Today I noticed a huge wall of spam from UniversalMonk from 2 different accounts and didn’t initially think much of it and blocked their communities but more spam came from different communities.
At this point I checked and saw that they had created several communities which then led me down the rabbit hole to discover that their posts had almost entirely covered the new posts page of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. Later on I discovered that they’re posting right-wing propaganda and misinformation from breitbart, foxnews you name it.
He’s already caused and stirred shit 2 months ago and clearly I can see why now.
At this point it’s difficult to believe that UniversalMonk will learn proper netiquette in: not post spamming, being considerate to others, and not sharing right-wing extremist content that no one wants.
Why are we giving this person their stage again? How probable is it that the instance admins of the like 15 instances they have accounts on will all collectively ban him? It’s just your average nazi spammer on the internet. You’ve read that “bio” this person has. Even if they get banned, they’ll come back just on principle. Just block him like any sane person would do, leave him shadow banned like that with his nazi friends, and call it a day.
shadow banned
Do we have that on Lemmy?
No, but the more people block them, the less up votes and visibility they will receive for their posts.
On the other hand, letting them free has the risk of making this place a Nazi bar: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar
Oh wow. UM really is just a malignancy that refuses to go away, isn’t he? I’m all for allowing different opinions but if someone keeps peeing in the pool, sooner or later you stop letting him in.
100% if he is breaking the ToS on multiple instances (and I would argue that spamming most likely is, not to mention the substance of the content)
He can always create his own instance and anyone who wants to see his content can join it as well. Instance admins shouldn’t feel obligated to give anyone a platform (ahem, .world), the fediverse is decentralized and democratic.
In that case I also nominate @jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world who pretends to be left but posts an incredible amount of conservative propaganda and misinformation in all his little communities.
Ask them about Ukraine to get a good idea of what they stand for.
Oh wow, that’s the first time I’ve seen this person’s userpage and read… whatever that is.
So fucking cringe.
This is harassment directed towards one specific user.
If you find direct offense to their posts, you should let the instance admins manage that through reports. If there is many instances, do that many reports.
But this is basically fascist harassment. A witch hunt.
What, no one can dissent from your ideology? Is it that weak that it cannot and will not handle criticism?
The reverse applies as well. If you want, open your own instance echo chamber and talk to yourself.
I’m in the center. But as long as it’s not illegal, then it’s OK.
This fucker is still around eh? I remember him single-handedly sowing discord in c/politics around the time of the election with incessant pro 3rd party spam and insane tirades of sealioning - also report abuse if I remember right. Or at least taunting people into breaking rules and subsequently reporting them. I was amazed at the time that he was allowed to remain unbanned for ages in that sub when it was very clear what he was doing.
What’s wrong with advocating for 3p vote?
Did the party komissars prohibit these discussions in DNC controlled subs?
Also take note of !naziparty@lemm.ee aka “conservative”
Edit: !naziparty@sh.itjust.works and !naziparty@lemmy.world also
OK so you think every lemm.ee user is a nazi or something?
No but only few of them. I didnt see its users commenting getting mad everytime they see some news posts against the cons
And “NaziParty” did get almost all of their posts downvoted
I also see the communities with the same name in http://sh.itjust.works/ and http://lemmy.world/, all with the same users and downvotes
Posting lying terrorist dens like breitbart or fox as news is ban-worthy on its own.
Jesus. Just openly demanding an echo chamber.
That mf is still around? And now they’re spamming right wing nazi stuff, despite definitely for sure being a legitimate honest 3rd party Jill Stein Stan? My gosh, say it isn’t so!
There is nothing for them to learn about “netiquette”, they are a cancerous wart intentionally participating in bad faith with the entire fediverse.
The very fact that someone like this is “still around “ is a damned red flag about mods at this point, probably?
The mods of c/politics were so soft on this asshole that we were forced to create c/politics_no_um.
What?
I SAID, THE MODS OF C/POLITICS WERE SO SOFT ON UM THAT WE HAD TO CREATE C/POLITICS_NO_UM
!politics_no_um@lemmy.world , wild
And now they’re spamming right wing nazi stuff, despite definitely for sure being a legitimate honest 3rd party Jill Stein Stan
I fucking knew it, I commented once that he was a secret MAGAt supporter spreading FUD and bLuEMagA crap. Looks like the mask fell and guess I was right lol
oh I always knew it- maybe a week or two after they started spamming, I caught them posting 3 or 4 times in the /c/conservative comm with some VERY overtly racist articles. They did a great job ignoring me when I started calling them out on it though, very strange.
Edit: Here it was, they spammed a bunch of stuff, including that one particular article in the middle about Oregon’s housing assistance program being only for illegal immigrants (an outright lie that only existed for racist purposes):
They’re such fucking cowards.
It seems like every other day they are posting from a new instance.
Because they keep getting banned
Not as much as you’d think.
Parent bullet point is the user. Child bullet points are communities they run/ran
- https://hilariouschaos.com/u/universalmonk
- https://futurology.today/u/universalmonk
- https://lemdro.id/u/universalmonk
- https://lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org/u/universalmonk
- https://lemmy.radio/u/universalmonk
- https://eviltoast.org/u/universalmonk
- https://sh.itjust.works/u/universalmonk
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/talesfromthecrypticlemmy
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/swp
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/pierpontctc
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/politicsunfiltered
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/solarpunkstrength
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/fitchicks
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/lostscreams
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/libertariansocialism
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/esperanto
- https://slrpnk.net/u/universalmonk
- https://mander.xyz/u/universalmonk
- https://midwest.social/u/universalmonk (BANNED)
- https://lemm.ee/u/universalmonk
- https://beehaw.org/u/universalmonk (BANNED)
- https://lemmy.world/u/universalmonk (BANNED)
- https://lemmy.world/c/politicsunfiltered (TAKEN OVER BY ANOTHER MOD)
- https://lemmy.world/c/PierpontCTC
- https://lemmy.world/c/transracial
- https://lemmy.world/c/byupathway
- https://lemmy.world/c/byuidaho
- https://lemmy.world/c/swp
- https://lemmy.world/c/talesfromthecrypticlemmy
- https://lemmy.world/c/amileaday
- https://lemmy.world/c/murderhornet_100
What the actual fuck
So this is the downside of the fediverse. Having the block the same person 18 times?
That’s a long list
I think UniversalMonk was a supporter of the PSL and claimed to have voted for Claudia De la Cruz.
You know, the woman who is FURIOUS that the US isn’t doing more to support Israel’s war in Gaza, and promised to rectify it and really give them the green light and finally get them all the weapons they need, if she won the presidency.(Edit: I was wrong about this. De la Cruz, as far as I can tell, opposes Israeli genocide and US support for it and supports Palestinian liberation.)
Like I say it blows my mind that he is still allowed anywhere on Lemmy. Not at all because I don’t think someone should be able to support the PSL, but because he is clearly lying for malicious reasons when he says that, among many other things.
When has Claudia De LA Cruz ever said that? As far as I know the PSL has been one of the main organizers for pro-palestinian protests in the US especially where I live along with the Palestinian youth movement. Claudia and her running partner usually at said protests. She is literally on canary mission a site used to try and silence anti-zionists. I know nothing about the person you and OP are talking about, but it seems you are just making stuff up about Claudia. If anything other than Jill Stein she was the ONLY pro-palestinian candidate(to my knowledge).
I think you are completely correct. What was I thinking of? I was sure that UM was supportive of some politician who was rabidly pro-Israel, but I thought he said he was voting for De la Cruz. You definitely seem to be right about De la Cruz being pro-Palestinian, though.
Edit: I did remember right, as far as UniversalMonk, but I was unfairly slandering Claudia De la Cruz for which I apologize. I randomly ran across it when reading the modlog just now. He voted, according to one of his deleted comments in the lemmy.world modlog, for the Socialist Worker’s Party, meaning Rachele Fruit.
As the SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida last fall, Rachele Fruit spoke out against the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel and in defense of Israel as a refuge for the Jewish people at a rally at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach Oct. 10.
“The Socialist Workers Party is part of the continuity in the fight against Jew-hatred that goes back to V.I. Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Socialists should never support any crime against humanity in the name of revolution,” she said. “Those who call themselves ‘socialists’ and who champion Hamas and other terrorist proxies of Iran will easily find themselves allied with future fascist forces.”
That’s important enough to go on their overall “here’s what our candidate is about” page. It’s not a specific story about the war in Gaza.
https://themilitant.com/2024/02/24/meet-the-socialist-workers-party-2024-candidates/
There’s also this:
https://themilitant.com/2024/10/26/defend-israel-as-a-refuge-from-jew-hatred-pogroms/
I can’t find the part where she was very upset about the United States not doing enough to support Israel in the war, but I thought I saw something about it. Anyway, she’s on Team Israel.
The important part about her that you seem to have missed, is that she isn’t a serious person/candidate, and not worth the time you wasted posting this.
oh, that tard’s still around? I blocked him months ago.
I can affirm my experience has been all the better for it, so yes, the rest of the fediverse should throw the Nazi out of the bar.
I’ll drink to that!
Here’s the thing: without this thread, I might never have become aware of this user or their activities. Are you sure that what you’re doing isn’t counterproductive and giving them more undeserved attention?
Barbra Who???
I can see what you mean by that although for this case in an odd manner you actually want to highlight this problem.
This is another parallel system that was shown in this crazy GDC talk: 1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
For background context Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott launched premium mobile games to the Google Play Store in 2013 which unfortunately didn’t “help in making our money back and being able to make enough money to make the next game”. After having explored the storefront and finding nefarious apps and junk reskined clones everywhere they decided to intentionally flood the Google Play Store with junk slot machine games as a joke/experiment.
"There was a point in here that I don’t think was drilled home as hard as it could have been which was… if people are sneaking by with garbage the thing that we did was to put a huge neon sign with an arrow pointing at ourselves and the garbage next to us; illuminating the entire underbelly of dark weird App Store shit and so the idea that if you do it at scale clearly they’re(Google’s) going to notice and clearly they’re(Google’s) going to change the terms of service slowly to ice you out.
Hopefully others went down with us in the wake of that. Like we provided the perfect targeted spot to drop the missile uh so hopefully, hopefully that helped get rid of duplicate apps that were also in the area."
I agree with you. In this case it’s time to bring this up. I quietly blocked monk months ago because I was tired of seeing his shit in my feed, but I didn’t want to bring attention to his inflammatory posts. But that clearly hasn’t worked on a wider level. He’s still posting sketchy stuff and annoying other people here. Sometimes you have to call people out and the wider community has to act, even at the risk of drawing attention to the problem users.
I’ve come across him before, I think he moderates a right wing Lemmy community I’m a member of.
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him lol
According to this comment they have an account with your instance.
Everyone wanted to know how it would go for the “I just want people to support a 3rd party” folks after the election… Well, now you know!
I want to push back on this just a little. Clearly UM isn’t the bastion of consistent good thought, but others that were maligned like return2ozma have been pretty consistent in what they post.
This is to say, “Great, one person is a fuckup. Why are we attributing this to the whole group?”
Becuase 3p vote is the threat to neo libaral regimes… They requires polarization and two choices to lock us into endless cultures warz lesser of two evils, trust me bro vote for my guy…
They DNC would rather you vote for Trump than 3p lol
Still here chief!
Apologies I don’t really understand what you mean by that
I’m guessing this is a referral to the US election?
He was banned on lemmy.world for excessive Jill Stiein/3rd party spam prior to the election and the discussion at the time was “What will they do after the election?” Well, now you know. Right Wing all along.
ahh I see
Thank you for the clarification👍
