Single-handedly making Lemmy more enjoyable

openstars@piefed.social

Anyone can impersonate anyone here at any time, it is one of the gaping holes in the Threadiverse that keeps content creators with some actual fame from wanting to come here.

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

I mean to also be fair here, that's not a unique feature of the Fediverse. We currently have some drama (in Germany) about people impersonating people on X. The commercial platforms even earn money doing the same thing. And it's very clear in the prelude to a potential court case, they have no intention to stop this. They're currently doing some really weird shenanigans so the lawyers can't serve any papers or mail.

Not sure how it is on other platforms. It's been a while since I helped people to get rid of unwanted content on social media. But it was never easy. And once you do it for privacy reasons or mild doxxing, you're basically screwed. Because these days they'll all make you pull down your pants to prove it's legitimate. So you basically end up doxxing yourself to protect your private information. I mean what's more likely to happen is, they don't even listen. But I'm not really up to date with that any more. Maybe they changed and now they do? But I doubt it. It's just how the internet operates.

magnum@infosec.pub

Shouldn't he be defederated from DB0 then? @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

industrystandard@lemmy.world

They are banned from many instances. That is why they keep making new accounts.

magnum@infosec.pub

Do you know its the same person or do you assume it? I mean I could like literally create a cm0002 account right now.

cm0002@toast.ooo

Ig you guys have just resorted to pure lying LMAO

None of my accounts have been widely banned and I haven't made a new account in a long time, just cycling through the same ones on smaller instances lol

openstars@piefed.social

Fair. Separately from the actual facts is the feelings that people have where e.g. a blue checkmark means something other than mere money, which is a marketing gimmick.

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

Well my reason was, it's too close to botspam. And just re-posts (sometimes of re-posts). I rather have genuine conversation on an internet platform.
Most of it will be low engagement. I'll see a question, and take 10mins out of my day to anwer it, just to find out I wasted that time, because OP never had that question. And the real OP never sees my answer. Cm0002 improved, though. They cut down on forwarding questions, and they're transparent it's just forwarded content, these days. But ultimately, it's the same thing with other content. I'll see a post about RISC-V and interact. But it's just a waste, because it's fabricated and I'll never see any responses.

I think it's particularly bad in niche topics. The few people actually wanting to discuss RISC-V (just an example) are drowned in noise news-posts by someone who isn't even interested in discussing topic, they just push a political agenda there. So it kinda displaces the little genuine conversation we have.

And after wasting some time here and there by commenting into the void, I decided to suppress those posts and use my time to interact with actual people who have notifications turned on, read my stuff, teach me something or who have a genuine question in need of some advice.

I guess this is somehow related to the question whether we (just) want many posts here. Or have good conversation in the comments. To me it seems the former doesn't really lead to the latter. Some techniques are even detrimental to that cause. And I think this is one of those cases... At least it kills my engagement. I agree on the broad idea, though. I've long moved away from lemmy.ml communities. I just wish we had a bit more original content here, and not just 80% re-posts of what other people posted on Reddit, what they posted on lemmy.ml...

rumschlumpel@feddit.org

Thanks for taking the time to explain it. That does sound like a real issue.

industrystandard@lemmy.world

widely

So you are baned

Your entire shtick is being banned from .ml good to know that is not real then.

petrescatraian@libranet.de

On Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed and if I'm not mistaken also Bookwyrm you can verify yourself by using your own website (if you have one). You can also do it for free if you have an account on a bunch of services such as Gravatar.

I haven't seen anything like this on Lemmy fwiw.

cristian64@reddthat.com

I try to block those spammers as soon as I detect them.

cm0002@toast.ooo

You: >They are banned from many instances

Me: >No I'm not, just the authoritarian instance of .ml

You: >Ah ha so you admit your banned rabble rabble rabble

Resorted to bad faith arguments in 1 reply LMAO

Yes I'm banned from .ml, that's what tends to happen when you stand against authoritarians; bans, censorship, jail etc.

industrystandard@lemmy.world

So you are banned. And you are clearly banned for spamming the word tankie in every thread and flame-posting across the fediverse.

You can keep complaining about .ml but they have never banned me for being antizionist. feddit.org has.

Ironically those are your biggest allies.

Maybe it is time to not base your entire identity about spamming the word tankie everywhere. Your allies are looking much more dubious.

cm0002@toast.ooo

Haha yea, definitely not for taking stances against them, and they definitely don't have established precedent for banning people who question them or the authoritarian regimes. Oh wait:

https://lemmy.world/post/34395059

https://lemmy.world/post/32720369

https://lemmy.world/post/32298242

https://lemmy.world/post/32471440

https://lemmy.world/post/35919522

https://lemmy.world/post/32292143

https://lemmy.world/post/35254858

https://lemmy.world/post/32222856

https://lemmy.world/post/32426343

https://lemmy.world/post/32058315

https://lemmy.world/post/35919814

https://lemmy.world/post/32775892