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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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Tried reporting some of the abuse on SDF and the Nazi troll just banned me for being a "Libtard" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reported less than five of this dipshit's posts and he ended up banning me from all of his communities. Doesn't really surprise me. I've known that reports on Lemmy are faulty and Admin only reports, or more control of who receives them has been suggested but Lemmy's devs never listen.

My advice is to just send messages directly to your Admins as well as his admins, then he can't intercept them.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Obvious PTB but also daym those look like a proper collection of alt-right comms,not to mention the ableism. Are these on their own instance?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Nope they're on lemmy.sdf.org. Lots of people are talking about this incident right now, in fact I just posted a comment mentioning as many admins as I could think of to help resolve the situation.

[–] Skiluros 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's going on with SDF?

[+] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (37 children)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You could try reporting to their abuse contact https://sdf.org/?abuse/abuse

But SDF is a pretty old organisation, it seems to generally be quite pro free speech.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't get why they didn't add this link to the sidebar. I was looking for this and couldn't find it, and the admins didn't respond to any of the reports or DM's. Likewise, I thought it was just a phantom ship type of instance since other Admins couldn't get contact either.

But thanks for sharing the link, I'm going to write a mail right now because they apparently still didn't do anything about the last thing I reported 8 months ago.

EDIT: Abuse email points to a broken SMTP server

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, yeah, the admin hasn't been around on Lemmy itself for a while: https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/SDF

But it was upgraded to 0.19.8 2 days ago, so it's not abandoned.

I only know where to report software issues and ask for upgrades, but not users.

Anyway, just for fun, here's how that looks like:
First you SSH (or Telnet if you're feeling brave) into your SDF pubnix account and then open bboard (bulletin board program).

List of commands:

REQUESTS BBOARD preview:

And an example bulletin about Lemmy being down posted by another user:

Hmm, I just noticed from the screenshots that there is a newly posted bulletin, likely about this person.

Edit: That post from jdl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks, I just tried to create a post, but it doesn't show up. Is this normal? It did say that it was queuing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, yeah, it does take a few minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Super Dimensional Fortress is a very old site.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Admins are already aware.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have to ask since you may know: Specifically the SDF admins? I've done all I reasonably should with no reply.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

There's a back channel chat with Admins from multiple instances, word went out about 8 hours ago, not sure if the SDF admin has seen it yet.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, the "if you're not a transphobe, you're a Nazi" guy. Delightful.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lemmy devs NEED to take action on this and implement report differentiation. I was banned from some midwest.social communities for similar. Lowly community mods should NOT be able to ban users for reporting instance/TOS offenses.

Or at least a community ban should not prevent you from making reports to admins.

[–] mindbleach 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

SDF admin finally remembered he has a Lemmy instance, and that fucker is now gone.

Hopefully they implement a little more oversight to avoid more "mods are asleep" situations. You don't need instant response times. But when people start escalating and looking for you on other services entirely, and it still takes over twenty-four hours, over abject blatant bigotry - deputize some mods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

SDF admin finally remembered he has a Lemmy instance, and that fucker is now gone.

As far as I'm concerned, sdf is gone too. (edit: their Lemmy instance, not the org itself.)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve known that reports on Lemmy are faulty and Admin only reports, or more control of who receives them has been suggested but Lemmy’s devs never listen.

Yeah, the person being reported shouldn't get the report and they currently do if they Mod the forum the post is on or Admin the instance the post is on, the reporter is on and the reportee is on. That's open to abuse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You also have no control over whether reports federate out to other admins, Carcosa showed that with their bad faith accusations that I was replying to them via reports in [email protected] when I was actually reporting them for being an ass and violating the community's and instance rules. On Mastodon I would've simply unticked the Forward report to Hexbear option, but Lemmy doesn't let you do that, it by default pulls out all the stops to let everyone know it's being reported, with no discretion whatsoever. I'm kinda surprised they don't just make them publicly visible to everyone *sarcasm*.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

downside of lemmy is you can delete your vps, buy another one, install yunohost, buy a cheap domain and have your own lemmy instance federating pretty quick/cheap if you get blocked, especially if you use some pay by the hour vps

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This person isn't doing that though, they're clearly freebooting off other instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought instance admins had to approve any new created community. Allowing anyone to create a community without any supervision sounds dumb.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Nope, as far as I can tell that's not a thing on any instance. You can either have it open or limited to Admins. Reddit has the feature fully open by default. I guess the idea is to encourage people to create the spaces they need/want on demand without fuss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

idk how long it takes to federate tho I havent gotten very far

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah… that’s not cool.

I have enough on my shoulders right now, but this evening I’ll make sure to check into this and if it hasn’t been handled, I’ll add my voice to the chorus.
(My voice has 0.1% more weight than anyone else’s, because I make monthly donations to their org since joining as a Lemmy user, but I did not sign up to support this.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not a problem with SDF as a whole, it's just one Nazi who created a few communities there. Check out this post from c/fediverse_vs_disinfo: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37004617

Please change the title, because this seems kinda misleading.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Is it not clear that this person is a massive troll?? People are treating this person like they should follow the rules when their entire schtick is to do nothing but create chaos and anger people. Those communities were created for the purpose of luring people so they could do this exact thing.

I would say this is fucking stupid simply because of how blatantly obvious it is, but the fact that people take them seriously enough to fall for the bait shows that know exactly they’re doing and it is working.

And it looks like there will be little to be done about it. If the admins won’t do anything- it’ll only be a matter of time before the instance is blacklisted, but that type of thing takes a while to happen.

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