Ghyste @ Ghyste @sh.itjust.works

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Modus operandi.

Aha, that's the one I was thinking of.

That too.

The fragile snowflake might have a breakdown...

Woah there. This much excitement is tough to handle.

I thought we had a story with the count over 100 already?

Edit: Browsed headlines. The statement was "near 100"

I'd be more than happy to trade places and watch you do all these gungho things you claim you'd do were you in my shoes. I bet I know exactly how that would turn out.

No. We absolutely aren't there yet.

Right there with you on all of this. I actually just said as much in reply to Java's comment to you.

To summarize: "They did nothing wrong and we knew nothing about it".

• The first part of that statement is false.
• The second part of that statement is either 1) false 2) admission that they don't pay a bit of attention to communities they signed up to pay attention to, or 3) indication that they're buried and need more assistance with moderating (to be charitable)

And trust me, if speaking out like this is the only thing that results in action being taken I'll continue to do so, though it would be nice to see that change.

Guessing that fElon would rush-job the Dragon deorbit capsule SpaceX is developing. Which would probably end up with the ISS cratering in a populated area.

You have a very interesting definition of personal attack. The one thing I said that was personal was "touch grass", and that was in response to a smartass reply. Everything else stated was factual observation of their behavior.

I find it hard to believe that your entire mod team didn't notice this account's activity, and as Philip advised there have definitely been other reports. If any of your mods were paying any attention at all the sketchy sources were front and center in the community feed.

It would be daft to turn a blind eye to this and simply block anyone like this account. Hell, according to your own comments even with reports nothing would have been done since on the most technical level according to you no rules were broken. If you can't read between the lines when accounts exhibit activity like this, Lemmy is going to turn into a propaganda spamverse.

In the end it's your community/instance so you do you, but such attitude will not foster growth of the fediverse, especially with desirable users.

The people who make comments like this have no idea of the situation most of us are in here.

There have been sizeable protests despite the facts that many can't afford to take time off work, risk losing their job for taking time off, have to travel great distances to get to protests, and other things. Getting arrested can ruin the rest of your life in some situations.

Oh, and most of us aren't suicidal, so the whole "get a gun and go after those important people" ain't a thing because that's a damn good way to end up in a body bag for little to no effect. There's a point where that is a relevant option compared to available alternatives but we're not there yet.

Lucky!

Hit the nail on the head. This is the same pattern I've seen and exactly why I called them out: In addition to spam levels of posts, they were also breaking community rules concerning reputable and unbiased sources. I find it hard to believe that their activity was unnoticed by the mod teams of any of the communities they were flooding and yet their posts were never moderated. I think I was banned for drawing attention to the issue.

I wonder which instance the next account will be on...

Oh hey, I was wondering if this might show up here.

I will admit that I was aggressive in calling them out, but I'd seriously had enough of scrolling through All and seeing nothing but their name on everything, on top of seeing the same post on 3-5 different communities.

Language aside, I believe my concerns were reasonable enough and clearly stated. Power users of that nature can control what everyone on this platform is exposed to, potentially manipulating opinions and injecting disinformation. Lemmy is still small enough that a handful of people could potentially influence the entire user base. Vigilance is key.

My remaining concerns are 1) There are still other accounts with identical behavior that have not been addressed and 2) I have seen accounts like this one cycle through instances, and I expect we'll see a new account begin the same behavior from somewhere else soon enough.

Quite amusing that Cat deleted their account though. Exactly the sort of behavior you'd expect from someone just innocently posting content, right?

Beyond that, I could see a temp ban for my language. But 15 days? Yeesh. It was actually removed a short time ago so I guess another mod got a look at things.

Here's the ban explanation, basically saying "spammers and suspicious activity is a-okay, and how dare you say anything about it"

What a coincidence, so do I

Nope, NASA is cooperatively invested with the European Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Roscosmos (Russia).

There is a legal framework that covers all this. Whether dipshit Donnie and fElon and their lapdog government acknowledge that is another matter entirely.

And also called the commander an idiot.. He's completely lost what little mind he once had.

Very Banksy-esque.

I'd love that on a T-shirt but wearing it around where I live would probably get me shot.