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
I believe this is what is called a self-correcting system. It’s the immunr system. A cancer was attempting to prevent resources from reaching their intended cells and the immune system kicked in and exposed the cancer to the best disinfectant. Sunlight.
Expose all the bigots friends. They’re scared of actual free speech and people’s rights and freedoms because that breaks their ability to oppress and subjugate others.
And oh yeah, I was on the list. Probably for stuff like the above I just said lol.
I’m having a hard time understanding the person behind this account. They called everyone names and continue to do that, but everyone else is toxic. I’m hoping this is a satire account, but I might be giving them too much credit. This one is really funny, satire or not.
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.
My friend, you have been blessed with interactions with emotionally mature people. I envy you.
They called everyone names and continue to do that, but everyone else is toxic.
Seems like typically narcissist abuser behavior. They don’t care if they’re total hypocrites.
That’s a thought destroying phrase “oh, this person has bad-person-ness, so that explains the fact that they’re a bad person”.
Maybe narcissism isn’t this magic quality that turns people bad for no reason. Maybe effects have causes, and bad behaviour can be understood.
I agree that with you that in theory its good to consider the broader context that leads to such behaviors. We should strive for a society that doesn’t traumatize children in all the ways the current one does. I certainly don’t think people are just created that way, but a lot of people end up with a certain cluster of behavioral patterns. What seems like unhinged behavior seems to be a lot of island of stability so-to-speak that a lot of people unfortunately land on.
But that doesn’t mean that you should either ignore or tolerate people making the world worse or getting in the way of people who want it to be better. I have a lot of empathy for Musk, for example. Yet I’d still celebrate if he took a one-way trip to Titanic.
We used the word “retard” to mean slow for a long long time. But when it became a psychological diagnosis, the colloquial usage shot way up. Maybe some of the people calling others “r*tards” were speaking French, but I think the majority were inspired by hatred. So, the people who care about these things did two things: we changed the name of the diagnosis, and we stopped using the word. People don’t use that word nearly as much anymore.
I think a similar thing is going on with that word you used. “N*rcissist”. It had a somewhat valid use in the 1800s for a while, but it pretty quickly became about a psychiatric disorder. In the modern day, the majority using the word are inspired by hate. I don’t think most people using it are hateful, but I think they got the idea from hateful people. NPD is really stigmatised, and I think the people who care about these things should do two things: we should change the name of the diagnosis, and we should stop using the word.
It does have that vibe. They used to post stuff to get people riled up. I had a discussion about not removing one of their posts because it was homophobic. I’m glad I didn’t cave and that’s probably why I’m on the list, lol.
Sounds like they… couldn’t deal with the blowback. Sounds like they didn’t hold their ground, they were lying and duplicitous. What a fucking maroon.
He has an inability to take responsibility for his decisions when caught trying to control others, so he talks down to everyone else.
His remark about disassociating, is a major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involving a detachment from reality, which we are seeing above. He’s hinting that he’s still subconsciously aware of his mistake and is simply furious that he slipped up. I wouldn’t be surprised if he eventually decides to return.
He’s still here on his alts talking about his own account in the 3rd person
Are the account names known? It makes sense that he would be trolling; it fits his profile.
I think someone made a list somewhere but I don’t remember where :(
Oh, I’m curious if they are the users I was expecting lol.
Say what you will about SeamanPatrick, but there’s no denying it made Lemmy far more active. The influx of memes and posts is exactly the kind of engagement the platform needs. Also, I’m a little disappointed I didn’t make the list. 😄
Actually, that bullshit with .world admin was the reason I left .world.
From what I can tell, I’m against anything this fascist twat is for.
Got banned from db0 Europe sub because I advocated for a mental health break for elon musk instead of killing him. Reported the comment that called for the murder and the modlog said “tone policing” x)
Earned the instance a ban from my client. Some people are not worth saving indeed. I still think the admiral was on to something, he just didn’t choose the right way to do it.
Lemmy has always had an extremism problem and we need to sort out instances that advocate for violence by tolerating it.
So this is what all those memes about being on some list was all about.
Okay, I guess.
The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.
The fediverse shouldn’t need A savior. It should be its own thing that no one person can control or stop.
Maybe this… Maybe this is the fediverse healing? 🥹
The sheer ego and audacity of this bitch. Good riddance.
oof I have never seen such a high concentration of accusations in the mirror
Okay but I’m confused though. How are we all still posting here now that the main character has left the fediverse?
Bye weirdo
I hope this prick fucks off the hole he crawled out off
Seeing someone using such a blacklist makes it rather clear who the crazy in this story is.
If I can stand up for what’s right and deal with the blowback, so can you.
Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I’m done with this place.
Can I forward this to my lady neighbor who is stupid and being gentle with her dogs
Actually now she is still yelling, just not at the dogs
