this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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A random awful.systems user posted the recent disinfo about the FAF using LLMs for moderation. I went in and tried to clarify the situation, and I admit I got kinda upset when they kept ignoring my statements in order to be snarky. Eventually I believed we reached an understanding but I was sadly mistaken which I should have imagine as awful.systems residents kept downvoting all my replies.

As I finished writing a post to explain our official instance policy, I noticed they just jumped to defederation anyway, the reason being...the same disinfo I just went through a lot of effort to debunk. They just called my debunking of the disinfo as "DARVO" which is just disgusting trivialization of harasser behaviour by @dgerard, but I digress.

Anyway I finished my post and once I posted it in our instance, I thought they would at least allow me simply to link to it to provide what we actually believe.

Lol, nope, instant delete and ban

Here's their charming admin casually admitting that even though we explicitly told them this is not what we're doing, they just going to disbelieve and make up their own headcanon.

Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised, dgerard has been known to spread disinfo, so this is just more of the same.

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PTB, this seems like a troll instance. Nothing much of value was lost. Kind of feel like we should mutually defederate from them anyway in case they decide to reverse it later to start more shit.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Lemmy continues to make a joke of itself by having the least well adjusted people ever running the infrastructure 🙃

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My wife literally stopped me, and forced me to post this. well adjusted people rarely ever run infrastructure

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 9 points 4 days ago

hey now, I run infrastructure and I'm...

oh

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the significance of using a Jo-Jo reference for this?

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

If no one will take you, if your idea of fun doesn't mesh with more popular ideas, self hosting is the only option

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago

And nothing was lost.

Good riddance to a troll instance.

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What the sweaty hell is happening to our crusty little nook of the fediverse? Did Rimu suffer a TBI or get way into something mind altering?

PTB all the way down, baby.

I think he was always like this, just better at hiding it, or suppressing information about it. People started to notice and they called out the codebase changes and that's when everything spiraled.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Rimu is breaking the Fediverse. We had a good thing going for a few years.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 7 points 5 days ago

Just amazed this is what did it not the previous string of piefed breaking activepub.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I have heard that awful.systems users are rude.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 points 4 days ago

Their entire instance is dedicated to snark and whining about shit nobody cares about. I'm not sure why anyone is federated with them at all. They serve zero purpose.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 days ago

They regularly confuse rudeness with righteousness.

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The instance is an excuse for one writer and his socks to generate publicity.
There may be a couple other actual humans. Maybe.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The only community I regularly enjoyed from there was Tech Takes but tech takes aren’t exactly something we’re starved for elsewhere in the Lemmyverse lol

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 days ago

I was proudly banned from that instance, back before it was cool.

[–] kip@piefed.zip 6 points 5 days ago

heavens forfend. pass the smelling salts

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't particularly believe you guys either, for what my opinion is worth.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's just your own biases coming through

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well ... some healthy disbelief seems apropos here.
If you are in a fight with Awful Systems over who can be the most awful, they fukin win. Every time.
But your name in particular comes up in mod complaints quite a bit. There might be a reason for that. I mean, look how you responded to this person. Seems like a debatable point, at very least.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think I was quite polite to someone calling us liars to our face

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure. You're a polarizing figure.
We don't cross paths much. Mostly I just see people complaining about you.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I guess that says something about the groups/places you're in. Also make sure you're not confusing me with my instance. Sadly a ton of people say db0 when they mean the instance lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 0 points 2 days ago

Ya. I know the difference between your nic and your instance.
It doesn't say much, really. Lemmy isn't that big. I avoid politics if I can, but its not always possible.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've never heard of these people, but they sound like idiots. for their information, there is a repo. there's also screenshots showing my models as well, but if they want to see them they're gonna have to kiss my ass because I don't fuck with self righteous dickwads.

Yeah I suspect it's an instance primarily for the purpose of trolling.

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 11 points 5 days ago

PTB, what a prick.

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 8 points 5 days ago

Fuk these clowns.
It's one guy and his fanboys. They make a sport of being jerks.
And sucking off their head bozo. They really like to do that.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 10 points 5 days ago

PTB.

I think the last screenshot says it all.