AMillionNames

@AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works

Playing the world’s smallest violin in lieu of the admin listing of my least favorite lemmy instance. I probably didn’t have anything to do with it, but lying smearing dipshits have a way of garnering hostility towards themselves. Party time!

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

AMillionNames ,

Thanks to sh.itjust.works admins and their efforts!

AMillionNames ,

Any social networks that have non-censored participants are. Usually, China's presence in social networks outside of its borders are for propaganda purposes.

AMillionNames , (edited )

Interesting. This and other actions seem to hint that they got themselves into the crosshairs of legal law enforcement. You reap what you sow. I suggest that people don't ignore potential issues with an instance, because it does spill over in unexpected ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFdbbcj4Ao

AMillionNames ,

Yeah, no, wouldn't touch that from a longstick, specially from the political slant it's coming from. Wikipedia itself already has enough problems, Ibis is just asking to be a misinformation hub.

AMillionNames , (edited )

The biggest problem with "federation" is the control given to bullshit admins in some of the biggest and how big into hiding their problems they are. One of the biggest instances has shoved two of their admins under the rug, without openly acknowledging why they did it or the drama there clearly is behind it, giving the impression that the problems those admins were creating have been addressed on one side and on the other just trying to dismiss it as "no big deal, they are just taking time off".

So keep in mind joining some of those instances is just joining a good paint job. Sometimes, the rust breaks through, sometimes the rusted pieces get removed, but the people painting over the rust are still there.

It matters because when communities crowd around large instances, those admins have ultimate control over participation within them. And while easy to bypass, it will still affect the reputation your comment history would have represented.

AMillionNames ,

It only needs an antimasker/antivaccine activist screaming below to be made relevant to the present.

AMillionNames ,

I just commented on how Ibis just seems like its destined to be misinformation hub, so maybe I'll be joining you soon. I got banned 2 months ago for this comment against Hamas (Of course, without ever getting a notification) :

What does a terrorist group sacrificing Palestinians for the palaces of their leadership who assault and kill people in an international music festival dedicated to peace have to do with a famous politician and anti-apartheid activist who did his best to do things the right way? Stop gaslighting with terrorist apologism.

The instance is deep into the disinformation game, to the surprise of no one. They saw Reddit doing this and said "Hey, we need to be doing this, too!" I'm now fairly convinced this is the reason they are investing in developing lemmy (and now Ibis). They win, they get to be one of the top instances and the control that means for their communities. They lose, lemmy is still going to be vulnerable from the code base, ghost instances, and hydra-tic participants.

AMillionNames ,

I remember that happening with a game subscription service, and they had the decency to provide me the option of downloading an offline copy of the game when it did. What's so hard about these services at the very least allowing them the option to download an offline copy when things like this happen? They know that otherwise, they are just going to skip over to pirating entirely, right?

AMillionNames ,

It's just too easy to delete years worth of history on modern platforms without any recourse. It's like burning down libraries and not even batting an eye.

AMillionNames ,

One of these years the next craze will be a mobile phone with no or only forward facing cameras.

AMillionNames ,

The only comment I deleted was the one hanging off of https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6657926 (which was basically me pointing out the same thing I later commented elsewhere about, the comment not showing up). Which makes sense, because it doesn’t show up.

If I had deleted https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6657926 itself, you should not be able to see it. But you can, and anyone can. What they can’t do is see it from the thread discussion itself, https://sh.itjust.works/post/11079972 .

And no, the comment I actually did delete does not show in my history … because I deleted it.

It may simply be a data inconsistency issue from one of the times sh.itjust.works went kaput, although it's weird that a comment that previously showed up under a thread, got upvoted on it, and is still under said thread stops showing up as part of it to readers of the thread. It reminds me of shadowbans.

AMillionNames ,

Ask yourselves if you really want to make LW your home base, because I do not.

That was sort of my thinking as well. I've been trying to get a clear answer for a ban that archived everything to show that they were just banned for criticism, and I haven't gotten a direct answer other than a claim that contradicts the evidence.

Purging an account, banning it, and then allowing them to sweep everything under the ban rug is a direct attack on the credibility of user accounts, and I can understand people not trusting a server with it when they do that, and it's even worse when those admins are capable of being charismatic so people are much less keen to question them.

That's something that abusive power mods on reddit did all the time. They tried to sweep everything under the ban rug, keep quiet about it and only give out vague reasons, and then just label the user a shithead when they inevitably then had to proceed to try to scale it up, which meant trying to attract more attention, which made people question them more, which just swept them up with the people that really deserved it, and it just became a vicious cycle.

The one big tell is that when somebody really deserves it, they don't really hide it, whereas when its much more questionable, they keep so quiet that you have to wonder whether the person in question killed anyone, which just adds to it.

AMillionNames ,

Uh, is @Antik really Antik and not just someone trying to supplant their identity by naming themselves antik@lemmy.world? That .. just raises so many questions if so.

AMillionNames ,

I mean, it would be pretty damning if confirmed, you should try reporting it to lemm.ee admins to see whether they can confirm this.

There are people who would troll like that just to create drama, but considering how active and reactive lemmy.world admins generally are and that they are already checking this thread out, they would probably already have at least banned them on lemmy.world. They haven't ..

AMillionNames ,

Oh wow, you are completely right: http://web.archive.org/save/https://lemmy.world/comment/5138651

He's accusing me of being you ... before, he was accusing me of being someone else: http://web.archive.org/web/20231107174821/https://sh.itjust.works/comment/5160618

AMillionNames ,

Yeah, I saw. Just surprised to see an admin acting this way, you've basically been quite reserved up to this point from my perspective. I was really hoping to give my suspicions more of a benefit of a doubt, but you just went and accused me of being someone else for replying to their comments...

I can't talk for your argument with them or what you are accusing them off, but you've obviously read the first of my comments in this thread, and I have nothing else to add. The only thing I am doing is what the intent of lemmy is for me, seeing how instances handle their administration to make an informed decision about how well I can trust them and participate in them. That means checking up and following up communities and posts like the one we are on. Don't let your paranoia chase your own tail.

AMillionNames ,

.. and now you are creating links to content you claim is pedo all over the thread ..

AMillionNames ,

That's what I first was suspicious of elsewhere in the thread , but they have since made it pretty clear it was them: http://web.archive.org/save/https://lemmy.world/comment/5138651 (Or, well, here if they still haven't deleted it: https://lemmy.world/u/antik ) and have even suggested I'm an alt of the user I was replying to along with some wild but otherwise unproved claims that my account was created around the same time his was removed (he knows, or should know, why and when I created mine: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/4632925 https://sh.itjust.works/comment/4648668 )

AMillionNames ,

Lemmy is a poisoned seed. Besides the questionable lead developers, you have the most popular lemmy instances enforcing rules arbitrarily while lying about it and removing entries from the modlog arbitrarily making them all but useless. At least it will be a good exercise in determining how well its federated nature allows it to survive.

Given how often it has happened, I'd say it's the fate of these sort of migrations from other major social networks to be spearhead by lying opportunists and people trying to hide their flaws through abuse of power. Unfortunately, social networks are far removed from the time when the people doing the spearheading where acting as good faith developers exploring what was possible - they'd probably be among the first to get gaslit and DDOSed.

AMillionNames ,

It comes from the IWB archivals mentioned here: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/554307/Just-wanted-a-warning-Lemmy-World-is-perhaps-worse-than-reddit

Basically take https://web.archive.org/web/20231019235547/https://lemmy.world/modlog and try to find the same in this later one https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224842/https://lemmy.world/modlog . You'll find a lot of missing gaps.

AMillionNames ,

Huh, not what I expected

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/58a9b8eb-69b2-4e6a-852a-51b2f643c861.jpeg

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