@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.

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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lemmy probably needs a "Report Community" feature that goes to the Admins of the instance.

    But I can say, the Admins are aware.

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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    sdf.org needs a backup admin that is reachable badly.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Quick correction: Domain is lemmy.sdf.org (fix missing period)

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    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is a temporary measure until I can discuss it futher with the other admins. I think they'll agree a perma-ban is warranted.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, seems like they need a spare emergency admin or two in different time zones. Hell, every instance that doesn't require approval to create communities needs those, imo

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is a bad look for a non-profit that does some genuinely cool stuff.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah it definitely is. They should be way more attentive when it comes to moderation, as well as maintenance of their services. I still remember having to beg them to update from 0.19.2 to 0.19.3 because the instance was broken and not federating (couldn't even log in) it was so difficult to get them to do that. They did do it but it shouldn't have been anywhere near that hard.

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I saw that guy recently and blocked the communities that he seemed to be running.

    I then tagged him as "Conservative Dickhead" in Voyager, though I'll be updating that to be simply "Nazi".

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    Yeah, at first I want to give the benefit of the doubt, but after reading here I decided to just spell it out for myself

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I just had a look at his profile again, and he keep posting shit, but so far seems to be mostly only posting new actual posts on his own communities on lemmy.sdf.org

    Those communities are:

    conservative

    saynotogroomers

    libsoftiktok

    saynotonazis

    I can't be arsed to link properly, and don't want to drive traffic to them, but these are the current communities on lemmy.sdf.org, where he is most active.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Startrek.website has banned the user and blocked/purged the communities.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I agree! I saw their posts and was disgusted.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Their comments and posts seem to have been removed from the parent instance now

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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