UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.

EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it's perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren't him

Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one

To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn't a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It's hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it's a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.

I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk's comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they're leaking out into other communities with ill intent.

If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.

1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards

https://lemmy.ml/u/davel

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community Ban

3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

(I have not posted there)

Likewise the community has no rules listed, so I'm not sure how I've broken rule 4

Davel is probably going to try to claim me downvoting a post or comment of his that popped up on my feed or something as me breaking the entire instances rule 4 (no spam?) - which is why I need to be banned only from one community I don't engage in.

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately, even going so far as to downvote me telling real legitimate antisemites to 'fuck off'.

Even CowBee had the decency to admit they were in the wrong and change their ragevote to an upvote.

Davel however seems to especially thinskinned even for the typical .ML'er and would rather double down and engage in poorly disguised retaliation bans for criticisms of a political ideology.

This thought terminating behaviour on display by one of the admins of such a reputable and outstanding instance as Lemmy.ml was not at all warranted and I hereby call on the leadership at lemmy.ML to unban me so that I may continue to not post in their community.

Since multiple communities i moderate are ai related, posts often get anti ai downvotes from people from the wider lemmy.

Something I learned to do that I am now doing with all my communities is this.

Let's say i post an ai image. It get's 5 downvotes by anti ai people who, instead of block the community to not see the content, attempt to attack and force the post downward. Just by doing so, they show their intent is to harm content reach instead of support it and that the community is healthier with them unable to touch it. So I then select each of the 5 downvoters and select 'ban from all moderated communities'. Sounds simple enough, right? And it's sort of power trippy. I don't even bother typing reasons. And eventually the community would be cleansed.

But here's the trick.

Make a post with content matching what is appropriate for your community. Do the normal banning of downvoters. Then edit the post to change the title and then delete and hide it. Then post again the exact same content and title. Again weed the downvoters. Again delete and repost. I call it SpeedCleansing. And at the end of it, you are left with an unattacked post which can finally stay up.

Enjoy

just several days ago, after 7 posts and at beast 150 comments, i (under !DylanMc6@hexbear.net) got banned from hexbear for "History of repeating US state department talking points, anti-socialism and zionism".

this ban came after some of my comments were deleted for either "zionism", "fedposting" or "manufacturing consent" just a week ago.

after my hexbear account got banned, i continued to post stuff on hexbear communities through this account (!@DylanMc6@lemmy.ml) (because lemmy is part of the fediverse which means i can log in to a different lemmy instance with this account), and just earlier today, a couple of my comments (about charlie kirk) that i posted on !slop@hexbear.net were deleted for reasons of "Liberal civility politics".

hexbear also deleted another comment i posted there where i said "we should segregate clankers from society", as well as another comment for the reason of "libertarian" simply because i put "left-libertarian".

left-libertarianism is a form of libertarianism that combines individual freedoms with social equality, and can be used to mean "antiauthoritarianism" - an example of left-libertarianism is libertarian socialism which supports self-governance and workers' self-management.

although i support left-libertarianism, i find collectivism to be pretty interesting - i think that individuals are worthy of respect and freedoms, but i also think that the individual CANNOT organize alone - collective action is very necessary.

most of me realized that what i said on hexbear can be misunderstood as "us state department talking points, antisocialism and zionism", and i apologize for that.

on the other hand, part of me is very glad that i got banned from hexbear because obviously, some people there is extremely hardline.

i apologize to any hexbear people reading this, i just had to do a rant here. seriously!

edit: here are the modlogs (for this account and !DylanMc6@hexbear.net):

I have never posted anything there before.

Round 2, this is a follow-up to this post

1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

https://quokk.au/u/quokka

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Account purged/deleted

3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

I asked quokka for an explanation, but did not receive a response until I mentioned it in the db0 general chat.

Here's the comment in /c/slop where I link my yptb post because someone mentioned that I had been banned for my original comment.

I did not include any call to action and I directed the conversation to YPTB because /c/slop is not for getting into it about specific moderators/admins on fedi.

As to what my 'goals' were by linking to it; we're on a discussion forum, signposting a conversation happening elsewhere is not what I would consider 'brigading'.

The post that I linked to was my own post in YPTB complaining about getting comm banned for pointing out the misogyny in the OOP post title

5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Posting links to other comments to direct discussion there is extremely common on fediverse.

Because this was a full account purge rather than a ban, this looks like pretty clear retaliation to hide criticism of the mod that I was calling out for misogyny, rather than addressing the issue in a serious way at all.

As stated by quokka in the above matrix message, on quokk.au there's apparently an unwritten rule that if you're posting a link on hexbear to anywhere it's grounds for total account deletion due to 'brigading' if one of their members doesn't like what you're saying.

It looks pretty unprecedented based on their modlog, the only people receiving such action previously were spammers

Meanwhile, there's an entire community out there where posts are linked to on other instances with sarcastic, hyperbolic paraphrases and clear calls to action. Worth noting that even the most egregious users there don't have their accounts purged on .ml.

The moderator that I called out (and I have to assume they were the one to report reported me) is an active participant there, and seems to see no problem with that type of behavior.

Looks like a clear double standard and retaliation for calling out the moderators overreaction to me pointing out a misogynistic post title.

https://mander.xyz/post/42872387

I received insults

Someone even posted photos of dead bodies

These comments weren't reviewed, but I was permanently blocked because my political stance is to hope for the reunification of my country. They said I have nothing to offer, just spreading propaganda and negativity.

1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

https://quokk.au/u/Deceptichum

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

74 year community ban for 'homophobia'

3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

here's the exchange that resulted in the ban:

5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

I'm gay, trans, and an anarchist. I thought the post title was misogynistic, objectifying, and not a good example something that should be in a 'queer friendly' space.

Not everyone is okay with sexual degradation humor, misogynistic comments, etc, even if it's about people you disagree with. Pointing that out in this case got me called a homophobic tankie and banned within minutes of making the post.

I made this post:

And got removed for:

I did ask the mods about why they think the post is off topic, but no reply so far. I do feel that there maybe some error or miscommunication; otherwise I am not sure how asking how others deal with operational matters is off topic for the selfhosting com.

That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.

Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.

While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.

Sidebar, and expanded rule 7

A few other posts have been made calling this out.

Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

################################

Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.

Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.

I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.

And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.

So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.

• LillianVS@lemmy.world (Aer) has not been active in two years.
• STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world (Striker) has not been active in one year.
• Tenthrow@lemmy.world had not appeared to be active for six days at the time I reported the post, but upon checking the community mod log was likely active two days before (assuming that the other two wouldn't be just lurking and modding for over a year).

So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.

Modlog:

Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.

Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)

interestingly, I was subscribed on other lemmy.ml communities where I was not banned.. but hey , now, I banned the instance... so we're even I guess

Yesterday, there was a bot that made a ton of posts in different communities. The mods of ttrrpg.network banned that user, and about 20 other people were also banned from several communities each on ttrpg.network (including me) with the reason given "Account used to boost spambot account" (for me it was all the communities on that server that I was subscribed to, but I wasn't actually banned from the instance):

The mods also made a pinned post in that sub (it's unpinned now) where they explain their reasoning some more:

Just got done investigating a spambot we had earlier, and it looks like they used a lot of compromised accounts on other instances to give their post an initial upvote boost. If you don’t already, please remember to use a good strong password.

I do remember interacting with at least one post from that bot, to me it looked fairly innocuous until I looked at the sheer volume of posts they made since the account was created. I assume that I'd notice if my account was hijacked, especially while I was still actively browsing lemmy, and my password is certainly not easily to bruteforce or guess. I also took a look at the profiles of the other users who were banned, there were quite a few who were still posting or commenting after they were banned from rpgmemes - none of those profiles looked suspicious to me, and many of the ones who didn't post or comment anything since then just weren't that active in the first place.

Frankly, I don't believe that any of those banned accounts were actually hacked. It looks to me like the mods just banned everyone who interacted with that bot. I understand that spambots are a big issue that is difficult to solve, but fediverse mods and admins need to be a lot more precise with dealing with that than this - the cure can't be worse than the poison.

I did message one community mod of rpgmemes and one of the server admins about this, but neither got back to me.

Link to post.

Let's start with that the mod of this sub, ramos, a 2 days old user, banned me because of "Spam and scam", when I asked for sources + I said "Hi I'm Taylor Swift, nice to meet you".

Here is the mod log link
https://sh.itjust.works/modlog/1639563
photo

Even when an another user comments " Can you please stop titling all your posts "BREAKING:", its incredibly clickbaity." comment gets removed for being scam.

I wouldn't even comment on his post, if he did provide a source or something that can validate what he posts, but posting images with "BREAKING" in capitals and some photo with text on it and no source, it looks like a facebook or twitter misinformation thing.

And I ask you now PTB, YDI, YDM, BPR or CLM?

Asked a question on an annoyingly written post blaming the secretary of defence (or wtf ever the title is) for causing the loss of aircraft. Dude's an absolute idiot, but he didn't personally drive an F/A 18 into the largest body of water known to man.

I have no time for pointless inflammatory bullshit. Put your energy into a useful fight.

Context

Didn't really have high hopes for this instance to begin with , but expected a lil better than this . Got called transphobe for this . Place's a boy's club thru & thru

And not to go into details about my personal life but , am genuinely triggered by these types of dudes that believe this bollocks . Unreal

Detailed explanation of wy trans(misandry|androphobia) dœsn't exist :

Question: “If transmisogyny exists, does transmisandry?”

Answer: Based on the ways I have seen transmisandry commonly defined, I would say no. Firstly, misandry as a form of systemic oppression does not exist — trans men are not discriminated against for being men, but for being trans. Secondly, transmascs do face a specific type of transphobia, but transphobia is not unique to transmascs, while transmisogyny (which is not transphobia) is unique to transfems. Simply put, transmisogyny is the culturally pervasive attitude (held and perpetuated by anyone who is not a transfem) of regarding trans women as a third class of gendered categorization altogether, because, to quote myself, “[transmisogynists] cannot dignify us as women, but cannot accurately misgender us as men either without calling the stability of male supremacy into question.” (This process is called “third-gendering” or “degendering,” and you can read more about it here.) Therefore, transmisogyny operates on a different level of gendered oppression altogether. Again, transmascs do face a specific type of transphobia unique to them, but they do not experience quite the same form of marginalization which trans women do.

-- https://transmisogyny-explained.carrd.co/

Argument about why an instance doesn't want to federate with another instance that's devoted to political trolling. Apparently that kind of behavior is simply a core tenet of the belief system, and to criticize it is to reject the whole ideology.

Modlog: https://lemmy.ml/modlog?userId=22989130

So, I made the same post of a Variety article covering how basically the entirety of US news agencies are refusing to comply with new Pentagon press standards, I posted this to multiple World/Global news comms on multiple instances...

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/pentagon-pete-hegseth-press-rules-fox-news-cnn-refuse-to-sign-1236552784/

... and my post to World News on lemmy.world, with ~200 upvotes in ~6 hours, 20 comments, was locked and removed with reason "Internal US News", at midnight my local time...

https://lemmy.world/post/37359472

(removed)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55525545

(local mirror of same post)

... apparently the lemmy.world World News editorial team doesn't think it rises to the level of generally relevant to the entire world that basically all US media outlets (with the single exception of OAN, the most MAGA-culty news outlet) are unifying in a collective refusal to comply with the Trump Admin's new military reporting standards.

No other World/Global News comm on any other instance that I made this same post to acted similarly.

lemmy.zip Global News:

https://lemmy.zip/post/50994380

beehaw.org World News:

https://beehaw.org/post/22673636

(my internet is shitting itself right now and I can't load beehaw, will try to update later)

EDIT: internet's back up, link updated

lemmy.ml World News:

https://lemmy.ml/post/37548697

... the meta-irony of this is physically painful to me.

Sure would be neat if the lemmy.world admins followed through on their recent pledge to reevaluate the staffing of their mod teams.

Yeah, I don't know what's going on here. Looks like a mod having a breakdown. I posted the rest for context and I'm in the middle.

I got linked to the comment chain from elsewhere. The comment had a link to a tech dude's blog, supposed to point out his white supremecism. I didn't see anything bad in that article, but stumbled on another one with nazi apologia, thought they may have linked the wrong article, posted it. That's it. That's all I did.

I guess it is called awful.systems and the culture confuses me, but man, what a dick move to call me a facist in the modlog.

If nothing else, I hope this drama is entertaining.

Edit: Because this is, well, the internet: I was not defending DHH. Another removed/banned comment said they couldn't find anything bad in that link either, so I found one where DHH was being more blatant in his bullshit.

@jordanlund@lemmy.world just removed my post from !politics@lemmy.world because the linked article wasn't a "news" source.

The sidebar makes no mention of accepted news sources. And honestly, fuck that fascist nonsense. How the fuck can it be justified to remove posts from articles made by fucking non-profits?

I guess @jordanlund@lemmy.world is also saying that since they disagree with the premise of the article, it should be removed.

People need to be aware that !politics@lemmy.world should be avoided.

This is why I also posted the same thing to !usa@midwest.social

Trump is openly committing treason. He must be impeached and removed from office.

https://midwest.social/post/36857540

Link to the thread

https://lemmy.world/post/37144126

Got no post for this one. Literally no idea what he's even talking about. I also barely know who this guy is. I think I messaged him once in the past when I saw his name a bunch and I was being nice and diplomatic but otherwise? No idea who he is. The only time I've ever heard his name is by people saying stuff about him being an incredibly toxic and horrible human being on Lemmy. Which made it all the more hilarious to see this.

Come listen... let Stamets tell you a tale... the tale of a scared little poodle.

The only thing I've ever said about the dude recently was in the YePowerTrippingBastards matrix channel where I said that it's kind of hilarious that losers like him spend so much time getting angy and worked up over something to go after it again and again and again.

So lemme get the crayons and break it out for the false savior with breathing difficulties so severe he's going to choke on his own ego.

I make a post every now and again while occasionally pointing out the stupidity of others. You just seem to actively go after people over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. See... I've got a hobby. You've got an obsession and one that's eating away at you pretty bad by the look of it. Wanna go out for a frappe buddy? Need a hug big guy?

Community description for ManufacturingConsent is "when the media decides who you are rooting for." So, being banned for questioning their narrative strikes me as absurdly funny. I mean, I guess if the idea of the community is that geneva_convenience should decide whom you root for, that would track.

The post in question: https://piefed.ca/post/266435

(I pointed out that the Guardian was probably including the hostages who died after the attacks. This really bugged OP and led to a ban.)

I don't really care for a remedy, seems a silly place. Just thought it was funny as heck.

(For what it's worth, like most, I side with Palestine but I think being accurate lends credence to our cause.)