I’ve got no other explanation for why he’s banning users that he has already defederated from. The only way he could be coralling that list is if he’s looking at stuff from another instance and attempting to control the narrative for other admins.
He pushed that into the code of Piefed at the same time that he was getting criticized a few days ago. Added the feature specifically to control the narrative.
No. It isn’t. Because adding in a filter for a single user is extremely fucking problematic and should be left up to admins to ban or users to block.
Well, he already admitted that guardrails should have been put up on lemmy to prevent memes from taking root. So why not put up guardrails for users he doesn’t like?
Oh wait.
He did.
He made an anti-cm0002 filter.
The only thing I ever did was post screenshots of his own statements and evidence that he was either actively lying or being a confused old man.
The only thing I’ve ever said to him was pushing back against his criticism with screenshots of evidence that proved him wrong.
He is not removing people for a coordinated harassment campaign. He is removing people to silence dissent and exert a stranglehold on his platform and his own ego.
PTB is, quite literally, not strong enough. He is an active danger to the entire fediverse as a whole. He is dragging down credibility of any instance that runs Piefed and has proven that not only is he a manchild incapable of regulating his own emotions and ego.
Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you’re helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.
It’s also kind of strange that Iso@lemy.lol is on that list. They’re a former admin of lemy.lol who had beef with Rimu but Rimu defederated from lemy.lol a while ago over their logo. The fact that he’s banning that user in amongst all the others kind of proves that this is a personal hitlist and not harassment. Otherwise, why are you banning a user that you’ve defederated from?
I don’t know. But it’s gotten to the point that I don’t trust any piefed instances anymore at all. Rimu pushed a piece of code into Piefed a few days ago specifically to silence criticism against him and to silently delete/block posts on Piefed. He is exerting such an extreme amount of control onto the entire platform itself that I cannot trust the platform itself.
Every piefed instance, as far as I’m concerned at this point, comes with an enormous asterisk.
Iso@lemy.lol is the former admin of lemy.lol. It’s also a bit odd because Piefed.social defederated from lemy.lol over their logo and Iso has told Rimu to go fuck himself a few times over it. The fact that he decided to block him here and now is telling because it proves its a personal hitlist and not coordinated harassment as he wants to claim. Otherwise, why wasn’t he blocked prior? And even then, why block an account now from a defederated instance?
Incompetence. I’d explain why but it’s funnier to watch them scramble to find a ‘safe space’ for how they talk where, as Serinus described it in one such place, without having to worry about their PR phrasing. I’m gonna just let them worry about focusing on a mole hunt and digging up the ground. When they pay attention to the skies is when they’ll start thinking with portals.
I used the plural incorrectly but it doesn’t change the fact that I took those screenshots a while ago. They’re not recent. I’m not stating anything else other than how recent they are and how long that information has been out, just that they’re not from the past week.
Those are not recent screenshots. I posted those months ago.
Which will be unable to do because Lemmy.world hoovers up everyone instantly and then sets a false narrative with abusive admins. I mean I’m proof of that. I was there for ages because I didn’t realize they were whole ass lying to me.
The problem lies in with the fact that they’re the largest instace on lemmy by a significant margin so they control the playing field. This is like trying to wait for reddit to kill itself. It’s not going to because people start relying on it and getting too used to it and don’t want to bother with anything else. Combine that with admins that are actively harming the fediverse by driving new people away when their instance is the first thing they see? They need to be held over a barrel until Kaplan and Serinus are gone. As for your usage case:
or speech which would drive away marginalized people from our instance to avoid seeing it.
The official LW Admin account is officially considering sanctioning and defederation from Dbzer0 based off of a purely slanderous case made by Kaplanwas that the admins of this instance didn’t take it seriously enough based off of their feelings.
Kaplan has no evidentiary basis for a consideration for this defederation and even admitted as much. If we roll over and accept that then what is even the point? Just accept that Lemmy.world is going to continue throwing hissyfits and the rest of the Fediverse just has to accept it? I want to see something done for outrageous threats made against not just the instance but all 20 thousand users that Kaplan is ready to handwave away based off of their feelings.
To use Kaplans own words here, it is not my intention to control who can or can’t be on admin teams on another instance but I do expect other instances to understand that an individual admin’s actions reflect their instance as a whole. Something Ruud seems to not care about and something that Kaplan belives does not apply to themself. Overall, the primary response by the LW Admin team has been to frame AN and Dbzer0 as either a small instance that “only has 165 users” or a “vocal minority with an agenda”. For 20,000 users.
There is a significant difference in the tolerance of hypocrisy on our platforms.
Talking with some people about it. Kaplan has gone beyond the pale with the petty defederation but Serinus’ behavior (and the lack of active admins otherwise) have demonstrated that lemmy.world has insufficient moderation for admin abuse on their instance. Ruud won’t lift a finger or even have any input at all. Their admin team is either corrupt or non-existent and letting them run around setting the stage for everything due to their size is untenable and unsustainable. I have no reason to believe that anyone on the admin team will do anything without pressure being applied as they’ve demonstrated in the past they’re not willing to do anything without pressure being applied.
A reactionary administration team, especially one so emotionally charged and driven, isn’t trustworthy. I’m not even sure if it can be fixed. Serinus would need to be removed from any/all position where he speaks for admins, that (frankly massive security risk, not to mention totally bypassing of the modlog) of a discord bot would have to be killed and Kaplan would need to be relegated to devops only. I have no reason to believe that @Ruud@lemmy.world will do this. Genuinely believe that, at this stage, the only reasonable option is defederation. They’ve proven they’re not willing to listen and are willing to engage in consistent admin-level abuse.
The dog keeps getting out of its yard and biting people. No owner is around with a leash. Time to lock our gates.
Okay, so with this ban, Serinus has effectively placed himself as an Admin of lemmy.world itself.He is stating positions for Lemmy.world itself, not just himself or his communities. Kaplan and other admins like @Ruud@lemmy.world are not stepping in and not criticising his behavior. With this behavior ongoing, it must be approved from the top level down or that the admins are totally out to lunch and not capable/willing of stepping in.
Moreover, a bot exists and has been talked about in the past. I was given access to it when I was on Lemmy.world. The bot was created by KingOfFlorda to allow for users like myself and Jordan to be able to deal with CSAM and other extremely bad actors when the admins were not available. There is no reason to believe that Serinus does not have access to the bot. The bot in question allows a non-admin user to apply an instance level ban to someone.
It was with this bot that you were banned from the instance.
You were not banned from an Admin account, you were banned from the bot account.
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world and @Ruud@lemmy.world have now, in effect, made @Serinus@lemmy.world an admin by allowing him to repeatedly post positions on behalf of Lemmy.world with stuff such as this:
In conclusion, Lemmy.world can now no longer be trusted for any admin decision. They are not being transparent with their decisions or even who their admins and those who have admin abilities are. They are willing to give total control of the website to someone who has repeatedly lied, repeatedly silenced others for misinformation that have categorical proof and someone who has openly posted a mod level comment condoning the bullying of instances provided they are under a certain number of users. Lemmy.world admins are willing to give admin level control and abilities to a user but are unwilling to force him to take the accountability of an admin.
Kaplan stated about Anarchist.nexus that there is “there is no sufficient moderation of violence on communities there”. Yet, Lemmy.world has no sufficient moderation of its admins or mods at all.
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.
@Ruud@lemmy.world might be interested in knowing that, considering all his last comments are about donations.
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.
If they want to pour gas on the fire they’ll just follow their natural instincts, apparently.
Rimu is. The rest of them are either tacking onto his coattails because they believe they’ll also gain some amount of control, believe (naively) that they can control him or are buying into his bullshit as the single irrefutable source.