Bye
You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn't worth saving after all.
Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance's top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the world, and while I won't give you the personal satisfaction of having won, you've definitely proven me wrong about the fediverse being something that even can be saved from itself.
Even people around here I'd interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves. That completely shattered any and all illusions I had that this place has a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage, rage baiting, propaganda, harassment, rumor mongering, trolls, conspiracies, purity testing, and violent rhetoric.
Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I'm done with this place.
I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren't me actually want a place that's not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.
Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users, and lead harassment, brigading, and DARVO campaigns against those who dare call out their bullshit or decide to disassociate themselves and their work from them.
Lemmy.World was so close to doing the right thing after instance-that-will-not-be named's admins were calling for the death of LW's admins while spreading rumours and labeling others in such a way that painted them as targets for murder. All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they 'caught' and should be killed.
.world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.
"We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it." they probably said.
Bullshit.
I'm one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse. If I can stand up for what's right and deal with the blowback, so can you.
Fuck lemmy world's admin team for condoning that behavior and letting the human skidmark db0 DARVO his way out of the situation while brigading with his army of malcontents whom he wields like a cult leader. He knows exactly what he is doing, and you all continue to allow him to get away with it.
Nah, fuck this whole place. I've let too many things fall by the wayside IRL because of dealing with all this fediverse bullshit and trying to give it the slightest bit of polish both visually and atmospherically. Mythbusters may have proven that you can, in fact, polish a turd, but at the end of the day, it's still a shiny ball of shit.
For the few people left who didn't turn out to be psychotic, I'll think of you from time to time when recalling something you've posted or commented that genuinely made me laugh, made me think, or otherwise put a smile on my face or in my heart.
Everyone else, though, enjoy your toxic, xenophobic, knee-jerk-to-violence, purity-testing, and harassing-anyone-who-doesn't-fall-in-line cess pit. One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn't toe the line and you'll be right where I am.
P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you're welcome.
EDIT: forgot to add:
EDIT2:
Removed the link to the original message because the douche included a Javascript on the page to DDOS Dbzero0
All you've done is make accusations of bigotry without proof, then turn them into a call to action against a person and their "friends".
If you can be this flippant and disingenuous in public, I can only imagine what people like you are saying in private DMs.
sigh
https://jlai.lu/post/41066117
Banning occurrences of criticising genocide, criticising racism, criticising white supremacy, criticizing paedophilia...yes, that is what we call bigots, racists, supremacists...because they believe those things are good. They do not want criticism of these things.
I realize english is not everyone's first language. As such, please take a look at my comment you quoted. I did not include an apostrophe on bigot as I am not assigning ownership to a bigot. I am instead calling people to expose bigots in general and calling these people who call out bigotry friends, as in, my fellows who seek to call out harmful actions like these. How you appear to have read it though would look like:
I don't have any DMs actually (didn't know you could on Lemmy actually haha.) Instead, everything is public. Feel free to look through all of my comments and posts. You'll probably see why I was included in the list. Because I directly confront (aka expose) when someone is being bigoted, racist, or just a capitalist cuck in general.
Case in point, you ignored my comments on your other posts and instead answered here. I asked you to define doxxing and explain how I am clearly and legibly. You attempted one and ignored the other. You, instead, are attempting to equate calling out someone for harassing others (via secretly silencing them simply based on their ideology, race, views, identity, etc) as harassment itself. You have now made an accusation yourself that is next to impossible to even provide proof against, attempting to say that I must be a terrible person in private DMs, ones that only I and specific individuals have access to. You may have done this knowingly or unknowingly, but this is meant as a trap similar to proving a negative which is not possible, meant to put me on the backfoot. However, I can confidently claim no such DMs exist...as I didn't even know DMing was a function. And as with my other public exchanges, I prefer to keep things in public, as you can see throughout my comment history. Just as I continue to do with you. I wonder what's in your DMs bucko, considering who you're attempting to protect.
I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you're effectively running cover for the tesseract dev while attacking someone who is saying it is good that the tesseract dev was exposed to what they were doing. And that is why you're getting downvoted while I am getting upvoted. Not because we're calling for personal information to be exposed, but we're calling for their actions to be called out. Creating a secret list to filter people out on a platform to be called out. Just as it was.
The comments that were identical and would have required you to stalk my profile to find them?
I see you priming your doxxing threats to go on the attack against someone who dared question you.