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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.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??
I don't like the content they post (it's indistinguishable from botspam) and I especially don't like the fact that I can't just block it. Every week it's a new spam account.
Blocking is a user ban. Making so many new accounts is (from a personal, user-experience level only) very much like ban evasion in that view. The experience fucking blows.
I get that a lot of people are digging what cm0002 posts, and I don't mind that they are getting off to it. I don't, and I'm tired of playing block wak a mole. I don't know what else to do but to keep blocking every time they get bored and make (for some reason???) yet another (over twenty and growing!) account on a new instance. I could see two or even three for like, you want to keep a porn account separate from public, or you want a mander persona and a world persona or something, but this is so supermuch not that.
If people don't like me, and no doubt I'm on a lot of people's blocklists (for good reason...), they can block my single name and move on with their lives and never have to deal with my manic bullshit ever again. More power to them, go off and slay, queen, it's a great feature of this broad community.
Is it really too much to ask to be shown the same courtesy?
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
Tbh I kinda like it, I have .ml blocked, so if someone is going in there and filtering out the good content to post elsewhere, I’m not opposed.
E: it is annoying that there’s like 100 accounts of them, but meh, it’s not a huge deal to me
It is unhinged behavior to do this in response to not liking admins of a lemmy instance and I just feel bad for this person that this is where they channel their life energy into.
Books and making art are too boring. Making new accounts every month and manually reposting content to the point dozens of users ask if you're a bot a week is a better time.
Can someone explain what is wrong here?
Someone called cm0002 goes around Lemmy and frequently calls people stupid tankies and then he gets banned and whines about it on .world
Idk if he does that any more, they said they were done with world because world kept jordanlund
That's based but somehow I think for all the wrong reasons.
Tankie runs .ml, supports dictators like Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, etc. and says things like invading Ukraine and uyghur genocide is good actually and/or are western lies.
Dude doesn't like it, makes lots of alts to evade bans to repeatedly post a link to a list of fully insane things the .ml mods have said or done.
Basically .ml is a tankie hellscape and cm0002 has a whole lot of spare time.
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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.
proof that it is high time that an instance needs the ability to straight up perma ban a username
This wouldn't solve the problem. They'd just roll in with cm0003. You need an IP ban or some similar source specific censorship. Even then, it's a moving target when the end user is determined enough.
You need an IP ban or some similar source specific censorship
CG NAT and VPNs want to have a word with you.
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!
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 below. If I was really ban/block evading I'd just make up an entirely new user name each time, it would be FAR more effective and longer lasting.
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
Prevention of a reoccurrence of my imposter problem
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 do feel like there's a legitimate complaint to be had that since you're doing heavy / automated posting, it would be good to pick one and only one instance/user to do it from just to be polite to people who don't want that, and have it blocked.
I feel like all the weeping and gnashing of teeth that OP is doing isn't necessary, since you're obviously not intending it badly, but I do feel like there's a grain of legitimacy somewhere in there.
Fair, though it's definitely not automated. Heavy posting yes, automated no.
The absolute irony here is that I actually considered this perspective weeks ago, but I figured since you can block a user in 3 clicks or less straight from the encountered post the burden of anyone out there blocking me would be low and nbd. Ig not lmao
Well, but multiply that by the number of people who for one reason or another you just don't want to see their content, and then multiply again by the number of instances you have your own accounts on, and I think it's understandable for people not to want it to be multiplied again by some number of alt accounts for each poster.
It just shouldn't be on the individual to have to invest effort every day into that kind of thing. If it's one account, and you just don't vibe with it, then fine. But if it turns into an ongoing project, I do get the irritation even if the amount of effort you're being randomly required to activate at random times is quick and trivial. Like if you just got randomly resubscribed to communities sometimes that you had unsubscribed from, and then had to unsubscribe from them again, that's not a lot of effort to do, but the amount of effort is not the point.
Can you just make this easy for everyone, then, and create your own instance (which hosts the account from which all your heavy posting will come), and use your other accounts for whatever else you might want to do.
This:
enables users or instances that may want to not interact with you to enact that effectively
allows you to see posts from and post to every instance and community which reciprocates a desire to be connected with you (or at least which doesn't want to not be connected with you)
All without putting the burden on others for your excessive account creation and posting.
Okay. Looking through the comments, it doesn't appear that you actually have anything here other than it pisses you off. But is it a problem? You're phrasing this like cm0002 is evading bans and he isn't. If he's making new accounts and that annoys you then that sucks but... why do the admins need to get involved with this? You said you want to have him permabanned from an instance? Why?
You can check who voted for a post by the way. Cm0002 doesn't vote for himself. I have checked in the past when I first started noticing his username a lot myself. Hell, I thought he was irritating as hell for a while myself too. I guess I'm biased in the sense that I know the dude and would call him a friend but even then, I'm not seeing anything demonstrating that action needs to actually be taken by anyone.
I get being annoyed with people. But saying that this is bad faith and worthy of having the entire username banned from the entire fucking instance seems like a massive overreach. One so far that I would just outright avoid ever posting to that instance ever again because that admin would be tripping balls and power.
it doesn’t appear that you actually have anything here other than it pisses you off.
I have logged out and read all of the replies. I do not believe them to believe them to be truthful or in good faith based on timing alone. cm0002 made an account on an instance that was less than a day old. They even made a post about it. How in the world is that possible without automation? And to your other replies, yes, I am deliberately rocking the boat because I believe that people need to be aware that this kind of thing is possible. Also, one of the predominant complaints on Lemmy is multiple posts to many communities. I don't think that there is a bigger offender. Many people see things multiple times and can't stop it because of the account spam.
I've calmed down a lot (re; your comment about me not being around - I needed to actually step back and get some perspective). While this was posted as a rant, I do stand by the initial points (though framing it as ban evasion was admittedly me just fuming). I should have punched a wall, or something instead - I don't know. I'm not entirely intelligent nor emotionally stable by any means. I think something about hitting the block button one too many times made me snap.
I really should just leave all kinds of social interactions because my brain can break like this, I guess. You've been fantastic to me and gave me a real shot at making good posts. My insane bipolar brain is telling me to run right now.
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).
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.