UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.

EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it’s perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren’t him

Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one

To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn’t a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It’s hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it’s a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.

I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk’s comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they’re leaking out into other communities with ill intent.

If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
    12·
    6 months ago

    Sorry but this is out of scope for this community. Also y’all can’t behave. Reminder that the burden of proof is on the accuser. You can’t prove a negative (i.e. “prove such-and-such isn’t Universal Monk”)

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Obligatory fuck UniversalMonk and his stupid AI character in each of his accounts’ pfp. Dude is easily the worst parts of the fediverse wrapped up in a shit bow. Just block lemmy.today its a fascist instance. Same with the lemmyusa.today one or whatever.

      • th3raid0r@tucson.social
        0·
        6 months ago

        This admin will state that UM is a bot. And wouldn’t ya know it some of the other signup attempts used the alt names. Weird that.

        I don’t think many admins know infosec practices very well to be frank.

          • th3raid0r@tucson.social
            1·
            6 months ago

            Nooope, I have IP data, email logs, and other things. However, much of the data had fallen off my WAF retention period. Oddly convenient how you just assume I don’t have these things rather than keeping them close because I don’t want the bots to figure out how I’m catching them.

            When you conveniently leave out that providing proof reduces an admins ability to re-use certain detection methods, it makes me pretty convinced you’re complicit.

              • th3raid0r@tucson.social
                1·
                6 months ago

                Give the documents then? And am I a bot now too?

                Interesting how you continue to leave out the security implications of posting this publicly.

                Odd that.

                I know not if you are a bot, you aren’t on my instance, nor would it be likely you could get through my process.

                I do know that you are awfully defensive of sockpuppet like behavior though.

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      I picked Lemmy.today because it allows me to block instances instead of the admins deciding which to defed from. But I do acknowledge that it allows a lot of freaks in.

        • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          also been able to on dbzer0, I had thought it was a universal feature

          settings > blocks > block instance (scroll down)

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            You will notice that users from those so-called “blocked” instances can still:

            1. respond to your comments
            2. vote on your content
            3. send you DMs
            4. which are allowed to trigger notifications
            5. post in your communities
            6. etc.

            What it blocks:

            1. you from seeing communities housed on those instances (even if posted from people on other instances)

            In short it should have been named a “community mute” rather than an “instance block”. The best way to block an entire instance frankly is to switch from Lemmy to PieFed. Otherwise there is only a tiny minority of apps (Sync and Connect iirc) that will offer that - the rest merely connect you to the same misnamed instance block (but actually no and rather community muting) feature inbuilt into Lemmy, unless you start to get into things like hacking your feed with a browser plugin to filter users from instances that you want blocked.

  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    Sometimes when I feel like a failure or I’m not applying myself enough in life, then I read shit like this and realize I’m doing just fine .

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    It’s kind of funny that he thinks people don’t know that he’s a reactionary wet fart. Anyone who watches the stupid side of the threadiverse with any kind of regularity can see the pattern.

    He thinks he’s being subtle, but Lemmy smells out right-wing bullshit better than most places on the Web. Nobody likes what he’s selling.

    • ProudAntifa@lemmings.worldOP
      0·
      6 months ago

      He’s after a captive audience because we know better. He thinks his ideas, or maybe just his chaos, is more acceptable when said by somebody that isn’t him but NOBODY is buying his anti-Luigi comments.

  • IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world
    0·
    6 months ago

    I bet this person has dozens of friends whom they hang out with on a regular basis, a successful career, active sex life with a loving partner and proud parents.

    This person is definitely not some self isolating weirdo that beats off to anime 4-8 times a day on a light week.

    • 87Six@lemmy.zip
      1·
      6 months ago

      Hey hey now don’t insult people that beat off to anime 8 times a day like that

    • th3raid0r@tucson.social
      1·
      6 months ago

      Admin of tucson.social here - when UM signed up at tucson.social he made some crucial mistakes that made him easy to identify as a bot. Unfortunately, since this affects my security posture, I’m not keen on publicly posting what it is as he still makes the same mistakes.

      However, let me add this - there are multiple places we should be validating are accessed from the same IP in a registration flow - all to many bot farms centralize certain aspects of their operations and use the same IP every time for only certain parts of a given flow.

      I’ll also add that many admins are either stupid about site security, or actively complicit in the bot problem.

    • ProudAntifa@lemmings.worldOP
      1·
      6 months ago
      • They post mainly in comms he or another sock puppet of his mods
      • Any comment against his post/comment is responded with:
        • “I didn’t write the article”
        • “I like the article”
        • “Lemmy will hate this”
      • Extremely authoritarian, contrarian
      • Taking over small, abandoned comms like WNBA, science, greenparty, etc.
      • Lies in the modlog saying you were trolling, serial downvoting, ban evading, etc
      • Telling other people how they feel about things
      • Posting in Positivity comms and lamenting the people who downvote everything he posts
      • Judging people by how they vote, posts lemvotes.org like it’s some kinda gotcha
      • “Thanks, friend!”