom he wields like a cult leader. He knows exactly what he is doing, and you all continue to allow him to get away with it.
Nah, fuck this whole place. I’ve let too many things fall by the wayside IRL because of dealing with all this fediverse bullshit and trying to give it the slightest bit of polish both visually and atmospherically. Mythbusters may have proven that you can, in fact, polish a turd, but at the end of the day, it’s still a shiny ball of shit.
For the few people left who didn’t turn out to be psychotic, I’ll think of you from time to time when recalling something you’ve posted or commented that genuinely made me laugh, made me think, or otherwise put a smile on my face or in my heart.
Everyone else, though, enjoy your toxic, xenophobic, knee-jerk-to-violence, purity-testing, and harassing-anyone-who-doesn’t-fall-in-line cess pit. One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn’t toe the line and you’ll be right where I am.
P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you’re welcome.
EDIT: forgot to add:
EDIT2:
Removed the link to the original message because the douche included a Javascript on the page to DDOS Dbzero0
Now, thanks for the dev for last few days of engaging content.
I’ve been alive for more than a half of an average lifespan already, and working over 20 years I’ve met guys and gals who have not had the ability to read or predict social cues nor understand how some acts will look like for outsiders.
My own kid is on the spectrum with a diagnosis so I’ve read and studied quite a bit on the matter. This might sound harsh, but in the long run I think telling the truth will help the guy. I guess the dev in question here is either young or on the spectrum. Both are alright and we all make mistakes.
Censorship because people dont fall in line with your expectations or beliefs is not right. You will learn that along the way. I was more black and white, right or wrong 20 years ago. Getting married, travelling the world, having kids will even out straight edges. You will find grey between the black and white.
Just walk away if the internet feels too burdensome. Open source is absolutely great, but dont forget that people on the internet are clever, and sometimes even more clever than you, or me for that matter.
Kind of funny to be on the exclusive list. If you dont feel right apologising, thats alright. And even if you dont want it or need it, I still forgive you for trying to censor me.
Just remember though, shitposting is forever.
All this from the one who thought people saying “perchance” deserved to be treated the same as the so-called violent extremists. Stopping people from saying “perchance” isn’t fucking “saving the fediverse.”
Everybody can create a frontend that filters out certain words or users on purpose, for the goal to have a “nicer” experience.
But why hide it? Why even go that far to load it at runtime, so that it is not visible in the source code? And why hiding a DDOS script, targeting one instance, while saying they are the “normal one”?
What a psychopath. And they will be back soon enough unfortunately.
You crazies won and proved me wrong.
Also:
I won’t give you the personal satisfaction of having won
Cool story.
a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage
Good riddance. If there is any lesson anyone should take, it is that Fediverse does not tolerate when one person decides what others get to see.
Various people attempting this is why we got Fediverse in the first place.
This sounds suspiciously like a power-tripping ex-Reddit mod, who found themselves on the wrong side of a Reddit bot ban, and gravitated to Lemmy, bringing with them the sense of entitlement, haughtiness, and ridiculous God Complex the worse Reddit mods carried. And, upon realising that shit don’t fly here, chucked a tanty, and piddled with impotent anger and thoughts of vengeance, like a rabid locust.
Maybe they’ll be happier at Digg?
This is what happens when people take things too seriously. If you feel this strong about Lemmy, I really suggest you stop using it and go outside, go to the gym, meet friends in real life.
I dont like everything about this place either. But its just a meme site. I’m not on this earth to sit and care about what devs or instance admins obsess about. I bet a lot of these tech people are unstable in their heads anyway.
Hi, lurker here. Anyone kind enough to give me some context? Who’s that guy? What happened?
Imagine hiding a blacklist of users as well as a fucking DDoS script on your frontend, then trying to act as if you’re the “good guy” lmao.
I really wonder though what he means with “xenophobia on Lemmy”, especially since his blacklist seemed to have served transphobic purposes
Is this the stupid bitch who decided to try to shadow censor other people’s experience? That’s some insane projection. Bonus points for including the DDOS just to leave no doubts.
very happy and proud to be on the instance this guy hates
i wish i were on the blocklist tho
He’s not wrong about the violent rhetoric on the Fediverse. There is definitely a team of FBI agents working 24/7 to monitor this social media network. When someone around here finally does something crazy, the news is going make the Fediverse out to be worse than 4Chan.
What an hypocrite.
Bye bye you won’t be missed. In the meantime try to become an adult, you seem like a teenager
I believe this is what is called a self-correcting system. It’s the immune system. A cancer was attempting to prevent resources from reaching their intended cells and the immune system kicked in and exposed the cancer to the best disinfectant. Sunlight.
Expose all the bigots friends. They’re scared of actual free speech and people’s rights and freedoms because that breaks their ability to oppress and subjugate others.
And oh yeah, I was on the list. Probably for stuff like the above I just said lol.
If I can stand up for what’s right
Yeah, secret undisclosed baked in unexplained banlists. What a “dignified and graceful” way to stand up for something, definitely not underhanded, sneaky and authoritarian.
