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LMAO! Coward little admin banned me from communities I’ve never even posted in, because I called his shit out when he tried to poke his fart-sniffer into a comment thread- now get this…. in a community on an instance he doesn’t even have authority over.

Additionally…. I don’t even see shit from .ml because I have that entire instance blocked. lol!

What a fucking joke! I’d say a bullet was dodged, but I’d never even have known it was fired to begin with had I not checked the mod log.

Words cannot express how embarrassing it must to be to walk around as this mouth-breather.

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Welcome to the club. That Ai simping waste of air banned me a while ago for calling people delusional that think using Ai is “seizing the means of production”

I have that whole bootlicking instance blocked, go ahead ban me as much as you want little Ai slopper.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How the fuck is Ai seizing the means of production. Lunatic.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 28 points 2 months ago

Well, it's seizing it for the capital class. Doesn't that count?

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Same here. Blocked that shithole a looooong time ago. I just thought it was funny that this coward got so butthurt about having been called out in a comment thread that has nothing to do with his little shrine to boot-licking authoritarianism, that he retaliated by banning me from his little collection of smug fart-sniffing communities.

LMAO! I’m seriously feeling some empathic embarrassment for this clown and I’m mostly dead inside. That how pathetic this fool is.

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

AI simping is crazy, got a link of them doing it?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Always have!

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I notice you're on world, and I want to mention that World explicitly does support the Lemmy.ML admins including financially.

When I complained about the recent banner on World which is asking for donations which go directly to ML and pay the salaries the known pro-war, pro-genocide, and Transphobic Dessalines and Nutomic, the Lemmy.World Support moderator had this to say:

"So they’ve provided you a solution to your problem, but you don’t want to use it to solve your problem, and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.

Got it."

-Serinus, click here for link

The fediverse does not need Lemmy, including Lemmy.ML, Hexbear, and Lemmy.World, those instances are a sickness that the fediverse will survive.

Spread the word and consider moving over to a PieFed instance.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I’m seriously thinking about it. Do you know if the Voyager app allows piefied?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 12 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I’m on voyager.

It’s not perfect yet the modlogs don’t show up.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got signed into the same one you use. However this sub shows completely empty when I use it. No posts.

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[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I’m using piefed on Voyager right this second.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 4 points 2 months ago

Just signed up!

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

"So they’ve provided you a solution to your problem, but you don’t want to use it to solve your problem, and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.

Got it."

Tell them you drive a VW but don't support Hitler.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is the difference with PieFed and how is the app ecosystem?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even when I'm on the phone I always use the browser so idk about the apps, the Piefed API is 95% similar to Lemmy.

Piefed is written in Flask which is similar to Django that I think but I'm not certain Lemmy is built on. The practical difference is the Piefed developers aren't the Lemmy developers, so you can use Piefed without inadvertently supporting horrible people.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Lemmy is written in Rust.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Piefed has a lot of nice features for both casual users (e.g. multi-community comments, threadiverse link redirection, better mute/blocking tools) and regular posters/mods (scheduled posts, flairs, tags).

I use a mix of their mobile WebUI (which is generally good, but does need some polish if you post a lot) and Voyager. Mainline features work well on Voyager, but they haven't implemented many Piefed specific features.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The banner went up on all Lemmy instances. Not just world.

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[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 3 points 2 months ago

I made the switch!

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

@davel@lemmy.ml is a little bitch.

Also, if he bans me from a single .ml community, I’ll pull my donation to the lemmy devs.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

It’s what everyone should do to be honest. That sack of shit doesn’t deserve support.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 12 points 2 months ago

I already cancelled my donation to the Lemmy devs, long long ago.

I do agree with other people here, lemmy.world is also shit. I was just thinking about this whole conversation earlier today, featuring a lemmy.world mod overtly lying about how and why they were banning people who didn't want propaganda in their feed but not banning the propaganda user (using such sterling logic as "we never got reports on this spammy user before" and then doing a Dale Gribble smoke-bomb when asked whether they'd gotten previous reports on the users they did decide to ban, who were complaining about the spam/propaganda).

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Rule 2 is "mod is a little bitch"

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Worse, admin. Say what you will about the .world admins. Or most administrators for that matter. They tend not to micromanage and police thought. Only intervening when necessary. If YPTB were a person, it'd be him.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol move to piefed its way better anyway

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jeez, what did you do? Claim that capitalism has some actual benefits or something?

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

LOL! I wasn’t even in a .ml comm. It was in a comm on .world. Stood up and ran his mouth and I sat him down.

Apparently he ran off to ban me for his little echo chamber.

What a pathetic little man! 🤣🤣🤣

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago
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