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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.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 66 points 3 days ago (4 children)

?

  1. 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?
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's an old tactic to reserve your name on every server.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago

that sounds exhausting

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

@Snowpix@lemmy.ca

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Thats actually what I guessed was happening. Sometimes I make accounts on services I don't use just to "reserve" the username.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

Megathread on the issue

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.

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[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"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

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago
[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You literally wrote "every single post" in bold face lol

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I am pissed off and annoyed. I edited the post body.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

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.