Thank you for this explanation.

I proudly stand with you! I’m not leaving either. Which is sure to be a disappointment for most of Lemmy! :)

We all need to stand up, and then sit back down.

Meh, I’m not afraid of the weirdos or their opinions. Bring one, bring all. I’ll block who I don’t wanna deal with. Blocking is sooo easy to do, I just don’t understand why you want total bans when blocking works just fine.

I mean, no offense, but it sounds like you want the fediverse to be your way or the highway. But the whole point of the fediverse is so not one person can have say over everyone else. That’s why people can just spin up their own instances. I have several of my own instances, just so I can do and read whatever I want. I think instances having their different rules on who and why they ban is fine.

I totally respect your opinion, I just don’t agree with it.

I think db0 said it best in this thread: “However someone having genuine beliefs which upset you is not a troll. Someone having 100 alts is not a troll. Someone refusing to back down until they’re disengaged from, is not a troll. Someone not being polite, is not a troll.”

I did see an entire post/threads a couple of months ago that accused me of having 300 accounts that I controlled from an apartment in Europe or some shit, and that I oversaw a staff that I paid to do it.

All that to post on fucking Lemmy. No one has even fucking heard of Lemmy, so the fact that there people who believe anyone is getting paid to post here is hilarious to me. The reality is that I live in the US, and fucking garden all day, mess with my yard, and take walks to the park every day. The fuck are people here smoking?!

I’ll have to look it up and find it again, it was fucking crazy. Ahhh… fun times.

For example, sealioning is a very easy one to accidentally do and sound like you’re being factitious, as there is no tone indicators in text posts.

Great point. I remember I when I first got accused of sealioning, I didn’t even know what the term meant and had never even heard of the term before. By the time I looked it up, someone had banned me for it. After finally figure out what it was, I still don’t think I did it. lol

I personally think that “sealioning” one of the more stupid and way too vague terms of the online world. I see so many accuse people of it, but I see rare examples of it actually happening.

People should be cycling accounts anyway for opsec reasons

Yes, this! Very very true!

Wait, who is saying that they have 100 alts?

The problem is with the word “troll” and the meaning. Because on Lemmy, this is just now used as a common catch-all insult, and many say it about anyone who disagree with them.

I know a lot of people considered (still do, I guess) me a troll, simply because I never changed my mind and I wasn’t bullied off of Lemmy. I personally think trolling is if someone is saying stuff JUST to piss people off and ragebait. I never did that. I just said what was on my mind, and that pissed people off. But I don’t think what I do is trolling. I just have some unpopular opinions like voting third party, thinking all opinions should be allowed, etc.

Either way, I think just blocking someone that is too much for ya is easy enough. We don’t have to get this deep about the subject.

I feel seen!

Not defensive at all. But you legit started the thread by asking, “So, we are gonna put the ruling class in jail for 4 years per 14m they steal from the people too, right? …right?”

And I was wondering if you thought that was ever going to happen. You brought it up, so I asked you about it.

Exactly. So do you think that’s going to happen anytime soon?

Has that happened yet, under any administration ever?

Thank you!

Honestly, I’m getting more and more militant about open source.

Me too. It all started when I switched to Linux…lol

I’m very close to biting the bullet and getting a cheap Linux phone.

I’ll still be able to talk to other mesh users.

But you have to have other friends that you know who are mesh users, correct? It’s not like you can just go on and find people who you can communicate with, right? Or wrong? I want to use this and I want it to be a thing, but I don’t have one person I know who would be interested in doing this with me! lol

I live in a US city of half a million people, is there a use case for this or do you think it’s mostly for rural use?

Yay! I hope Lemmy can grow out of the political fighting and shine bright. We’re all gonna make it thru just fine, friend.

Hey, friend, no worries. What you’ll find out here is that Lemmy is much much more extreme in their viewpoints. Lemmy seems to attract people who are inclined to be more obsessive on certain things, than the general public. So on here, you’ll notice that when someone gets angry at someone, they do NOT let it drop.

Many will follow ya around and just talk shit about you forever if you disagreed with them in the past.

So my fanclub likes to jump in a lot of newbie posts and say, “block UniversalMonk first!!” Not because it’s good advice, but because they don’t like me. There are more posts about me, than posts by me. lolololol

But if ya look at my post history, I pretty much just stick to the little communities I manage. And you won’t find anything controversial. Just some extreme reactions to it. Ask the angry people to be specific about why they are mad at me, and they never have an answer except that they bizarrely think I am pro-Trump, even tho I didn’t vote for him and the vast majority of my articles I post are anti-Trump. LMAO

To be honest, I’m like you and not that into politics. One of the more disappointing things about Lemmy for me is how many people revert to politics every single thread and post. It’s annoying. I think that Lemmy having being so obsessed about political talk will actually doom it. Lemmy is never gonna be popular.

Too much politics. Too much anger. Too much obsessive stalker-types.

I try to do my part to help Lemmy grow, but even when I post something non-political, like about science, or education or something, people like to jump in and say variations of “Fuck you! You ruined the US!” lolol As if the 100 people who post regularly on Lemmy can change anything about society. lololol

I still love the idea of non-centralized stuff, the federation, etc. But the crowd on Lemmy is to obsessive-compulsive to allow it to grow.

You and me are actually more alike, than we are different. Let me know how things turn out for you and if you can find enough non-political content to keep ya here.

but I don’t like news. It’s stressful, annoying, confusing, etc.

So you don’t like news, and that made you decide to tell people to block me?! Ok… Um, what about the other people who post a lot more news than me? Most of the news I post is pro-socialist news. You can just admit you don’t like socialism. But to tell people to block me because of it, is hilarious.

So now I have advice for newcomers: Guys, ya’ll should block Camille_Jamal. He doesn’t like news about socialism.

See how that works?

to be clear: block universal monk

For sure. I’m terrible because I post so many articles promoting third parties, socialism, and anarchy!

Yeah, I was surprised someone hadn’t heard of Pioneer. It was everywhere when I was growing up. Sucks getting old, friends!

Nothing to do with me, and I can’t even see that person’s comment. If they said they were me, they were lying.