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Sad little butthurt .ml admin strikes again! (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Rhoeri@lemmy.world to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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LMAO! Coward little admin banned me from communities I’ve never even posted in, because I called his shit out when he tried to poke his fart-sniffer into a comment thread- now get this…. in a community on an instance he doesn’t even have authority over.

Additionally…. I don’t even see shit from .ml because I have that entire instance blocked. lol!

What a fucking joke! I’d say a bullet was dodged, but I’d never even have known it was fired to begin with had I not checked the mod log.

Words cannot express how embarrassing it must to be to walk around as this mouth-breather.

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[–] Kyrex@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

mouth-breather

This reminds me of https://lemmy.world/post/40791326

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Lol move to piefed its way better anyway

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Done! 😀

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Jeez, what did you do? Claim that capitalism has some actual benefits or something?

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

LOL! I wasn’t even in a .ml comm. It was in a comm on .world. Stood up and ran his mouth and I sat him down.

Apparently he ran off to ban me for his little echo chamber.

What a pathetic little man! 🤣🤣🤣

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Rule 2 is "mod is a little bitch"

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Worse, admin. Say what you will about the .world admins. Or most administrators for that matter. They tend not to micromanage and police thought. Only intervening when necessary. If YPTB were a person, it'd be him.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

This is the one place I've never even been temporarily banned from. In the end of my time at reddit, I was getting temp banned every few weeks/months and eventually got so annoyed that I intentionally torched my account in a long winded rant. It felt good actually.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Yup.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Welcome to the club. That Ai simping waste of air banned me a while ago for calling people delusional that think using Ai is “seizing the means of production”

I have that whole bootlicking instance blocked, go ahead ban me as much as you want little Ai slopper.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How the fuck is Ai seizing the means of production. Lunatic.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 27 points 2 days ago

Well, it's seizing it for the capital class. Doesn't that count?

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Same here. Blocked that shithole a looooong time ago. I just thought it was funny that this coward got so butthurt about having been called out in a comment thread that has nothing to do with his little shrine to boot-licking authoritarianism, that he retaliated by banning me from his little collection of smug fart-sniffing communities.

LMAO! I’m seriously feeling some empathic embarrassment for this clown and I’m mostly dead inside. That how pathetic this fool is.

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

AI simping is crazy, got a link of them doing it?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Congrats

Boycott lemmyml

[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Boycott lemmy in general, it's their software and we don't need them in the fediverse.

[–] cm0002@toast.ooo 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Boycott as in don't donate and block the instance as a whole and make it irrelevant by contributing to off-.ml versions of comms

[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

Tell that to the other 2 idiots that replied to me who tried to downplay the importance of not using Lemmy

[–] halfdane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure how to react to your comment, given that I read it through Lemmy. I came here after leaving reddit about a year ago or two, but it seems like we on Lemmy are the bad ones?

I didn't particularly notice it, but have I fallen with a bad crowd, in your opinion? .ml instances and the occasional troll aside, it seems much more constructive and grounded than reddit 😬

[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy as a software and the dev instances (ml and grad) can be taken as a bad crowd, yes.
But what matters is the fediverse, which has nothing to do with the lemmy devs, so you can move to piefed or kbin (mbin? i keep forgetting which one is the active one) and still be a part of everything fediverse, including the reddit alternatives.

[–] halfdane@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for taking the time to respond. While I'm aware that there are other paths into the fediverse besides Lemmy, maybe you could walk me through as to why you assert that Lemmy as a software (or probably rather their developers, I guess) can be taken as a bad crowd?

[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Because the same core devs of Lemmy are the same ones who host the ml and grad instances, so by supporting their platform in any way, you are helping them keeping relevance, even worse those who donate to the devs.

Also... you are in a post about the lemmy dev and ml host/admin spreading missinformation, in a community filled with posts from their abuses... what else do you need to consider supporting their software is a bad thing to do? Or that they are a bad crowd?

[–] halfdane@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Those are good points, thank you very much. I just never connected the dots from Lemmy devs to admins - in my mind they were completely disconnected.

From a cursory check, it seems like piefed is at a good enough place to just switch over - would you say that's a place worth supporting? Or would I just jump from the frying pan into the fire?

Again, I truly appreciate your taking the time to share your experience!

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Always have!

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I notice you're on world, and I want to mention that World explicitly does support the Lemmy.ML admins including financially.

When I complained about the recent banner on World which is asking for donations which go directly to ML and pay the salaries the known pro-war, pro-genocide, and Transphobic Dessalines and Nutomic, the Lemmy.World Support moderator had this to say:

"So they’ve provided you a solution to your problem, but you don’t want to use it to solve your problem, and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.

Got it."

-Serinus, click here for link

The fediverse does not need Lemmy, including Lemmy.ML, Hexbear, and Lemmy.World, those instances are a sickness that the fediverse will survive.

Spread the word and consider moving over to a PieFed instance.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I made the switch!

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The banner went up on all Lemmy instances. Not just world.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I’m seriously thinking about it. Do you know if the Voyager app allows piefied?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 13 points 2 days ago (15 children)

I’m on voyager.

It’s not perfect yet the modlogs don’t show up.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got signed into the same one you use. However this sub shows completely empty when I use it. No posts.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago

That’s odd.

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[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I’m using piefed on Voyager right this second.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 4 points 2 days ago

Just signed up!

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

"So they’ve provided you a solution to your problem, but you don’t want to use it to solve your problem, and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.

Got it."

Tell them you drive a VW but don't support Hitler.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What is the difference with PieFed and how is the app ecosystem?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even when I'm on the phone I always use the browser so idk about the apps, the Piefed API is 95% similar to Lemmy.

Piefed is written in Flask which is similar to Django that I think but I'm not certain Lemmy is built on. The practical difference is the Piefed developers aren't the Lemmy developers, so you can use Piefed without inadvertently supporting horrible people.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Lemmy is written in Rust.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Piefed has a lot of nice features for both casual users (e.g. multi-community comments, threadiverse link redirection, better mute/blocking tools) and regular posters/mods (scheduled posts, flairs, tags).

I use a mix of their mobile WebUI (which is generally good, but does need some polish if you post a lot) and Voyager. Mainline features work well on Voyager, but they haven't implemented many Piefed specific features.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

@davel@lemmy.ml is a little bitch.

Also, if he bans me from a single .ml community, I’ll pull my donation to the lemmy devs.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It’s what everyone should do to be honest. That sack of shit doesn’t deserve support.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

I already cancelled my donation to the Lemmy devs, long long ago.

I do agree with other people here, lemmy.world is also shit. I was just thinking about this whole conversation earlier today, featuring a lemmy.world mod overtly lying about how and why they were banning people who didn't want propaganda in their feed but not banning the propaganda user (using such sterling logic as "we never got reports on this spammy user before" and then doing a Dale Gribble smoke-bomb when asked whether they'd gotten previous reports on the users they did decide to ban, who were complaining about the spam/propaganda).

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