it can also be read as a clumsy misspelling of “idiot” which is probably why I’ve never seen someone use that acronym. Acronyms or shortenings are meant to make things simpler, but at a glance people might just think you’re calling me an idiot.

Though even if they get it, they still almost certainly don’t agree with you, and I can’t say I blame them.

It’s not satire if you intend it to be true but only say it’s satire later when being called out. Intent is very clear here. If your original post was satire you wouldn’t have started this thread wit the title “liberal mods can’t handle me”

dear liberals

liberal mods cant handle me

how the elites are using minion memes to control our minds

YDI. You sound like an alt right troll, honestly I’m surprised he didn’t ban you for that, he should’ve. It’s one thing to shitpost, it’s another to post alt-right conspiracy garbage. Which is generally not welcome anywhere on Lemmy

Honestly you have a lot of nerve coming here whining about being censored for conservative conspiracy theory trash, considering this is a leftist-friendly instance the community is on.

CC: @[email protected] @[email protected]

This was a long time coming considering it’s a troll community which consistently posts incomprehensible garbage, people are usually quite vocal when it comes to speaking out against troll communities which either contribute nothing to Lemmy as a whole or worse, are harmful to the health of the instance. Which many believe spamming and trolling are, and I can’t say I disagree with them. I’m actually surprised Madthumbs didn’t lock the community sooner, looking at his modlog where he bans anyone who criticizes his community, or opinions, I’d expect him to have locked the community much sooner.

I think it’s very funny that you still think a community like this is satire when madthumbs consistently and repeatedly banned people for satire and humor, then banned them for criticism when they realized it isn’t satire. It’s also funny you say this is a “space people were having harmless geeky fun” when it was never that, it was really just madthumbs consistently complaining, posting misinformation, or just posting absolute nonsense. So trying to say it was a “group” or “space” is very disingenuous.

This seems like a dumb question, BitTorrent absolutely is still relevant and probably the most popular method of file sharing in the scene. Foss groups use it too for distributing ISO files for Operating systems, and it might even be used as the video hosting provider in future Fediverse YouTube alternatives (I’ve heard talk of a video hosting platform on Fedi which uses activitypub for everything else but hosts videos via BitTorrent) pretty cool stuff.

So yeah BitTorrent is still relevant, and it makes sense since if it isn’t broken why fix it? Not to say that it couldn’t be better, the biggest problem with it is the anonymity issue, but until someone makes something better BitTorrent will continue to be popular, and the ideal choice for decentralized file sharing, especially in the piracy scene.

People don’t get it because it’s not humor and it isn’t funny. It’s just complaining about things, many are often nonsensical. Also who’s “we”? He locked that community and as far as I can tell you’re not on the Team so there isn’t really a “we” anymore, if there even was one to begin with.

Even if madthumbs wasn’t serious about any of the other posts he made in his community, he’s 100% serious when he says that it isn’t satire, otherwise he wouldn’t be banning people for “linux evangelism” or humor. He also wouldn’t have locked every post in that community and the community itself. It’s not a satire community, he’s 100% serious. That’s why people say he’s a troll.

I mean they should be aware that criminal charges stack up right? They’re not going to get anything good from making their own situation worse by doxxing customers (multiple comments on their profile giving out the email addresses of their customers). That isn’t going to help them and is just going to make it so much worse for them.

I don’t think so, my account and the community in question are both on Lemmy.world and I never got any ban notification.

Edit, nope, doesn’t notify. Just made a community on sh.itjust.works and banned my account there. The ban is shown in the sidebar but it doesn’t give a notification when it happens, only indication when it is active.

I agree, this is really stupid having to message mods individually. @[email protected] (maybe it was nutomic, I don’t really remember right now) says it’s because they don’t want Lemmy to be a messaging platform, that mods should use external tools. I disagree. We need modmail and adminmail functions native to Lemmy, not needing to use funky bots or external tools.

We also need for bans to notify the people they’re given to, otherwise it’s as bad as shadowbans. I could’ve probably reached out about this days ago but I didn’t even know it had happened, I don’t look myself up in the modlog, I was looking to see if an unrelated incident had been actioned. Who knows when I would’ve found out if I hadn’t been combing the modlog, weeks, months, would I have ever?