Fediverse vs Disinformation @lemmy.dbzer0.com jawa21 @lemmy.sdf.org 2mo ago

Important note about a Nazi that is clogging up SDF with a disinfo campaign

@ashton1593@lemmy.sdf.org is spreading a disinfo campaign trying to rebrand horrible ideas as "not nazi." I don't know where else to warn people about this. We are pushing for an instance ban, but the admin at SDF tends to be slow to reach.

Edit: Look at the modlog. I beg of any instance admin that sees the ban and removal reasons alone, including a ban reason of "tranny" , I hope to hell they break your instance rules. You should instance ban this moron to keep the spread down.

Edit 2: It has been more than a day now with not even a "We will look into it." kind of reply from the admin. It may be time to look into defederation. We are effectively abandoned.

Edit for an update:

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Lot of trolls floating in lately. Got that stupid catfishing message a couple days ago in my DMs.

Seems that the current president cosplaying as king has emboldened the most toxic conservatives to crawl out of the woodwork.

I remember that happened in 2017 too, so we can probably expect them to get bored and fuck off somewhere else sooner or later
- Wait, the catfish happened to a bunch of people? Thought it was just a few, I ignored it when I got it.
  
  Weird right?
  
  I think the catfish was targeting active commenters based on the post a bit ago about it.
sdf.org needs a backup admin that is reachable badly.
- I've emailed, tooted, and tagged the admin on Lemmy. I am fumbling through a BBS post in my phone. I can do no more except let people know to block this Nazi and please don't think the SDF instance appreciates or tolerates this Nazi BS.
- I agree, they really do. I don't have too much hope for them otherwise. Even getting them to update their instance when it was on the broken 0.19.2 Lemmy version was like pulling teeth. They're ridiculously hard to contact. I was thankfully able to get that resolved but wow... I'm glad I didn't choose it as my primary instance.
Quick correction: Domain is lemmy.sdf.org (fix missing period)
- Thanks. I hate typing on my phone.
Help spread the word on this, we need instance admins all over to help stop this asshole.

CC:

dbzer0 admins

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com

lemm.ee admins

@EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee @sunaurus@lemm.ee

lemmy.blahaj.zone admins

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone

beehaw.org admins

@remington@beehaw.org @alyaza@beehaw.org @Gaywallet@beehaw.org @Lionir@beehaw.org @Penguincoder@beehaw.org

pawb.social admins

@crashdoom@pawb.social @natebluehooves@pawb.social @itsOasus@pawb.social @southernwolf@pawb.social @Spitfire@pawb.social

sh.itjust.works admins

@TheDude@sh.itjust.works @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works @InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works

discuss.online admins

@jgrim@discuss.online @lazyguru@discuss.online @m_f@discuss.online @Rooki@discuss.online @MrKaplan@discuss.online

lemmy.world admins

@ruud@lemmy.world @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world @Rooki@lemmy.world @kersploosh@lemmy.world @MrKaplan@lemmy.world

I apologize for pinging all of you, this is a serious issue and it's faster to ping like this than to message everyone individually.
- We banned him a few hours ago. In the future, please at least navigate to the major servers and check their modlogs before pinging the admins.
  
  Admins usually notify other admins fairly quickly about stuff like this. But in this case the other admins (myself) aren't going to know if the user had already banned by one of our colleagues, so we end up having to check multiple times.
  
  It's all good though, I appreciate your urgency.
  
  Oh I see, sorry I didn't check sooner. I'll try to check the modlog next time (hopefully there isn't a next time).
- Thank you for bringing it to our attention, already banned from Lemmy.world, will communicate with the other admins to see if more action is warranted.
  
  I don't mean to backseat moderate but is a 7 day ban really the best option in this situation as opposed to a permanent one with content removal? I mean this isn't an average scenario, this is an extremist user spreading hate and disinformation, and for that they get only a 7 day ban?
- Hijacking this useful ping to say that I absolutely would not hold a grudge over defederation due to this. We can't get in touch with the admin. They are likely asleep. Please remember, though, that aside from this BS, it is just a quiet nerdy instance full of Unix lovers.
  
  Edit: autocorrect typos
  
  Me neither. If the mods don't respond to or address this issue by tomorrow I will begin advocating defederation from lemmy.sdf.org because if they aren't willing or able to moderate hate speech, then they aren't a safe instance to be on or be around.
- Appreciated!
- Contact the admins at dubvee.org they have a system of cross instance banning and tracking down to an art form. That’s assuming you can contact them if you are not banned.
  
  I didn't think to reach out to them since they're a smaller instance, they likely don't even see this whole thing happening. This is more an issue for the bigger admins since they're the ones who will ultimately stop the spread. So I didn't really want to bother them with something that they probably can't even see.
- Appears they’ve already been dealt with.
  
  Nope, I looked on lemmy.sdf.org and it does not appear they have. Nazi shit is still there. So since it's been a day without any response I think it's time we started defederating from lemmy.sdf.org at least until we get updates on the situation. After all this idiot could have more sockpupets there we don't know about.
Startrek.website has banned the user and blocked/purged the communities.
It's a troll, and one of several I have seen over the last couple of days. There isn't much to go on now, but they could just be lost tankies or a single troll with multiple accounts that is just trying to get a rise out of people.
- My bets are it's a single troll. Most tankies don't go straight for transphobia.
I'm disappointed that such a user is on the same instance as I. Thanks for raising the alarm. I'm hopeful the folks in charge take action.
I agree! I saw their posts and was disgusted.
Thanks for the heads up.
- You are welcome. I'd recommend not looking at the local feed for a while.
- Yep. Can confirm. I did update the post with a screenshot of the modlog.
  
  Oops I missed that! Anyway glad it's dealt with.
Their comments and posts seem to have been removed from the parent instance now
- Nope. Still posting as of less than a minute ago. They may have earned an instance ban from your instance.
  
  Either that, or they're blocking people that are talking about them.
Okay wow so it’s been almost 24 hours. The admin’s last post was a year ago. Has anyone had contact with them since? What are the chances this instance is just running derelict?

Hoping I am wrong! But if I’m not SDF users might want to consider to start migrating. If the admin can’t be reached at all the next step other admins are gonna take is defederation.
- Not even a reply to anything on Mastodon or e-mails. I think I may nuke this account and all of the content in protest.
  
  definitely not what you want to see in that position of power
Nazis GTFO.

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