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Lemmy and Kbin have both seen a huge influx of people in the past few weeks, so admins of each instance are struggling to keep up. For the most part, the admins are working for free, in addition to whatever their day jobs are.
Having said that, I'd report those magazines / communities to the admin of the instance for action, understanding that right now, they're buried in requests, questions, and complaints. If the issue is an entire instance, well, defederation is an option.
FWIW, I was threatened on Reddit more than once with actual murder... people threatening to come to my house and kill me. Reddit's general response was to... delete the chat message in question as a "resolution" to my complaint. AFAIK, that was the extent of their action. I at least have the impression that abusive users will be removed, though it might take a bit given the incredible influx of new users.
I am sorry that they're harassing you though. Noting to block those magazines / communities.
This is horrible, why do people think they can say this shit? I hope you reported this to the police? I'm pretty much most places this behaviour is illegal. It's not a good look for Reddit to be complacent with illegal activity on their site.
Edit: massive typos
It's all good! Not that the guy would have had an easy time finding me; I'm not inclined to share my "real life" info online and I rarely use the same username / contact info on more than one site. Heck, as I note... I'm probably just an incredibly advanced AI anyway. Bleep bloop.
I don't fear them. Let 'em come!
P Sherman
42 Wallaby Way
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A French guy was stabbed to death once after a guy he beat in counter-strike was able to track him down.
Possible and tragic, but that's the address of the dentist in Finding Nemo. And I suck at counter strike. And I'm not French.
The question is, is it real? Or are addresses in movies fake and cannot be traced to real places, like the 555 phone numbers?
Google said it's fake. I guess the producers wouldn't have picked a real address. Or at least not a real address of a person. Police station would be a good pick.
I may have given creeps police station addresses before. That and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
This is explicitly why I avoid mixing my gaming/forums/Discord accounts with my IRL/social media accounts. People out there are lunatics.
I had a similar experience, but their response was better. I had been talking on a certain sub for months (an illness support sub...) and there was one user who was prominently abrasive. Actually an odd mixture of acting tough mixed with seeming very sensitive, so I suppose basically a bully. We didn't get along great. He liked giving factually incorrect advice mixed with telling us all we were "weak pussies" for being concerned about illness. I don't remember all the details, but at some point he started blatantly using alternate accounts to support his viewpoints and harass people. I called him out on that and he was angry about it, and started saying things like "I'll be in Portland next week, maybe I'll come pay you a little visit" and "you'd better watch for me, I'll be seeing you soon". Reddit admins did remove his main account along with the 2-3 others he was using.
They think they can say this shit because they obviously can. There are no consequences.