Is it surprising if they take a pleasure cruise shortcut after their donation drives? The Gaza flotilla ships were at least twice as big, involved more, and they also looked the part. These look like surfer dude sailboats on vacation.

Even symbolically these don’t seem to hold up to scrutiny. I am not a ship connoisseur, but still…

The only clearly defined traits between some of the sockpuppets are their attitudes and insults. If you have to begin to claim that they are in on it and that its all an act, then you can go full in and claim that this entire thread is an act to farm drama from some demented troll, and it can go any way you want.

I can’t say OP inspires me with great confidence regarding their innocence, but going by their arguments and the ones that have been brought on, at least the oldest before the troll accounts began infecting the thread, they made some good points. But all good facades do. Their modlog has its fair share of drama.

The jump from that to a sockpuppeteer, well, frankly, I would assume that’s more the realm of karmawhores from my experience on reddit, and there were no shortage of ones who could be quite charismatic and then flip out to be a completely vulgar toxic troll. Those that sockpuppeteer want control of the narrative, and what’s the best position to have control on a place like Lemmy?

I may have my biases, but I would not stack my bets against one single suspect here.

You really aren’t making a good case for yourself if you are trying to promote ban evasion. Were your critics right, and is your gig up now?

And no, this is just an alt, after experiencing some rather concerning double standards of enforcement in another instance as well as an harsh degree of escalation from said enforcement, this account represents a different approach on a platform that handles some things better than Lemmy’s and avoids any presence on the aforementioned instance.

If those are the boats in the image, that’s really stretching the definition of what an “aid” ship can be.

This moron, NATO knew that the first few months. Nobody would be taking Trump’s US seriously if it wasn’t for everything it had built up that’s now tumbling down upon itself.

If it proves nothing, why do you care about “Proof”? DraconicNEO is the spam account, Draconic_NEO is the powermod. At least so far, because given how Lemmy is, it’s easy for that alone, without the domain, to stop being a sufficiently descriptive identifier for long.

He shouldn’t even have gotten Machado’s, that was a dumb gamble from her.

I wonder what tipped the balances. Was it the threat of Epstein prosecutions? Was it the threat that the oligarchy might be taken down a few places? Or was it just pure greed? Because it certainly wasn’t out of ideals, feigning loyalty to bullshit populist grass roots movements was just the means to an end.

Hint: it was all three.

Proof from thee, but not from me? will_steal_your_username is asking for proof when they already got a direct reply that hints at why they believe so (they started all spamming at the same time).

Considering OP didn’t seem to know who banned them, are you also claiming BootyEnthusiast, the user who provided who it was, was in on it? Should be easy to prove, since they are also on dbzer0.

Their comments aren’t even anything like the harassers. And if you are going to claim it’s all an act, why should we assume you aren’t part of one?

They know who they are, and it depends on what’s involved. Even if the ban was clearly in bad faith, the tune changes when it’s someone co-mingling in their circles, and I’ll leave it at that since it would involve old Matrix conversations. If you haven’t, that’s good, although it’s what ban happy behavior encourages. The only people whom bans like those works against are good faith participants.

They are definitely doing a lot of smoke screening against the actual complaints. Still doesn’t stop OP from looking good when they call them out. I don’t know about your claims, but I’ve definitely seen users be as manipulative as that long before even reddit was a thing.

I’d stick to calling the trolls out instead of implicating the powermod, though (even if it’s just because they are using an impostor nick and you are citing it correctly). They seem to have done that to themselves through their actions.

Doesn’t help that admins have at times decided to encourage alt’ing to bypass bans “because if they are good faith participants, they won’t get banned again”. The problem is the whole federated system means accommodating different standards.

As a proponent of any decent implementation of the idea, I’d just like to point out that if we could select our own moderators for communities, a lot of these alts and sock puppets would probably have been handled by the people I would have aggregated to the list instead of just waiting for the time zone or availability to roll over to the official ones. A lot of these are blatantly obvious.

You are talking about going against a cartel of oligopolies that have locked down the technology sector with the IP they control and who have cutthroat control over where the latest technology is deployed. What we at home can do is playact “It’s back to the 90s!” and go back to the technology we had several decades ago, which is more viable than it sounds.

If they want to act like cartels with the greatest and latest, nothing is forcing people to use it. Unfortunately, the technological divide will still be there. Tech minimalism, go human, recycle old tech, we have a lot of crap we’ve disposed off over the years that would otherwise still run fine. To create competition, there needs to be the breeding grounds for it, and if that means having to do with what the lunar lander did, then do so and exercise that brain in the process too.

Devil’s advocate, is it really that bad for someone who is a parent to be able to easily zone of their Linux distro for their children? And yeah, I get there are a number of methods to do this like locking down accounts, but something like this would have the potential of automating whom the rules apply to.

Honestly, someone like JD Vance believes what it is convenient for him to believe, and right now it is convenient for him to believe the same sort of drivel that the base dumb enough to build their authoritarian regime around believes. I don’t think it was coincidence that soldiers were spouted biblical narratives preceding the latest Iran invasion, these are the sort of loyal reliable zealots whose lack of foundation in reality is actually an asset for them. They are the ones being promoted and getting the jobs at the root of their command chains.

People don’t care about reality, they just care about their ego.

Unless it’s the downvote circlejerks they are in on, Funny how normal users have to go through exceptional means to find out who is upvoting and downvoting while mods and admins clearly aren’t subjectively performing on the feature. Sounds to me like the worse pattern is excluding someone from entirely unrelated communities, and that modlog hardly offers an explanation.

How much do you want to bet the powermod/admin saw their comments downvoted and that was basically what fueled their ban rage moment? And how much do you want to bet that that user probably has an alt user to do the same, with several months between any actual comments but a daily tabulation of upvotes and downvotes, just to avoid the same scrutiny?

This doesn’t need to be justified, if downvotes are a problem then they should be particularly addressed in the platform (and they are, and sites like reddit have already done so for years), besides the obvious of making them as easy to see as they are to mods or admins. By all means allow communities to vote neuter non-active participants.

Lemmy has a “robust” “community” blocking system (that is easily circumvented by alts - and I’ve even seen admins encourage this over just working out issues and retaining that bit of traceability to an actual person) because users are forced to leave their “communities”, they can’t just choose to switch to a moderation team for the same community. And yes, only a very small portion of most “communities” ever care that deeply about any particular mods, which ironically they would actually do if they had a choice between competing moderating teams instead of the community dramas we’ve had as a result of this “robust” system.

Incidentally, regarding the whole blocking thing, you’ve got a post on Ye Power Trippin’ Bastards that does not make your own moderation look good FYI.

The data set and the algorithm are still there, it’s just not available to the public anymore. I wonder who will still get access to it. This just seems to follow the general trend of oligarchs encouraging startups to do anything and everything to disrupt an industry, go as far as they can, and then pull them out through any pressure, government or corporate, as they try to scavenge what they want.

Besides that, there’s still alternatives alive, local or otherwise, and I doubt the people who were using Sora are suddenly going to stop without trying to search for alternatives first. People are celebrating after just chopping off the first head of the hydra.

While many of them continue to suck up to the pedophile-in-chief. The irony. It’s very telling that they place all the blame to the last link in the chain, they may very well be able to include entrapment in their defense.

This is the dev rollercoaster, not the prod rollercoaster.