Predictable and self inflicted. You don't bring Reddit style tactics to a group that largely fled them and not face blowback.

Love it when trash takes itself out.

Roomba style

It seems everyone is the problem but them.

A distinct lack of self-awareness and a huge pile of narcissism.

They obviously have mental problems and it would be sad if there wasn't the DDOS, which is just infuriating.

I give them one point though:

harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing

We all know the internet can be a harsh place, but this is never okay, no matter against whom. They can fuck of, we can make fun of them, but harassing someone personally and threatening them is just wrong.

It's just shocking that they'd create a front end that filters out a bunch of stuff without telling the user. To me, that's not the job of a front end client program. If they want to add additional filtering over the backend, it needs to be directed by the user or at least specifically approved by the user.

Man this drama ended before I could figure out what it was about lmao

Well, I'm not gonna click the link if it'll participate in a DDoS attack.

I too am searching for what happened

Yeah, that is the only point that actually resonates with me.

This is censorship manifest!

I think most people would have been fine with like a ublock style collection blocklists they could enable or disable and subscribe to, the problem was hiding it and doing it unilaterally.

Putting in a DDOS tool is just another signal this person isn’t mature enough to be trusted with your computer.

With added actual felony on top. Several, probably.

But, given all the other behaviours, what's to say the "harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing" even happened? Could just as easily be crocodile tears.

Yes if this had been opt-in. Something that the user had to explicitly enable it. And was thoroughly explained. The worst anyone would have to say about them is that they were overly opinionated. But no one would care beyond that. The reason it's a big thing. It is the way it was hidden and enabled by default. It 100% is a mess of their own making.

Reply to me when you find out

This may be a good explainer.

Yup. Obviously that person is insanely thin skinned and tried to deceive people before which has lead to all this drama in the first place. Shitty behavior if it happened but can we be sure it actually did?

Because the backlash from the community sure might look like senseless bullying to the receiver if you lack any self awareness and refuse to take responsibility for your actions.

For all we know they might just blow this out of proportion. They‘re known to overreact after all.

wow. guess he wanted to make sure everyone realized how disengenous he was.

They wanted to be a self appointed moral guardian for all of Lemmy but are themselves immortal because they intentionally hid that they were censoring anyone.

I call BS. They never showed any death threats or doxxing, but they did show they were incapable of mature behavior.

Dont spare sympathy for a crybaby liar.

Okay, real time.

Who's more pathetic, AdmiralPatrick or Donald Trump?

I'll take AdmiralPatrick anyday: one is a sad bitter passive-aggressive opensource developer in his basement, the other is a raging fascist with a nuclear button.

themselves immortal

lulz

Yes, I believe Bluesky does exactly that - custom blocklists you can subscribe to. It would actually be a very useful feature.

Yeah, I use blocklists on bluesky but I have to enable them. That way if I can't see someone's post I know it's not a bug and I can change it myself.

he wants Reddit but wants to be the boss of it

Nah, we all know the internet and this is absolutely plausible and even likely. This is not about sympathy, but about a statement against hate. Even if OP is lying, I stand with what I said.

Temu spez

If he was as proud and confident in his choices as he claims to be he would have advertised it as a feature to get more users.

He was still on his alts after this, pleading his case

Funnily enough it does also work. This will likely be what most people remember them for lol. And it was all their own doing

Good point.

Haha yeah that's where my head went too

Man is acting like the reddit devs, there is a reason you never see fuck spez or anyone complaining about the ceos/founders anymore, searching fuck spez will only show you stuff from 2023, like suddenly no one has any issue with him

Isn't that a felony?

It’s down anyways, but could disable JS

Not on my work computer, my company doesn't let us run Ublock Origin or anything like that.

Unidan moment.

seems to be working fairly well for piefed.

To be fair, anyone who would post "fuck spez" has probably left by now.

I'm not saying it didn't happen, but given the rest of the message, I have trouble taking it on good faith.

AdmiralPatrick is just some bigoted asshat having a public crash out and trying to DDOS a Lemmy instance. Donald Trump is leader of the state. As far as I'm aware, AdmiralPatrick is responsible for zero deaths. Trump is responsible for millions.

Trump is an unforgivable monster, and I honestly don't know how you could consider AdmiralPatrick comparable to Trump.

So are there any good forks yet? Lol

That was my take. Yes, it could well have happened, but can we really trust what someone like that says?

, and I honestly don’t know how you could consider AdmiralPatrick comparable to Trump.

In as much as I care to compare them, by the metric I posted above: patheticness.

Bunch of instance admins running around cutting each other's heads off until there's only one left.

Okay: still no. Trump is more pathetic by a country mile for the ballroom alone.

But Trump's not only known, or even primarily known, for being pathetic; he is a rapist, murderer, genocider, colonizer, and basically every other way of being monstrous invented by mankind. And you're kinda showing your ass when you say that "patheticness" is the way you want to compare Trump to other people.

it is. could be argued he created a botnet.

Theres already a couple. In a week this will be old news.

Bye Felicia