As I gain a better understanding of how federated social media works, I just find it even more confusing. This dude appointed himself batman of lemmy, but he's just a single dev of a single frontend. Don't most instances have multiple frontends? Even if a secret block list was the key to getting lemmy to finally go mainstream (it's not), implementing it at a frontend level is simultaneously both way too wide and way too small of a net. If tesseract was the only way anyone could access lemmy, maybe a secret block list could actually change the winds, but it's such a small slice of the fediverse. It's like if batman was only beating up jaywalkers and was like "You're welcome, Gotham. The city is saved."
What was the point of any of it? Someone was inevitably going to discover it was happening. There were so many people on the block list. Was he just going to personally defend against the ranks of people he found annoying forever? Keep adding more and more regex as the list grows to multiple thousands of users?They're still on the platform, dude. It's just one filter on one frontend. What the hell are you trying to accomplish?
This dude appointed himself batman of lemmy, but he's just a single dev of a single frontend. Don't most instances have multiple frontends? Even if a secret block list was the key to getting lemmy to finally go mainstream (it's not), implementing it at a frontend level is simultaneously both way too wide and way too small of a net.
You nailed it! The impact was minimal. Its so many stupid hoops to get to his frontend. The root issue was keeping it a secret. And that's why everyone was clowning on him, with many users (myself included) wishing we were on that list.
Apparently that broke Admiral cucktits because his secret list of gay lefties didn't make him as cool as Batman. It made him like... Ketchup man or some 4th rate villain with a stupid gimmick, who thinks he's "protecting" Gotham by rubbing ketchup on all the street corners to stop robbers or some dumb shit.
"I'll write a whiny multipage diatribe to rage quit and insert a script to DDOS the instance that hurt my feelings. That's the behaviour of a well adjusted adult that's doing the right thing."
Definitely the actions of a person who should be unquestioningly trusted to be the sole arbiter of determining what is fine and dandy and what goes too far on Lemmy. Totally not indicative of every legitimate concern that every single person opposing this brought up being accurate, surely not!
ugh you're giving me flashbacks of getting autobanned by a bot on one of the main leftist subreddits because I'd once posted in one of the right-wing subs (calling someone out on nazi bullshit).
It's infinitely frustrating to see a community of people who mostly just want a socialized safety net, money out of politics, less inequality and less genocide, get run by exactly the sort of people who seem like they'd be perfectly happy implementing gulags and Stasi on the first day of the revolution.
The disturbing thing is that a LOT of people are like this. The older I get and the more I see of humanity the more it becomes clear most don't mentally age past early teens and many who have big parts of them that don't age past toddler behaviour.
As a lemming, this whole drama is categorical censorial bullshit, but also peak comedy because the fuckwad got caught and publicly called on the carpet
As a software engineer, this is stupid implementation, because you can trivially make this a configurable blocklist of strings and regex. It never needed to even be an argument. Which of course means that it was never about the implementation.
As an open source enthusiast, take the software engineer response, but add: and he’s intentionally pushing his (visibly fucked up and warped) worldview and values onto users, and he tried to obfuscate it to be sneaky. That falls in the realm of malware imo - as in, intentionally mutating the functionality of a project with a specific intent of impact on users, and then attempting to hide the evidence. And then he got called out on it, and got super butthurt, and rage quit the whole goddamn platform.
He even tried to wash it off with "but there is a setting to disable it, just navigate 32 sub menus and click toxic mode" and never addressed the fact that his software would hide the shit behind a "technicall issue" excuse
Dude clearly designed it to be included in his releases in a difficult to detect fashion. That’s “malicious developer” behavior.
In the context of OSS, you design to do , and you set things up to allow users and implementers to customize it as they see fit and necessary. Intentionally hiding opt-out mechanism - let alone shipping with shit you want or need to opt out of is very much a big tech bullshit tactic, and OSS devs who do that are objectively caustic OSS devs. Dude tried to foist his views and sensibilities onto everyone who used his shit in a very, very sneaky fashion
It’s correct and appropriate that he got blackballed from the community.
See this kinda thing is exactly why I'm still here. Some guy tried to use his software's popularity to manipulate and censor Lemmy, and it had the exact opposite effect in the end. His software got immediately forked, most instances(that I know of) stopped using/supporting it and the whole thing is getting memed to death so now the entire usernase knows about it and can specifically avoid this guy and all the software he maintains.
When this kind of thing happens on a platform like reddit or some other closed system, we can often suspect and sometimes experimentally prove that some kind of censorship or manipulation is happening, but it is way more difficult to detect and there's little the users can do about it.
Not here.
Here the users have the power, the knowledge, and the motivation to not only find problems like this, but to take collective action against them. You all have just proved it, once again.
It was especially stupid when everyone already was scrutinizing his code. Like users found his secret block list that was better hidden than this, and didn't think anyone would find the ddos code? What a freakin' moron.
I'm watching two users that have been defending him while skirting around the actual problems. Right now, I'm not fully sure if they are alts of his. They aren't active at the same time, as in one stopped commenting a few hours ago and then the other started commenting, which I find suspicious.
They've been called out as possible alts in this post and another tesseract post in this community. Neither have responded to the accusations though, which I also find suspicious lol
And he's still made recent comments on his Kirk account
If this person is using alts and still commenting then they really, really need to touch grass. Thats gona be a fairly unhealthy psychological behaviour.
Patrick if you read this please actually give yourself 48 hours offline. Disconnect and go have a cuppa with a friend or family member (or both). You don't need to talk to then about any of this, the rest of the world doesn't know or care anyway. :)
Don't worry about this cesspit, we'll all be here being our lovely toxic selves when you come back.
oy vey-- I can be a real pill. but at least I can admit when I'm wrong. A lady/gentleman apologizes and exits stage left. One doesn't simply ragequit with a side of DDoS!
in all my years of slashdotting, Stumbling, Farking, Digging, redditry, and Lemming, I've never known anyone to go down this hard nor this bitter. WHAT A CUNT!
And to top it all off, startrek.website is going to defederate from db0 for TOTALLY REAL REASONS that aren't just being a salty little bitch. They just can't show you proof, cuz it's doxxing.
There's not much in the way of sane reasons to go from inactive to suddenly having an admin call out censorship being the 'last straw' causing the defed and refusing to show proof because "doxxing".
I envy tesseract dev. Really. I have barely any determination and feeling of self worth; he had enough to cosplay head of house unmourned. Sadly for him, Lemmy knew how to kill a "god".
i've personally slain bigger than patrick. [like, i'm sure we don't want to get a thread of "what's the biggest thing you've ever destroyed, please tell the story" because it would be utterly toxic and in the real way, not the patrick way} i'm sure most of us here have. "god"? please, let's not feed his nor any other dev's ego.
It was reference to game called "Morrowind" where main antagonist utters the phrase "I am a god. How can you kill a god?". Felt it fit with how self-aggradazing was our dear dev.
Took a chance with that reference, lemmy being full of nerds and all that xD
ah shit. i tried arena and it was not for me, daggerfall was not for me, skipped morrowind, loved oblivion and skyrim, but when i went back for morrowind games had developed too much and i didn't finish it because of all the jank. loved what little of the story i got though. i got as far as custom spells.
Understandable. I am quite tolerant for old game mechanics myself, and actually enjoyed both Arena and Daggerfall. Played Morrowind, and had a disk format just before facing the big bad...
And forgot to make backup of this one game.
I could not make myself go through swinging sword at larva with missing_woosh.ogg in the background again to start anew xD
Everyone’s wrong sometimes that’s just the stale croutons in this human ceasar salad they call “life”. It takes a special kind of grit to be such a massive dog-rocket when your wrong tho
The modern Mega-Toddler. All the behaviors of your average toddler, but in the body of a adult. It used to be an oddity, someone much maligned in the papers and film. Now it's entire movements and even nations, with the prototype oddity suddenly running things.
It's been a consistent play of Trump since even his campaign in 2015-2016. He says something stupid or does something stupid. His defenders say he didn't mean it like that and try to offer nuance or context, and then Trump clarifies that no, the plain meaning of what he said was exactly what he intended.
But yeah, after Hokit disparaged Michelle Obama at White House UFC fight, I had a moment of clarity that the new masculine flex is to discharge your strength to do something awful, something cruel or tasteless or obviously amoral, to demonstrate either that you are beyond the reach of consequences or because you don't care about the consequences. Another recent example is when Trump interfered with the World Cup and cancelled the red card and one-game penalty of Folarin Balogun.
I doubt that it's just manosphere-types emulating Donald Trump, but because this is a thing he specifically does time and again, it's recognizable when other people do it.
Is lemmy turning into reddit or something? I just see bits and pieces of this drama, don't really care enough to deep dive in it.. but found out I'm on the "list".
no, someone tried to turn it into Reddit using their frontend to try and act like an admin on instances they're not an admin on, acting like an entitled reddit powermod/admin doling out shadowbans; and the fediverse collectively told him to fuck himself.
Most people, I'd think, would consider thousands of other people yelling all at once telling you you've done a tremendously dumb thing, to be a fine moment for self-reflection. AdmiralPatrick is not one of those people.
Frankly, my own block list is huge. Mostly keywords, very few users. I would recommend it to everyone. Any social media is unbearable without blocking shit out. Everyone should personalise blocklists to their tastes.
But you can't make this decision for people. This is why I also don't like that some instances defederate a lot of other instances they don't like (and no one tells newbies). There's a niche for pre-populated block lists that are available and curated and transparent (like for ad-blockers).
The bots agree with me so it must be everyone else that is wrong. /s
I forget where but remember hearing a story once. If I hosted a banger of a party and everyone passes out at my house. I wake up the next morning to see a giant shit log in the kitchen sink and Joe says Jerry did it. I might be willing to hear Jerry out. But if I got 10 people say yeah Jerry is the one who took a shit in your sink. Well I'm going to be making Jerry clean my fucking sink.
The most dumbfounding thing to me is that the list isn't even base64 encoded. Its just sitting in the repo plain-text. I can't decided if its laziness, a lack of data integrity standards, lack of imagination, or if he wanted all this drama one day.
Just here to point out that GodlessCommie, the sole active mod of Late Stage Capitalism is one of these losers, making the sub his own personal crybaby safe space.
I've got a user @[email protected] doing the same thing in one of the tesseract threads, defending the tesseract dev, trying to say I'm calling for doxxing...by saying we should expose the actions of bigots like the Tesseract dev. Take a look for yourselves, only a conservative could be so low iq and determined, my god.
I tried to ask, imo in a pretty friendly engaging tone, what they meant with those accusations, and now apparently im under suspicion as well for asking question and disagreeing
id rather not jump into any conclusions about them as a person, but its a damn weird aand p cringy energy
That's funny, because when I dared to question your buddy who made something easy to interpret as doxxing incitement against all "friends" of AdmiralPatrick...
...he started spreading my name around - including making two posts encouraging his mob to report me, and several comments in random other posts including the one you're on.
If your idea of "letting it go" is you admitting you have blatant double standards, and acknowledge exactly how your "friend"'s behavior appeared as a call for mass targeted harassment, then I accept your willingness to "let it go."
The frog pairs nicely with the use of "low IQ" and "cancer" comments. But at least you're having fun giving ammunition to anybody who wants to prove Lemmy communities harbor harassers while pretending they don't see any.
Edit: you suck at hiding your use of alt accounts.
in regards to your edit, i can explain that one as well. i dm'ed the guy because youve clearly got a grudge going. thought it only fair he got a heads up.
im assuming he then got curious and looked at my comment history 🤷♂️
mmh delicious irony. Whos the one harassing who again? you, that tries to revive a dead disagreement, or me, literally just minding my business the last two days, interacting with you exactly zero times since?
in regards to your edit, i can explain that one as well. i dm’ed the guy because youve clearly got a grudge going. thought it only fair he got a heads up.
im assuming he then got curious and looked at my comment history 🤷♂️
... Because that screenshot was of a post two days ago, not today. But he's completely right about who's doing the sketchy voting today.
Did you know, that if you click on a user link, it takes you to their profile, which on the voyager app shows that users newest comment at the top?
Well know you do
the more you know
you can just block me if you dont want to engage ✌️
stalking... fucking lmao dude. Looking at ANOTHER users commrnt history is stalking, and merely saying the word 'expose' is doxxing
👶🧠
edit: oh i see how it is. You can harass users all day long but as soon as someone actually backs you into a corner regarding your antisocial behaviour, oop suddenly the coward disappears and if i press for answers, im stalking and harrassing.
Log of the internet. Youre obviously not equipped for it. Find a new hobby.
you know, I said the exact same thing after several weeks of beanposting the first time, years ago, now I merely accept them as part of lemmy history; I suspect the same will happen here where "hey remember that guy who tried to play admin on other instances and got laughed out of the cool kids club?" will become some sort of in-joke
If your free software is borderline malware (which it is because it's intentionally depriving users access to certain information with a deliberate attempt hide that fact from the users) I think people have a right to be harsh.
If it is malware then harshness is justified, but I'd be willing to debate over the strict definition of malware and whether it technically applies here.
But I don't think most of the harshness we've seen is actually borne of that kind of outrage. Even the OP of this meme says they are not upset and are having a wonderful time.
I never said it's strictly malware, I said borderline malware. It can't be strictly malware because most definitions of malware focus on the malware taking (some or full) control of the system or extracting valuable information, things that generally pose as a direct threat of damage to the end user or system.
But restricting user access to information without the user knowing information is being restricted and taking deliberate steps to hide this is being done in the first place is all malicious behavior. If you asked from a layman if this should be considered malware behavior or not most people would consider this malware behavior, hence borderline malware.
And I don't see how it not being "strictly malware" would change anything. People are outraged by what it is doing and how it is doing it, not by whether it fits the strict definition of malware.
Don't put words in my mouth. I said that I wasn't upset, after you made a comment implying I was and that I should seek out a refund -- I don't use the Tesseract frontend, and never have. That doesn't mean I "don't actually care" about someone trying to play Reddit admin and sneakily impose their will onto the rest of the fediverse.
If you want to make a stupid argument, that's fine; but make it on your own, don't rope me into it.
Well, today you learned that I can care about something stupid someone else did, and be entertained by how poorly they handled it, all at the same time. I'm glad I could help clarify things for you.
See, to me, you sound like an alt of AdmiralPatrick, or possibly one of his few remaining friends, and seem to be here exclusively to make passive aggressive comments at his detractors and/or run defense for him. I wonder why that would be...
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As I gain a better understanding of how federated social media works, I just find it even more confusing. This dude appointed himself batman of lemmy, but he's just a single dev of a single frontend. Don't most instances have multiple frontends? Even if a secret block list was the key to getting lemmy to finally go mainstream (it's not), implementing it at a frontend level is simultaneously both way too wide and way too small of a net. If tesseract was the only way anyone could access lemmy, maybe a secret block list could actually change the winds, but it's such a small slice of the fediverse. It's like if batman was only beating up jaywalkers and was like "You're welcome, Gotham. The city is saved."
What was the point of any of it? Someone was inevitably going to discover it was happening. There were so many people on the block list. Was he just going to personally defend against the ranks of people he found annoying forever? Keep adding more and more regex as the list grows to multiple thousands of users?They're still on the platform, dude. It's just one filter on one frontend. What the hell are you trying to accomplish?
You nailed it! The impact was minimal. Its so many stupid hoops to get to his frontend. The root issue was keeping it a secret. And that's why everyone was clowning on him, with many users (myself included) wishing we were on that list.
Apparently that broke Admiral cucktits because his secret list of gay lefties didn't make him as cool as Batman. It made him like... Ketchup man or some 4th rate villain with a stupid gimmick, who thinks he's "protecting" Gotham by rubbing ketchup on all the street corners to stop robbers or some dumb shit.
the ketchup imagery is absolutely sending me 😂
But echo chambers are so comfortable and assuring for my weak persona.
"I'll write a whiny multipage diatribe to rage quit and insert a script to DDOS the instance that hurt my feelings. That's the behaviour of a well adjusted adult that's doing the right thing."
can someone link the lore
Definitely the actions of a person who should be unquestioningly trusted to be the sole arbiter of determining what is fine and dandy and what goes too far on Lemmy. Totally not indicative of every legitimate concern that every single person opposing this brought up being accurate, surely not!
My favorite reply from him when I called him out in a different thread: "why can't you just let people use their own computers how they choose"
I'm guessing he has never heard the wisdom of not throwing stones in a glass house. The cognitive dissonance is hilarious, though.
That dude is an unbearable cunt as a mod as well. I am absolutely not surprised for the fact that he is an unbearable cunt as a developer.
IIRC he banned people in all communities he moderated if he found someone that you broke a rule in only 1 community, idk what rules though
Yes, he does. And he is very flexible in his own interpretation of the rules. He's the kind of power-tripper I hoped leaving behind on reddit.
You don't leave them behind here; you manage their reach.
Yes, but I hoped that would make this right here so unattractive, they would fall behind.
Hopefully he won't come back, though evidently he's rage quit before and come back
New accounts probably already created.
ugh you're giving me flashbacks of getting autobanned by a bot on one of the main leftist subreddits because I'd once posted in one of the right-wing subs (calling someone out on nazi bullshit).
It's infinitely frustrating to see a community of people who mostly just want a socialized safety net, money out of politics, less inequality and less genocide, get run by exactly the sort of people who seem like they'd be perfectly happy implementing gulags and Stasi on the first day of the revolution.
so he was basically crossbanning.
Most mods do that, though.
Really? That's kinda messed up (unless it's like, they ban someone homophobic or racist which then make sense)
Just how mods are. Every server's got a few.
Dont forget locking the post so no one can comment and call you out
Then coming back to argue on alts
Yo really, is he actually doing that?
Was as of a few hours ago, I haven't been on since then
The disturbing thing is that a LOT of people are like this. The older I get and the more I see of humanity the more it becomes clear most don't mentally age past early teens and many who have big parts of them that don't age past toddler behaviour.
As a lemming, this whole drama is categorical censorial bullshit, but also peak comedy because the fuckwad got caught and publicly called on the carpet
As a software engineer, this is stupid implementation, because you can trivially make this a configurable blocklist of strings and regex. It never needed to even be an argument. Which of course means that it was never about the implementation.
As an open source enthusiast, take the software engineer response, but add: and he’s intentionally pushing his (visibly fucked up and warped) worldview and values onto users, and he tried to obfuscate it to be sneaky. That falls in the realm of malware imo - as in, intentionally mutating the functionality of a project with a specific intent of impact on users, and then attempting to hide the evidence. And then he got called out on it, and got super butthurt, and rage quit the whole goddamn platform.
TL;DR: Good fucking riddance.
Hello there, fellow Culture enjoyer.
The absolute cherry on top for me was the trigger: a good old-fashioned post upgrade debug session. Your TL;DR ++
I identify as a General Systems Vehicle, and I appreciate your support <3
Valid as hell. I shapeshifted into a GSV in the astral plane once or twice. My polycule thought I made a very attractive GSV.
You should know about ![email protected].
Your instance admin(s) found it upgrading your instance right?
He wasn’t actually a part of that debug session, or was he?
So the story goes, I wasn't there to check it. I guess it doesn't really matter, but I can appreciate a bit of poetic justice when I see it.
He even tried to wash it off with "but there is a setting to disable it, just navigate 32 sub menus and click toxic mode" and never addressed the fact that his software would hide the shit behind a "technicall issue" excuse
Maybe he was trying to get a job at Microsoft and showing off his relevant skills.
Should've done it on reddit then, he would've got so many more people shitting on him
Did anyone bother to check if that "toxic mode" even existed, or existed prior to the jackass getting caught?
It only worked for one of the lists, not the other
Tbh, doesn’t matter.
Dude clearly designed it to be included in his releases in a difficult to detect fashion. That’s “malicious developer” behavior.
In the context of OSS, you design to do , and you set things up to allow users and implementers to customize it as they see fit and necessary. Intentionally hiding opt-out mechanism - let alone shipping with shit you want or need to opt out of is very much a big tech bullshit tactic, and OSS devs who do that are objectively caustic OSS devs. Dude tried to foist his views and sensibilities onto everyone who used his shit in a very, very sneaky fashion
It’s correct and appropriate that he got blackballed from the community.
See this kinda thing is exactly why I'm still here. Some guy tried to use his software's popularity to manipulate and censor Lemmy, and it had the exact opposite effect in the end. His software got immediately forked, most instances(that I know of) stopped using/supporting it and the whole thing is getting memed to death so now the entire usernase knows about it and can specifically avoid this guy and all the software he maintains.
When this kind of thing happens on a platform like reddit or some other closed system, we can often suspect and sometimes experimentally prove that some kind of censorship or manipulation is happening, but it is way more difficult to detect and there's little the users can do about it.
Not here.
Here the users have the power, the knowledge, and the motivation to not only find problems like this, but to take collective action against them. You all have just proved it, once again.
Great meme!
Plus I get to trot this out in every thread about it!
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hmmm, i wonder who left the one downvote
Doesn't even need to be intentional. Voyager's mouse gestures make leaving an accidental downvote while scrolling way too easy for example.
I'm constantly doing this on accident
Gotta increase your swipe distances (I assume, I exclusively use mobile)
Any modo that can check 😁 ?
You can check, its all transparent. I just don't remember how lol. If you search around you should be able to find it.
https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/10377779
Isn't startrek.website the tesseract guy's own private instance?
One of the downvotes actually is from him, lol!
His own: Not that I'm aware of but I could be wrong. Private: No, there are a couple of thousand registered users.
Wasn't dubvee his instance?
that explains SO MUCH about that instance. lol
Tbh I accidentally downvote posts here on there with my fat thumbs on mobile. May not be malicious.
Again, another post celebrating that I’m on the blocklist and Charlie Kirk isn’t.
He's not saying anything about it though. 🤔
Really proud of him for toning down the rhetoric. Guy hasn't said a racist thing since he last went viral.
Fr, he’s never been more tolerable
Yeah. Believe it or not, when I saw him last, he was leaning left.
And wearing his heart on his sleeve. And his collar. And his chest. And the ground.
That's more his neck.
He's done a lot to improve the world since starting that event.
I bet he was gushing to say something, but now? quiet.
I get like that too sometimes.. you get really excited and amped up over something, but then afterwards you just feel drained and dead tired.
when Im that tired, sometimes I like taking a nap in the dirt.
Yes, but not on top of it, where it's loud and hot, more like snuggled some feet below, where it's refreshing and quiet.
Honest question, has he tried to defend the DDOS attack? Can’t imagine how one would justify that
It was especially stupid when everyone already was scrutinizing his code. Like users found his secret block list that was better hidden than this, and didn't think anyone would find the ddos code? What a freakin' moron.
I haven't seen him acknowledge it yet
he's still around? which alt is he using right now?
I'm watching two users that have been defending him while skirting around the actual problems. Right now, I'm not fully sure if they are alts of his. They aren't active at the same time, as in one stopped commenting a few hours ago and then the other started commenting, which I find suspicious.
They've been called out as possible alts in this post and another tesseract post in this community. Neither have responded to the accusations though, which I also find suspicious lol
And he's still made recent comments on his Kirk account
I've just started using Patrick as an insult
If this person is using alts and still commenting then they really, really need to touch grass. Thats gona be a fairly unhealthy psychological behaviour.
Patrick if you read this please actually give yourself 48 hours offline. Disconnect and go have a cuppa with a friend or family member (or both). You don't need to talk to then about any of this, the rest of the world doesn't know or care anyway. :)
Don't worry about this cesspit, we'll all be here being our lovely toxic selves when you come back.
oy vey-- I can be a real pill. but at least I can admit when I'm wrong. A lady/gentleman apologizes and exits stage left. One doesn't simply ragequit with a side of DDoS!
in all my years of slashdotting, Stumbling, Farking, Digging, redditry, and Lemming, I've never known anyone to go down this hard nor this bitter. WHAT A CUNT!
This beloved character's namesake deserved better
WHAT A STUPID ASSHOLE
And to top it all off, startrek.website is going to defederate from db0 for TOTALLY REAL REASONS that aren't just being a salty little bitch. They just can't show you proof, cuz it's doxxing.
is it really website about trek, or is it twisted version of trek? like how LOTR has been twisted by a certain individual who is obsessed with it.
What does startrek website have to do with this though?
I'm fairly sure that's his personal instance.
There's not much in the way of sane reasons to go from inactive to suddenly having an admin call out censorship being the 'last straw' causing the defed and refusing to show proof because "doxxing".
I thought its dubvee org? Startrek website was/is a legit instance, a shitty one but legit.
I envy tesseract dev. Really. I have barely any determination and feeling of self worth; he had enough to cosplay head of house unmourned. Sadly for him, Lemmy knew how to kill a "god".
i've personally slain bigger than patrick. [like, i'm sure we don't want to get a thread of "what's the biggest thing you've ever destroyed, please tell the story" because it would be utterly toxic and in the real way, not the patrick way} i'm sure most of us here have. "god"? please, let's not feed his nor any other dev's ego.
It was reference to game called "Morrowind" where main antagonist utters the phrase "I am a god. How can you kill a god?". Felt it fit with how self-aggradazing was our dear dev.
Took a chance with that reference, lemmy being full of nerds and all that xD
https://youtu.be/iR-K2rUP86M
Was listening to this while writing original comment lol
ah shit. i tried arena and it was not for me, daggerfall was not for me, skipped morrowind, loved oblivion and skyrim, but when i went back for morrowind games had developed too much and i didn't finish it because of all the jank. loved what little of the story i got though. i got as far as custom spells.
Understandable. I am quite tolerant for old game mechanics myself, and actually enjoyed both Arena and Daggerfall. Played Morrowind, and had a disk format just before facing the big bad...
And forgot to make backup of this one game.
I could not make myself go through swinging sword at larva with missing_woosh.ogg in the background again to start anew xD
Hi patrick
Everyone’s wrong sometimes that’s just the stale croutons in this human ceasar salad they call “life”. It takes a special kind of grit to be such a massive dog-rocket when your wrong tho
puts "dog-rocket" in purse for later use
Be careful where you use that it may bring unwanted attention
Being wrong in good faith is okay. He definitely was not acting in good faith.
Takes a narcissist
Get used to it.
Anyone with a Claude Code account can spew out a Lemmy (or any other service) client and make antisocial changes and dump it in the App Store. ✨
Oh, egads! My Fediverse is ruined!
But what if... I were to censor it, and disguise it as a server error?
Ohoho, delightfully devilish, Patrick
No one could possibly figure out what's really going on, everyone knows error messages are confusing and intimidating and everyone just ignores them!
Isn't doubling down on stupid takes a big masculinity flex in 2026?
All the alpha males seem to do it.
Women do it, so nothing to do with masculinity.
Its just ego being hurt and both genders feel that.
The modern Mega-Toddler. All the behaviors of your average toddler, but in the body of a adult. It used to be an oddity, someone much maligned in the papers and film. Now it's entire movements and even nations, with the prototype oddity suddenly running things.
Yup. The reasons for why can be discussed but I always point the finger at social media...
Making engagement the sole metric for success, no room for truth or reason or decency, definitely seems like a top candidate.
is that a new thing, it makes them look stupider for doubling down.
It's been a consistent play of Trump since even his campaign in 2015-2016. He says something stupid or does something stupid. His defenders say he didn't mean it like that and try to offer nuance or context, and then Trump clarifies that no, the plain meaning of what he said was exactly what he intended.
But yeah, after Hokit disparaged Michelle Obama at White House UFC fight, I had a moment of clarity that the new masculine flex is to discharge your strength to do something awful, something cruel or tasteless or obviously amoral, to demonstrate either that you are beyond the reach of consequences or because you don't care about the consequences. Another recent example is when Trump interfered with the World Cup and cancelled the red card and one-game penalty of Folarin Balogun.
I doubt that it's just manosphere-types emulating Donald Trump, but because this is a thing he specifically does time and again, it's recognizable when other people do it.
Not really, insecure people have been doing that for millennia.
Is lemmy turning into reddit or something? I just see bits and pieces of this drama, don't really care enough to deep dive in it.. but found out I'm on the "list".
no, someone tried to turn it into Reddit using their frontend to try and act like an admin on instances they're not an admin on, acting like an entitled reddit powermod/admin doling out shadowbans; and the fediverse collectively told him to fuck himself.
Most people, I'd think, would consider thousands of other people yelling all at once telling you you've done a tremendously dumb thing, to be a fine moment for self-reflection. AdmiralPatrick is not one of those people.
Frankly, my own block list is huge. Mostly keywords, very few users. I would recommend it to everyone. Any social media is unbearable without blocking shit out. Everyone should personalise blocklists to their tastes.
But you can't make this decision for people. This is why I also don't like that some instances defederate a lot of other instances they don't like (and no one tells newbies). There's a niche for pre-populated block lists that are available and curated and transparent (like for ad-blockers).
Yeah I think sharing them is a great idea as long as people can opt in or out. Respect people's agency.
I personally don't block anything that isn't already blocked by my instance.
The bots agree with me so it must be everyone else that is wrong. /s
I forget where but remember hearing a story once. If I hosted a banger of a party and everyone passes out at my house. I wake up the next morning to see a giant shit log in the kitchen sink and Joe says Jerry did it. I might be willing to hear Jerry out. But if I got 10 people say yeah Jerry is the one who took a shit in your sink. Well I'm going to be making Jerry clean my fucking sink.
The most dumbfounding thing to me is that the list isn't even base64 encoded. Its just sitting in the repo plain-text. I can't decided if its laziness, a lack of data integrity standards, lack of imagination, or if he wanted all this drama one day.
(Tesseract Guy, self-portrait c.2026)
Rorschach was a principled man of strong morals I feel bad for everyone misunderstanding him.
He's a great comic book character, but a lousy role model for "they'll beg me to save them, and I'll whisper 'no'" narcissists, unfortunately.
I'm so happy I got on the list. If i can piss off one fascist POS a day, I am happy!
I like that we all know who you're talking about without naming names
I don’t - totally out of the loop here. Is there a way for me to catch up?
Just here to point out that GodlessCommie, the sole active mod of Late Stage Capitalism is one of these losers, making the sub his own personal crybaby safe space.
I've got a user @[email protected] doing the same thing in one of the tesseract threads, defending the tesseract dev, trying to say I'm calling for doxxing...by saying we should expose the actions of bigots like the Tesseract dev. Take a look for yourselves, only a conservative could be so low iq and determined, my god.
I tried to ask, imo in a pretty friendly engaging tone, what they meant with those accusations, and now apparently im under suspicion as well for asking question and disagreeing
id rather not jump into any conclusions about them as a person, but its a damn weird aand p cringy energy
That's funny, because when I dared to question your buddy who made something easy to interpret as doxxing incitement against all "friends" of AdmiralPatrick...
...he started spreading my name around - including making two posts encouraging his mob to report me, and several comments in random other posts including the one you're on.
bruh that shit is two whole days ago 😅 let it go
i finished a whole ass book since last we spoke this is so far from my mind
If your idea of "letting it go" is you admitting you have blatant double standards, and acknowledge exactly how your "friend"'s behavior appeared as a call for mass targeted harassment, then I accept your willingness to "let it go."
lol, lmao even
keep em coming this is hilarious 🐸
The frog pairs nicely with the use of "low IQ" and "cancer" comments. But at least you're having fun giving ammunition to anybody who wants to prove Lemmy communities harbor harassers while pretending they don't see any.
Edit: you suck at hiding your use of alt accounts.
in regards to your edit, i can explain that one as well. i dm'ed the guy because youve clearly got a grudge going. thought it only fair he got a heads up.
im assuming he then got curious and looked at my comment history 🤷♂️
mmh delicious irony. Whos the one harassing who again? you, that tries to revive a dead disagreement, or me, literally just minding my business the last two days, interacting with you exactly zero times since?
Very curious reply from tutter...
... Because that screenshot was of a post two days ago, not today. But he's completely right about who's doing the sketchy voting today.
Cause i clicked the link you sent me in your comment dude 🙄 not everythings a fuckin conspiracy, christ
Did you know, that if you click on a user link, it takes you to their profile, which on the voyager app shows that users newest comment at the top?
Well know you do
the more you know
you can just block me if you dont want to engage ✌️
stalking... fucking lmao dude. Looking at ANOTHER users commrnt history is stalking, and merely saying the word 'expose' is doxxing
👶🧠
edit: oh i see how it is. You can harass users all day long but as soon as someone actually backs you into a corner regarding your antisocial behaviour, oop suddenly the coward disappears and if i press for answers, im stalking and harrassing.
Log of the internet. Youre obviously not equipped for it. Find a new hobby.
I see the problem, you see "expose the people who support this bullshit" and hear "lynch them" instead of "make a list of their usernames"
Big self report imo
Case in point. Please everyone report this dude. He thinks he's so right but literally can't say anything other than my username and doxxing.
You really don't understand how apostrophes apply possessives do you?
Nor what Sunshine laws are you dolt?
Amoebas have higher iqs.
Define doxxing. I've asked 4 times now. Define it.
hi patrick
Edit wait is that all it took for them to chickenshit away?
I got here in june, I was on the list and that was the first I'd heard of that guy. What's his name again?
AdmiralPatrick
thank you but I was kind of being rhetorical. upvote for genuine helpfulness though!
I'm new too, also on the list. Guess cool kids now?
The whole world is wrong in a lot of ways. Just not this one.
Easiest block of the day
How do we know if we made the list?
https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
Can we just move on?
Or hear me out. This is a very insane and wild take. You don’t need to interact with any posts that annoy you. Keep moving on buddy.
you know, I said the exact same thing after several weeks of beanposting the first time, years ago, now I merely accept them as part of lemmy history; I suspect the same will happen here where "hey remember that guy who tried to play admin on other instances and got laughed out of the cool kids club?" will become some sort of in-joke
yeah, when someone starts being a shitass, someone can just call them Admiral and we can giggle and move on
I'm not defending the existence of the blocklist... but if you're really that upset about it then I would suggest asking for a refund.
upset? heavens no, this is terrific free entertainment, this is hilarious to watch.
Look where this user is based and how many comments they’re making defending AdmiralPatrick…
yeah I've sorta noticed
Good lord how many accounts does this person have?!
Oh. That's kind of weird.
last I checked, we're still allowed to be entertained by weird things on the internet. if you aren't, I recommend a bit more whimsy in your life.
I have no authority over you. So it's not really a question of me "allowing" you anything.
Despite your efforts to the contrary, lol.
Yes, my super secret manipulation campaign which involves (checks notes) expressing my disapproval.
Weird is your bad take combined with your account instance. Tone deaf af.
I just think the reaction from fediverse users has been too harsh when you consider that Tesseract was free and open source software.
If your free software is borderline malware (which it is because it's intentionally depriving users access to certain information with a deliberate attempt hide that fact from the users) I think people have a right to be harsh.
If it is malware then harshness is justified, but I'd be willing to debate over the strict definition of malware and whether it technically applies here.
But I don't think most of the harshness we've seen is actually borne of that kind of outrage. Even the OP of this meme says they are not upset and are having a wonderful time.
I never said it's strictly malware, I said borderline malware. It can't be strictly malware because most definitions of malware focus on the malware taking (some or full) control of the system or extracting valuable information, things that generally pose as a direct threat of damage to the end user or system.
But restricting user access to information without the user knowing information is being restricted and taking deliberate steps to hide this is being done in the first place is all malicious behavior. If you asked from a layman if this should be considered malware behavior or not most people would consider this malware behavior, hence borderline malware.
And I don't see how it not being "strictly malware" would change anything. People are outraged by what it is doing and how it is doing it, not by whether it fits the strict definition of malware.
lol, this is another of his alts.
Sure looks like it. Crazy ass has what he calls a boner for us it seems.
We did. That's why there was a whole public meltdown including a number of alt accounts.
You another alt?
Did we really, though? Even the OP says they don't actually care about the blocklist and are just piling on for the lulz.
Don't put words in my mouth. I said that I wasn't upset, after you made a comment implying I was and that I should seek out a refund -- I don't use the Tesseract frontend, and never have. That doesn't mean I "don't actually care" about someone trying to play Reddit admin and sneakily impose their will onto the rest of the fediverse.
If you want to make a stupid argument, that's fine; but make it on your own, don't rope me into it.
I wasn't trying to misquote you, but you did imply that entertainment is your primary motivation.
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To me, this sounds like someone who is pouring gas on a fire just to watch it burn.
Well, today you learned that I can care about something stupid someone else did, and be entertained by how poorly they handled it, all at the same time. I'm glad I could help clarify things for you.
See, to me, you sound like an alt of AdmiralPatrick, or possibly one of his few remaining friends, and seem to be here exclusively to make passive aggressive comments at his detractors and/or run defense for him. I wonder why that would be...
Best I can do is an upvote.
Oh hey, look who it is. The loser has another alt to try to pretend he has supporters.
Hello Admiral. Why are you so scared of trans folk? Do they awaken uncomfortable feelings?