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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (55 children)

Fun fact, Rimu takes after George Orwell and keeps lists of "undesirables:"

List of people on Rimu's hit list

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 55 points 1 week ago (13 children)

There are zero hexbear admins on there. I feel ashamed. We have failed. One of the legs of the stankie triad has been broken.

Hexbear is fall.

Millions must post hog

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's more because Piefed.social is defederated from Hexbear.net, there are some powerful posters beyond the defed wall Rimu would probably happily add.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The great defed-firewall isn't designed to keep the bears in the cage. It's designed to keep us out of your cage. hexbear-shining

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pre-emptively as a last resort

Although to be fair, defederation has been used by Hexbear to protect marginalized comrades from more dangerous instances, so this is both justified and still keeping bigots out.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We call those mosquito net firewalls. Those nasty little things carry nasty diseases we don't want to get transmitted among the community, and also even if they were clean of infectious matter, their nips itch and they annoyingly divebomb our ears all the time at night.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

Yep, agreed, some instances would just raise the moderator workload incredible levels to stay federated.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

@rimu@piefed.social add us to your list or your a lib catgirl-hiss

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Two years I've been posting communist propaganda straight from Bezos's mouth, what have I been doing wrong that I'm not on the list 😔

I'm not upset, just would've been nice to be recognized

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago

We'll all get into the hall of fame eventually, comrade 🫡

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone have the list of extremely cool and sexy posters?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think it's the same list 😎

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i feel disappointed in myself, what am i doing im not on the list...

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's okay comrade, we'll all get there eventually lol.

In honesty, I think Rimu just scans certain threads and adds up everyone that doesn't support them. If Rimu actually spent time checking everyone's account, way more people would be banned as even comrade @Edie@lemmy.ml is on the list despite being one of the least confrontational people I've seen on the fediverse.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

im upping the ante to get there comrade -.-7

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 22 points 1 week ago (8 children)

🧉I am having my morning mate right now

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[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Edie getting caught up in the ban wave 😭

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[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Omfg piefed. When you are logged in you can see banned people, when you are not you get a blank page with "not found."

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago

Amazing web design.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't even have a proper 404 view, but yeah "Lemmy's development is too slow"

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's easy to go fast when you don't care about anything but new features.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Rimu's secretly just a massive Orwell fan, that's why they are implementing social credit scores, erasing people, etc. it's all one big reference /s

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm also deleted from piefed.social but not special enough for the list. I never coordinated with anyone, I just meme what comes naturally!

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago (28 children)

To be fair, there's no evidence that any of us coordinated anything, it's just what Rimu personally believes.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

acts in an extremely hypocritical and provocative way that naturally raises lots of questions from many people

noo why are they're coordinating attacks against me they need to be banned from everywhere 😭

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea it's all self-inflicted.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how dare people read the posts he makes and have opinions!

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t assume he believes what he says.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

I also wouldn't assume that he doesn't believe it, I could believe either outcome equally. Nevertheless, it's how Rimu chose to present it, and how Rimu chose to present it is baseless.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I know what it is like to get targeted by people on lemmy like Sunshine but also I never tried to embrace, extend and extinguish lemmy while building tools to silence people. I just had opinions on an instance I paid for and ran.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i'm somehow disappointed that i didn't make the list. lol

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

We'll all get there one day lol

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I don't actually think that software is necessarily neutral, and that for this sort of thing to be successful in the current landscape it MUST be Marxists who make it. Take Bluesky, for example. Or OpenAI is perhaps a better example. Maybe this breaks some people out of the "Elon bad -> Dorsey good" cycle of analysis as to why lemmy exists and maybe leads them to question the use of the "tankie" perjorative in general.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 week ago

oooh so sorry, but that's a meme. -12 piefed score, also your instance is now shadowbanned. Gotta deal with the consequences of your actions chief...

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tale as old as time...I've seen it so many times in my professional life and also in activism. Hell, I've done it.

Things look so easy from the outside. All the flaws seem like they can be fixed without much effort, why can't the people in charge see it? Then you rush in and try to do it yourself without an understanding of why things are the way they are and BAM you hit a wall. Suddenly things aren't so easy. Suddenly you can't fix all the mistakes. And you are making new ones.

I'm not saying people shouldn't try new things, but rushing in without trying to take some lessons from the existing systems without judgement is foolishness.

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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