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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Original post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28953165

My comment was:

OP's stated definition of nazism:

Nazism is a dangerous and evil far left wing ideology

A direct quote from OP's stickied post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28952853

Interesting that OP wouldn't want us to know what they mean when they say Nazi.

edit: added link to post

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting that that guy also created a conservative community and an anti-trans community calling trans people groomers. "Hey, I'm a republican fascist, but not a nazi, so long as nazi means left wing"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Been noticing some odd activity lately around fedi.

Nicole won't stop harassing honest shit posters lol

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Say no to nazi, but creates a community for the “4th Reich”. Literally a Nazi term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Flood the fields.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I had an account on Rammy and remember that crap unfolding. It's the same deal, targeting an instance with an inactive admin and posting carbon-copied crap, but without the backing of that fascist instance which name eludes me. Seems like the same sorry waste of space got bored of whatever nazi shithole it crawled into...

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

Sucked us all in with the punch a Nazi post then turns out...probably Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting! Wouldn't have noticed this until tomorrow if you hadn't. I've lit the beacons to get admin attention and instance users are reaching out as well. If we don't see it addressed by tomorrow, I'll be logging into the pubnix to make some noise (I'm not a mod or admin but an open-source and pubnix enthusiast).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course! I'm not letting some fascist chud take over my BBS nostalgia zone without a fight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The mod is a troll (and also a rightwing bigoted disinformation spreader). Admins of the host instance should ban them, and if not, other instances should defederate from lemmy.sdf.org.

Edit: nvm the original edit, I was mistaken

Re-edit: the site admin has now banned the troll with the reason being solely “userbase request”. I take this lack of detail to suggest that the server admin either A. saw what the troll posted and was fine with it, or B. didn’t even bother to look through the content the troll posted that the userbase took issue with

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Just chiming in to say that this guy is violating the instance rules and our admins just aren't very active unless poked, but there have been multiple threads of people trying to contact the admins.

I'm not a representative of the site, just a user, but I can say in general that sdf.org is an artist collective kinda deal and we're getting spammed by one or more bad actors at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

the instance’s modlog shows the troll was banned from their instance

I don't think it does? They were banned from a couple of communities, but that's it: https://lemmy.sdf.org/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=15728004

It's just a matter of time, though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Yeah the Nazi in question is also the sole moderator.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Note that the author of that post is also the only mod of that community.

They seem very confused, considering they describe themselves as "pretty conservative leaning": https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28953628

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does lemmy.sdf.org actually not have any instance rules?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We do and this guy is clearly violating them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would you kindly link them for me?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Generally, I'd look to these:

The rules are not Lemmy-specific that I've seen but the overall policies are:

  1. Don't be a dick (no harassment, discrimination, transphobia, hate speech, disinformation, etc).
  2. No commercial activity (SDF is both a non-profit and philosophically opposed to spreading the rot of the commercial www - people need spaces that are not about engaging in commerce).
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Had to go and proudly get banned myself!

What a joke. Hopefully lemmy.sdf.org acts on this soon, I'd hate to have to filter the entire instance over a few crappy spammers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I mostly wanted to warn potential upvoters as to what they're really upvoting.

Plan B was to get an obviously power tripping ban that I can post here. Somehow, I figured this would be the case.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Already banned that shitstain from our instance.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is lemmy.sdf.org a Nazi instance, or are the admins going to ban that user?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SDF is decidedly NOT a Nazi instance but one leaning anarchist centered around a public unix server and open source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So has the SDF admin (I get the impression there's only one) woken up, glanced at the flood of messages/reports, and banned the user yet? It's been almost 12 hours since my comment, which should've been plenty of time.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Left-Wing nazi regime

What??, always thought nazis are far-right..

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Nazis love to say "I'm not a Nazi, that's a left wing ideology. All those people telling me not to call them slurs are the real Nazis."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

"It's called National SOCIALISM!!!11!1", that's their claim and the whole basis of their extremly intricate political analysis.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

They mean anybody they don't like.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah this guy is an alt-right troll trying to spread as much hate as he can, PTB for sure. I recommend contacting as many instance admins around the Fediverse as you can to make them aware of this issue. Hopefully SDF's admins intervene and put an end to this situation, otherwise it's not looking good.

Edit: I started reporting their posts on my other account and I was banned after just submitting five reports for reason "Libtard".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Curious. That Ashton has a lot of problems with trans people while being a pussy that identifies as a man.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Interesting. Did Ashton wipe their previous comments? I feel like that username looks familiar.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah that guy's a bigot who's getting instance-banned as soon as the admin wakes up.

Incidentally, why the fuck does Lemmy's sorting ever show you a post that's -53? I'm not on page five hundred, here. Some anti-trans horseshit, which everyone already piled on and called out, is ranked basically alongside this post. Tear out that math and start over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I often sort all by new comments and it shows posts with zero comments on the first page, with something posted yesterday with 50 comments below it. Sort is probably difficult

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorting is CS 101 fare. Dessalines just fucked it up somehow.

Same as checking anything "Top Month" and seeing stuff from last year. That's not exactly in NP-hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Federation makes it hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If I'm being shown a label that says "one year ago," my instance knows it's not a month old. Don't include that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There was a user in that comment thread banned for promoting violence, but the main post and poster haven't been for the same reason, despite the post itself also promoting violence.

This lack of consistency concerning violence against nazis is literally the second major reason I left Reddit in addition to them killing 3rd party apps. Some site admins were basically using posts promoting violence against Nazis to ban anyone who agreed with the post.

Edit: My comment pointing this out was removed and I was banned from the community for being a "libtard troll." lol okay buddy. Seems like you're a Nazi who doesn't like the idea of everyone kicking your ass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These guys aren't doing jack shit, and their history shows nothing to the contrary. The mod of the community is just trolling people. Their instance should ban them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I meant the history of the user who is spamming hate. Don't expect consistency in ideology or behavior of this person, is what I'm saying. But absolutely agree fuck this guy ban him and any of his alts or friends