Edit: Serinus has been made a de-facto admin of Lemmy.world. He has access to admin level tools via a Discord bot, is banning users from the instance using this bot, and is admitting as much. He is also claiming that instance defederation is acceptable under a certain amount of users. This is the admin team of Lemmy.world. Defederation must happen.
I made a number of comments in the post. @Serinus@lemmy.world is now policing how many you are allowed to have.
Here is the Announcement thread in general, in case you are unaware.
Serinus also claims ‘Misinformation’ for these comments
Ding ding ding. Hexbear and other instances get consideration and talked about behind the scenes. Anarchist.nexus was defederated by MrKaplan privately without any consideration at all from other admins. Kaplan even went out of their way to contact admins of other instances to attempt to get them to defederate from anarchist.nexus as well. When pressed about the popularity of anarchist.nexus, Kaplan then said “I don’t know how you define relatively large, on fedidb they’re listed as having 71 monthly active users” which led to someone else saying “That’s top 10 for Piefed servers, according to fedidb. It would be top 40 for lemmy. We aren’t swimming in the pacific here on the Fediverse. This is a small pond to begin with.” A small pond that MrKaplan desperately wants to be the only big fish in. # Lemmy.world is using their position to bully smaller communities.
This is not, in fact, misinformation. I listed the screenshots in another comment directly proving this as correct. Here is that screenshot.
Correct. Also, this is quite important, but MrKaplan didn’t talk to anyone else about this either. There was an instant and knee jerk response by the admins for this but they took literal weeks to do absolutely nothing about Jordan while saying they were looking into it for weeks. They, quite clearly, have made priorities.
Also not misinformation. Here is the screenshot from Kaplan admitting they never messaged anyone.
Anything to say, Serinus?
Edit: Of course he doesn’t. He just banned me for ‘sealioning and harassment’ for this YPTB post.
LW and sh.itjust.works is now shadow banning Lemmy.org and other instances.
You can see this by viewing my history and looking for a LW comment. Then go to LW directly and you can’t see it.
I got a ridiculous response about how the “offending” instance only had 165 users so no problem.
What a fucking shit bird and I’m fucking pissed I just donated to the server on the last ask.
I’ve moved servers, I don’t need to expanding the only apparent measurement of the worth of an instance. Been on .world for 3 years, but they can go piss up a rope if that’s how they judge the fediverse and want to use admins like these two.
Ahoy, welcome to the flotilla!
Where do I go to get in on the blockade?
@unruffled:anarchist.nexus
Enjoy dbzer0, the governance threads are quite unique, in a good way
Feel free to consider moving your instances off LW too to be able to keep moderating them
instances
Do you mean communities?
Amazing how they keep bleeding mods because of their actions and then think anyone who disagrees with them is actually the real issue.
I’m sure in a few days MrKaplan will say you’ve been brainwashed by db0 or Tankies or whatever he needs to excuse his actions.
Yeah that was Serinus. The fact that comment has been left up and he hasn’t been criticisized publicly for it is demonstration of how LW feels. Because its a small instance, it doesn’t matter. LW is just bullying instances smaller than them to control the field. The majority of the admin team of LW needs to be completely replaced or defederation is the only acceptable option now. If they’re going to threaten and bully, then everyone else needs to cut them off at the knees first to stop them from being able to do so.
“It’s only 165 users”
And that’s still 165 users that Lemmy.world was more than happy to defederate with to go after someone who isn’t even an admin anymore. Not only that, but going after them for what Kaplan admitted was a lack of evidence. Just a feeling.
Letting a single admin unilaterally decide to defederate another instance because someone hurt their fee-fees and then never tried to contact the admin team itself tells you what’s going on over there. Then this other twatwaffle defends them with that weaksauce explanation. Of course, they’ll still be there going forward.
As I said in a followup comment, now I’m embarrassed I donated a few times in the 3 years I was there. I want my money back.
@Ruud@lemmy.world might be interested in knowing that, considering all his last comments are about donations.
He doesn’t care. It’s not money from Zionists, it’s not worth it to him.
Funny thing is that I’ve talked to Ruud a bunch in the past and may have disagreed with him but respected him. But the dragging of the feet on Jordan and now this total lack of commenting on what is blatantly an abuse of power of their only active admin (outside of Kersploosh) is ridiculous.
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Serinus is a Zionist moron who thinks anyone who doesn’t obey their sugar daddy power admin must be deleted. PTB for sure.
Who know they the person who supported flat world being discussed in equal measures as reality itself was a bad guy?
And now they’re banning people for just pointing out they’re bullying others and other instances lol
Absolutely perfectly stereotypical ‘reddit mod’ behavior.
Define zionist?
Someone who think jews can build a state wherever they want in any method possible , deny the way israel was illigetimatly created, reject a one state solution categorically and blame the lack of a palestinian state partially or fully on Palestinians
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At what point will the Jews have the right to be there?
They can be there, as they can be anywhere. The issue is an ethnostate.
There is nothing wrong with having people in any land. The issue is making it only for those people.
This is the same argument as Apartied South Africa. “Well what’s the issue with them? They live there, why not continue to let them live there?”
I was really careful with my words. You decided to interpret it as if I think not a single Jew has a connection and right to the land, when my point was about a group’s belief in an eternal right to it.
They can stay in Israel and get the hell out of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The fact is that creating a state by ethnic cleansing is illegitimate, like the Zionists did.
Palestinians are descendants of the Canaanites and were there before the Zionists, but ancestry doesn’t matter to me; the main issue is that Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by recent European immigrants in '48.
My support of a one-state solution is because of decades of colony building. A two-state solution would mean the mass transfer of people from both sides and the issue of connecting both Gaza and the West Bank, since Israel separates them physically.
Amazing how they are lumping in all Jews in with Israel and say if you hate one nation you hate all the people.
But if we say “Hey racism is bad no matter who does it” they call us the racists.
Supports the Zionist philosophy, simple. Sorry that’s too much for you.
If those assholes could go back Reddit I’d be so happy
Pretty sure they think they’re building the next reddit and once they get rid of the unmentionables it’ll finally take off
They will add ads eventually to be “financially viable” undoing one of the main positives of lemmy
Well, they can.
Then problem is they aren’t.
PTB. Fuck Zionists
There’s nothing wrong with zionism. Whatever that means. It pretty much seems like people finding a promised land with abundance and peace and joy.
There’s really no thing tying that concept to genocide.
Pick your battles?
It pretty much seems like people finding a promised land with abundance and peace and joy.
There’s really no thing tying that concept to genocide.
except all the people already living there who have been and are being exterminated in order to make the ethnostate a reality
They’ll make good fertilizer.
actual nazi response, if I had my way I would turn you into fertilizer too
You can report them on their instance, so @Sal@mander.xyz takes hardline enforcement of science denialists.
couldn’t even make it past 1 single reply.
pathetic effort
Yeah, they are pathetic. A complete mask-off troll. I mean just look at the username they chose. It’s clear they were trying their best to get past applications process.
Oh look some coward hiding behind an account less than a week old being edgy. You don’t even have the spine to say this on your real account. You sure as shit aren’t brave enough to say this IRL.
Typical zionist behavior.
@sal@mander.xyz Do you really want someone like this on your instance? Someone who denies the genocide of a people then says those people would “make good fertilizer”?
Not really, no
So you are going to ban him?
They are banned
I’ve got a fair amount of firearms 🥰
You are an idiot, a bot, or paid opposition. Bonus if you’re all 3
My bet is on groyper. They are particularly prone to doing hasbara in as poor a way as possible because they’re anti semitic. And since it stokes fights with leftists, and they’re actual nazis: it’s two bird with one stone to them.
Can you tell me what your problem is with Mormons?
How about the Rastafarians?
How about anyone that just wants to have a Homeland?
I’m willing to bet it’s an alt of someone at Lemmy.world who doesn’t want to get their main account banned.
4 day old account -> ‘signs point to yes’
Pointing this out and how he’s trying to deflect away from previous terrible decisions got me banned too. Guess I just needed to be a flat earther to have my comments kept
https://lemmy.world/modlog/5?page=1&actionType=All&modId=108149
Edit, apparently people being upset are just doing an agenda. And it’s okay for world to do it since it’s against a small instance…
It’s mostly half a dozen very loud people who have a particular agenda.
The previously defederated instance has 165 total accounts, lifetime.
3 years ago: "Oh neat, this instance seems to fit well for me "
Lately: Chuckles “I’m in danger!”
The way federation is protected from this shit happening is by people spreading out. Don’t join a popular instance. You can still interact with them without being a member of their instance. If one instance gets power, like Lemmy.world, you just end up in another situation like Reddit, where they can control the platform. You should definitely leave, if you aren’t already planning to. Find a small instance that does what you want.
Tbh it is a quick a painless process to jump from .world to another instance. I only done this the other day from .world and boy howdy the amount of content that I can see. The fediverse feels new again.
Yep! When I banned from .world, 10 minutes later I jumped to another instance (this one), and holy shit!! I was soooo happy that .world banned me, because now I can see!!
I did exactly that when lemmy.world leaked my user registration e-mail address to Israel (I! Kid! You! Not!) as I was loudly anti-Genocide and critical of Zionism and I started receiving invitations to an online “learn about Israel” event in it.
It was a very easy transition.
I don’t know who misused one of my registration email addresses, but .world is high on the list as it started just after they kicked a community I moderated of their instance because it annoyed their vegan community, and I used a .world login back then
They subscribed me to about 30 dating sites. Most dating sites don’t validate email addresses.
The fuck?! That’s crazy. Fuck .world!
this deserves its own post wtf
There’s not really much I can prove, especially if I don’t want to reveal much about my identity.
Holy shit, got any more info you can add?
Well, according to what was written in the e-mail it was from a Tel-Aviv based organisation. Also it was in my native language, which isn’t English.
That said, they only sent 2 or 3 e-mails and then stopped.
As far as I understand only Lemmy administrators of a user’s instance have access to user registration e-mail address, not moderators.
All of that also kinda dovetails with the pro-Zionist tone of all the main forums in that instance (especially back then, when it used to be incredibly common to have your posts moderated away as “anti-semitic” in those forums for criticizing Israel) and, as shown here, at least one of their Administrators being an overt Zionist.
Further, it makes a lot of sense for Lemmy.world to be a target for infiltration for state actors since it’s the biggest instance of a left-of-center social media system and hosts several of its biggest forums, so frankly none of that shit was all that surprising.
Further, it makes a lot of sense for Lemmy.world to be a target for infiltration for state actors since it’s the biggest instance of a left-of-center social media system and hosts several of its biggest forums, so frankly none of that shit was all that surprising.
While saying everyone other istance against them is paid off by governments. Seeing as they project constantly…
This is very disturbing.
Yeah, I highly recommend starting your switch to another instance immediately. There is a discussion happening behind the scenes for a number of other major instances to defederate from lemmy.world if LW does indeed go through with the defederation from dbzer0 because, at that point, Kaplan will have proven a few things.
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That Kaplan/LW admins value individual users like themselves over the entirety of an instances users
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That Kaplan/LW admins are not willing to engage in the same type of reporting behavior that they ask others to do
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That Kaplan/LW admins will be taking nuclear options in order to bully smaller instances into bowing to what they want you to do
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That Kaplan/LW admins will be policing what you think as they have literally zero evidence that there is any support for Luminous’ behavior and, in fact, has been pushback. It’s so ridiculous that Jordan Lund said this in their moderator chat for Lemmy.world. A chat that I just sit in and quietly drink my tea watching them lie boldfaced.
“major instances”
lol
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The welcome mat is ready for you on DB0
Major PTB from those in charge at LW. I left lemmy.world a long time ago because of behavior like this back when they were having a feud over the existence of piracy communities. I had a gut feeling they would sooner or later start mass banning people or defederate due to stupid reasons. And it seems I was right about that even if I wasn’t right on the specifics of what. Honestly I want no part in this. It’s why I don’t really touch lemmy.world at all anymore.
That announcement thread simultaneously has a user freely and actively running hasbara about the Nakba.
You see, Zionist talking points of how Arabs are evil is fine, saying that’s wrong is what gets you banned.
Like how countries are currently putting sanctions on Iran for defending itself from another illegal occupation/war.
The scum in question Samskara@sh.itjust.works
If you’re going to name and shame you should do more than just one.
ok the scum Samskara@sh.itjust.works and the scum science4life @mander.xyz
LW doesn’t see that as an issue though. It’s what they want on the platform
Zionists sure are fragile beings. Call for genocide of mostly children just so you can prop up a bunch of instagram houses on their corpses but can’t take a little death threat? glass houses and whatnot i suppose. i’m glad i switched off of it when i did, people should seriously stop recommending it for beginners.
do they side with the tankie instances? it seems like they agree on alot of things besides who they support.
Kaplan even went out of their way to contact admins of other instances to attempt to get them to defederate from anarchist.nexus as well.
I never got an email.
I feel left out of the drama
I saw the post from Kaplan and immediately just started pinching the bridge of my eyes. It’s like the admins of LW are hellbent on doing everything they possibly can to make every situation they get into as much of a dumpster fire as possible.
I mean if they really want to pour gas on the fire - not that we’d let them lol - they should try to refederate with hexbear then immediately demand us to defederate from the anarchists or else be preeptively defederated as a last resort again
… that would be extremely funny.
Hexbear should switch between .world and floatilla federation on a weekly basis.
If they want to pour gas on the fire they’ll just follow their natural instincts, apparently.
I eagerly await the next chapter of the garbage fire in slow motion
Have you considered splitting hexbear in half by some utterly irrational mechanism¹ and federating half with .world half with floatilla, with periodic switches? Maybe make them automatic?
¹prime vs non-prime numbered first letter of username, highest traffic communities?
I would be in gavor of you temp defederating us in favor of .world. Imagine the bits. Oh! We could share custody! Imagine of the potential!
Serinus is pouring gasoline all over the place.
Still amazed they still have any rights on lw/are apparently a part of leadership. Then again they want reddit so they’re perfect to implement that
Also PTB PTB PPB PTB
Im sorry. Do you want a conspiratorial gossipy hug?
As tired as I am of the drama, this is classic PTB! It’s the perfect example of it!
PTB, I always knew that Serinus was biased, stuck up and irrational.
I think all of LW’s staff are in some way or they wouldn’t be there.
PTB for sure. This whole situation is one big shit show. I really hope people don’t let them get away with this just because they’re a big instance. I really hope some kind of defederation or action happens as a result.
PTB as per usual for redditworlders
