Universal Monk @ UniversalMonk @lemmy.dbzer0.com

Notorious Lemmy outlaw. Writer of stuff like **Booty Sweat Jesus and the Ho

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Good point! I forgot where I was for a sec.

I see how you feel with your Peertube song.

haha, thanks! Yeah, I was feeling creative that day. I figured, "Hey, I should make a Lemmy song!" You reminded me of it, so I posted it to a nerdcore comm just now. lol

I'm with ya. I LOVE the decentralized nature and concept of Lemmy. Just wish some of the more extreme rhetoric would die down. Because this would make a great creative space. People should def not take it quite so seriously and spend more time outside.

But as an aside, I just had a talk with one of the admins for my instance, and it was a great convo and they are supported of creatives here. So right now, feeling good.

Let me know if you find a better venue… I am also disappointed in Lemmy.

I still love Lemmy, and my main Lemmy instance. But ugh, everything is getting so political and extreme everywhere. I'm trying to transition into just posting my writing and staying in writing communities, but my reputation proceeds me (still no regrets and I still believe in everything I said) and things can downgrade pretty quick.

And if I came up with an alt name, people would recognize my writing and say I was ban-evading.

So ugh, we'll see. I'm trying to just stay out of everything political, but people mention my fucking name all the time anytime someone talks about "trolls." And I never back down when I get false accused. lmao

Agreed. Lots of missed opportunities, and Lemmy is also shunning away their allies against Trump by overusing the words Nazi and Fascist to describe every poster that disagrees with Democrats. My gf, who is very very anti-Trump, lasted on Lemmy one day. One day!

She said it was way too hateful and political. lol

I feel bad even recommending it to her, and I don't recommend it to any of my friends anymore.

Lemmy will die in a few years because of it's extremism. It's already slowing down. But I'll ride it to the end to prove to people that they didn't bully me off of it. :)

I wish people was more forgiven of Trump voters, it is not the monolithic the Left tries to portray it is. Trump sold himself as fighting the establishment, being anti-war and pro-antitrust (many small business owners supported him)

Be prepared to accept accusations of being a fascist Nazi for saying this. You're right, but Lemmy is so extreme on this subject, that if you aren't with the majority, then you're an evil nazi pig--regardless of reality.

I still get accused of it and all I did was vote third party in the election. 9 months ago! lol

Can confirm. about 15 years ago, my bank account was frozen for 3 weeks for child-support enforcement. Only they weren't talking about my kid or even me. Some dude in Florida with my same first and last name was a deadbeat dad. So they froze my account because apparently, he didn't have a bank account or something.

What's super annoying about it is that we had different middle names, not even close to the same social security number, and not one person even contacted me before my bank account was frozen. I only found out because a check I wrote or something bounced. And I was like, WTF?

I was finally able to talk to enough bank people to clear it up. But it took 3 weeks. I never got an apology for it either. And the fuckers did not refund my insufficient funds fee. I mean, it was only $15 bucks, and it would have cost me more than that in my time to get a refund, but still...

So yeah, even here in the US, banks can suck.

Hey! I resemble this remark!

I'm late to this party so can't play, but thank you for posting this!

There is no story. And I haven't been banned from "everywhere." Those two posters (and most of Lemmy) are mad because last year I voted third party in the US election.

Back then, many on Lemmy thought that if you didn't support the Democratic Party, then you were a russian spy working for Trump. People legit accused me of living in Russia, being paid with russian bitcoin (to post on lemmy! WTF?! lol), and trying to get Trump elected. All because I posted news articles about third parties.

Several posters tracked me, one actually wrote a program to track me and the times I posted in order to "prove" I was "russian." Didn't work tho, cuz I'm not russian and I don't live in russia. It was a wild time. lol

Even tho I created and mod several socialist and third party comms: Socialst, Anarchist, Green, etc. :

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/swp@sh.itjust.works

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/msafe

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/swp@lemmy.today

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/msafe

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/greenparty@sh.itjust.works

And I actually voted for a Socialist party. Now, third party is cool, but right before the election, oh hell no! You were a traitor if you mentioned third party. lmao.

My post history and my comment history is public both from on this instance and my former home, .world under this same username. :)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk@lemmy.world

Basically they all swore up and down that I'd disappear right after the election. And blocked me. But I didn't disappear, and since they blocked me, they don't see my posts. So they keep going on and on about how I was banned from Lemmy. lol

Now, anytime they see a poster they don't like, they like to say it's an "alt of Universal Monk" trying to worship Trump. When you ask them why I would post and create so much Socialist stuff if I was really a Trump voter, they usually then attack you and say that you are an alt of Universal Monk too.

All the while, I'm over here just posting away and doing my thing and posting my fiction writing, socialist articles and anarchy articles. :)

I see attribution to Marc Anthony

It was around long, long before Marc Anthony. Also, you are being way too cynical. It's really just saying that if ya can, you should try to make a living out of something you are passionate about.

Yes, there are people who love what they do for a living so much, that they never wanna quit doing it. I am one of them. I own my own company.

Think of musicians, or actors. Some of them legit love what they are doing and never wanna stop doing it. My grandfather owned an Antique store. His entire life was that store and even when he was in the hospital, he was trying to get back to his Antique shop ASAP. My father was same way. And it's probably why I own my own company.

I don't have an answer, but wanted to let you know I noticed the same thing.

some accounts that do nothing but down vote. No comments, no posts, just down votes

I'm noticing a lot of those too!

And all this is why this is the best instance on Lemmy!

This is awesome! thank you!

Way better! Thank you!

I'd like to laugh, but when I was really new I probably would have asked the same question. I remember back in the day, it was fucking hard for me to even figure out how to work with torrents.

Wait till you get to be super old like me. The shit my brain makes up aren't even plausible memories!

Yea, I actualy am not bright enough to have a solution. I just see that Lemmy is just becoming more and more toxic because of how people are using their votes to control narratives lately.