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I agree with the sentiment but this here is not a complaints forum.

Please report that user and his communities to the admins of the instances he's registered at. A quick look at the sidebars of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee would suggest that their admins banning him is a slam dunk.

Maybe ask at [email protected] and [email protected] what to do?

On the grounds of !fediverse not being a complaints forum, I'm going to lock this post.

That mf is still around? And now they're spamming right wing nazi stuff, despite definitely for sure being a legitimate honest 3rd party Jill Stein Stan? My gosh, say it isn't so!

There is nothing for them to learn about "netiquette", they are a cancerous wart intentionally participating in bad faith with the entire fediverse.

Why are we giving this person their stage again? How probable is it that the instance admins of the like 15 instances they have accounts on will all collectively ban him? It's just your average nazi spammer on the internet. You've read that "bio" this person has. Even if they get banned, they'll come back just on principle. Just block him like any sane person would do, leave him shadow banned like that with his nazi friends, and call it a day.

In that case I also nominate @[email protected] who pretends to be left but posts an incredible amount of conservative propaganda and misinformation in all his little communities.

This fucker is still around eh? I remember him single-handedly sowing discord in c/politics around the time of the election with incessant pro 3rd party spam and insane tirades of sealioning - also report abuse if I remember right. Or at least taunting people into breaking rules and subsequently reporting them. I was amazed at the time that he was allowed to remain unbanned for ages in that sub when it was very clear what he was doing.

They are at best a one-person propaganda shop, and at worst part of a targeted influence campaign by other actors.

I've written many times on this user in the lead-up to the US election, when there was cumulative evidence they were spamming content meant to split the left vote. I welcome moderate or right-leaning good faith discussion, but this user is not that. They sealion any responses with canned / apparently-LLM-assisted non-answers to legitimate constructive comments and debate, apparently to drive up "engagement" on their posts. I've read probably 30 threads where this happened - they do not answer direct questions or engage in actual debate, but immediately go into "I'm a victim" mode and turn the debate into a performative martyred "oppression" by everyone else. Effectively every response by them I've read is a misdirection and nonsense.

My strongly held opinion is that they are a bad faith actor, no matter what their motive or tools actually are. They are literally the only Lemmy user I've come across that I can say, without reservation, deserves a perma-ban.

Oh wow. UM really is just a malignancy that refuses to go away, isn't he? I'm all for allowing different opinions but if someone keeps peeing in the pool, sooner or later you stop letting him in.

Here's the thing: without this thread, I might never have become aware of this user or their activities. Are you sure that what you're doing isn't counterproductive and giving them more undeserved attention?

Oh wow, that's the first time I've seen this person's userpage and read... whatever that is.

So fucking cringe.

I wouldn't care so much if he wasn't such a bitch about it. You want to post that stuff than own up and admit it. Fucking cryptofascist.

Eh, I just had a run-in with them again.

Trying to get every instance to ban them is a little crazy tbh, and I think you're right that their entire goal is a blend of trolling and misinformation.

It isn't crazy because they're acting in bad faith. It's crazy because just lemmy is already too big to try and organize a lemmy wide ban. Trying to get a fediverse wide one applied ain't happening.

Best you can do is report them for the spamming in the instances they do it on.

100% if he is breaking the ToS on multiple instances (and I would argue that spamming most likely is, not to mention the substance of the content)

He can always create his own instance and anyone who wants to see his content can join it as well. Instance admins shouldn’t feel obligated to give anyone a platform (ahem, .world), the fediverse is decentralized and democratic.

Posting lying terrorist dens like breitbart or fox as news is ban-worthy on its own.

It blows my mind that the admins of UniversalMonk-affected servers don’t just ban him on sight.

Guys: You’re being too nice. I get it, you want to be inclusive. But you have to draw lines. Someone doesn’t have to be telling racist jokes or something, in order to be clearly and unapologetically a net negative to the community in every possible sense. And, showing them firmly to the door doesn’t have to be a complex or “objective” process when that happens.

oh, that tard's still around? I blocked him months ago.

I can affirm my experience has been all the better for it, so yes, the rest of the fediverse should throw the Nazi out of the bar.

Everyone wanted to know how it would go for the "I just want people to support a 3rd party" folks after the election... Well, now you know!

Seems like he does get banned frequently by mods, given he has like 10 accounts created on a number of servers in the past few months