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Original introduction - https://lemmy.world/post/28787892
https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/
I think this is great tool to identify vote manipulation accounts.
Thanks @[email protected] for making me aware of this.
And thank you @[email protected] for developing it.
Just be aware it lists all downvotes first
I like it, thanks Lena.
I have somehow used it to stop @[email protected] from consistently downvoting me in their excellent corvids community, by calling them out for downvoting a comment in support of my issue. Before that, they downvoted every comment of mine but have stopped since.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/27585313?scrollToComments=true
Ah, thanks for the reminder.
Haha, no worries. But you did not like getting your toxic ass called out there, did you.
Anyway, it's kinda nice to see that regular users seem to support my case, downvotes all come from you or cm0002 and their claquers who have nothing to do with the niche topic, just politics.
Given that votes on Lemmy are pseudo-anonymous, publicly calling someone out for how they vote comes with a certain amount of aggressive or combative connotation. However, I recognize that "pseudo-anonymous" is not "actually anonymous", and I respect your freedom to do so.
You thought long and hard for that reply, and it turned out very reasonable.
Seeing that you're so such a reasonable person i wonder what made you downvote what they had posted there?
the best thing for old internet beefs is to just let it go and walk away. bygones. its all done and dusted, no need to stir the pot
It is not old internet beef, it is ongoing. I am not looking for it, I want to just be left alone by them, that's it.
If you just want to be left alone you probably shouldn't @ one of the fighting parties
I am not going to just swallow their bullying but will keep speaking my mind on it, I want to have some agency for the content I post. They spoil my fediverse experience. It's not like they'd stop if I'd just shut up.
ok... what is the TLDR?
They reupload your original photos to different communities?
Yes. With the stated goal to reduce the already measly interaction I get posting niche stuff because I post it to the 'wrong' community.
You own the copyright on the photos? Why not copyright strike/claim/dmca the reuploading as unauthorized?
They have full support of the mod of that community (threelonmusketeers), who knows very well that i don't want my content to be reposted there, as they downvote all my complaints about it.
Sopuli admins see no problem with what they're doing and I also chatted with @[email protected] and he also thinks it's fine.
do you own the copyright?
Well I guess, these are my photos and videos.
Then you can use the copyright system against people reuploading your content without authorization.
The best outcome seems to be they stop posting your copyrighted content, and that is exactly what the very overburdened arm of copyright is designed to do. Since they wont listen to your requests to not upload copyrighted material they don't leave you much choice.
sopuli.xyz says its based in Finland and the country does have robust legal system including normalized notification of infringement practices. https://www.cupore.fi/wp-content/uploads/migrated-assets/tiedostot/pilottitutkimusraportit/pilotreportds9_sanctionsandremediesforcopyrightinfringement.pdf Take a look at page 19 - Section H
the next step would be to make the owners of sopuli.xyz officially aware of the copyright infringement hosted by their community
second escalation would be to file a DMCA request with their US based domain name provider, and to their german hoster
Basically keep escalating in written form so nobody can claim ignorance
Thank you very much for the pointers, I will look into it when I get home and find the time. But seriously fuck @[email protected] for even making me consider this.
Dude, getting emotional and aggressive does not project strength from your position, it puts people against you. be dispassionate, be factual
Start putting watermark copyright notices on your photos.