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Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Ayo I'm in the screenshot letsa fucking GOOOOOOOOOO-

For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I've seen (all on different instances with the same username) and has spent his time on [email protected] continuously spamming heavily transphobic, homophobic, and objectifying sexist "memes". Just about every one of his alts is now banned but I'm sure more will pop up.

Now, why the fuck he cares so much about pirates at this point, I haven't a clue....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, banned)
/u/Bungiefan_[email protected] (modlog, was denied entry by chad admin @[email protected] lmao)

There's likely going to be more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah we banned them on reddthat 2 days ago. I'm glad to see I'm not an outlier. Initially we should a 7 day ban should suffice. But then that user decided to message the admin directly and insult them.

Probably the fastest way to get your account banned.

Edit: The message in question. 👀 (Attempted spoiler open if you dare)

! !<

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you have all the qualities of a womanly woman

real "breasted boobily" energy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wwwow that's some offensive bullshit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe the spoiler tag is the following on Lemmy

spoiler labelsh*t to hide

spoiler label

sh*t to hide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Doing the lord's work. What a shitfest of a modlog, real winner this guy is

Edit: dear God he keeps MAKING MORE. This dude seriously needs to get a life or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'll keep an eye out, and I sort everything by new anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably because one of his alts was on dbzer0 and was banned for transphobia

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

that guy is the most succesfull troll in history. he single-handedly created havoc that big that russian trollfarm wouldn't have to be ashamed for and you continue to give him audience. just ban him and move on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hexbear is one of the oldest lemmy instances, but only recently started federating.

Are you suggesting that for the last 3+ years, someone was running a troll farm where the trolls could only talk to each other?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not sure if you are serious, but no, that's not what i am suggesting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, sorry then, I must have misunderstood.

Since federation, a lot of libs who've never encountered a leftist opinion have been calling us russian or chinese bots for not supporting the latest imperialist adventures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Literally no one mentioned hexbear, or leftism in general, before you did. Quite a victim complex you got there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I've seen (all on different instances with the same username)

Spending that much money and time stanning for fucking Bungie of all decaying and bloated and corrupt treat companies is really something. pathetic

and has spent his time on [email protected] continuously spamming heavily transphobic, homophobic, and objectifying sexist "memes".

OF FUCKING COURSE. bridget-pride-stay-mad

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anybody have the greentext that goes something like

Pirate game

Company loses $60 because it's theft

Company regains $60 after deleting game from hard drive

Pirate one million copies, company bankrupt from massive theft

Buy insolvent company for cheap

Delete all game copies, company profitable again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fucking loser crying about intellectual property. Love live piracy and anarchy. Be gay do crime! 🏴 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ yo ho ho 🦜 nikopirate custom emoji

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

its actually amazing how internet culture went from this anarcho-utopianism where information just wants to be free, maaan to reddit style races to the normie bottom. who gives a shit about intellectual property other than bowtie spinning economist dickheads and the beltway lanyard class?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporations when some dude steals a copy of a 30 year old movie: 😡

Corporations when they steal billions from their workers salaries every year: 🤑

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We also pay for their bailouts and subsidies. Piracy is ethical.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

yall, this dude tried signing up to my instance a few nights ago. yall wanna see why many communities have registration approvals? see below. warning for nsfw language

NSFW language

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck I love the "ok" as deny reason...so simple, so beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is legitimately one of the most disgusting things I've read, what is wrong with this person, why would he write that as an application.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It came after I was arguing with weirdo antisemites in c/atheistmemes so I assume it was because of that but I have no idea and don’t really care to know that much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At least he was stopped at the registration level, it likely wouldn't have been pretty if he was allowed to run wild there like he did on other places.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Still laughing at the vast amount of people coming from reddit and expecting only chill people to be on lemmy. Like lemmy users are somehow immune to toxicity.

It's less toxic overall but we (or mostly the moderators) will have to fight them all the time.

At least it will improve the moderation tools which is always a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I realized it was that dude who tried signing up to my instance I lost my shit laughing, if he was screened prior it's obvious he wouldn't have gotten in. This is precisely what happens when you focus on growth over organically cultivating a healthy community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I have no proof but I think lemmy.world will be monetized at some point.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao this is the guy that first lead to them banning the communities right?

Love that lemmy.world seems to be making their moderation strategy based off of a troll with at least 4 alts....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Props to him for fooling an entire instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Made them show their true face and flaws. Who knows, maybe the troll is even someone from their staff on an alt.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That behavior is kinda shameful lol

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world admins are the worst fucking dweebs on the fediverse.

I need to check out this community to improve my piracy game 🏴‍☠️

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bro I'm still jittery from hating on spez.. all I had to see were some of the comments lemmy.world mods and admin made and it was fucking easy as piss to move instances.

Not getting rid of my old account tho, they can continue to host everything I posted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bit more nuanced than that. Their servers are based in the EU and therefore a rather easy target for copyright lawsuits, and they have neither unlimited funds nor the manpower to fight them off (even if the allegations are completely unfounded, you need a lawyer to refute them, and lawyers charge actual money).

Sometimes it's easier to focus on your strengths than fighting the good fight on all fronts and go down swinging.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I genuinely do understand concerns about legal issues and the risk of facilitating illegal activities- but its not even hosted on their instance, why would it mater that the communities EXIST. They're literally hosted by someone else...?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it is hosted on your home server.

When you subscribe to a community, your home server downloads the content and passes it on to you.

This is not like when The Pirate Bay was allowed to live because it only hosted torrent files and not copyrighted content, in the fediverse, you copy the content to your own server, and pass it on to the client/user, which means hosting the content.

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