Once we have our own piefed, that's gonna be my new perma home! Can't wait!
Most usually would usually note that with a generic "ban evasion," which is often times incorrect as well, but that wasn't used in this case. And would have taken the same amount of time to type as "Universal Monk."
I'm working on transferring all my fiction writing to piefed, and since piefed.social doesn't like me, I've started putting my writing on Feddit.online now. The admin there, @Jerry@feddit.online is awesome! I talked to him about me being there to make sure it was ok. He's been super cool about everything. Great piefed instance and great admin. So at the end of the day, I'm fine with his piefed being the only piefed instance I'm on.
I just wish there were a way to transfer all my writing to my community on there without having to repost them, and bore Lemmy with seeing my stuff be posted all over again. :/
Good points. Mods, I give a little more leeway to. I expect a bit more informative reasons from admins giving instance bans. It makes me think that the admin just assumed bad stuff because of my rep without any actual proof or research. Especially since I posted nothing controversial on his instance.
I respect ya for owning up to it tho. Good on ya, mate!
Holy crap, I just went down that rabbit hole after clicking your links. Wow. Just wow. Thanks for this detailed post. You explained it all perfectly.
Just in case anyone out there thinks that I'm exaggerating about the venom spat towards me and some background of why piefed.social was so quick to ban me without looking at anything, this is from two days ago. Notice a different mod asked someone else to use their custom program to "investigate" me. It's a public comment made 2 days ago, but I blurred names of poster and the mod since they aren't part of my original complaint. I think this is allowed just for background of how far some Lemmy people go. If not I can delete, and I can also send the actual link (it's a public comment) to mods.
I'd love to see the results of this "investigation!" lol
It's my understanding that vitural signaling (as used as an insult on Lemmy) is saying you're something that you're not. But I am what I say I am, though I'm sure some have tried to ban me for that as well.
but yeah it must feel pretty wild to be internet infamous!
It is kinda weird. I tried to introduce my gf to Lemmy (she hated it), but as I was showing her around, she did a search for "Universal Monk" in the search bar. Obviously lots of results cuz lots of people hatin' on me. The first thing she reads is a thread called, 'I'm calling for the Fediverse to ban Universal Monk.' Which is basically a post with over 300 comments of people saying the most ridiculous shit about me.
So she reads that and a bunch of other comments about me, and sees all my bans. She turns to me and says, "What the fuck?! You're the most boring guy in the world. How is this possible?" lmao
We just have a different opinion. Mine, of course, is the right one, but that’s a different matter
Oh, man, I thought my opinion was the right one. Dammit!
Thanks, friend. :)
Oh, that could be!
Crap! I answered, but you make it sound way more mysterious, so I deleted my answer!
Hmmm, somehow I feel that my name is probably a little easier to understand than "rumimevlevi."
Oh, and I'm sorry in advance for the messages you're probably about to get once people notice I'm still on your instance. Maybe they've calmed down by now though.
Oh, sorry! thank you for saying that. I'll update my comment. I didn't notice the emoji! And yep, I do remember you getting beat up for the same things I was getting beat up for. But we made it, we are still here. Good on ya, friend!
As for Chad McTruth, his level of sarcasm/parody or whatever, is way way too advanced for me. I legit can never figure out who's he's making fun of. He's fucking good at what he does. I am not nearly clever enough for his kind of thinking.
Right?! They don't even give a real reason now. Just putting "Universal Monk" as the ban reason feels so lazy to me. And honestly, back before the election—when I was supposedly so controversial—nothing I said or posted even came close to the shit I see people saying on Lemmy now.
If anyone goes back and looks at my posts, where I supposedly caused all that "trouble," it’s laughable compared to the hardcore stuff people say today. Like people were legit pissed that I liked the Green Party and then the Socialist party. People ended up writing programs to track me, asking for investigations into me (still happens, someone just asked a guy to write a Lemmy program to investigate me a few days ago), noting times I posted, telling me that I would die on the war front in Russia, saying that I was trying trying to destroy Lemmy, etc.
And look at Lemmy now, baby! lol
I just wanna point out for everyone who actually may think that, it wasn't to provoke a reaction. It was literally so I can have all my fiction in one place (decided to move my writing the piefed instance, feddit.online, now).
I didn't post anywhere or anything controversial. I posted a green party news article about trees, a socialist article about energy, and then 2 or 3 of my short fiction stories.
Edit: the double voting is my way of showing a lack of respect in this situation.
And that's very much against most comms rules. I'm not saying your point was wrong, but the way you approached it was.
Yes I used an alt to show disrespect to someone who was hostile.
I'm gonna have to say BRP just based on that. The fact that you took Lemmy so seriously that you went to the trouble to use an alt just to "show disrespect to someone" is cringe. This ain't prison, man.
Admiral Patrick, is shutting down their lemmy instance dubvee in part due to patterns of people assuming bad faith in online discourse.
Looks like he left early too. It was said that he was leaving July 31st, but the dubvee instance is no longer loading as of right now. It totally sucks that Lemmy ran him off. We need more like him on here!
Having said that, I feel the same way you do in your comments. People are being too mean on here lately.
I moved to peertube, but wow, it's not a super easy transition when it comes to posting stuff.
Maybe it's just me, but the UI is definitely wonky and not very intuitive. Took me a bit to figure out how to post.
I plan to really go big with posting soon, so maybe I can make the workflow faster.