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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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Congratulations! You just had a run in with DJM/Universalmonk/BarryGoldwater/ I lost track of the rest of his alts.
I suppose I should count myself lucky that I haven't heard of/experienced this dude before, what's their deal?
UM used to post a ton of conservative bullshit, then would get offended when it was downvoted into oblivion, then would go off on unrelated rants and would message people heinous bullshit. We're talking posting and commenting like it was a full time job. That account got banned, and he created a bunch of alts on other instances to get around it. It was always suspected that DJM was an UM alt, and then was confirmed when he posted one of UM's rants word for word. Once you know what to look for it's pretty obvious. Most of the accounts I know of were created on the same day, have the same style of weird AI created avatar (pretty sure they're made using the Dream app by Womble), and all have some sort of vaguely libertarian sounding quote in their profile.
I think there's a few posts about UM on fediverse lore as well.
That explains why they accused OP of having alts, every accusation and all that.
Lemmy.world has been pretty good about blocking the alts as they come up because they like derailing threads, baiting users into breaking rules, arguing pointless semantics, rule lawyering and/or making everything about themselves.
What’s the evidence these are the same people?
I was thinking more about this today. Why would I have two completely different personas on opposite sides of the political spectrum? Why would I post hundreds of socialist and pro-union articles, then suddenly switch and post conservative content under another name? What'd be the point?
Why would I go to all the trouble of sharing so much socialist, anarchist, third-party, and pro-union material if I were conservative? If I wanted to post conservative stuff, I could just do it on my main—and I have, occasionally, when I found something interesting.
DMusk doesn’t even post in places I have been banned, so “ban evasion” doesn’t hold up as an excuse either. I wish I would have made these points in all my discussions yesterday.
Notice how this is never answered. There is no evidence, because it's not true. Why interrupt a good Universal Monk hatefest with logic? lol