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
Why though, this strengthens his argument about the harassment
Unless the alt is being used to evade bans, or trying to steer the conversation, I don’t see the benefit in chasing around the dev on different accounts. Report it to mods/admins as needed, but don’t share it in this thread where a lot of people are already upset at the person
He did something wrong. But the vitriolic, puerile response to this whole episode, coming from all directions, confirms his overarching argument beyond any doubt.
The fediverse is a place that harbors a disproportionate number of misanthropes and people who have struggled in their personal lives for a variety of reasons. And I have always hoped that could become a strength of ours, but I have come to realize that an internet forum is not a venue that is conducive to healing broken people. Instead, it seems to amplify their toxicity in the vast majority of cases. Based on the behavior I have observed, which has continued to worsen over the years, this platform will perhaps never succeed in its objectives. It seems that it would require an act of god at this point.
The brief period after the APIcalypse seems like a distant dream now. There are still many fine people here who are doing their best, but the majority of emotionally stable, casual users have steadily, silently abandoned this sinking ship over the years. And it shows. Taking glee in another person’s pain and downfall is not the behavior of a mature, emotionally well adjusted adult. We clearly have precious few of those remaining on this platform. Perhaps that is also the case for our society in general, to be fair.
I’m not the type to quit, but I just can’t find much enjoyment in coming here anymore. Thanks to the open ended format of the network, there will always be hope. But it’s incredibly exhausting to watch users chase away and harass anyone and everyone who plays any sort of productive role in the development and/or administration of the platform. Not only are they doing it for free, but they also have to deal with a peanut gallery of cackling hyenas, just waiting for any opportunity to desecrate their corpse. What a sad state of affairs.
He has been trying to lie about things that he did from his alt, and only drops the act that he’s a random supportive user when someone points out his deception. If he was just upfront about that and the blacklist I wouldn’t have paid him any mind.
I just want juicy drama and to watch an asshat crash out, excuse me.
Many of us just want to know what to ban
Maybe he should leave then?