Bye
You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn't worth saving after all.
Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance's top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the world, and while I won't give you the personal satisfaction of having won, you've definitely proven me wrong about the fediverse being something that even can be saved from itself.
Even people around here I'd interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves. That completely shattered any and all illusions I had that this place has a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage, rage baiting, propaganda, harassment, rumor mongering, trolls, conspiracies, purity testing, and violent rhetoric.
Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I'm done with this place.
I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren't me actually want a place that's not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.
Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users, and lead harassment, brigading, and DARVO campaigns against those who dare call out their bullshit or decide to disassociate themselves and their work from them.
Lemmy.World was so close to doing the right thing after instance-that-will-not-be named's admins were calling for the death of LW's admins while spreading rumours and labeling others in such a way that painted them as targets for murder. All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they 'caught' and should be killed.
.world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.
"We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it." they probably said.
Bullshit.
I'm one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse. If I can stand up for what's right and deal with the blowback, so can you.
Fuck lemmy world's admin team for condoning that behavior and letting the human skidmark db0 DARVO his way out of the situation while brigading with his army of malcontents whom he wields like a cult leader. He knows exactly what he is doing, and you all continue to allow him to get away with it.
Nah, fuck this whole place. I've let too many things fall by the wayside IRL because of dealing with all this fediverse bullshit and trying to give it the slightest bit of polish both visually and atmospherically. Mythbusters may have proven that you can, in fact, polish a turd, but at the end of the day, it's still a shiny ball of shit.
For the few people left who didn't turn out to be psychotic, I'll think of you from time to time when recalling something you've posted or commented that genuinely made me laugh, made me think, or otherwise put a smile on my face or in my heart.
Everyone else, though, enjoy your toxic, xenophobic, knee-jerk-to-violence, purity-testing, and harassing-anyone-who-doesn't-fall-in-line cess pit. One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn't toe the line and you'll be right where I am.
P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you're welcome.
EDIT: forgot to add:
EDIT2:
Removed the link to the original message because the douche included a Javascript on the page to DDOS Dbzero0
Everyone knows a cornerstone principle of the Fediverse was that there should be secret ban lists baked into the website's frontend that aligns to a single maintainer's ideology.
Least schizo Lemmy user
As long as that maintainer is me. I can't trust anyone else to do it. But all you lemmings need to just blindly accept my ruling. Trust me bro.
My blocklist is the only righteous blocklist.
my blocklist is righteouser, yea righteouser than thine!
funny how it's the same as those of all of the other chuds. lol
Uh.. Did you even look at mine, bro?
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WHAT HERETIC DENIES HIS HOLINESS'S BLOCKLIST?!
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Speaking of which, I wish Lemmy had blocklist sharing functionality
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Nah man I can't code in Rust sorry
I don't block shit and I run wild. People that do that shit are lame unless you are being targeted. I will argue up to a point but like the sun worshipers say "pearls before swine" or the dead say "keep on truckin"
I browse all, and most of my blocked communities are either in a language I don't speak, or communities I have zero interest in participating in.
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You're rational and everyone else is an immature sociopath
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what's that? sorry, i'm not into pokemans
Why are you spamming the twiddling fingers reply to every comment?
I'm genuinely curious more than anything else
Its one of the random things Admiral Patrick banned or would put out you you on a ban list for. Also I was at the beach and had just drank three white claws and it felt spiritually liberating to post that while YET ANOTHER of my ops went down in flames.
I'll blame the whiteclaws
Well unfortunately I no longer have an opportunity to be on the ban list, despite many previous unintended attempts
But I'll give it one anyway
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Yeah I'm sure he convinced him as elf it was for a good reason, and the idea isn't inherently bad.
The primary issue is the clear intention to hide it. If there was a notice when you first accessed tesseract that asked if you wanted to enable "Toxic Mode" as he called it, or if there was some sort of indication when posts were removed by the filter, many of the complaints would no longer apply. The fact it was enabled by default, and hidden buried into advanced settings under a question meant to be ignored, located and phrased like the bullshit useless Windows Settings helper stuff, just means he never intended it to really be found. If you have to hide it because you know people don't want it... You're not on the right side of the issue.
The fact he also included a DDOS script in the good ye notice is just proof everyone else was right. He's a piece of shit, regardless anything else. Only a true cuntwaffle does that.
Exactly, if he had made it public, perhaps even with a collaborative list, and with easy opt-in and out controls, it would have turned into a feature, rather than a mess.
I mean, look at uBlock or adblock plus, both support filter lists and it has turned into a massive selling point.
But he was too narrow minded to even consider that.
The biggest thing that exposes narcissists quickly. They can't even consider the possibility that their opinion might not be objectively correct.
does it color your opinion any knowing that your instance had a similar start?
is THAT what "federation" means? Absolute power concentrated to the whims of a single entity? It all makes sense now.
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They are free to put whatever they want into their free software.
They are also free to be heavily criticised and ostracized for it.
Yes exactly BUT doing it secretly is malicious, abusive, deranged, and goes against core FOSS ideals
Theyre free to put it in their software but it shouldve been declared and documented not secret
But no then no one ever would have used it in the first place, a fact of which they were well aware
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The Fediverse isnβt about empowering users and local communities itβs about saviours making sure us savages get whatβs best for us.
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Peanut butter jelly time. where you at where you at with a baseball bat. I got chooo
i choo choo choose the rum ham. and it's got a picture of a rum ham on it :3
Mushroom mushroom
SNAAAAKE
SNAAAKE
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