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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ProudAntifa@lemmings.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Thanks for posting this. UniversalMonk is a cancerous cunt.

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[-] Skavau@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

Are these all based from lemmy.today?

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

How do you identify sock puppets? Are they all the same IP?

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[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

that conversation with himself is exceptionally sad;;

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 4 days ago

Fuck this person to the moon and back. Absolutely dog shit human.

[-] ygr444@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

thanks for the heads up, I had no clue

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Is there an easy way to mass-block all these names in Voyager, or will I have to just copy and paste them one by one?

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

I have a more effective way of confirming things like this if interested...

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago

So is cm0002 but no one seems to mind besides the troika and one other instance.

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[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I believe the situation to be self evident

idk, man, do you got any evidence this is UM other than "trust me, bro"?

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm an Admin on lemmy.today and the accusation that DJM is UM (and others) occasionally comes up. Both I and @mrmanager@lemmy.today have looked into it and neither of us have ever been able to find any kind of proof.

I've engaged with a couple of other Lemmy users, as has mrmanager, who supposedly had proof but they were unable to provide anything better than what OP has up above. It's always loose conjecture and "trust me, bro".

Yes the DJM account is annoying but that's not enough to get banned from our instance.

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 6 points 4 days ago

I kinda figured. it seems to me that a lot of the accusations we see in YPTB and elsewhere is people just saying bad actors are UM, and a lot of people just agreeing without any skepticism at all because they don't like UM. which is fine, they don't have to, but it seems like a lot of the tings UM is accused of are just from this negative feedback loop of rumors. at this point it wouldn't surprise me to see somebody claim he eats babies.

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[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 6 points 4 days ago

Admin of tucson.social here - when UM signed up at tucson.social he made some crucial mistakes that made him easy to identify as a bot. Unfortunately, since this affects my security posture, I'm not keen on publicly posting what it is as he still makes the same mistakes.

However, let me add this - there are multiple places we should be validating are accessed from the same IP in a registration flow - all to many bot farms centralize certain aspects of their operations and use the same IP every time for only certain parts of a given flow.

I'll also add that many admins are either stupid about site security, or actively complicit in the bot problem.

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

I’m not on tucson.social and I’m not a bot. I don’t remember ever signing up for that instance. If I did, maybe it was way back when I was bouncing around trying to find a good instance, but this has been my main account for a long time.

Calling me a bot doesn’t help your case. The only way that would make sense is if I were some sleeper robot packed with a human’s memories, unaware of my own programming. Then again, that’s straight out of a sci-fi novel I read once. So no, I’m real, and my memories are real. Wait, I think they are! Holy shit, what if I'm not real and I am just imagining I am real!

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