UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.
EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it’s perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren’t him
Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one
To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn’t a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It’s hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it’s a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.
I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk’s comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they’re leaking out into other communities with ill intent.
If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.
Obligatory fuck UniversalMonk and his stupid AI character in each of his accounts’ pfp. Dude is easily the worst parts of the fediverse wrapped up in a shit bow. Just block lemmy.today its a fascist instance. Same with the lemmyusa.today one or whatever.
The bigger problem here is that lemmy.today is being used as a gateway for astroturfing. That’s the issue that needs fixing here.
Isn’t the point of the federation to enable defederating rogue instances, or am I wrong on that?
Hot take: this is why automatic federation is a bad idea. Even if your malicious instance gets defederated, you can just spin up a new one!
I imagine eventually automatic federation will stop being a thing for a lot of instances.
Yes. That was precisely what I was getting at there lol.
Well fair enough
yea it is, after the tankies triad were defederedated from most instances, i suspect some of those users are making new accounts in the other instances to troll.
I never liked the idea of blocking. Shoving my fingers in my ears and singing “la la la” allows these antics to continue unchallenged. Besides, they’re not all on one instance.
I picked Lemmy.today because it allows me to block instances instead of the admins deciding which to defed from. But I do acknowledge that it allows a lot of freaks in.
Aussie.zone lets you block instances too. And it’s not facist.
But it’s admins openly tolerate racism from its users and refuse to take any meaningful action, beyond maybe occasionally deleting one of the users racists posts if you bug them enough times and call them out on it.
Fuck Eyekaytee and the aussie.zone admins.
also been able to on dbzer0, I had thought it was a universal feature
settings > blocks > block instance (scroll down)
I think it’s clear from context that they meant pick which instances they don’t want to see themselves as opposed to instance admins doing it on their behalf.
did you reply to the wrong comment?
Thanks, this is exactly what I meant.
You will notice that users from those so-called “blocked” instances can still:
What it blocks:
In short it should have been named a “community mute” rather than an “instance block”. The best way to block an entire instance frankly is to switch from Lemmy to PieFed. Otherwise there is only a tiny minority of apps (Sync and Connect iirc) that will offer that - the rest merely connect you to the same misnamed instance block (but actually no and rather community muting) feature inbuilt into Lemmy, unless you start to get into things like hacking your feed with a browser plugin to filter users from instances that you want blocked.
Are the admins of lemmy.today shown to be fascist? I haven’t heard anything about that. I guess if you consider them allowing Monk to do this, they’re at least allowing it
Hi, Admin from lemmy.today here. I’m certainly not a fascist and I wouldn’t be associated with any instance or participate on an Admin Team that is.
Speaking of Admin Teams I think every member of ours (including me) has separately investigated the accusation that DJM and UM are the same person and to date none of us have come up with anything. We have engaged with several Lemmy users from other instances who claimed to have proof but none of them provided anything other than conjecture and accusation.
If you, or anyone else, actually has some proof feel free to message any member of the lemmy.today admin team.
Good luck getting the people who don’t like giving evidence to change their minds to evidence or give you any. They still haven’t given any despite insisting they have it.
My real life is so boring compared to user’s made-up stories about me. lol
I sorta wanna be the top secret CIA/Mossad/Russia/China spy that so many here accuse me of being. Yet somehow, someway, I had to shovel snow off my sidewalk today because of this freak snowstorm. I’m a freakin’ superspy, surely The Agency can pay for someone to do that for me! What the heck?
All information wants to be free.
Maybe someday they’ll show it to the public. But alas, it’s theirs to hide.
not neccesarily, but some of the communities are problematic, like politics and some other political type instances, its not like super tankie, but they do like to form a opinion that they dont like changing in some of them, and have banned people, especially when it comes to gaza/israel, they misinterpret people way too much, basically labeling them antisemitic if they dont agree with you.
Well said. They know it’s UM, and they actively chose to allows it fuck that instance.
Says the guy who has an AI character in his pfp. lol
Idk where mine is from I jacked it the right way, through an image search. Yours literally features the same guy in all your pfp. Its the guy in your current pfp, you got him right now. Yet they are different images. So either you are editing pictures of yourself or you are really fond of this dude.
The reason he’s in all my real profiles, is because I don’t hide the fact that my name is on different instances. I don’t create alt names. I never have.
Both, actually! My profile pic is a character in many of my books–I write for a living. He’s basically me and the picture is too, but with way better ai lighting. I’m real-life shirtless all over reddit, so feel free to accuse me of thirst trapping for attention. But I digress.
Some trolls take my name and try to make fake accounts with it, but they get banned fast. My name is known enough that those fakes stand out. That’s what makes this whole thread funny.
I’ve never hidden who I am. And I’m not banned from Lemmy–you’re replying to me right now. See? This account, along with my anarchist.nexus one, has been my main home for a long time.
The idea that I’m running “hundreds of sock puppets” doesn’t hold up. What would be the point? These supposed accounts don’t even agree with each other. There’s no shared message, no agenda, no pattern. What would anyone gain by creating a swarm of fake accounts that argue with each other? It makes no sense. You yourself just pointed out that I keep the same crappy profile on my usernames.
OP’s account is less than one day old, and this his only post, and the only comments he’s made are in this thread. OP also admitted to creating a troll account with someone’s same username to troll someone who he thought was me: His quote: I will admit the [email protected] was me counter-trolling but I am not finding Lemmy worth the fight.
Now I have no idea why he thinks the PapaSkwat dude is me, because I checked that dudes posts, and I don’t even see anything controversial. So no clue what that’s all about. But right there is he admitting to doing what he is trying to accuse me of doing. lol
Everything about the accusations in this thread collapses under basic logic.
You hate me. I get it. That’s fine and it makes me feel important! But at least hate me for the shit I do; not what some other random posters are doing. lol
Thanks, friend! (yes, despite the hate, I consider you my friend. We’re all gonna make it.)
Logical arguments? A robot obeys logic, ergo you’re a bot now. No proof, just a bot now. All those things you didn’t do are now proof.
I know. I keep forgetting I’m a bot. Dammit!
First, I was a russian spy. Then I was a chinese spy for a while. There was that fun guy who swore up and down he could prove I was a North Korean plant was fun (I miss him!). And now I’m a bot.
Oh, and now me and CM0002, who talks plenty of shit about me, are the same guy. To be honest tho, that’s a fun theory. And one of my favs. He’d be so pissed to see people saying that about him! lmao
I’m really confused by all the things I am now though.
Could someone please make a list of all the things I am and all the different countries I work for? And my 300 alt names? Pay scale would be nice too, so I can use to negotiate pay. Thank you!
Except an admin confirmed UM isn’t doing this.
Did they actually confirm it wasn’t UM, or did they say there wasn’t enough evidence to confirm it was UM?
No proof it was UM doing this via any IP addresses. The admin from lemmy.today posted here in reply to someone.
Absence of proof is not proof of absense.
No proof doesn’t mean proof he isn’t. And what they call no proof is bullshit. There’s plenty of proof.
Not finding Bigfoot is proof Bigfoot is real.
Tf? Dude…. lol! The reach you’ll shoot for to think you have a point is astounding!
Still waiting for proof.
As am I.
No, they didn’t.
Yes, they did.
Okay, show where they proved it.
https://lemmy.today/comment/20873694 https://lemmy.today/comment/20873891
But I’m sure you’ll not believe this like everything else that you disagree with like a Republican.
Again, not finding evidence he is- isn’t proof he isn’t. They NEVER once said he’s not- they said they didn’t find proof.
And they didn’t find any because they didn’t even fucking bother to look- because they’re someone that HAD proof and they never talked to him. So go ahead and fuck all the way off with this bullshit.
And….
LMFAO! I’m a republican because I think you’re full of shit? My god, how are you not embarrassed by your own smug bullshit?
And your evidence is?
Which one is smug? It’s not me, it’s the one who’s lmfao anytime they are asked for proof.
What evidence do I need? I’m not the one bullshitting here.
You made a claim, you got called out. No need to pile on even more shame than simply being you has brought.
Walk away, son.
And this admin, do they administer all of these instances? Or just one of them?
lemmy.today admin, so the one who a chunk of the bots are under.
Better, but he could just be using a device with a VPN. I have enough old ass computers in my house to do the same thing.
Could be. But also somehow UM is smart enough to avoid everything but also dumb enough to be caught.
Or rather, this admin, do they have a WAF? Are they analyzing the traffic that comes in? Are the sure they’re checking every point of interaction for consistency? If no, then they didn’t really “Check”.
This admin will state that UM is a bot. And wouldn’t ya know it some of the other signup attempts used the alt names. Weird that.
I don’t think many admins know infosec practices very well to be frank.
So we have 2 admins who have proof he’s not and 1 who has no proof (documents, photos, just anecdotal).
Nooope, I have IP data, email logs, and other things. However, much of the data had fallen off my WAF retention period. Oddly convenient how you just assume I don’t have these things rather than keeping them close because I don’t want the bots to figure out how I’m catching them.
When you conveniently leave out that providing proof reduces an admins ability to re-use certain detection methods, it makes me pretty convinced you’re complicit.
How the heck would anyone but you know that your proof would reveal your detection method? That’s not a given.
And what’s the point of collecting proof if the only way you have to convince others is “trust me bro, I’ve got the evidence, but you can’t see it, my dog ate it.”
And then when asked for proof you jump to implicate the person asking for proof? That’s terrible form. We have an instance rule against bad-jacketing users:
Weird how he’s just not gonna give it away. I’m sure any day now they’ll have proof he’s a robot and also a Tankie and also a fascist and also a shill and also…
Well, You’re more than welcome to reach out on more secure comms, such as matrix to get the proof! It’s strange how that’s basically standard for most of the other respectable instances, but not here.
Give the documents then? And am I a bot now too?
Haven’t you heard? You and I are the same bot. And we control a top secret government-sanctioned group of bots who create bots who create more bots. Because Lemmy has millions and millions of users and can topple entire governments. Keep up, man! 🤣
God I wish I was paid to shit post, would make dealing with morons easier like my retail gig.
Interesting how you continue to leave out the security implications of posting this publicly.
Odd that.
I know not if you are a bot, you aren’t on my instance, nor would it be likely you could get through my process.
I do know that you are awfully defensive of sockpuppet like behavior though.
The sock puppet behavior of… One user being harassed by users and defending them? The sock puppet behavior of… Wanting screenshots?
Hey @[email protected] is it possible to take screenshots that would prove something without being a security leak?
Like somehow you claim he signed up with the same email. Or same address, or anything. But no proof because it’s a security risk.
You have ZERO admins with proof he’s not.
lemmy.today and lemmy.db0, but sure.
Show the proof then.
It’s in the thread but I guess you’re blind to anyone who proves you wrong.
https://lemmy.today/comment/20873694 https://lemmy.today/comment/20873891
So you deny that you’re entirely full of shit, and then bring proof that you are?
You do you, foo!
Hey don’t forget the admin that says I’m a bot now. DM me and I’ll give ya my phone number so we can chat. I wanna know if my voice sounds like a bot too!
I appreciate the offer but it might be better for the admin who swears you’re a bot. Phone calls are always a moment of anxiety for me.