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This dude posts a wildly racist meme of Michelle Obama. I report the post. Funnily enough, the racist post is posted by the mod of dankmemes, dankchristianmemes and some other shit hole.

Said mod then starts sending abusive transphobic messages to me. Try to report the user. Nothing happens when I hit the button.

Shit like this is why Lemmy isn't a viable alternative yet. We need to do better and be better.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lemmy and Kbin have both seen a huge influx of people in the past few weeks, so admins of each instance are struggling to keep up. For the most part, the admins are working for free, in addition to whatever their day jobs are.

Having said that, I'd report those magazines / communities to the admin of the instance for action, understanding that right now, they're buried in requests, questions, and complaints. If the issue is an entire instance, well, defederation is an option.

FWIW, I was threatened on Reddit more than once with actual murder... people threatening to come to my house and kill me. Reddit's general response was to... delete the chat message in question as a "resolution" to my complaint. AFAIK, that was the extent of their action. I at least have the impression that abusive users will be removed, though it might take a bit given the incredible influx of new users.

I am sorry that they're harassing you though. Noting to block those magazines / communities.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A homophobe told me that he'd rather die than respect everyone's right to be safe and unabused in public. I told him I didn't believe him, why doesn't he show us. I got permabanned, he's still spreading hate.

[–] AshMan85 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah unfortunately social media thrieves on spreading hate

[–] CannaVet 4 points 1 year ago

Hatred drives engagement, it's boring to comment "I agree, gay people are fine" 50x a day lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@i_simp_4_tedcruz
Yeah, as @melpone says it will just take time for admins to respond if you message them directly. I know Lemmy.world doesn’t tolerate people like this. This is from the lemmy/mastodon.world Code of Conduct:

Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Instances generally need more moderators but I understand the need to screen for good / bad candidates too. We also need a way to communicate bad actors across instances easily, which does not yet seem to be a thing. Maybe I'm wrong though; I'm not moderating anything.

[–] i_simp_4_tedcruz 3 points 1 year ago

Talking about you @Fisuxcel

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

FWIW, I was threatened on Reddit more than once with actual murder... people threatening to come to my house and kill me. Reddit's general response was to... delete the chat message in question as a "resolution" to my complaint. AFAIK, that was the extent of their action. I at least have the impression that abusive users will be removed, though it might take a bit given the incredible influx of new users.

This is horrible, why do people think they can say this shit? I hope you reported this to the police? I'm pretty much most places this behaviour is illegal. It's not a good look for Reddit to be complacent with illegal activity on their site.

Edit: massive typos

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's all good! Not that the guy would have had an easy time finding me; I'm not inclined to share my "real life" info online and I rarely use the same username / contact info on more than one site. Heck, as I note... I'm probably just an incredibly advanced AI anyway. Bleep bloop.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't fear them. Let 'em come!

P Sherman
42 Wallaby Way
Sydney

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A French guy was stabbed to death once after a guy he beat in counter-strike was able to track him down.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Possible and tragic, but that's the address of the dentist in Finding Nemo. And I suck at counter strike. And I'm not French.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The question is, is it real? Or are addresses in movies fake and cannot be traced to real places, like the 555 phone numbers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google said it's fake. I guess the producers wouldn't have picked a real address. Or at least not a real address of a person. Police station would be a good pick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I may have given creeps police station addresses before. That and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[–] Pixelologist 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An australian dentist was stabbed to death once after a guy mentioned him on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is explicitly why I avoid mixing my gaming/forums/Discord accounts with my IRL/social media accounts. People out there are lunatics.

[–] teft 2 points 1 year ago

I, for one, welcome our new robotic shitposters. Meep Morp.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They think they can say this shit because they obviously can. There are no consequences.

[–] zeppo 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had a similar experience, but their response was better. I had been talking on a certain sub for months (an illness support sub...) and there was one user who was prominently abrasive. Actually an odd mixture of acting tough mixed with seeming very sensitive, so I suppose basically a bully. We didn't get along great. He liked giving factually incorrect advice mixed with telling us all we were "weak pussies" for being concerned about illness. I don't remember all the details, but at some point he started blatantly using alternate accounts to support his viewpoints and harass people. I called him out on that and he was angry about it, and started saying things like "I'll be in Portland next week, maybe I'll come pay you a little visit" and "you'd better watch for me, I'll be seeing you soon". Reddit admins did remove his main account along with the 2-3 others he was using.