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.

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

    I’ve engaged with several Lemmy users 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 [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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      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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      Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.

      I know you can’t because of them being on other servers that aren’t playing ball but that kinda feels like the point.

      You’re just the bartender, but once this conversation is over I’m done with Lemmy. Not your instance, all of Lemmy. He’s following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.

      Fuck you.

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        Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.

        When I say “DJM” I am referring to DonaldJMusk.

        He’s following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.

        You obviously have another account because the one you’re commenting from is only 6 hours old, has just 1 post (this one) and only 17 comments (all in here). I checked because I wanted to see one of these accounts harassing you and look into it. Unfortunately there’s nothing for me to see so there’s nothing I can do.

        My suggestion would be to report the user accounts that are causing you grief to the admins of the accounts home instance and then block them. Takes like 15 seconds to do both of those actions.

        Fuck you.

        Sadly my wife isn’t into sharing, otherwise I might be interested. 😘

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        I insulted this idiot once or twice, and they didn’t follow me around. I’m curious how hard you went in the paint.

        Edit: someone linked my mod file and apparently that idiot perma banned me from a dozen communities I have never interacted with. So my point is moot.

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        you’re a brand new account making accusations, but not providing any proof to back those up, and suddenly after less than a day you’ve had enough of Lemmy and are leaving?

        sounds like you just wanted to stir the pot for the attention.

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      That last sentence is why I’m a big fan! Let idiots get ratio’d. But I also wonder why our very laissez faire instance gets ddos’d so often.

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      Yeah, whatever man - I had a huge “attack” one day, and wouldn’t you know, about 4-5 of the usernames listed here were involved in that. Odd that. Also, their traffic patterns were hugely suspect.

      I spent hours into investigating that “perhaps these are real users” and nope, they fell right into my honeypot routes. UM and CM0002 are bots, full stop.

      They also aren’t Tucsonans, which is why I didn’t approve their signup.

      I don’t think many admins actually know how to properly audit for bots - and honestly, that problem is harder when you’re a global instance.

      It’s part of why I don’t think global instances will work for the fediverse, too vulnerable to bot manipulation. We need proof of humanity - and that scales better with local nodes.