Yeah, but you’re like the community directory, you know everything 😂

These sort of comments always make me wonder who recognises my nick. A ranking of ‘user-recognition’ would be fun. Though obviously impractical.

Look, some things, like latinum, you just can’t replicate.

I want this to be real

Take a skim through !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com. News, world news, and politics @world probably makes up like a 3rd of the posts in there.

I suppose it depends very much on what your definition of PTB is. Firstly, I’ll say this is based on the info in that post, and it may be one-sided since he didn’t defend himself.

The fact that he declares his intentions does help, but IMO it’s a large overstep. Banning anybody who so much as downvotes you is going to ensure you have an absolute echo chamber very soon. Which I’m guessing is probably the point, since otherwise he could have gone the Beehaw way of disabling downvotes for his instance.

Huh, I just checked the modlogs and yep, I’m banned from his instance. I suppose if you’re a user on his instance and unaware of what’s happening, you’ll just see the fediverse slowly shrink and shrink. I’m a reasonably prolific contributor, I’m fairly moderate, and if I’m getting banned for my views, so is a significant portion of the fediverse.

calls for murder shouldn’t be appearing in “memes” or “shitpost” communities that are made for fun

I agree with that. Comms should have full control over the type of content (including comments) they want appearing within them. But that’s not what’s happening with dubvee.

I agree with you that we need more content. I’ve blocked most of the meme comms b/c they’re not my thing, and most of the remaining content falls into a very few lonely groups. Building niche comms is a lot of work.

Here you go: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29502571

There are comments by others in there that they’ve been banned for downvoting him but otherwise never interacting with him or the instance.

Thanks for the additional info and context!

Thanks for the really detailed response!

1. Yeah, I noticed the missing thumbnails and I agree it is cause for concern.
2. The dubvee admin has been mentioned several times in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com as a PTB, banning anybody who downvotes him. Not the best situation to expose newcomers to either.
3. I can try that out. The single point of failure and long registration time looks like a concern.

Do you have any opinion about infosec.pub which somebody else recommended?

Oh that’s handy

You do realise I’m on SJW? And neither of your recs is relevant to the criteria I stated.

I have no interest in trying to persuade my friends to create an acc and set up instance blocks before diving in

lemmy.ml is not as tankie, but that bar is the height of my little toe.