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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.
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.
Nah. Not a guy.
Got 'em 😉😘
Zing!
So flooding communities with low effort reposted content is what we need?
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
Never even used Photononix, but that is an odd thing to complain about.
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
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.
Same. But I do subscribe to a lot of technical communities where the cm0002 collective reposts, and that can get annoying.
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.
Why come to a rant community and be sarcastic and condescending? The ranting is why they’re here.
Is cm0002 banned somewhere? Are they using new accounts to evade those bans in places they've been banned?
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.
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.
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
"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.
No, you don't. Cos we're all just assholes, in here.
E: ducking autocorrupt
My pleasure. I don’t have your entire instance blocked but I wonder if I should.
Why would I ever care about your opinion? Oh no I might miss a Big Lebowski reference
I want to add that blocking this kind of person has improved my existence here immensely. Far fewer stupid “witty” comments straight from reddit.
Excuse, but i ordered the
EXTRA BIG ASS
side of hypocrisy to go with that condescension, please and thank you! 😘
"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)
No that's the other fed