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I don't understand how Patrick hiding a DDOS attack in his "goodbye" message isn't grounds for banning his alts on that server according to their policy. It literally is breaking the law in many countries
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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How many do you think he's got? I swear I just found one called Eristalis created a day ago lol
James R Kirk - he was posting like an impartial observer on Fediverse vs Disinformation @db0 in a breakdown of the ban list thread. Things like:
The dev posted a response in c/Tesseract but you're mostly correct. They wanted to make it easier for like minded future admins to be able to spin up a Lemmy instance without having to know all of the lore.
Then when people called him out he started becoming a frothing troll.
Pretty sure the dude saying how everyone who blew up over the shitlist was doing illegal shit is one too
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I just think it's hilarious that instead of "saving" the fediverse they fractured it. Whiney bitches love to break shit then whine about it being broken.
I would say they've brought the fediverse together like never before. I don't think this many people have agreed on a single thing in the history of fedi.
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I mean, does it really count as separate drama or a continuation of existing drama?
Continuation for sure.
The whole "you violated our policy but we can't tell you how you violated it" thing has heavy big-tech gaslighting vibes.
It even has the "here is a link to the entirety of our policy" trope. Like com'on, bruh, this is actually making me angry just reading it regardless of context.
I loathe that sort of shit.
That was my first instance. Turns out it's the star trek has gotten too woke kind of people running it?! Ah well, llap 🖖
I think they actually use star trek as a cover to find leftist and trans people to add the to their list
Report to your nearest Starfleet officer if you're aware of anyone queer or has communist sympathies, Admiral Patrick McCarthy needs your support to Make Lemmy Reddit Again
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I made a single comment asking how someone can be anti-trans and a fascist boot licker but also a star trek fan.
Guess who I asked.
Thanks for asking. I have the same questions!
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So when do instances start defederating startrek.website since they clearly want to be alone?
lemy.lol has announced to defederate 30 minutes ago and is currently defederated.
And much respect to them for how they handled this/themselves.
tbf the prime directive clearly states 'open source devs have the right to embed obfuscated arbitary blocklists in their software without notyifying users, and DDOS anyone who points it out'
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explicitly allows discussions about hurting people
Remember kids, wishing death upon mass murderers makes you just as bad as them actually.
Edit: to the coddled, enlightened brunchers incapable of reading the room, itching to have their righteous moment under my comment: next time the IDF starts randomly airstriking the shit out of my quaint little (Christian no less) town, I personally invite you to join me for coffee and contemplating mortality on my veranda. I’ll be so impressed by your opinion on the lives of the people who are dropping WAR ORDINANCE around you and consider me a terrorist because of where I’m from (and you one for sitting for coffee with me). It’ll be so inspiring. You’ll love it, I make decent coffee. Wouldn’t that be fun.
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I guessed I'd be seeing something here with the bans and removals that started cropping up in that thread...
100% PTB. Just removing anyone who is pointing out that its related to tesseract, a total lie, etc.
Glad I already deleted my account there. And blocked the instance.
Shame, but I'd rather not be around members of a fandom that actively support shitty and shady practices like that, and I sure as FUCK don't want an admin that's complicit
I'm not surprised. They were shit mods back on reddit and continue their shitty ways here in the fedi
Is this the same Star Trek instance that had some huge drama with The Picard Manuever (? Maybe it was someone else?) that led to a user exodus? Or a different one?
Idk probably, the admins and mods over there are always power tripping about something.
There was also the whole Stamets writeup last year about their bs to
God, Stamets must be sitting there giggling into their icecream rn. Canary in the coal mine
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Stamets! That’s who I was thinking of.
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I mean at least it is an instance doing the defederation and announcing it publicly (so people who don't like this can leave). This also makes a great example for people who don't understand the difference between banning lists in apps vs instances.
What an asshole
I'm willing to bet he's an admin or mod on there 🤣
When I read the summary of the rant he made about "leaving" first thing I thought was "sure buddy". There's no way someone like that doesn't have at least one alt, if only for testing development of their program.
Who knows how bad the infestation is of alts.
You'd think they'd keep a lower profile after breaking a federal law in the country they're in.
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