I agree, you have very good points. I don’t particularly think that him having posted for about a month two years ago on a particular instance is any particular mark against that instance, as I think that that could have happened to many (but perhaps not all) Lemmy instances. Good point about backlash hitting eco activists too.
You mean the reporters? I wondered about that, but then realized that the guy tended to use the same online nickname on various sites. Searching the web for that nickname probably turned up a bunch of his accounts and then they could read the comments to determine if they were likely the same person. Pretty good reporting, I thought.
You’re welcome! I can totally understand, that would definitely be frustrating. One other factor you may want to consider is which jurisdiction the instance runs under, since some countries do have laws restricting speech. They will sometimes state the jurisdiction in the terms and conditions of the site. Ignore the information you find on sites like FediDB about where the instance is located since often that is only showing things like that they are going through Cloudflare, etc. Good luck in choosing a new instance!
By the way, I’ve been seing some people on Lemmy calling lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net "the tankie triad"tm for quite a while now (always frothing about it too). Maybe there should be an emoji or badge for it or something.
Personally, I try to stick to instances that will only defederate from others if there are major, serious issues, like illegal content and what not, and that are also not largely defederated by other instances. That way, I get to have a more complete experience of Lemmy / the threadiverse without missing out on major chunks of it. I think it’s counterproductive that the majority of instances defederate major, legitimate instances, especially now that the Lemmy software allows each individual user to block entire instances if they wish to. This only serves to weaken the threadiverse as an alternative to other major discussion sites. It’s even possible for instances to issue default instance blocks on new accounts if they are worried about the new user experience, removeable by the users themselves if they so wish (like lemmy.zip seems to be doing).
The main instances that I’ve found so far that seem to follow this “defederation only as a last resort” philosophy are the following:
If you would like to keep contact with the broader range of Lemmy instances, these are the ones I would look into. You can check which instances any Lemmy site defederates from by visiting <site URL>/instances and clicking the “Blocked Instances” tab.
They were like, “something, something, laws, jurisdiction” but then eventually dropped the policy, afaik. Maybe they were finally convinced by the fact that jury nullification is perfectly legal in the US.
Pretty uneven and odd moderation, I would say. They were taking down any posts discussing jury nullification when Luigi went to the top of the news.
“Is this the end of Rico?” GIF was too large to upload
How long until they start saying that actually this guy was a Hexbear and was just infiltrating to make them look bad.
They seem to have already started with that: https://lemm.ee/post/64580410/20600907
If you read some of the other comments here, it’s more like they’re the two sides of the same coin. Eugenicists want to kill poor and other disadvantaged people and antinatalists (at least going by the bomber’s comments) want primarily poor people not to have kids, although they seem to try to dress it up as not wanting anyone to have kids. Who knows, this is all pretty fringe stuff.
Ah, interesting. That pushes it more toward probably not a coincidence.
That seems very minor. I wonder if it was just a coincidence. Someone pointed out in another comment here that he’s still the moderator in a couple of other communities.
I didn’t read it as any particular implication, but that they just found the money quotes they wanted on lemmy.world.
I linked his account on Lemmy.world in the original post. I couldn’t find an active account on Reddit though, unless the LA Times reporters used the wayback machine themselves to see his old posts. I’m sure that they would be on wayback machine, but the article mentions a different web handle associated with him.
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Wait, are tickets for the 2026 World Cup already on sale?
Yes, definitely a good privacy and security practice. Different passwords is important too. Different email addresses as well, if possible. There are services like simplelogin and anonaddy that make the email part simple.