this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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I know. Everytime I see they made a dbzer0 alt I cringe but nothing I can do.
Tbh, I don't give much credence to the reports about Universal Monk. It's not hard to imagine a couple of trolls spinning up fake "alt" accounts to impersonate him and to get him instance banned over his vote third party stance. You know how unhinged the Democrats get when someone tries to vote with their values.
Anyway, whatever they have been accused of doing in the past, their account on dbzer0 has been pretty wholesome overall. We decided to give him a second chance here. Let bygones be bygones and all that. And so far at least, no problems. Make of that what you will.
Hey Unruffled. I hope this is okay but I sent this in a DM instead of replying to you directly in the UM thread because I feel like perhaps this discourse may not be better for the greater fediverse as a whole. Additionally, I don't need UM trying to antagonize me into a flamewar. I'm in the middle of some intense training at work and I only see Lemmy well after my ADHD meds wear off, and I want to try and minimize the amount of stupid slapfights I get into.
I do want to say, after medication, that quote I picked seems to criticize moderation and administration where UM is allowed. That was poorly done. This wasn't meant as criticism. I wanted that top bit, and the bottom bit, discussing their behavior, and the middle bit could've been cut for concision if I was in a better frame of mind.
That said, this is a person who admits to playing agent provocateur and attempting to rile people that they perceive as enemies up enough to get them banned. The crowing about the people they've made mad sits wrong with me, but that's because it's against the anarchist code of conduct. Antagonizing milquetoast non-nazis or non-fascists is not something to be proud of, and it's certainly not something to go out of your way to do. For fun. And then brag about.
And finally, someone who intentionally learns the rules of a place in order to manipulate others into violating them, on an instance with folks known to have ADHD and autism is cruel. Either the people dealing with UM in the fediverse will give UM more leeway to be a dick, more freedom to be manipulative since he might not understand the rules, or, and this is way more likely, the other people across the fediverse who see UM as a representation of dbzer0 are going to be equally judgemental and harsh on our people going about their business.
I view attempting to give a long ass reply to someone and end it by telling them to 'disengage' in the thread yesterday as a perfect micro-example of the behaviors I'm criticizing.
I wanted my reply to only talk about the things that UM has recently admitted to. I could get into a big dig-em-up and provide evidence of unacceptable behavior from the past, but I recognize the value of trying to give someone another chance. In my local community, if you get a person with a terrible reputation, or who has engaged in unacceptable behavior, they're put on probation and can only go to events if they have an assigned elder with them, to teach them to be better and keep an eye on them, but this is the internet. We don't really have any way of establishing that kind of accountability.
I'm curious if this plus allowing AI on our own time will get .world to scorn us and call us Tankies, somehow.
You can block/ignore me and you won't see any of my posts or comments. I had nothing to do with OP and he's not banned from any of my communities, so off-topic anyway.
Evidentially, you have a bunch of accounts on a bunch of different instances, unless you are suggesting you can somehow block UM@star dot star or something…
https://sh.itjust.works/post/32558376?scrollToComments=true
@UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com , was that SDF account yours or not?
Yep. That brings up a great point though; I've posted political posts of all angles to that sub, including conservative articles.
So why would I create two personas that post from totally opposite sides of the political spectrum? If I were actually conservative, why would I post literally hundreds of pro-socialist, pro-union, pro-piracy, pro-anarchism articles? I have posted way more socialist articles than anything else. What would be the point of that if I were really conservative? Wouldn't that be counter-productive?
tl;dr: If I wanted to post conservative articles--and I have--I wouldn't create alt conservative personas to do it. Look up dates. This has been my main account for long time: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts
It's fine, I was mostly showing that your narrative changed quite a while over time
What narrative has changed? In my Politcs Unfilitered subs, I've posted news articles from all political spectrums. I've never changed my attitude that people should make their own opinions, but I've always advocated third-party.
Used to be green party, then I found socialist party to better fit my world view. I've never hidden that fact or changed my narrative. If I saw an interesting news article, I'd post it, regardless of viewpoints. I didn't write the articles--remember when I would get comments removed for saying that? lol
Blaze, you have been here since the beginning. You KNOW that I have always said and done this.
So let's jump on the Lemmy logic bandwagon for a sec: If I've post conservative articles, I MUST be conservative--according to Lemmy. Ok, ok, so using that logic...
I post way more socialist articles (and even socialist biographies and socialist book reviews). So using the same logic as above, doesn't that mean I MUST be socialist? Same logic.
So how does that work? Am I conservative because I have posted conservative news articles or am I socialist because I have posted pro-socialist news articles or am I anarchist because I have posted pro-anarchist articles? Walk me through your logic here.
If I were really conservative, then why would I post literally hundreds of socialist and pro-union articles? It's not for money--no one reads Lemmy and why would trump pay me to post pro-socalist and pro-union stuff? It's not for love--as we can see in this thread, everyone hates me. It's not for self-promotion--I don't have anything to sell.
I've never hid the fact that I am on more than one instance. I gave a list. I'm on here, sh.just.works, and pifed-feddit. Lots of people are. Blaze, one of Lemmy's most respected and proflic posters has multiple accounts. That's not in any way against any rules. Every post I have made on every instance is public. I also used to be on .world. My profile is still on there too. Check the dates of my posts, that's public too.
I use my same username. Same profile. Same content. I can't ban-evade, because it's my same fucking name.
OP is not banned in any of my communities. OP has not mentioned me at all. I am not the subject of OP's complaint. I never heard of the guy.
Very easy to ban my username. Ya don't even have to do it all at once. Just anytime ya see a post or comment, click ban user. Takes 3 seconds. Never see my post again. Even if I was on 100 instances, it'd be easy.
Notice tho how many here hate me, talk shit about me but haven't blocked me. Why do you think that is? Notice how they haven't posted ANY PROOF that I am the other person or any other person. They always give a history of why people don't like me, or links of people not liking me. But never any proof or valid reasoning that I use different names. Fuck all, I'm here right now posting. I don't need alt names. I haven't been banned from here (yet), so why would I need an alt name? I post all over Lemmy, why would I need an alt name? I can ban people right now from communities I have started. In fact, I have banned plenty of people from communities. But not OP.
They say I sent harrasing DM's. Ok, well as we can see by OP, you can post harassing DM's. So let's see some of these harassing DM's I've sent.
They say there was a rant that the musk guy said that was word-for-word mine. Ok, where? I looked but didn't see that. Never proof how of me being someone else. You know why? Cuz I'm not.
And to the naysayers that will opinion that it's impossible to prove someone has an alt name, then why bring it up? So is just talking shit about someone you don't like, in some OP's non-related thread a cool thing now? Seems bad form to me.
If you wanna think I am someone else, then fine. But it's not fair to OP to have this entire thread be about me, since he didn't even mention me.
If someone has a problem with how I mod my communities, and many do, then why don't they start a fucking post here about me?! Seems like they should have lots of proof and complaints, so yeah let's start one about me. As we can see by this thread, it'll probably get a bajillion upvotes about how much I suck. So think of all the good internet points someone can get! lol
But make it a separate one, let's not hijack this guy's thread.
I am reducing the number of accounts I use thanks to Piefed multicommunities.
It's fair that if people want to block you, they should be able to do so with one or two accounts max.
I now limit myself to this account and the Piefed.social one.
But you had a lot of accounts just recently. Your current profile lists 5 names. So why ok for you, not ok for me? Not counting all the troll accounts that aren't even me. I've reduced the number of accounts I use too. This one, sht.justworks (which isn't that active), and a piefed account (feddit.online).
your profile right now:
I just remembered you had this one a while back
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk@lemmyusa.com?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts
Again, if I were conservative, then why would I post literally hundreds and hundreds of pro-socialist and pro-union artilces? What would be the point? Not money. Not love. Not promotion. So what why would I bother to post so many pro-socialist, pro-union, anti-capitalist articles?
And if I am so conservative, then why would I create an alt musk name to post conservative articles, since everyone thinks I'm conservatve anyway.