I was able to contact him about it and he said he gave dragonfucker a warning and told him to stop, he said he wasn't going to ban dragonfucker yet because then dragonfucker would just make another account.
He also was in the spam defense channel when I posted about the latest harassment campaign against me. It's really ugly. He and others there are almost certain it's an alt of dragonfucker. Though obviously without internal data from feddit.rocks we won't be able to prove that, and might not be able to anyway.
Admin seems to be still active, I mean he last posted 19 minutes ago, and he upgraded to 0.19.8 which is semi-recent. So I think it's fair to say he's still active. Maybe is just unaware.
You aren't a troll because you are trans, you are a troll because you make bad faith arguments, spread misinformation, harass people, and encourage others to commit suicide. I haven't forgotten about your abusive tirade against me either, no matter how much you try to deny it.
Make no mistake, you are being called a troll for this:
And there's way more where these came from, your modlog is a gift that keeps on giving.
Funny enough despite what you might claim, none of these have anything to do with being trans. You're trying to pass any criticism of your behavior off as transphobic to try and discredit the people who are criticizing you. This is called a smear tactic, it is a common bad faith argument meant to deflect criticism. In this this case you are accusing anyone who criticizes you of being transphobic in hopes of discrediting or silencing them. This is not going to work here though because as is evident, the accusations of trolling being levied against you happen to have nothing to do with transness.
What the fuck? This is horrible. How is it that anyone discussing dragonfucker always seems to ignore this crap?
@Dave@lemmy.nz How is someone who engages in attrocious behavior like this still allowed on your instance? I mean they're clearly and aggressively violating Lemmy.nz's only rule, "Don't be a dick". I can't think of anything that's more of a dick more than harassing and telling a cancer patient to kill themselves.
Nope, only one server I mentioned is a Mastodon server.
See you're trying to mince words here but the point indeed does stand because microblog and community based engagement are wildly different from each other, and have wildly different expectations and stipulations.
Actually, lemmy.world is not that big all things considered. It’s big for Lemmy, sure. But Lemmy isn’t that big at all.
I don't really know how relevant that is considering that the competing platforms aren't federated to us. Honestly just seems like deflection to the main point. A server in the main community based fediverse sphere will suffer lower visits, and lower interaction if they block the biggest servers.
Beehaw.org didn’t lose influence because they defederate the bigger servers. They lost influence because they took a heavy-handed approach to things. But if that’s how they want to run things—fine. No one owes anyone else federation.
You are correct in that Beehaw's draconian approach is what ultimately killed them off completely in the end, however defederation of the larger servers did play a bigger role than you'd like to give them credit for.
But the fact is, defederation is an option. It’s always an option.
I never tried to say or imply it wasn't an option, because it is, but for big servers that contain more of the pie it's a bad idea. Just like shooting yourself in the foot or sticking a rod in the spokes of your bike while you're riding is an option, but they're bad ideas.
This is not a “platform”. It’s a software distribution for an open protocol. And how people choose to use that protocol is up to them.
The Fediverse absolutely is a platform whether you like it or not, a decentralized platform but a platform nonetheless. They are free to use the protocols as they choose, but some options are poor decisions that will not favor them presently or in the future.
If you want to federate with everyone, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you who or what to associate with.
Now it really seems like you are misrepresenting my words here, trying to spin me as some anti-defederation troll. When the reality is I said that defederation of large servers and large communities has consequences. The inverse is also true, being banned from servers or communities in that larger slice of the pie has severe drawbacks for your own user experience on the Fediverse.
No one, certainly not me is saying you can't, but there are consequences. It is important people are aware of these consequences. Something people peddling the common Fediverse talkingpoints really tells people. Like the fact that if you're banned from all 5 of the biggest servers (community count + federated activity) you can basically consider your ability to be heard and participate hosed unless you create a new account with a new name, or if you block all the biggest servers on your server for being big, yours will likely be very unpopular and get very little interaction which kind of defeats the purpose of a social platform in the first place, federated or otherwise.
You're right, I apologize I should not have reacted in such an aggressive manner. I have actually had a bad day recently and I've been a bit on edge. That's no excuse though.
These are Mastodon servers, the rules of the game change dramatically once you bring in Lemmy and communities hosted on servers. At that point it becomes about active communities holding slices of the pie, as in amount of users participating in communites, size of those communities, and the size of the instance they are hosted on.
To compare this situation to Mastodon servers which are user-centric, don't have community hubs, and are based solely on individuals is to compare apples to oranges, or just trying to mince words.
Now you seem to think that defederation of lemmy.ml is a big gotcha though they aren't actually very large all instances considered, and have been shrinking. The bigger test would be defederation of a larger instance like lemmy.world which has been done with wildly different results. Enter Beehaw.org. They defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works back in 2023 during the first Reddit Migration. Prior to that their communities were considered defacto community hubs. However a few weeks after they defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works most of those communities became almost if not entirely dormant, and many users migrated from their instance elsewhere.
Too big to block very much is an issue, and blocking servers that are too big will kill your communities. Of course there are people who believe that growth, reach, or userbase doesn't matter. This is kind of a stupid argument because if platforms or communities don't have any people in them creating content or replying, or voting, they don't really function at all as a social platform. best case they function like a blog, worst case, they're no better than writing your comments in chalk on the sidewalk.
This type of dismissive attitude is extremely problematic for communities because it deincentivizes people speaking up about issues. Which often is the first step to solving these issues.
Of course there are a lot of people who don't care and the best advice I can give those people is their own advice. If protests and people standing up or speaking out against issues bothers you how about YOU block and ignore the people speaking up, or if you don't want to just keep your mouth shut.
It is by in large a good thing that people speak up about things that are wrong or causing problems, and they should keep doing it. Awareness of problems is very important. Especially when part of solving issues like these is to let management know of such problems.
OP I recommend trying to contact Lemmy.world's admins about this in the Matrix chat, maybe possibly reporting it in the Spam defense channel, since this user is essentially promoting neonazi apologia.
Hey Lemm.ee admins just wanted to ping you to let you know that there's seemingly a person on your instance acting as a mod in communities and using their mod abilities to promote Nazi apologia. Just thought you guys should know this because they are a member of your server.
No server on the Fediverse is too big for blocking.
This is not true no matter how much people like you want others to believe it. The fact is that in the fediverse any server that has a significant IS to big to block, else userbase and interaction will suffer.
To say this isn't the case is to spread misinformation, as people who follow such advice will notice they have a much poorer Fediverse experience. This also does indeed apply to being banned from those large servers and communities as well.
Chrome is something to be weary of since it has lots of vulnerabilities that allow easier fingerprinting beyond simply cookies. It's better to not cause those issues for yourself. Otherwise Reddit wins and you play right into their trap.
No, they can sort of interact with each other, but the data structure and the functions of the sites are different. Mastodon is Microblogging like Twitter, and Lemmy is a Link-aggregator/Forum type platform.
These should probably be added as extra default themes to the Lemmy software as a whole, that way they'll be in all instances for accessibility purposes, not just a single instance.
Just don't use Reddit's app. I feel like that should go without saying but there are people who are unaware of how much spyware is packed into that piece of garbage.
I was able to contact him about it and he said he gave dragonfucker a warning and told him to stop, he said he wasn't going to ban dragonfucker yet because then dragonfucker would just make another account. He also was in the spam defense channel when I posted about the latest harassment campaign against me. It's really ugly. He and others there are almost certain it's an alt of dragonfucker. Though obviously without internal data from feddit.rocks we won't be able to prove that, and might not be able to anyway.