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I see, that makes sense.

Awesome, glad to see we’ve updated to the new Lemmy-UI features, the banned badges and vote-view for moderators in Lemmy-UI will be a great improvement (for people worried that mods can now view votes, they always could via the API since 0.19.4, this is only a Lemmy-UI change).

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While we haven’t updated our backend to a newer version yet, as we still have to find a solution for dealing with the newly integrated functionality to send emails on rejected registration applications

I’m curious why this is an issue, could you maybe please elaborate? I thought this was generally a good change since it increases transparency of moderation and lets people know if and when they were denied, and potentially for what reason too. Good to know in case they made a mistake or would like to appeal.

Considering they banned you from Lemmy.world after investigation people calling you out here and listing your offenses absolutely was not “overkill” by any stretch. Anyway it seems this case is wrapped up now. Oh hey cool icons, a great change in 0.19.11.

Glad to see there’s effort being taken to stop this, as someone who’s been harassed in a similar way on here it really kind of bugs me that people are making light of this or assume that the original person is the one doing this. Impersonation is frighteningly easy on the Fediverse and I really wish they’d add some kind of verification in Lemmy like they do in Mastodon to try and minimize the impact of it.

You should also add secretly whitelisted Facebook trackers in their adblocker, something they did a while back.

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• Shipped a TOR feature that leaked DNS

Yikes I didn’t know they did that but I’m not surprised. There’s a reason the people behind Tor say it should only be used via the official Tor browser, because only the Tor browser can provide that level of protection against those kind s of leaks, as well as much better fingerprinting resistance than chromium-based brave is going to give you.

Don’t forget about the fact that a while back they secretly whitelisted Facebook trackers in their adblocker to “make pages run more smoothly” they got a lot of shit for it when people found out looking through the source code. When I heard that they did that it basically cemented in my mind that they were shady and untrustworthy, that’s in addition to the Crypto and rewards stuff.

See guys, I know people didn’t believe me when I said there are people who push for and encourage for projects to be corporatized instead of community run but here is one of them. These types of garbage arguments always bring up the idea of cybersecurity but always neglect to mention one of the biggest security and privacy threats to the corporate governed model, the corporation itself. Especially once enshittification really sets in.

And before you vomit some horrible misrepresenting argument reminiscent of Dave Plumber’s speech against backdoors in Windows, you know damn well that when I say the company itself is a privacy and security threat to the project that I’m talking about deliberate attempts by the company to make money off the project through tracking, ads, crypto mining, and any other number of shady shit. You know, things that are officially sanctioned.

Maybe temporarily, but certainly not anymore considering dragonfucker was able to reply in this thread and start this whole new wave of drama.

The alt? Absolutely. Dragonfucker’s main isn’t though. Which I find kind of crazy because of how much dragonfucker has done and then add this. That would be a permaban from most instances.

Agreed, I wish Lemmy.world’s admins felt that way though. They’ll probably let dragonfucker get away with this forever. Even though it is very clear that these accounts are alts of dragonfucker, or very closely connected either way. And from what I can tell incitement of harassment from your friends is still just as bannable as doing it via alts. At least it absolutely should be.

I was able to contact him about it and he said he gave dragonfucker a warning and told him to stop, he said he wasn’t going to ban dragonfucker yet because then dragonfucker would just make another account. He also was in the spam defense channel when I posted about the latest harassment campaign against me. It’s really ugly. He and others there are almost certain it’s an alt of dragonfucker. Though obviously without internal data from feddit.rocks we won’t be able to prove that, and might not be able to anyway.

You’re right. I did send him a message on Matrix and via Lemmy DMs I hope he responds soon and isn’t deliberately allowing this type of shit.

Same to you, do not reply to me anymore. I’ve asked you before and you still replied to me now. Good day.

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Admin seems to be still active, I mean he last posted 19 minutes ago, and he upgraded to 0.19.8 which is semi-recent. So I think it’s fair to say he’s still active. Maybe is just unaware.

You aren’t a troll because you are trans, you are a troll because you make bad faith arguments, spread misinformation, harass people, and encourage others to commit suicide. I haven’t forgotten about your abusive tirade against me either, no matter how much you try to deny it.

Make no mistake, you are being called a troll for this:

And there’s way more where these came from, your modlog is a gift that keeps on giving.

Funny enough despite what you might claim, none of these have anything to do with being trans. You’re trying to pass any criticism of your behavior off as transphobic to try and discredit the people who are criticizing you. This is called a smear tactic, it is a common bad faith argument meant to deflect criticism. In this this case you are accusing anyone who criticizes you of being transphobic in hopes of discrediting or silencing them. This is not going to work here though because as is evident, the accusations of trolling being levied against you happen to have nothing to do with transness.

What the fuck? This is horrible. How is it that anyone discussing dragonfucker always seems to ignore this crap?

@Dave@lemmy.nz How is someone who engages in attrocious behavior like this still allowed on your instance? I mean they’re clearly and aggressively violating Lemmy.nz’s only rule, “Don’t be a dick”. I can’t think of anything that’s more of a dick more than harassing and telling a cancer patient to kill themselves.

Nope, only one server I mentioned is a Mastodon server.

See you’re trying to mince words here but the point indeed does stand because microblog and community based engagement are wildly different from each other, and have wildly different expectations and stipulations.

Actually, lemmy.world is not that big all things considered. It’s big for Lemmy, sure. But Lemmy isn’t that big at all.

I don’t really know how relevant that is considering that the competing platforms aren’t federated to us. Honestly just seems like deflection to the main point. A server in the main community based fediverse sphere will suffer lower visits, and lower interaction if they block the biggest servers.

Beehaw.org didn’t lose influence because they defederate the bigger servers. They lost influence because they took a heavy-handed approach to things. But if that’s how they want to run things—fine. No one owes anyone else federation.

You are correct in that Beehaw’s draconian approach is what ultimately killed them off completely in the end, however defederation of the larger servers did play a bigger role than you’d like to give them credit for.

But the fact is, defederation is an option. It’s always an option.

I never tried to say or imply it wasn’t an option, because it is, but for big servers that contain more of the pie it’s a bad idea. Just like shooting yourself in the foot or sticking a rod in the spokes of your bike while you’re riding is an option, but they’re bad ideas.

This is not a “platform”. It’s a software distribution for an open protocol. And how people choose to use that protocol is up to them.

The Fediverse absolutely is a platform whether you like it or not, a decentralized platform but a platform nonetheless. They are free to use the protocols as they choose, but some options are poor decisions that will not favor them presently or in the future.

If you want to federate with everyone, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you who or what to associate with.

Now it really seems like you are misrepresenting my words here, trying to spin me as some anti-defederation troll. When the reality is I said that defederation of large servers and large communities has consequences. The inverse is also true, being banned from servers or communities in that larger slice of the pie has severe drawbacks for your own user experience on the Fediverse.

No one, certainly not me is saying you can’t, but there are consequences. It is important people are aware of these consequences. Something people peddling the common Fediverse talkingpoints really tells people. Like the fact that if you’re banned from all 5 of the biggest servers (community count + federated activity) you can basically consider your ability to be heard and participate hosed unless you create a new account with a new name, or if you block all the biggest servers on your server for being big, yours will likely be very unpopular and get very little interaction which kind of defeats the purpose of a social platform in the first place, federated or otherwise.

You’re right, I apologize I should not have reacted in such an aggressive manner. I have actually had a bad day recently and I’ve been a bit on edge. That’s no excuse though.

These are Mastodon servers, the rules of the game change dramatically once you bring in Lemmy and communities hosted on servers. At that point it becomes about active communities holding slices of the pie, as in amount of users participating in communites, size of those communities, and the size of the instance they are hosted on. To compare this situation to Mastodon servers which are user-centric, don’t have community hubs, and are based solely on individuals is to compare apples to oranges, or just trying to mince words.

Now you seem to think that defederation of lemmy.ml is a big gotcha though they aren’t actually very large all instances considered, and have been shrinking. The bigger test would be defederation of a larger instance like lemmy.world which has been done with wildly different results. Enter Beehaw.org. They defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works back in 2023 during the first Reddit Migration. Prior to that their communities were considered defacto community hubs. However a few weeks after they defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works most of those communities became almost if not entirely dormant, and many users migrated from their instance elsewhere.

Too big to block very much is an issue, and blocking servers that are too big will kill your communities. Of course there are people who believe that growth, reach, or userbase doesn’t matter. This is kind of a stupid argument because if platforms or communities don’t have any people in them creating content or replying, or voting, they don’t really function at all as a social platform. best case they function like a blog, worst case, they’re no better than writing your comments in chalk on the sidewalk.