Great article!
I actually framed my associate degree from Pierpont Community and Technical College because, even though it’s "just" an associate’s, I’m super proud of it. And when I earn my bachelor’s degree—even though I’m newly retired—I’ll be hanging it right beside it.
Fair enough. But maybe you can stop talking about me since you don't know all the facts. You don't have to of course, so you do you.
Why do people care about getting banned from communities they don’t interact with?
Some users would get into arguments with some, then show screenshots of recent bans (from communities the other user never even posted in) and say, "See? You're a troll! Look ya just got banned!!"
I don't think people should be allowed to be banned from communities that they've never posted in just for that reason.
I get that it's not your role to look up accounts to see if they are me or not. But did you not get my DM from several weeks ago telling you that I was starting to notice a lot of fake accounts of me? It was before they started spouting more and more Nazi stuff in an effort to piss people off.
The reason I alerted you, is because you do mostly stay neutral and just report Lemmy goings on. And since my name is um, controversial, I figured you should know.
And as your comment demonstrates, you do mention me when controversial topics come up.
So you did NOT get my DM about my noting that there were bunch of fakes starting to happen using my username on other instances? I just wanna make sure we are on the same page.
I'm not accusing you of anything. I have just never known a DM not to go through.
Oh, and besides that not being me, and me being the one that alerted the admin to them, I also sent you a dm before the fake names starting becoming an issue, letting you know that I was noticing a bunch of new accounts being started with my name.
I have also messaged several instance admins to alert them to the accounts that try to pretend to be me. So there's record of that. I finally stopped, because whoever is doing it is wasting their time because the new accounts just get banned anyway. It's pretty hard to "ban evade" using the exact same username. So the guy doing it is just wasting his time anyway.
I'm disappointed that you never speak up on that. I warned you it was happening, then when it does happen, you stay totally silent when people incorrectly assume the comments are actually made by me.
I get that you don't like me, but you know full well there are imposter accounts of me and you never speak up when I talk about them. May I ask why?
The ani.social one shown in your modlog screencap was/is not me, and in fact, I'm the one the messaged the admin of that instance to let them know that it wasn't me and that it was just someone posting to stir up shit to make people jump on the "Let's ban Uni Monk from the entire Fediverse" bandwagon.
I mean, hey people can jump on that bandwagon if they want, but at least make sure it's really me. You an easily tell by the dates of the accounts.
Also UniversalMonk has been banned a week ago
Actually I'm not banned from there at all. I don't post there anymore because it's now a meme community and not a conservative community. What made you think I was banned from there?
There are fake users using my name to stir up shit hoping that this instance will ban me, so maybe one of them got banned, but I wasn't banned from that community or this instance.
Happens already. Auk on slrpnk instance has a bot that counts your upvotes/downvotes. And auto bans u based on the counts. Even if you've never been to his community
Also, Phillip complains about people posting a lot, when he's posts a shit ton too. I see his fucking name almost more than any other name.
As a result of him posting so fucking much, I accidently replied to one of his posts and he lost his shit and accused me of ban evasion. He reached out to mods, admin, asking people for supported, etc. Even tho I'm not banned from the instance or the community that I commented in. lol
Actually Phillip complains a lot about a lot of things. lol
Great article!
I actually framed my associate degree from Pierpont Community and Technical College because, even though it’s "just" an associate’s, I’m super proud of it. And when I earn my bachelor’s degree—even though I’m newly retired—I’ll be hanging it right beside it.